Campbell broke his nose. He'll be out for at least a week, anything up to 3. Nice setback for the Gunners.

You're funny.

Agreed, although you're a harsh git. Brom will get battered unless Arsenal rest er, their whole first team. Seriously though, they'd have to rest quite a few. 3-1 to Arsenal I reckon. Everton could get something from Tottenham though. If we don't win either of our next two games though, its curtains to the Champions League, and time to start worrying about Bolton catching us.

Off the top of my head, the massacre of up to 400 Vietnamese, many of them unarmed civilians, by US troops, at My Lae. The atrocities committed also included rape and sodomy. As far as I'm aware there was never an official apology issued to the Vietnamese people by the US- the only thing that happened was a single US lieutenant was charged. Think he served a few years or something.

Well there was no other way to deal with it as it was coming over really. It was the sheer execution that makes it a brilliant goal. I feel the Pedersen one is a little overrated because of the team move it involved. These awards get credited to the goalscorer, so I really think it should be about the individual brilliance. And for individual brilliance, it's Bellers' first against Pompey. The run from in his own half capped off by one of the best finishes you'll see when it looked like he'd been pushed away from a goalscoring chance.

Who the hell is Song Billong? Apart from that, and I don't think I've heard of Djourou, why is it surprising? Or was that why? Hmm, spose Diaby isn't all that either.

I voted for someone else. I'd prefer that we look for a top foreign manager (ooh, controversial). One with plenty more balls than gutless Sven though. If England had a man I thought had the calibre for the job, then I'd take them. But the only candidate mentioned who I think might come close is Fat Sam, and frankly, the man irritates me so much I can't even begin to consider that possibility. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I don't give two hoots whether the manager is English. He isn't part of the playing squad. How far do we take this insistance on being English? Should the kit man be English too? There's a reason there are no limitations on the nationality of the managers of the national teams. FIFA don't feel it matters anyway. I'm also not averse to exploiting the loopholes that have shown up in the rules to get essentially foreign players into the national team. Did anybody have a problem with Lennox Lewis winning an olympic gold, and the world heavyweight title for us? The fact is we already have a one hundred percent English team, and with that, I want us to win the World Cup. If we win it with a foreign manager, its not like people are gonna say things like 'oh, Italy won the world cup, not you' if we have an Italian manager.

Haha, true. But that only works when suing your employer- so Dahlin could've used it against us. I can see it now on the ad... 'I was idly- that being the operative word- going about my job at the training ground for Blackburn Rovers. At lunch time I ate one more pie than the fifty I was accustomed to, and my spine finally gave out. The club failed to warn me that being an overpaid, lazy git and eating too much of their canteen food might end my career. I won £2 million in compensation and screwed the club yet again.' Makes you wonder why he didn't do it...

Fabregas, since you asked. 'Maybe steal a late winner'? Being a bit harsh on Pompey there. At home, they can match anybody right now.

Medical evidence strongly suggested that the cause of the injury was in fact degenerative disc disease and insurers Avon, Eagle Star, AGF and IC Insurance highlighted a clause in the policy which excludes disablement attributable to arthritic or other degenerative conditions. Mrs Justice Dobbs ruled that Dahlin had clearly suffered an 'awkward fall'. However she added: "I do not consider the evidence of the fall puts it in a category of something so very different from what one sees regularly on the football pitch." (From skysports.com)

The lesson we should learn is this: let's not bother insuring our players anymore (although I'd have liked to see what 'pre-existing conditions' they'd have blamed if the lads' plane had been struck down by lightning! God, perhaps?)

Yes we did, but Beattie didn't leave because he hated the manager and they didn't get on. If there is a buy back clause, it will have stated a price. And that price will be more than the 5.5 mill we paid for him. And I certainly don't want to pay that price for Mr Sicknote.

That's what I'm worried about. Anybody know if rather than getting us cash, this will now cost us some? I think it sounds pretty ridiculous how the case went. Wear and tear 'can be' a contributory factor doesn't mean that an unrelated back problem was a pre-existing condition for a new one. Preposterous. From what I know, we should have won the case. Then again we certainly shouldn't have had that much cash from Dahlin! It's not like he was worth that much to us.

Anybody know, does a history of being a Rovers season ticket holder (But not this season or last) enable me to get a ticket for the game? I've been to about half a dozen games this year, but not kept the ticket stubs...

My Gainsborough team are going from strength to strength (Promoted to the Prem now), and I have to highly recommend a few players to you all. I'm not a hundred percent sure that two of them are there at the start of the game, but they are: Benoit Castil (Amazing young goalkeeper...only 23 at present in my game, in 2011, and looks set to become the best goalie in the game...got him at 4.6 mill), Junior (A brazilian forward...can't remember the club right now, but a fine player- better than Vucinic, who I saw somebody mention), Rodolfo Soares (Excellent Brazilian defensive midfielder) and last but not least, Marco Danili. Danili has for me been the pick of the bunch. In the first game I started him, he scored a hat trick and got a 10. He then did exactly the same in the next game. I thought it would peter out then, but in the next game he scored FOUR goals and got a 10. Then in the next game he scored ANOTHER hat trick and got a 10!! No cheating whatsoever. After that he just got 8's for a few games and scored a goal a game, then finally stopped scoring temporarily. I've never seen anything like it, and the guy is lazy apparently so I probably won't see it again. But put simply- get him. He should be at Torino. Cost me a pretty penny but worth them all. Only 22 at present in my game- finishing 20, heading about 16, jumping about 18, high dribbling, high first touch...just a damn fine young player. Was well above his level playing in the Championship.

I was pretty happy when Bolton got relegated on mine. But then they got promoted again, and Blackburn got relegated. Was tempted to take over the reins at Blackburn and revive them, but that would have made my endeavours with mighty Gainsborough pointless. Oh, and in addendum to the above post, it isn't quite a diamond formation I play, since the attacking mid is a normally positioned mid who makes forward runs.

Am I the only person that felt that Lucas Neill was a bloody defensive liability last night??

Fat Sam used to love to go on about how little was at his disposal, but he doesn't seem to bother anymore. He just moans about the fact that he's a fat frog-faced (Please don't use that word again) stops him getting more glamorous jobs. Can't stand the man. Or Ferguson. And Steve Bruce is pretty damned irritating too.

The sensor arrays are a damned pain, aye. Andy is pretty spot on about the lower leagues. I started the game with Gainsborough Trinity in Conference North, and it's now the end of the 2009/2010 season and I've just finished top of League One by about 14 points or something. It's very easy to get going if you know what you're doing. Some tips for starting from the bottom: 1. Shift the deadwood. I had some defenders on like, 200 quid a week (At that level, wayyyyyyyy too much) who had tackling of 2. These players need to be evacuated quickly (I even found one like that who was already contracted til 2009!!). If you can't find buyers- and there's a good chance you can't- then offer them to clubs at bugger all. Also, try to play them in friendlies. Those games count as first team matches and another club might notice the player. 2. Look for players on frees, and on loan, that will improve your first team and your squad. Look for players from higher leagues on loan, and more often than not you don't have to give ANY wage contribution. Loans were key to my early successes- free transfers key to my later successes. There's no question about it, as a lower league club (especially conference north) you HAVE to scout thoroughly. A lot of players' stats don't even show up initially! A good tip for the early days is going to higher league (sometimes even your own league) clubs and scouting your way through their whole reserve teams. These players are easier to get and will play at what is really below their level a lot. If you need specific names, look for Hameur Bouzza at Watford, if he falls out of favour like on mine. Within a year I had teams offering me almost 2 million for him (Which I rejected to ensure I got out of the National...and now I can't sell the git). 3. Selling players. If you want to get ridiculous amounts, you'll often find you can get nearly double what a club will usually pay if you're willing to accept the cash over the course of two months. An excellent cash cow for me especially when getting promoted is to sell off a star player who maybe can't cut it anymore, in a 24-month spread deal (For instance, I sold Terry Barwick- look him up to see how crap he is- for 1.2 million...he's now back to being valued at 8k...I immediately replaced him with 3 vastly superior players for free). If you're desperate for cash, then ask for a bit up front, but your club's financial security can be guaranteed for years with deals like this. Any defensive mid who is actually played in between the defence and midfield WILL play amazingly. These high average ratings should enable you to sell them for a lot, and quality defensive mids are surprisingly easy to get on frees I found. 4. Friendlies! Yes, friendlies are, at the lower levels, perhaps THE best source of income you can dream for. A home game against a Championship side (and once you're in the conference national I think theyll pretty much all accept friendlies) nets you 35k I think it is. You can play pretty much as many of these friendlies as you have the patience for before the season starts. The only better source of income I found in these pre-professional days was a good FA Cup run. 5. Contracts. Keeping your wage bill down below the board's crappy permitted level will probably prove impossible (though you're highly unlikely to get sacked for that fact if the club's finances are good). But a good way to help is to offer players contracts even if they're not due one, with reduced wages. They're shockingly willingly to accept crap contracts at times. If a player is a squad player only, feel free to offer them MAXIMUM goal and assist bonuses they'll never cash in on in exchange for reduced wages. Defenders and defensive midfielders in particular should be offered these...hell, even goalies. Release fee clauses will also reduce the wages they're willing to take. In the case of star players, you could offer them promotion wage rises if you're going up, as you can afford them next year much easier. And if you're not going up, who cares! Another little trick is to offer new contracts to players who have promotion wage rises if you've suddenly got a great chance of promotion. 6. Media. To improve your profile, pick a fight with big bosses (Particularly Allardyce and Ferguson!!! GRR!!). Aside from filling you personally with joy, your profile shoots up (meaning better job offers), and more to the point- your players will love it! Do this regularly and with impunity. And if say, Colin Hendry is around, praise him...and he'll praise you back. As a side note, I'm fairly sure that my constant goading of Ferguson while the pressure was on him at United got him the sack Follow these tips for financial stability, particularly in the lower leagues, and snag the best players you can on frees! I've shot through the leagues like this, and I don't think it's just because of my diamond formation.