This columnist in The Times is an excellent pointer to where society has arrived at concerning drugs. Interesting observation about how totally out of touch the hard right of the Daily Mail is with society and the Tory Party.

Perhaps we'll see another ex-Rover, Alex Bruce, make his debut. Could be interesting to see four ex-Rovers: Taylor, Bruce, Johnson and Dunn on the pitch together. Shame Yorke isn't still there- sounds like they might need him if Sullivan is so upset with Heskey, Pandiani and Forsell.

Assuming Flitty departs at the end of his contract this summer, he could be a good back-up to Sav and the Axe. I see Douglas as being rather similar to Damien Johnson. Not an exciting player but one whose all round game could be good enough to make him a decent Premiership regular.

A very high proportion of the smuggling is down to the creation of alternative business flows created by the enormous drugs business. Interesting to read that comment by the US Senator at the end. He'd legalise "soft" drugs but would get voted out of office. I wonder if there will suddenly be found a majority for legalisation when everybody realises it is a wholly decent and reasonable position to take?

This is very serious for Ronaldo. Given the time it has taken from the incident to the arrest, I'd guess the Police were making sure they have got a case that will stick given the profile. Something is very wrong in football land with two of the most exciting young players coming through in the Premiership facing rape charges.

I echo Fife Rover's comments that clearly the chants on Saturday made a lot of other Rovers supporters unhappy and gave two newspapers yet another chance to have a go at the Rovers and the fans. Not forgetting, a highly paid talented footballer found it sufficiently motivating to give the Rovers the run around and score the winner when he heard the chants. I know his wages and manager should have been driving his performance but they weren't and the rest of us were glad of his increasing sulk until he got provoked.

Spot on Napoleon. I watched the TV replay of the game. I couldn't hear the chanting. However, I do remember wondering "what's got into Cisse?" when during the second half he transformed himself from a dispirited doing not much runner into a highly focussed dangerous determined opponent. Nothing has convinced me that our vocal minority didn't unwittingly connive with Halsey to deny the Rovers of a point or points which were there for us at Anfield.

I think two things are pretty clear: A significant number of Rovers fans were upset by the chant. A dispirited player playing badly suddenly got remotivated when the chants percolated through and scored against us.

Souness goes to Brum ...and we get Dunn back RESULT! (now I'll wake up)

Two of Neill's cards came in the same game so he served the one match suspension for that and is "only" on three cards. Zura's hearing of the appeal is tomorrow.

After match quotation from Cisse: He also revealed that the abuse from Blackburn fans over the double leg fracture he suffered at Ewood Park last season left him angry and determined to score. His dance of triumph in front of the visiting fans after driving home the winner was inadvisable, but he said: "They were singing 'Cisse glass leg.' I was angry after that and I just wanted to score because of those stupid fans. And I want to say 'thank you' to the Liverpool fans for supporting me after that. Well done, you cost us a point yesterday. Fool

The BBC report of the Derby v Stoke game had him missing from the line-up when I looked yesterday. He's there now!

Seems that McEvely and Douglas are playing well in two inconsistent teams- Ipswich and Leeds- but Gally and Darbyshire are not even making the bench at Stoke and Plymouth.

Apart from him looking for Zenden after Zenden had a foul against him unpunished, any complaints about his performance yesterday?

Dangerous fixture this one- will be relieved if we get three points as I expect Dunny to run the show. A question of which side uses the bitterness between them to best effect. In that matter it is down to the two managers and Hughes is head and shoulders better than Bruce. Even so, with Brum pretty certain to drop into the bottom three if they don't get anything at Ewood, got a sneeking suspicion that Savage will see red and the Brummies will nick this one.

On the basis that 6,000 people died from drug abuse out of 500,000 habitual drug users over 5 years and 500,000 people died from tobacco out of 18,000,000 habitual users over the same period in the UK, tobacco must be about three times more dangerous on the numbers at the foot of this article. Apart from that, I think the article re-enforces my view that drugs should be de-criminalised. No doubt David Cameron and George Osborne are wishing they were.

Terrible refereeing. Liverpool were nothing.

Both sides going 4-4-2. Only Rovers change: Savage for Reid. Our midfield looks a bit soft if Liverpool press.

Well done to Paul and all involved in getting the BRISA going. Don't forget the personalised embossed invitation to the 'drog.

From the BBC: "Highest achievable after Saturday's matches: 4th Lowest could fall: 12th" So Champions League here we come! Don't worry- its not going to happen, read through loads of forecasts and they are unanimously predicting a very comfortable win for Liverpool.

I haven't felt this confident about a Rovers win since Newcastle at home... Crouch hattrick then.

Never mind a Home Nations Group, getting Germany, Ukraine and Israel would be, as they say, challenging.

Malta secured another creditable 1-1 draw, against Bulgaria this time in a game they dominated at times and were unfortunate not to win. Great night out and no Croat morons dismantling the stadium. On the thought about Rovers players at the World Cup, compared with recent Finals, this is going to have little to no interest for Rovers' fans. Just MGP flying the flag in the Norway play-off and Vraty needing the games of his life for Slovakia against Spain. I think we can forget about Bert and Lucas making it to Germany- Uruguay are a little bit better than the Solomon Islands. Of course, Sparky might sign Fateh Tekke.... or not...

I think its worth putting some indisputable facts on the page. - Levels of Co2 in the atmosphere are at an indisputable high level. - plant and tree growth, ice cores and even river sediment are indisputable sources of data on historic atmospheric composition. Every year going back over 500,000 has effectively been analysed. - ozone holes are real - rising sea levels are real - hurricanes are real

Billy, I might be wrong but I think Andy is German so your riposte is 120 degrees in the wrong dirction.