The sad thing is that his 86 year old father is still alive and well. Best threw away every young man's dream. Still a lost life is a lost life and I hope that George can find peace and comfort

Loan Players tonight: McEveley- full 90 in Ipswich's 3-0 defeat at home to Reading Johnson- Unused not even on subs bench Derbyshire- Unused sub Gallagher- started but subbed after 76 mins in Stoke's 2-1 defeat vs. Derby Douglas- Time wasting substitute as Leeds beat Dingles 2-0

I cant score from free kicks on ps2 any tips? my shots always go on target and are curled of course but the keeper always saves them! HELP!!!

I went to Highbury last year, an awful stadium but a lot of character which I suppose made it enjoyable. Interesting that in the last 14 months or so since we played Arsenal have gone from being the "Invincibles" and were now a team who could possibly pick up a result. I for one will be happy with a point. Who knows possibly Jingle Bells will be sung at the end of the match!

Can't we just realease him?

Saw Striker for the SNES in Gamestation today for 99p! AWESOME

Why don't the FA turn around to the players and say "All have a week off"

Good performance from the boys, the thing is that I still don't think that we've seen a "polished" performance from the boys yet, someone is going to be on the end of a thumping soon, if we can keep up the standards at present. Still take nothing away from the team, would have liked to have seen less of Brad though! Friedel- 8 (Hreidarsson and Bothroyd denied by fine stops) Neill- 9 (Keeps getting better and better, played right, left and centre back!) Khizanishvilli- 8 (Classy. Classy defender, plays better with Nelsen though) Todd- 7 (Quietly effective, Hopefully Nelsen is back soon to take his place, if injured) Gray- 6 (Injury curtailed afternoon) Emerton- 8 (Fantastic goal, confident throughout) Tugay- 9 (Only remember one bad pass all day, pure class) Reid- 7 (Struggled first half, good second, good cross for Pedersen's goal) Pedersen- 7 (Quiet, but scored a good goal) Dickov- 7 (Worked hard, took goal well) Bellamy- 8 (Worked even harder, deserved goal) SUBS Mokoena- 6 (Could have been braver for Charlton goal, steady) Bentley- 6 (Quiet, kept possesion) Kuqi- 7 (Great header to setup 4th)

Brad'll do for me

Matt will get his chance, Its better for Hughesy to see him day in day out than Matty to go out on loan, Its a long season, Matty will get his chance. Interestingly when Matt went out on loan to Coventry his record was: Games 8 (2) Goals 2

Kuqi and Bellamy upfront. Todd in defence Otherwise unchanged from Leeds

What colour kits will they be wearing tommorrow? Obviously Rovers will be in the traditional blue and white. Birmingham however have a blue home shirt and a white away shirt, obviously both these colours clash. May we see the black away kit tommorrow? Someone must be able to shed light on the matter

I hope Norway qualify otherwise we will have no Rovers players there!

I played football with him for my church team. I used to see him at church and still see his mother and father who are extremely nice people. Hes from the Lammack area of Blackburn. I'm pretty sure he was a Rovers fan too.

Was extremely glad to see Todd left on the bench, Zurab and Nelsen have justified their spots with Todd out of the side. Its his own fault for the "stupid" headbutt and I only hope an extended run on the sidelines may teach him a lesson. Nelsen should be captain anyway in my opinion. At least he won't let you down!

Muzzy Izzet (Not the fact he's a bad player, he's just been plagued by injury)

Can anybody give any ratings for the game? I was unable to get to the game but would like to hear a Rovers fan's opinion as most of the websites I've been on focus on either MGP or Manchester United's poor finishing. Cheers Rog

Excellent result, well done to the lads. 1st on Match of the Day aswell! Wow

Missed the game! Gutted Just started Uni so I felt it would be too much to come home so soon, hopefully get a home tie in the next round, or one of the Liverpool clubs away! Well done lads.

I think he should be the permanent captain. I'm sure he wouldn't go headbutting people and costing us.

According to the LET Matteo is injured. Therefore I belive we'll go with FREIDEL NEILL ZURAB NELSEN © GRESKO EMERTON REID TUGAY SAVAGE PEDERSEN KUQI subs: BENTLEY JANSEN BELLAMY ENCKLEMAN MOKOENA

It would also be nice to have a better home record than away record this season, it has been 3 seasons since our home form has outweighed our away performances.

A point away from home in the Premiership is a good result be it against Chelsea, Bolton or Wigan

FRIEDEL KHIZANISHVILI MATTEO NELSEN NEILL EMERTON REID MOKOENA SAVAGE PEDERSEN JANSEN Subs: DICKOV BENTLEY ENCKLEMAN KUQI TUGAY

Amazing how the match last night has dented the country's confidence! We haven't seen the Aussies bat yet on the pitch and as far as I'm concerned if they caused us problems we can do like wise! It the end of day 1! Far too early to say who has the advantage, for me its still as it was at the start of play 50-50