I was passing an idle 5 minutes on the Sky website, and MArtin Tyler has posted the all time points table for Premiership sides since it's inception in 1992. There are 38 teams in it, and Rovers finish 9th overall, ahead of both Middlesborough and Southampton, neither of which have ever missed a season in there! ALL-TIME PREMIERSHIP POINTS TABLE POS TEAM PLD PTS 1 MAN UTD 474 992 2 ARSENAL 474 879 3 LIVERPOOL 473 798 4 CHELSEA 474 758 5 NEWCASTLE 432 692 6 LEEDS 468 692 7 ASTON VILLA 474 687 8 TOTTENHAM 474 621 9 BLACKBURN 398 595 10 EVERTON 474 579 11 SOTON 474 559 12 WEST HAM 388 500 13 BORO 352 423 14 COVENTRY 354 409 15 SHEFF WED 316 392 16 WIMBLEDON 316 391 17 LEICESTER 308 342 18 MAN CITY 284 322 19 DERBY 228 263 20 CHARLTON 196 242 21 N FOREST 198 239 22 IPSWICH 202 224 23 BOLTON 196 217 24 QPR 196 216 25 SUNDERLAND 190 214 26 NORWICH 132 172 27 FULHAM 120 149 28 C PALACE 128 128 30 SHEFF UTD 84 94 31 OLDHAM 84 89 32 BRADFORD 76 62 33 PORTSMOUTH 43 52 34 BARNSLEY 38 35 35 WOLVES 38 33 36 WEST BROM 44 30 37 SWINDON 42 30 38 WATFORD 38 24

Dear braindeath, Lancashire Constabulary got £5m to stop football hooligans. It may have escaped your attention but within lancashire, there are actually a significant number of football clubs, not just Rovers. Lancashire also borders merseyside, west yorkshire and greater manchester and so the fans of a large number of other clubs may well live within lancashire, thus making them Lancashire constabulary's problem. Personally I think you should all be locked up for the duration of all football matches, not just those of the club that you claim allegience to. If you want to fight people and be "hard" then join the army and do it properly. At least that way a few of you might get shot occasionally and there is less chance of you breeding.

I thought it was Cruyff that signed him just before he was relaced by Sir Bobby. Venables took over after he had gone back to the red scum. I might be wrong, but I think he left Barce in '87 and Venables joined in '88. Either way, neither of them were tactical mugs.

Hughes was an exceptionally good player, and therefore will automatically command the respect of the players. He even played with some of our current squad and effectively won them a Worthington Cup medal on his own. Whether he has the tactical nouse to cut it at premiership level, only time will tell, but look who he has worked for over his career: Big Ron Atkinson Johann Cruyff Sir Bobby Robson Whingebag Jock arsehole Ferguson Glenda Hoddle Ruud Gullit Walter Smith Souness Not too shabby. He is intelligent and articulate (notwithstanding the fact that he's welsh) and so if he's picked up 5% of what each of that list knows, then I suspect he will be more than equipped to take us forward.

All that metal is far too shouty and uncivilised. I grew up in an era of Iron Maiden, Kiss, Metallica and similar proper metal bands. I heard something by somebody called Slipknot the other day, and frankly it sounded like somebody undergoing surgery without the use of any pain killing injections. If that is music, then Gary Glitter is a perfect godfather to all young children. I have recently acquired the new Gomez album - Split the difference- and I can report it is as good as their other stuff. A real mix of songs and styles. I also purchased the Razorlight Album after seeing them on Parkinson the other week. Not listened to it yet, but the track I heard was very good. You can all still log on to the BBC website and listen to the last night of the Proms again. That is real music.

Would that be at Shrigley Hall? No, it was at Mere Golf Club, which is actually nicer than Shrigley Hall. Welsh nationalist fishing in Islamabad.

I've played golf with Mark Hughes and he is a bloody nice bloke. I'd like him to be manager. Australian juvenile on exchange at Parkhurst.

Didn't Super Atko play left back on at least one occasion?

I think this one is done and dusted. Are we doing the left back next?

Now surely that ought to be Arsenal? They do have 15 points from 5 games and are unbeaten since before Abbey was old enough to drink? That said, turning to matters in hand, we'll beat Portsmouth. They may have a few quick players, but they also have a significant collection of donkeys to go with them. 2-0 Rovers with Stead and Amoruso doing the honours.

Surprised by this but not upset. I think he'd run his course with us. He has achieved good things at Ewood, but I think a fresh face (or at least Tony Parkes' again!) is probably best all round. Timing and recent transfer activities do look a bit suspect though.

It's very difficult to look past Crompton for this position. Berg was the best that I have seen play there, but when you were surrounded by Hendry, May, Le Saux and Flowers, frankly I would have looked a half decent right back.

This could only be made sweeter by Dunny coming back the other way in the deal! I always said that Steve Bruce was a wonderful man.

So we blow 5 points against eminently beatable sides, just so that we can confuse Arsenal, who nobody has beaten for over 12 months? If I give you money, will you go on holiday again?

Not a predicament that we are likely to have to face. As long as there is Levers pie shop, Dunny will always be distracted at Ewood.

We'll beat them 1-0. We have the best record of any team against them in the last 4 years, and we will do them again. It's going to lash down with rain all night, and Amorusso will score the only goal of the game from a corner. I don't know what the odds are, but have a fiver on that.

Shouldn't we turn this into a poll and then we can all confirm that Flowers is our greatest ever keeper?

I've been asking the saints fans and they reckon they are rubbish at the moment. No team spirit and no real ability outside of Beattie and Phillips. I think we'll slap them. 3-0 to Rovers, with our boys taking not only the points, but swapping Beattie for Jansen whilst we are there.

I'm just pretending to be nice to some baggies on th eRivals board at teh moment. They all seem to think that they will be solid defensively this year, but poor going forward. Apparently Koumas is banned, and obviously the threat from Hughes is diminished(!) but they are hopeful that Kanu will do the business for them. The only player of our that gets a mention specifically as a threat is Dickov. Apparently he never stops trying. Interestingly, they seem split about staying up. Most expect them to struggle, but I'd guess they will be OK, simply because Palace, Everton and Portsmouth will all be far worse.

The offence of causing death by dangerous driving was created because juries were extremely reluctant to convict drivers of murder or manslaughter. The feeling was that "there but for the grace of God go all of us" (to a greater or lesser extent). Drivers were getting let off completely when the only option the police had was a manslaughter charge. The lesser offence was created and has been found to have a much greater conviction rate. So the legal system actually responded to the juries of the day. Who'd a thunk it?

The maximum sentence you can get for death by reckless driving is 5 years. They must have thrown something else at him.

My secretary sent off my views on my three cult heroes to the BBC yesterday. How many of you have also sent in your thoughts? The last thing we want is for only Hughesy to have contributed.

We used to hunt them with dogs, so just think on.

Bob is from the Latin Bobcatus Maximus which is the male name for the domestic cat, also known as a Tom.

I just thought I'd join in the debate. That London based person seemed to be spouting off and irritating those that I like to irritate. Besides, I'm all for a wind up. Bob - Two things. Jags are a heap of junk. Ford mondeo's in disguise. I'd sooner drive a golf. I'll be sticking with the Bentley thanks. And don't for one minute think that I'd have anything by Elizabeth Duke about my person! Oh yes - Souness out.