Savage on TalkSport in a few minutes time.

Absolutely right. In the last series down under, England went in without Gough, Thorpe and Flintoff. Then we lost Simon Jones on the first morning.

Before the Human Rights Act came in we were all hardly out in a field picking cotton for 20 hours a day and suffering Chinese water torture at the hands of the local bobbies. Whilst The Human Rights Act recently gave a prisoner serving life access to hardcore pornography in his cell under the banner of 'right to information and freedom of expression', it has given us no protection from the Government's move to restrict trial by jury or indefinite detention.

We ARE winning the war on terrorism. This attack shows that the war on terror and the security services are working effectively in that this was a very crude attack. Whilst it was co-ordinated and simultaneous, it was not on the scale that Al-Qaeda usually aim for. We have made massive impacts on their infrastructure and ability to launch complex and elaborate attacks. We've heard much about ricin plots, possible attacks on landmarks and actually foiled many such attacks including the attempt to shoot down planes with RPGs. Thursday didn't have the same symbolism. If they had the capabilities, then this group (probably domestically formed) would have loved to have brought down the Houses of Parliament or Canary Wharf. Britain must not show continue the same cowardice that the Spanish did after Madrid. Running away and apologising means that the terrorists win. We must ensure that Mr Blair and the government continue their fight on terrorism and tyranny despite what odious characters like that scumbag Galloway would like. Sixty years ago tomorrow, Britain will celebrate finally beating Nazism. We won then, we will win now.

If Bellamy didn't come with any baggage and was a clean-cut model pro in the mould of Michael Owen then we'd have been looking at a fee of more like £8m. In that case he'd have been out of our reach. The old cliche applies to people like Savage in that if you take away their aggression, you lose a lot from their game. We have aggressive players but I don't think we have any players who could be deemed as 'nasty' in that they go over the top of the ball and/or put in potential leg-breakers deliberately.

One of the most disconcerting things to come out of the last few days was George Galloway's comments to Gavin Esler on last night's Newsnight. When challenged on whether he thought the views he was expressing were wise at the particular moment, he attacked Esler and claimed he had spoken to hundreds of his constituents and they all fully endorsed his opinions. How unbelievably worrying because he didn't articulate this in a simple 'the Iraq war has contributed to this happening' way, it was much more venomous than that. He was expressing it as if they all agreed that this cowardly attack was deserved and justifiable. He appeared smug as in an 'I told you so' manner, doing his best to stop himself smiling gleefully. Where is this country heading if this odious man really does reflect the views of the people of Bethnal Green and Bow?

Team: Friedel, Neill, Todd, Nelsen, McEveley, Emerton, Thompson, Mokoena, Savage, Pedersen, Stead McEveley is a surprise inclusion - returned from Gillingham last week. Thompson in for Reid who's injured.

Ferguson was anonymous apart from one shot at goal. Sublime individual goal from Bellamy though.

Fantastic game of attacking football. If watching, Hughesy and Mark Bowen would have been horrified at some of the defending on show though!

7th place in the Premiership.

Defenders who step up and put their foot through the ball are usually your best bet. You don't see many of them miss.

Doesn't carry over to the semi-finals. If the FA Cup finalists were Man U and Arsenal then the extra place would go to the team finishing 7th. The 6th place should qualify for Europe, assuming the Carling Cup finalists (Chelsea and Liverpool) finish in the top 5.

Emmanuel Petit is a free agent and currently training with Arsenal. Midfielders of lesser ability than him are still operating in the Premiership at 34. Could be worth a short-term deal.