Pierluigi Collina "was" the best ref in the world, shame about the way it all ended with the sponsorship stuff etc. apparently these days, he is a financial advisor with his own business and he is still involved in football as "non-paid" consultant to the Italian Football Referees Association (AIA), and is a member of the UEFA Referees Committee. he also did some work with pro evo too. there was speculation he would referee in the premiership one day though i doubt that would ever happen now.

i think he just need time to adjust to pace of the premiership like most new imports to the league. you don't get to play for holland and captain your country on a regular basis for being a bad player and the fact he would rather stay with rovers than go back to 1 of the big 3 in his homeland is nice to hear. It shows things are all good in the blackburn camp.

bit of a long shot this one but worth a punt bristol city burnley dundee st johnstone raith rovers rangers darlington mk dons leeds united all to win on a £10 accumulator = £400 big ones!

ashley cole must be mad to go off with this woman! he had it all with cheryl but at the end of the day, it's all down to greed like the chelsea contract! this woman obviously seen the £ signs and probably hopes to be the next becca loos!

great news, class act on and off the pitch.

anyone seen rise of the foot soldier?

anyone watching the masters final? looks pretty done and dusted unless selby gets the world famous clinchers disease!

Yeah theres always one team that lets you down, the amount of times!!! i think the worst one was a few seasons ago, i had a lucky 7 accum, 6 results were already through and all i needed was swansea to win at scunthorpe. for some reason or another the game was delayed a few minutes and ex swansea striker steve torpey headed an 8th minute injury time equaliser for scunthorpe to make it 2-2! that header cost me around 500 bar, i don't think it is possible to put my reaction down it writing!

chelsea, man u, arsenal, newcastle, leeds, carlisle and cetic all to win, £10 accum = around £200 back if WIN!

I watched the butterfly effect after it was recommended to me by some friends. i know it's not a new release etc but i've never watched it before until earlier and i must say it was very good.

has anyone seen shrooms? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgqnWh0_O8

picked up the goonies the other day on the cheap, one of the best films ever imo. 1985 it was released, 23 years ago! found this on youtube, if your wondering what the actors look like these days## http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QD-Ghmr84qI

dear mr hughes playing tugay 3 times in 6 days? the ass and tugay in central midfield just does not work. samba up front with derbs on the bench, it's like the huth tactic. What on earth is wrong with our defence, must be tempting- i say tempting to give henchoz a game.

i went football training lastnight on the astro turf, on the way the car temprature reading was 0.0c outside. shorts, jansen 10 rovers shirt on and i'd had one of the best training sessions of my career. i ran riot

john part will be full of himself if he does a spot of commentry at the lakeside and who can blame him , very smooth on the mic by all accounts.

i suppose benni would of surely passed it if he was in the same position as pedersen

when you get really lucky down the local

i don't know what was more embarrassing and entertaining, marks exit from celeb jungle or englands failure. mac really has no option but to go, can you see him leading england into the world cup qualifiers.

whats the bets golden balls saves the day?

he looks a tit and that umbrella isn't doing him any favours

jose would be top man though i seem to remember him saying along the lines he would only manage 1 national team and that would be Portugal towards the later stages of his career. I'm sure the way the fa through money about they could make a very tempting offer though.

anybody played the new simpsons game yet?

had to re list it due to an inappropriate title, apparently i was spamming! i call it a good advertising strategy http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=007

yeah deffo got a reserve, too much to lose otherwise.

yeah all mine soon to be gone