The rest of the world hates us.....and we don't care.

Chelsea's English players are getting booed at Derby, and Gerrard was too earlier on. I love it, long may it continue.

Is that code for sitting back and inviting Croatia onto us? School boy stuff.

Joe Cole, Michael Owen, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young, Steven Gerrard, James Milner, etc etc. There's plenty of talent there - any of those players would destroy Rovers if we let them.

Sven's a better manager than McClown there's no doubt about that. However, he merely did the bare minimum i.e. got England to the Quarter Finals of the tournament, and he had a fair amount of luck along the way. Not to mention we were like watching paint dry. As for him at club level, well having £50m to spend tends to help.

I'd rather they all get a rest to be honest. If the FA pull out this ridiculous, profit spinning, Home Nations rubbish I for one hope all of our UK players claim injury.

What does this achieve, exactly? If they had any pull with the FA they wouldn't have allowed McClown to have been hired in the first place.

Newcastle are going to be happy.

It's a better answer than "No, I'm perfectly happy sitting on the bench." That's not the type of player Hughes has in his squad.

'Cos, y'know it was a direct replacement after all.

Good lord, don't scare me like that! I thought his hamstring injury had returned.

He's a Championship star......and a below average Premiership player.

Yep - very much like watching an extended episode of the later series. The show has lost it's way - not even in Family Guy's league.

Smart move, he has nothing more to prove at that level. I'd rather he get a rest than play in a minor international, especially after the Dyer/Jenas tripe against Brazil.

So where is Bentley right now? With the full squad, or the U21s? If it's the latter, I hope Hughes pulls him from the squad and gives him a well deserved rest - it's going to be another long season and we'll need a healthy Bentley.

Wes Brown.

I'm actually reading that the movie was butchered by the studio. Link

Or just carpet bomb the place like they eventually did with t'Roughnecks. It's escapism either way. I saw Spider-man 3 tonight. Utter, utter tripe. Such a letdown because the other two were pretty entertaining.

It's his first season in the Premiership; most foreign players struggle in their Premier League debuts. He's only going to get better, and he's hardly been shoddy this year. Champions League money is worth £10m a year - so they're getting an initial investment, but losing out on the potential gravy train for the forseeable future. It'd be a mistake to do that. I have no idea about any clauses. I didn't draw up his contract.

Higgins has finally won his second World Championship - about time too. He tried his best to throw it away mind.

Spurs would be foolish to sell Berbatov, even for £40m. The Champions League money is worth much more than that and Berbatov is good enough to carry them there - he's truly special.

I'm surprised Sergio has re-signed with the club. He's not getting a sniff, rightly or wrongly, behind Pedersen.

Derb's second touch was a cool finish across the keeper. Nonda, in comparison, missed an absolute sitter. I for one hope we don't bring him back.

It's pretentious, the dialogue is appalling, and most of the acting is mediocre. Nicholson simply wheeled out his 'crazy' character we've seen countless times before - he slept through his scenes. Each to their own I suppose, but if a film is as hyped as this one I'm going to be a lot more critical.

Finally got round to seeing 'The Departed'. It's a bit rubbish isn't it? Tries to be something it isn't.