Sorry, reported on Rovers Official Site

It turns out that Benni was in the stadium at the end of the match, but had dressed and gone up to watch the end of the game. He was also playing with 14 stitches in his leg. After his poor start to the season, he's been playing really well and I don't understand why anyone would want him to move.

Hmm, I've no idea what would happen if the Irish bandwagon went into the Euros. I'm sure everyone would enjoy it, though . I was, of course, stereotyping, don't take it personally! Well I suppose my point is that that figure seems completely unrealistic. 1 billion from where? First, a significant percentage will still watch any high-profile or interesting games. This is true both here in the Republic and in the UK - there are a lot of football addicts. Second, the assumption has been made that the worldwide anglophone audience watches because of England. I feel that that's a bit of a leap. With many of the major players still making it, the competition is still more than high profile enough. Not that anyone doubts having mad dogs and Englishmen (it's a quote, not aimed at anyone!) at the competition would increase revenue, but as I said, the level quoted seems ridiculous.

You are kidding, right? Sometimes that auld English arrogance comes out of no-where. The fact is, that even without Englands involvement, a significant percentage of viewers will watch Euro 2008, if only to say "we could have beaten them." And the qualifying nations have quite the television audience, as well as passionate and committed on-site fans. F-all people care that the England bandwagon won't be rolling into town. Unless, of course, you have reputable figures to back that up.

And how many injuries? Is this a "pay me or I'll get injured" blackmail?

More praise for Sparky from Ian Wright, who reckons we could make the champions league, and is apparently rooting for us to do it. I like the way he's "former Burnley and England", no mention of where he really made his name. Those dingles....

I agree. I think that he's coming on in leaps and bounds and is no longer recognisable as the player with a shovel for a foot that he was. I'm still worried about his tendency for making ridiculous challenges, though! He's still young, and will improve further.

Hold on - Cyprus are a decent team, holding Germany to a 1-1 draw and (embarrassingly for me) destroying Ireland 5-2 at home. They can play explosive attacking football, and aren't kicking boys by any stretch of the imagination. Toshack should go because he's damaging welsh football, but not because they lost to Cyprus.

I was thinking more like using Wikipedia or other sources to double check any dates, rather than anything else. For Roque, we can just link to his official homepage!

I updated the squad list. Praise me! Seriously, though, what's the story with player updates? I'd have to refresh a lot of the details, and the most likely place for that is "teh intarweb", so do I need to credit the sources, etc?

In the Community Shield, I noticed that Chelsea in particular tended not only to crowd the referee but to physically bash into him (while holding their hands out and arguing). This is _not_ on. The players that do it should be sent off immediately. Refs really get my goat sometimes but it's a difficult job and the way players react so aggressively must be hard. Sure a bit o' cussin' or holding the hands to the head, but screaming at the ref and bumping him? Or Van Persie's petulant punching of the turf? Gotta go.

HAHAHAHHA, the link was this. but on the off chance, I changed the "manchester_city" part to "blackburn" to get this this url and it worked fine. Someone noticed the mistake! Edit: the board doesn't like full links in plaintext and won't let me post it. sorry!

okaaaaay, that's very weird. It's tagged as a Manchester City story. Lets go burn the Times' office....

nope, it'll be 5. See his scoring record for Bayern!

That this season? If so, then the waiting list is probably gone this season, then. Which makes me happy They did have 14,000 on it not too long ago, though (or at least claimed they did).