Ha! Saw that myself. I love the images myself, especially the Blackburn postcard (see below)

Good work, pleasure. Worked for me too. Something to do this evening besides work!

Could be relatively easy points if we're up there, though! Not that there's any such thing as an easy game, I know... and didn't the Championship teams that came up last season do well. Obviously, barring Sunderland's record-breaking performance Edit: I feel bad now. Mocking Sunderland is like kicking an injured puppy. Too easy and pointless, they know they're rubbish. So let's never mention this again, unless Rovers are playing them...

But didn't Zambrotta make it clear he didn't want to go to England at all? There aren't that many quality LB's mind you, so you can't be too picky if one becomes available. I thought AC was anonymous at the world cup, TBH. I suppose I've seen a fair bit of pettiness and bad sportsmanship out of him on the field, and I feel that that's not on. It's the same reason I hate Bergkamp. Great player, but ever since he stamped on that player in an international game and got away with it (no later punishment, and no punishment at the time. Also, I can't remember which match in which comp at the moment) I've had an abiding dislike of the player. Same reason that my respect and admiration for Henry is at an all time low. Nothing personal (except to me!)

My friend, you are wearing your white-with-red-cross-tinted glasses. He was rubbish, but oddly enough, he didn't show enough passion (as opposed to exploding). And not throwing stones, but none of your players could be described in that fashion ("best player"). It was a dismal performance. Just hope things get better. AC is not in Zambrotta's class. Not yet.

The CL final sticks out in my mind. The game had been friendly enough, Marquez (I think) and Cole go for a ball, they end up falling over each other, Cole gets up, Marquez smiles and offers his hand, and Cole snatched his hand away, said something and went to run off. Marquez was rather teed off, and the game slipped from there. Speaking of hamburg, they've made some impressive acquisitions over the summer and look to be in a position to seriously shake up the Bundesliga. Which is nice. Kompany had some great sayings on signing for Hamburg. (about Lyon) "I felt that they were saying ' We are Lyon, you must come and play for us, on our terms'". About Chelski it was something along the lines of "I want to play regularly and there's no chance of that". A very promising young player. I'd dig up the link, but I really don't feel up to it. Sorry! That would be the Russian Mafia holding guns to the head of everyone he loves. A whole new meaning to "don't get fired".

Ashley Cole is one of the more overrated English players (I'm Irish, maybe not entirely neutral, but relatively so). He's bad-tempered, which leads to terrible tackles, falls over at the slightest provocation, and is one of the poorest sportsmen I've seen in the Premiership and CL. I hope Chelski buy him! He's kind of like Rio Ferdinand. Bags of ability but a serious attitude problem. And he will live in my memory for that. God bless him, and Rovers. I've no doubt he's still hanging around Ewood somewhere on matchdays

I'll be delighted if the ugliest sponsor logo I've ever seen falls off my jersey after two washes. Otherwise I'll be there for weeks trying to get it off. An iron works, you say? I mean seriously, did they not have something less offensive that could have been used, or at least moved the logo down 3 or 4 inches...

Jaysus, why would you compare the two players (to bring the thread back on track)? Rooney's best position is as an foward playing between midfield and attack. Torres is a striker. They're both technically brilliant, although Torres is faster (lord the lad can run!) and Rooney's passing is better. They both have rockets for shots and the real difference between them is that Rooney has some great players playing with him at club level, and Torres doesn't have as many. I'd love to see Torres as the striker with Rooney playing behind him actually. Looking at world cup performances, I was disappointed with both and both times it was because of managers and systems. Spain started a 4-3-3 formation against France, which gave them no width and Raul, Villa and Torres were ineffective (3 strikers! WTF) as were the spanish midfield. It was madness, and Spain will be back. England, for the whole tournament, played 4-5-1 with poor Rooney as the 1, and he hated every minute. A fish out of water (and why not, he was playing out of position). I hope McClaren shows more sense than Eriksson did there. Put them under a _GOOD_ manager like Sparky, and they'd both be amazing (Incidentally, I like Torres as well because he told AC Club De Milano that he would not leave unless Atletico Madrid told him to!) Both those players have yet to show their best, though (I hope). Experience will make them better. Also, Eto'o for Barca, what a player