Its worth a watch Presty. It gets interesting when it gets past Carlton Leach's early hooligan days and gets into the Essex Boys scene. I'd recommend reading Bernard O'Mahoneys Essex Boys book as its the same story.

You know me too well Paul. Well, I had a word with a couple of people who said the Glasshouse on Friar street is very good. Basically Friar street in Worcester is where the majority of the better places to eat are located. Have a wander down there and I'm sure you'll find somewhere. The Glasshouse have an early deal which is 2 courses and a glass of wine for £15 per person which seems reasonable. Still stand by the Chinese recommendation if you are into that sort of thing. One of the best Chinese's I've been to that's for sure.

Paul, If you are into your Chinese Food there is an excellent restaurent in the middle of town called the Angel Chef. It's one of the buffet types where you help yourself, tere is a huge huge selection of starters mains and sweets. I'll quickly ask in the office about fish places as I have a couple of mates who live over there, been spending quite a bit of time over there myself recently

Jim, He's also very quick to criticise his team mates. I play up top with a guy who's like that in our sunday league team. He's the best player on this pitch (24 goals in 6 games) but he's horrible to play alongside. We can have players unmarked clean through and he'll still try to take on 5 players and score himself, very annoying. He also has a go at team mates if they dont pass to him all the time, very similar to the sort of strops I've seen from Benni, He did it to Gamst a few times on Sunday, Gamst is obviously very very low on confidence at the moment and I'm guessing Benni having a go at him wont help.

Sure tehre was a stat a couple of weeks ago saying something along the lines of 'shots on target 7 - goals scored 6' or something like that. I recall at the time that if he hits the target he scores!!!

Its just Jim being Jim, he loved Dwight Yorke at one stage too. But he does raise one valid point, He did get the UEFA cup selection wrong in my eyes. 1 up front when we needed to score goals was not the way forward. Still I certainly wouldn't swap him with any other manager in the league. I'd love to see our expenditure on transfers over the last 3 seasons, think we are running a very tight ship at the moment. I'll have a look at the Henry Winter article now, he's always been very complementry about us in the past.

Looking forward to seeing it Colin. Like I said earlier on this thread I've been tracking the film for a couple of years now.

Every time I hear you talk about Managers I have a little chuckle to myself. Paul Sturrock wasn't it ???

My mte's a City fan and is gutted that they missed out on Santa Cruz. As for Benni, 20 goals in 42 games and people question that he doesn't work hard enough!!! Well he's working hard enough to get into those positions and bang in the goals. that's good enough for me. We have been crying out for a 20 goals a season striker for years, the first time we have one in about 10 years and people are moaning about it.

Brilliant artcile and really shows how much work goes on behind the scenes Looks like Hughes has really bought in a lot of new techniques and monitering.

Gotta agree with you Pleasure. Been reading about the film for a couple of years now and just looking forward to seeing it.

What does interest me is comments Mark Hughes made a while ago. It regsitered with me at the time, he was asked about release clauses and specifically said 'we don't thave to worry about release clauses this season' or something along those lines. Just thought it was a bit of an odd answer at the time.

I can echo the praise for Ghosts. Had the pleasure of seeing them support the feeling recently and was very impressed. Seen pretty much everyone I wanted to see this year to be honest. I suppose that was one of the bonus's of going to Live Earth.

The Ex went to see Muse over the weekend, I didnt. I went to see the Feeling in Chester, good gig in the middle of Delamere Forest. Thoroughly enjoyes it.

Abbey, I'm not a Motley Crue fan but I did read their autobiography recently. It was recommended by a friend and was an amazing read. To be fair it's absolutely amazing that they are on stage together with what they have been through, probably more amazing that they are all actually still alive. It was touch and go with Nicki Sixx at one stage.

Just listened to Boxer by the National. Not a bad CD at all. Probably needs another listen but quite like it.

Good decision for us but a bad one for his england career. There are other players in the squad who have had long seasons as well.

My Beckham England shirt can be bought out of ritirement and I can add Bentley 7 on my new one. I wonder who'll get the nod on Friday. I'll be there and I'll be hoping to see a Bentley debut.

I think you're way off the mark here. We had Reid missing for the whole of this season and we also had Savage out for half a season. You cant say the 4 place difference in the league was down to Bellamy / McCarthy

Nope, but I will mention Arcade Fire's Neon Bible. It's quality. I actually got into Arcade Fire via Hollyoaks. They sometimes play Rebellion (Lies) on there, it's a quality song so I got hold of Neon Bible off a mate, not bad at all.

The press have Benni wanting to reunite with his old Prto manager at Chelsea. Not a good start to the summer. If they want him it has to be 10m minimum. If Bent's (charlton) being touted at 12 Benni must be worth the same as him. If anyone wants him then they can pay top money for him, oif not he stays.

Woolworths have them in stock at £179.99 including wii sports http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/...ml?pid=50778342

20 goals. Surely that says it all. How some people can say get rid of a player who has scored 20 goals is beyond me. This is his first season in the Prem, we have seem very very big money players fail to make anywhere near the impression Benni has. It takes time to adjust to the Prem, we need to keep him and get him a decent partner up front. It would be daft to even consider selling him.

Well I was one of the thousands who booed ginger sven off the pitch at half time. How we can be 0'0 after 45 minutes against that lot is a disgrace. Its time the players and the coaching staff took a good look at themselves. Steve McLaren is not the right man for the job, end of!! Anyway, off to bed now. feeling fairly wrecked now and have the prospect of 2 days on the lash in Dublin to come. Leave Barca at 10.00 in the morning. Goodnight all!!!!

Nice to see Bents and derbs celebrating together. Derbs ran straight to Bentley. Got a warm rovers glow at the moment.