I actually quite enjoyed that-certinly more than the Da Vinci Code. I also enjoyed Zorr-by Isabel Allende.

An awful lot of effort has gone into this work-well done. I do think you should be flexible about the list being players just from the Premiership era, or you might have to remove Jimmy Quinn and Mark Patterson, as well as Mike Rathbone, for example.

He lived on the main road in Whalley.In a big house.

They are not insulting names.

Actually, it's 45 years ago!

The rumour was that the players were openly selling them in the town centre-presumably for more than their nominal price and this double-whammy also upset a lot of fans who vowed never to return.

He just told it like it was.

It's not the way I remember it-although that doesn't mean I am correct. What I remember was at the end of 94/5 we were linked with a double signing of Macateer and Stubbs from Bolton, that Liverpool came in for Jason and we only wanted to do the signing as long as we could sign both, so a combination of that and Uncle Jack not wanting to make major signings meant we didn't build on the success. What I remember about the following season was that Ray Harford started looking at Zidane and ended up being more impressed by Dugarry but by the time he got involved in trying to do anything about it, they had both been signed up by an Italian team. When he became interested in Ronaldo, he found Barcelona had already done a deal to sign him.

It's not surprising that Taylor was critical as I am pretty sure Taylor had dropped him from the squad when he was manager. It was Pearce who recalled him.

I have been told by an Oldham fan that Hughes will not be released till September.

He is a genius at the moment.

Yes, I'm pretty sure it is-thanks.

In the Daily Telegraph last week-probably Thursday's edition- Henry Winter did a very highly criticle article about McClaren, suggesting that Beckham was a backward step and Bentley would have been a forward step. Now I don't know if he read it, or if he was reacting to it, but he acted as though he thought Bentlay was way down the pecking order. Someone might be able to find the link.

..............but they also tend to go on and achieve nothing.

I don't know him personally and I have been frustrated with him at times, but, since he was voted players' player of the year, I did wonder if a re-think should be done on his attitude? Presumably his colleagues would have seen through a fraud by the end of the season and they can obviously see something in him that we have missed.

On Radio Lancs they had part of an interview with Jose; he acknowledged Benni as "another one of his sons" having worked with him for 2 years at Porto, he was delighted he was 2nd in the charts of Premiership strikers and when asked if Benni would be at Chelsea next year, JM seemed to say "no".

Maybe Sevilla want to pair Benni with Jason.

I gave it up over 30 years ago.

Absolutely superb, although I also enjoyed the latter.

JW said some time ago that the objective of the Academy was to produce squad players. We now have 3 that have come through this system. Peter was much more effective last season, when Bellamy was playing!!!

My favourite is Goodfellas, my wife's is Taxi Driver- I found that overly violent at the time.

If you're interested....................the Halliwell's guide to films has 1-4 as ****, 5 as **, Raging Bull as ****, Cape Fear as ***, Casino as *** and Color of Money as **.

Todd has been quoted, maybe on here, as saying he thought he would be fit to play before the end of the season.

I thought that, although the deal had been set up, Dunn refused to go.

In the Daily Telegraph of 14/04. they had a list of the top 21 British Directors of all time. Michael Winterbottom is listed as 12th. " In contrast to many direcotrs......Winterbottom is dauntlessly profilic. Also, dautingly versatile. He moves with cosummate ease from literary adaptation ( Jude 1996 ) to pop-culture follies ( 24 Hour Party People 2002 ) and excoriating social drama ( In this World 2002 ) and then back to the Eng Lit canon with his cunningly post modern take on Tristram Shandy ( Cock and Bull Story 2005 )."