I think two things are pretty clear: A significant number of Rovers fans were upset by the chant. A dispirited player playing badly suddenly got remotivated when the chants percolated through and scored against us.

Souness goes to Brum ...and we get Dunn back RESULT! (now I'll wake up)

Two of Neill's cards came in the same game so he served the one match suspension for that and is "only" on three cards. Zura's hearing of the appeal is tomorrow.

After match quotation from Cisse: He also revealed that the abuse from Blackburn fans over the double leg fracture he suffered at Ewood Park last season left him angry and determined to score. His dance of triumph in front of the visiting fans after driving home the winner was inadvisable, but he said: "They were singing 'Cisse glass leg.' I was angry after that and I just wanted to score because of those stupid fans. And I want to say 'thank you' to the Liverpool fans for supporting me after that. Well done, you cost us a point yesterday. Fool

The BBC report of the Derby v Stoke game had him missing from the line-up when I looked yesterday. He's there now!

Seems that McEvely and Douglas are playing well in two inconsistent teams- Ipswich and Leeds- but Gally and Darbyshire are not even making the bench at Stoke and Plymouth.

Apart from him looking for Zenden after Zenden had a foul against him unpunished, any complaints about his performance yesterday?

Dangerous fixture this one- will be relieved if we get three points as I expect Dunny to run the show. A question of which side uses the bitterness between them to best effect. In that matter it is down to the two managers and Hughes is head and shoulders better than Bruce. Even so, with Brum pretty certain to drop into the bottom three if they don't get anything at Ewood, got a sneeking suspicion that Savage will see red and the Brummies will nick this one.

On the basis that 6,000 people died from drug abuse out of 500,000 habitual drug users over 5 years and 500,000 people died from tobacco out of 18,000,000 habitual users over the same period in the UK, tobacco must be about three times more dangerous on the numbers at the foot of this article. Apart from that, I think the article re-enforces my view that drugs should be de-criminalised. No doubt David Cameron and George Osborne are wishing they were.

Terrible refereeing. Liverpool were nothing.

Both sides going 4-4-2. Only Rovers change: Savage for Reid. Our midfield looks a bit soft if Liverpool press.

Well done to Paul and all involved in getting the BRISA going. Don't forget the personalised embossed invitation to the 'drog.

From the BBC: "Highest achievable after Saturday's matches: 4th Lowest could fall: 12th" So Champions League here we come! Don't worry- its not going to happen, read through loads of forecasts and they are unanimously predicting a very comfortable win for Liverpool.

I haven't felt this confident about a Rovers win since Newcastle at home... Crouch hattrick then.

Never mind a Home Nations Group, getting Germany, Ukraine and Israel would be, as they say, challenging.

Malta secured another creditable 1-1 draw, against Bulgaria this time in a game they dominated at times and were unfortunate not to win. Great night out and no Croat morons dismantling the stadium. On the thought about Rovers players at the World Cup, compared with recent Finals, this is going to have little to no interest for Rovers' fans. Just MGP flying the flag in the Norway play-off and Vraty needing the games of his life for Slovakia against Spain. I think we can forget about Bert and Lucas making it to Germany- Uruguay are a little bit better than the Solomon Islands. Of course, Sparky might sign Fateh Tekke.... or not...

I think its worth putting some indisputable facts on the page. - Levels of Co2 in the atmosphere are at an indisputable high level. - plant and tree growth, ice cores and even river sediment are indisputable sources of data on historic atmospheric composition. Every year going back over 500,000 has effectively been analysed. - ozone holes are real - rising sea levels are real - hurricanes are real

Billy, I might be wrong but I think Andy is German so your riposte is 120 degrees in the wrong dirction.

Ireland- another country with a good crop of players and a terrible manager.

Fair points about Germany and Brazil last time round but I simply cannot see Sven turning this round for England. This is four awful tactically-inept performances on the bounce with the best crop of players England have produced since 1970. How many do you reckon Poland have to beat us by to secure Sven's dismissal?

"If Crouch plays for England, so can I" was being sung in the bar I was watching the game- at least it lifted the tedium of yet another utterly inept England performance.

Listen to it live on the BBC World Service.

The Academy won the inaugural National Competition last season and are doing a Chelsea in the Northern Section so far this season- and that's with a few well under age players in the squad. It seems that the calibre of youngster being brought to the club is not at fault based on that evidence- we are still gatting the cream. Whether any are good enough to progress further is the $64,000 question. After producing some gems- Dunn and Duff, it seems that we have generated a group of players good enough for League football but not the Prem in recent seasons. Players like Barker and Garner are the ones I am hoping will burst through at the highest level in the near future.

Rovers have rejected Preston's approach for Jansen so he's obviously part of Hughes' plans, even if only as 4th choice striker.

Thank goodness Ferdinand is being dropped. Not sure about Crouch but it looks like we are going to have two games with him to prove himself and get injured before the Rovers' game, or flop.