Same old Aussies, always cheating. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/43526870 Bancroft and especially Smith should get long bans from Test cricket for this.

Go back 20 plus years and the Premier League was dominated by English (British) players - so we had the numbers then yet England still weren't good enough to win a tournament (or even reach a final). Under Taylor and Keegan we were a laughing stock. The basic problem is we have never had enough true world-class players compared to successful nations like Spain, Germany, France, Brazil etc), and we've never had a coach who has been able to get the most out of the players we have (although Eriksson did well). Germany have had some distinctly ordinary sides in the past but because they are organised and well coached they rarely if ever fail in the big tournaments.

Lenihan's preferred position is centre midfield. Would love to see him play there but we'd need to sign a new centre half next season as Downing is not the answer.

I thought Mowbray's weaknesses as a coach were exposed today. Cook changed his team to devastating effect, bringing on Vaughan who gave our defence a torrid time, even Lenighan found him hard to handle. Mowbray failed to see the danger and only made changes when it was too late. His substitutions seem to be by rote too, with the same players always taken off.

No one hopefully. Lucky to escape relegation at our expense last season after hiring the tax-dodging shyster Harry Redknapp. Hope they go down and down to League 2 next season.

Why aren't we looking at local kids like this instead of Arsenal and Chelsea? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43020594

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/15994250.Rovers_swoop_to_sign_forward_from_Liverpool/

Bell at right back and Nyambe at left back. Interesting.

You have to hand it to Watford - the people running that club must have so many contacts around Europe with their fingers on the pulses of the best up and coming coaches. How they managed to get out of the Championship with 4 coaches in one season defies belief really. Southampton were in League One about 5 years ago so it shows what can be achieved with good people running the club. Swansea are another well run club. For those who remember the 1960s and 70s the likes of Watford, Brighton, Swansea, Bournemouth were all 3rd or 4th division clubs - the idea that that they would ever be in the equivalent of the old first division would have been inconceivable. .

The flip side of that is Watford who changed their manager 4 (yes 4) times in their promotion season to the Premier League and have continued to change managers ever since while cementing their place in the top league.

I got the info from a Leeds fan who I met today. He thinks the new badge is wonderful ! The protesters seem most upset over the loss of the white Yorkshire rose.

On the contrary. The new Leeds badge was designed after consultation with fans. Leeds fans makes the right arm across the chest gesture at matches.

Jimmy Armfield was known in his pomp as a "class" player (what happened to class players??) - in the same way that (Sir) Keith Newton and Ronnie Clayton were. It was just something in the way they moved. Players aren't the same these days. He was also a "gentleman" footballer - a term which modern fans would never understand. Ronnie Clayton and Bobby Moore were the same. Armfield was an excellent full back and could have been England's full back in the 1966 World Cup but for injury. He never bore any resentment. Sad day for football.

So even "Gods" make mistakes. Just shows going too far with hubris tends to come back and bite you on the derriere.

Doesn't make any sense. Suspended during the investigation and now he's been charged with a serious offence he is cleared to play? He could still end up in jail if found guilty.

Affray carries a maximum 3-year prison sentence. He's a lucky lad - it could have been abh or gbh.

There are ways of standing up for people without throwing punches and having a street brawl. He's supposed to be a professional sportsman. His behaviour was inexcusable. He's an idiot.

Missed out on Ashes series, set back his career and his earnings, and probably going to end up in court. .... I wonder if he still thinks he did the "right thing".

Fallon's a regular at Ewood. Seen him there many times. RV Blue, Specialist subject: Tripe.

Chicken and egg. If there weren't so many matches in London cricket fans would have to travel to other grounds. Won't happen though. Money talks. Like the economy, everything is skewed towards London and the south.

Britain's most northerly league club - Ross County, who play at Dingwall, north of Inverness, is worth a visit. It's a small, isolated town miles from anywhere. I visited in 1980, when it was still a Highland League club. Inverness had 3 clubs in those days, Caledonian, Thistle and Clacknacuddin, each with their own typical non-league type ground complete with ramshackle stands and corrugated iron fencing. Fantastic.

Finn, Wood and Plunkett are all faster bowlers than the players on tour, players who get bounce out of faster pitches, but Finn and Wood unfortunately are injured and Plunkett didn't play alot last summer because of fitness problems and is regarded as a ODI bowler these days. Roland-Jones is injured too and would almost certainly been on tour. Finn and Wood were big losses, and coupled with the loss of Stokes, it's little wonder England's attack has lacked variety and looked toothless.

Tomlinson has overcome the potentially lifelong handicap of having been born in Burnley so I'm sure he'll come though his difficulties. He didn't do much wrong at Peterborough.

Gabby Logan's dad.

Neat and efficient but wouldn't go overboard. Prefer Evans.