A club that sells an England Under-21 striker because it needs the cash and replaces him with an ageing Sheffield Wednesday reject is desperate. Just like copying machine menders. Now I wonder if they receive performance related pay ..... ?

Nonsense. Who would argue that the club is not desperate for funds ? And the intro is backed up with a quote from the overpaid overlord. The only rubbish is your post.

correction 4 - right half 5 - centre half 6 - left half 8 - inside right 9 - centre forward 10 - inside left now that's how it should be

5-0 at home to Manchester United was the worst. Denis Law at his best. Now that did hurt. I cried all the way home and I was 53 then.

Certainly do remember it squire. Christmas 1963 is famous in football folklore for two results: West Ham 2 Blackburn Rovers 8 ..........and two days later Blackburn Rovers 1 West Ham United 3 Only our dear club could manage such a feat. Those were the days when clubs played each other home and away over the Christmas period. Bryan Douglas tore West Ham apart in the first game and a smarting West Ham got their revenge at Ewood.

Laurent Robert puts the boot into Souness in a double page spread in tomorrow's papers.

Are you sure that was 1963-4 ? Unless my memory is failing I thought Rovers beat West Ham 4-1 in a cup replay in 1965-66, the season we were relegated from the First Division.

Marvellous win by the goodies against the baddies. This is the worst Australia touring team ever.

This is fun. Well played Bangladesh. The question has to be asked again: is this the worst Australia touring team ever ?

Well played England. First blow against the forces of evil in what is going to be a gloriously successful summer for God's chosen nation. The convicts were so poor they made Bangladesh seem competant.

The Times also says Glazer has the option of paying himself a £150 million "dividend" on completion of the takeover.

I think you're forgetting a certain G McGrath, old and injured but still a dangerous wicket-taker after he has slipped the umpire the odd fiver or two. What tiddles me off is the way in which the ECB has been so accommodating to the enemy, devising a schedule that gives them maximum practice and playing time before the Tests and allowing the infidels to acclimatise by playing county cricket, viz lardarse drug-baron Warne at Hampshire. I wouldn't let them in the country until two days the first Test at Lord's on July 21, and only then on the proviso that they promise to attend the serious offenders rehabilitation unit at Parkhurst for corrective training.

The rock crunchers will suffer the same fate as their pathetic "boxer" in Manchester on Saturday night. Waving the white flag well before the end.

Well done the working party. They have identified the problem, though not the cause of it, which is the cost of relegation and the huge disparity between the haves and have nots in the Premiership. The more I read about the draft system and salary caps in American sport, the more I think it could be the solution to football's probems. It is the only way to create a level playing field (to use a horrible modern expression). If the US can embrace socialist principles such as clubs all being equal for the greater good of the sport, why not European football ?

No surprise there then. Tiresome, insular lot.

Says plod turned cinema usherette. Marvellous.

Excellent ! I hate these things but in this case There's a story going round that Turks have adopted Scousers out of sympathy because they'll do anything for a bent copper.

Hear, hear.

Before tonight, Milan had conceded nine goals in four games; now 12 in five. Hardly the best defensive team in the world. Maldini is 37 next month, Kafu 35 next month, Stam 32 and Nesta a relative spring chicken of 29. Washed up and finished some would day.

I'm not surprised in the slightest that the Scousers nicked it. After all, it's the one thing they excel at.

3-0. Cue riot by the Scouse hordes.

The TV's broken in the day room. Have the Liverpool "fans" attacked their AC Milan counterparts yet ? 1-0 Milan in the first minute. Oh dear what a shame.

Agree absolutely. And unlike many other Rovers fans, I'd also like to see Burnley in the top division. Add in Blackpool and it will be like the early 1960s all over again.

Don't remember him being convicted as a paedophile, but when was accuracy core to your profession ? What next ? Saddam in a romper suit ? 318247[/snapback] Comments on professional integrity from a racist, bent copper. Ho hum. What next ? Lily-livered soldiers who don't like pop guns ?

Over-rated southern nonce who will be remembered for his petulant temper rather than any (limited) ability he may or may not have had.