Premiership opening weekend fixtures 19 August: Arsenal v Aston Villa Bolton v Tottenham Chelsea v Man City Everton v Watford Man Utd v Fulham Newcastle v Wigan Portsmouth v Blackburn Reading v Middlesbrough Sheff Utd v Liverpool West Ham v Charlton Tuesday, 22 August: Charlton v Man Utd Middlesbrough v Chelsea Tottenham v Sheff Utd Watford v West Ham Wigan v Arsenal Wednesday, 23 August: Aston Villa v Reading Blackburn v Everton Fulham v Bolton Liverpool v Newcastle Man City v Portsmouth

They dont stand a chance no - but if we offered Bolton enough money, would Nolan turn us down? I doubt it!

I got the Ivory Coast

I expect spain to win today - dont think that bet will come in for you mate. And Tunisia aint a bad team either.

Rovers need to provide the fans with something that will make people want to consider buying a season ticket. Bolton had a big bid accepted for AJ, which shows they are showing ambition. Our club need to do the same - just to increase interest from fans. How about a bid for Nolan?

Brazil v Croatia (Full Time Result) Brazil France v Switzerland (Full Time Result) France Spain v Ukraine (Full Time Result) Spain England v Trinidad & Tobago (Full Time Result) England Portugal v Iran (Full Time Result) Portugal Italy v USA (Full Time Result) Italy Sweden v Paraguay (Full Time Result) Sweden £20 bet = £364.87 to win with bet365

Iv got £5 on Crespo to be top scorer & Argentina to win the world cup @ 40/1 And also got Toni to be top scorer & italy to win world cup @ 50/1

Who do people think the top scorer will be at the 2006 world cup? Ruud with a point to prove? 16/1 Iv heard alot of people say Luca Toni from Italy but i dont know alot about him? 20/1 Or how about Crouchy at 40/1?

Souness had talks with Simon Jordan last night in Marbella.

They have a big waiting list though im sure so i doubt it will effect them much

40k? Does that mean they aint going to sell out or do they usually sell less at this point?

If spurs, Liverpool or whoever want bellamy then they best get their cheque books out! £20 million before we even consider ha ha!

So thats about £25 up?? Not alot - price of one Cat A game i suppose. Well done Rovers - kept the prices fair too and well done for the free game for Season ticket holders. Now lets here everyones complaints because of x y & z

Don’t think Arsenal & in particular Henry can blame the referee. If Henry wants to complain, then he should complain about his poor finishing. He failed to perform on the big stage. He had 2 top chances which both times he failed to convert. He is a striker and a very good one and he gets paid alot of money to score goals, which last night he didn’t do. Barcelona were without doubt too good for Arsenal. Ok Ronaldinho didn’t score a goal but he still had an influence on the game and I think Arsenal paid him too much respect by concentrating on him rather than concentrating on the whole of the Barcelona side as they have talent in every area - As Eto showed when he played a nice 1-2 and then put the ball in the net. As for Offside, it was extremely marginal and his run was very quick in real-time and it would have been harsh to give it offside. The Arsenal goal came from a free-kick that wasn’t, the soft southern pansy dived. Eboue & Toure could have quite easily picked up further yellow cards, but didn’t so where does all the referee was against us rubbish come from!! Lehman without doubt deserved to get sent off as Eto was clean through after dancing round him. He was very lucky that the ref didn’t play advantage, allow the goal and then sent Lehman off. Arsenal had a couple of chances but I think overall Barcelona could have make it an embarrassing scoreline if they had their shooting boots on. Also don’t forget they were without the impressive Leo Messi. One worrying moment for me was the ease in which Eto turned Sol Cambell inside out, to create the chance which Aluminium did well to save. Sols defensive work there doesn’t bode well for England.

According to the ticket office, details should be released next week.

I was part of Lammack juniors predication league which i came top of. Get in there!!

Can we have a poll on whether or not we are happy with him being named as England manager?

Confirmed this afternoon - what a load of rubbish that appointment is!

How about getting drawn against Rangers and letting that Ferguson see what he's missing out on!

Any idea on how many tickets sold so far lee? Including Man Citys

Bellamy won the player of the year at last nights awards. Reid won goal of the season Peter won Young player of the season

I agree with the MGP comment. But not the rest of them! Axe was against Duff & Lampard over on the left, i think he did a sound job except for the pull on Crespo. Gray - Was quality last night. Without him last night, our left wing would of been none existant. Pongy - Good movement, good footballing brain, just needs to become a little more greedy and shoot more often, rather than trying to set other up

Great night, great performance, great season, great manager, great back room staff, great team, great atmosphere last night. Loved the chant - Ur Coats from Matalan (Sung to the Tune of Jose Mourinho)

Saw Pearce at the game last night. Must of been spying for weekend. Now that would be good if we could grab 5th place. Id like to see gally given a chance next to Bellamy and Peter on the left rather than MGP

Prague would be good - cheap beer!! Otherwise to start with id prefer either a team from France, Portugal, Italy, Spain or Germany.