Whats the site?

it's free?

This site is such a positive place

Is Hattrick free? When does the season start again?

That was a bit out of the blue! I think you'll find that the English did invent football however, and that we won't be stuffed by Sweden. Not saying we'll go through tonight, but if we don't, I don't think it will be the Swedes who knock us out.

T1MJ I was typing up something very long looking into manegerial changes at the two clubs, lack of any concrete evidence to support the theory, and the player being somewhat unavaiable for lengthy negotiations as a result of Euro 2004 making your story sound totally untrue...however I just can't be bothered, and am inclined to simply say that its total crap. Either give us all the information you know and be done with it, or admit that you are just making this up because you have nothing better to do and pi$$ing around

Seeing how interested he is in a move to United it's probably best that we didn't go for him anyway.

Can't agree there Paul. We sell Dunn and Duff for £22.5m. The money comes in over the life of the contracts, say 4 years, at £5.5m per year. We purchase Gresko, Amoruso, Reid, Emerton, and Ferguson for £14m on similar terms costing £3.5m per year. In the meantime we finish 9 places down the Premiership table losing £4.5m. Net loss over the year = £2.5m In addition to that we will be paying considerably more out in wages for the five new players than for Dunn ansd Duff. Possibly an extra £40kp.w.? Loss over the year now = £4.5m There's no way of knowing that had we had Duff in the team, a player who has been injured for much of this season, we would have done any better. It was sad to see him go, but when will people accept that we did the best we could to keep him but in the end money talks, he's gone, so lets get on with what we have now. We have some good players at the moment and lots of good young talent so lets just look forward to the upcoming season.

Are you hinting that your source is someone like Moyes or Souness? If so, first of all they may not know about the exact transfer dealings of other clubs, and if they did, why would they tell you? Now if both of those things did happen, why have you not been able to provide accurate "insider" information before?

Has Lofty been banned now?

Well I think anyone who says that Italy stuck to very defensive play other than in the second half against Bulgaria is ignorant and spends too much time listening to football pundits and throwing out the old clichés. They were aggressive against Sweden for an hour, were silly to become defensive after that, but they certainly aren't the only team to have made that mistake. The Denmark game they had their chances, great saves by Sorensen and poor finishing meant that they didn't score, and against Bulgaria they were careful and then threw everything they had at the Bulgarians. Italy were far from wonderful, but I think those of you who say "oh defensive Italy", "boring football", "good to see that style of play gone" are just regurgitating the sort of crap you hear on ITV and other such channels. They haven't scored many goals, that doesn't mean that they are only interested in playing defensive football.

My point is, in a tournament like this, i would love to see the best players playing the best football. Italy have deservedly gone out, though I do feel that they were a bit unfortunate, however it would have been nice had they played the way that they can and gone through, I would have liked this more than seeing a good Sweden or Danish side.

If you are claiming that my knowledge of the game of football are on the whole ignorant simply because I enjoy watching the "big" teams play against each other than I think you are making a rather sweeping statement. I'm sorry that the prospect of playing Sweden doesn't do the same things for me as possibly playing Italy or Spain.

That's a bit out of order isn't it? Touching on a sensitive subject

I do agree with Lofty...comedy is not your friend

Another intelligent and lengthy post from Eddie Booya

...that was just awful

Not all daft posts then !! "Booya"...it was too tempting

Shut up chicken. Another intelligent and lengthy post by T4E Booya. Oh I am so glad you have decided to participate in this. To quote lofty "stop acting like a little kid"

Seems like he has a bit of a fan club

By the looks of the poll Lofty...no one is your friend

Shut up chicken. Another intelligent and lengthy post by T4E

Now that Lofty's not ###### off this isn't nearly so funny...I think some punishment should be thrown at him just to spice things up

I think the big brotheresque idea is a good one...we could make it a weekly thing

By the looks of things he doesn't have any...couple devoted followers though...bit like Jesus