Whitey Grandad

That's all right then.

I thought last season's team won? 3-0 wasn't it?

You'll feel so much better when you give up all hope.

Yep. Some people were saying that the squad looked a bit thin.

Do they teach that at the academy?

But all the regimes have overspent on areas unrelated to the first-team playing staff.

In this case I don't think we had much choice. He could have left for almost nothing. If you must blame anybody, blame those who put him in the spotlight by playing him before he could be tied to a professional contract.

Some highlights here for anyone who's interested... http://goal2net.blogspot.com/2008/09/croatia-vs-england-wcq.html (Choose the second video, not Paul Daniels)

I seem to remember that it was £2m after 20 competitive starts for England.

But I remember one game with a coated ball where a layer of ice built up on it. If it caught you on bare skin it would strip through to the flesh. And those leather studs used to have nails that stuck up into the bottoms of your feet.

Anyone with any sense knew not to head them when they were wet. Anyone who did head them had already lost their senses

Ever since we started having breaks for the international matches the England team has been rubbish. What was wrong with having the qualifiers midweek on a Wednesday?

Wasn't it Perry and Svensson that both went for the same player against Birmingham just before their first goal? They normally work well together so let's hope that they can sort it out and that Svensson will get fitter. Otherwise I agree, it's a concern. Luckily we have Cork & Thomas who, I thought, settled down well after a shaky start.

I agree, I don't hate him but I do resent him for depriving us of le Tiss for a large part of the season. It was a privilege to watch him even when he had a bad game. The football was awful too. There were fans under the West Stand complaining that they never saw the ball because it was up in the air for 90 minutes.

We tried that. They have now been loaned to another employer.

That was it! Some of us have long memories.

I remember Paul Moody at Highbury, Matt was on the bench. Moody had one goal attempt that made Geoff Thomas look good.

Exactly! I've refereed some local games where the corner flag is two strides from the penalty area.

I'll always remember the rueful smile on his face after Matt le Tiss scored the first of those two wonder goals against Newcastle. He was going to sub him and he had the number 7 card ready and Paul Moody (I think) stripped off. If you watch the recording you can see him turn to his right and say 'sit down'. If he had had his way then we would have been deprived of two of the greatest goals that I have ever seen.

One has to ask why the boys are booing and stay-awaying.

And a schnorkel. There is a water culvert under the pitch. That's why it was called 'The Dell'.

They've already lost the money. They have been spending far more than the company is worth so their net value is now almost nothing.

Maybe it's because they weren't playing and not in the shop window?

The permissible sizes are somewhat different to that. The touch line can be between 100 and 130 yards and the goal line between 50 to 100 yards. You most definitely cannot have a square pitch, the touch line must be longer than the goal line. For international matches the length is from 110 to 120 yards and the width from 70 to 80 yards which I believe would have ruled out the Dell. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/lawsofthegame.html