Crazy Diamond

Just went into the estate agent's here in Winchester. Nothing yet.

Adrian 'Can't read a script' Chiles. Listen to him. Every other word he says 'errr'. For example last night: "Heres er, here's er, here's the team, England, er, showing one change, Lampard, er, in for er, Scott Parker" Oh and as mentioned previously that **** James Corden. In his head he's ten times funnier than he actually is.

Swish. Any particular secret to this success? Last week I got Barnet into the Championship with consecutive promotions. First season said I'd stay up and we won the division, second season I said I'd stay up, we reached the play-offs in January, suddenly in March we found ourselves top and then won it on the last day of the season. Key signings: Umberto Improta and Anthony Delplace. Essential for any League Two teams if you ask me.

I forgive you. But I still don't think James Beattie should play for us again.

Nah. Why I hear you ask? I don't want anything that's been within sight of James Corden. Dickhead.

I cannot understand why people want him back. His time has come and gone, it is as simple as that. The fact he still lives in the area and did well for us once upon a time are not good enough reasons to have him back. We did well to get the goals out of him we did, let alone the £6 million transfer fee. I thought he played one or two games at Rangers, I can't believe it was as many as 19 and he didn't get a single goal. That's absolutely woeful. And let's say we did sign him and we were promoted, would we keep him out of loyalty to him? Would we have him in our squad where on evidence he'd score next to no goals in a totally pointless move? We need to look to the future, not the past. I'm glad some people on this board aren't responsible for transfers at our Club, God knows where we'd be.

I'm currently trying to get Cambridge United out of the Conference, and they have some terrible players on long contracts with high wages. Its tough! What has been your biggest challenge on FM? How did you do? I've never really faced up to a relegation battle or do-or-die promotion, I've normally taken average teams and made them good. For example, I've taken AFC Wimbledon from the Conference to the Champions League, that was fun. I've also won everything possible with Fulham and got Winchester City from the Wessex Premier to League Two.

To hope they lose is a bit much, I wouldn't ever go that far. As for the quarter finals thing, I'm in a minority that thinks Sven did a decent job. Look at where England were going before he came in. We were in danger of not qualifying for tournaments at all, or if we got there, not getting out of the group stages. It makes three quarter-final appearances look good by comparison to before him and directly after him. Granted, you should improve and perhaps we should have gone further in 2006 after quarter final exits at World Cup 2002 and Euro 2004, but with Keegan and Hoddle before him we exited in the group stages, with McLaren we didn't even qualify. With Capello we've qualified in style and then bombed out having not deserved to get out of the group stages. And by the way, for all the fuss this country makes about changing FIFA, the FA is in need of total change before we go making demands of others.

Sacking Pardew and appointing Adkins was one of the biggest decisions in recent times. You have to hand it to Cortese, it was a massive gamble but he got it right.

I don't wish to be facetious, however, if Saints were a top four side and were paying silly wages to players, would you then turn your back on them? Also, I've recently done an investigation into the press and coverage of international football featuring England. The whole jingoism thing really is something of the past, for many, many reasons. One of those reasons for example is because this is a multicultural nation and our papers would alienate their own audiences if they were to carry on with that attitude. So I take issue with that statement. I can kind of sympathise with what you're saying however, I don't agree entirely with how the England team is operated, I don't like Capello all that much, I don't like the F.A all that much, and I'm finding it difficult to get excited about the English national football team in general.

Appointing Lee Bradbury was a bad idea. That is the first article I have seen that supports that opinion. They did well appointing from within with Eddie Howe because he had been at the Club for years and knew it inside out. They should have appointed a proper manager when Howe left and their failure to do so has probably cost them a place in the Championship via the play-offs. It could yet cost them their League One status. What makes it worse is they've rewarded Steve the Ego Fletcher with the assistant manager's job. Some people aren't cut out to be coaches or managers, and he's one of them. It's the blind leading the blind in that management team at the moment. I'm fairly certain they could have attracted a decent manager to succeed Howe, but there is a small Club mentality down at Dean Court. I'm also not sure Eddie Howe will succeed at Burnley to be honest. Whilst it doesn't help they're selling off players against his wishes at Turf Moor but I don't think he has the quality to manage that Club in that division.

Phew. Glad to hear it worked out, sounds like a right nightmare scenario.

I never knew he had such an impressive set of teeth.

Dunno, but he's amazing on Football Manager 2010.

Third kit of the third best team on the south coast. Makes sense to me.

That would be my guess as well.

My number one choice was taken a while back, Chris Burke. It's a fairly uninspiring list now.

Atouba, who left Spurs because he basically assaulted a player on the pitch? No thanks.

If you used your credit card that can only help you more. If you ring PayPal they're pretty good at this kind of thing in my experience, very friendly too.

Thank Christ. Never thought they'd last long if their warm-up for the Rakes was anything to go by.

Yeah that occurred to me too, but it does look good at least, so I'll give it a go.

I've done some digging and a poster on Yahoo Answers has said: "UPS will pay for a replacement item and then proceed to try to collect from your neighbor. We had the same thing happen to us last Christmas when I had two Ninendo DS's delivered to our neighbor. Our neighbor denied having them, so UPS replaced them and then initiated action against our neighbors." I've also read once or twice that UPS make an effort to contact the people they leave things with. Maybe there's some hope for you - sounds a horrible situation to be in.

Left Twente to go to Wolfsburg, where he was sacked. To be fair to him, the men behind the scenes at Wolfsburg had more of a say in the team than him and he struggled. As for Twente, it's a place the same of Cambridge and he won the title ahead of Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. Not too shabby.

We interviewed Eddie Howe THREE times? Blimey - if Bompey fans knew that they would have called for his blood!

According to the Guardian, McClaren might quit! http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/02/steve-mcclaren-nottingham-forest?CMP=twt_gu "Steve McClaren could be ready to walk out on Nottingham Forest over frustration at a lack of signings in the transfer window, according to reports last night... McClaren is said to have returned to his family home in the north-east to consider his future"