Crazy Diamond

Michael Dawson was meant to be part of that deal, I recall. I seem to remember we also wanted Anthony Gerrard from Walsall but he ended up at Cardiff. Now plays for Huddersfield.

MODS!!! Outside on scooters.

So anyway... Is he signing?

I can remember watching Jake Thomson as a youngster thinking he'd be a first team player for us pretty quickly. Amazing how he tumbled through the leagues via so many different clubs. I also remember a lot of hype about Jamie Hatch, though I can't recall seeing him play myself. I also saw Matt Paterson have a pretty average game against Millwall U18s at Staplewood, right up until he scored a hat-trick.

And less for the Guly Defence League. Swings and roundabouts.

In all honesty, if that is your attitude, I'd rather someone who had never seen a game of football in their life turn up instead of you. People who wave their season tickets may as well have the word '****' tattooed across their foreheads.

Button was on loan at Bournemouth I think, was indeed a bit crap if I recall.

Probably about time this one was locked, having glanced at the more recent posts.

There is no evidence that suggests that any of those points were true though. It was just what a few people said and it was repeated by others, until eventually people took it as fact. As Le Goddard says, no one has a scooby.

Grated or sliced cheese? In fact, what kind of cheese, what kind of bread, what kind of butter... I'm tempted if the right combo is provided.

Yeah that one's alright, not seen much from him lately though.

There are some seriously un-funny parody accounts on Twitter. That's one of them, as is the Adkins profile.

100 pages for a player that most posters have never seen play, but are really excited about. We do need creativity though and if he can provide it and is worth the fee and the hassle, I look forward to his debut.

My uncle first introduced me to video games when he gave me his NES in the early 90s. Only ever had two games, Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 2. Played those two until quite literally our old television broke. I can remember quite vividly the smell of burning as I tried to get past world three of SMB2, then the sight of smoke rising from the back of the old set. It was only until I went to my neighbour's house one day that I realised consoles had actually moved on since then. It was probably 1996 or 1997 and said neighbour had a SNES, and he had Super Mario Bros Allstars amongst others. Naturally I had to have one, and on the same day my family got its first dog (who died a year ago today, very sadly) we got our own SNES, not realising the N64 was on the horizon. We got Mario Allstars with Super Mario World, which was just an absolutely amazing game. It took me years upon years to finally finish it, 100% completed. Because of the N64 coming out, stores in Winchester where we could buy games were clearing their stock, so we only managed to get Dr. Mario, which was bundled with another game, I forget which, plus Kirby's Ghost Trap, from Beatties which is now a bookshop. The N64 came out and I got one for Christmas, I suppose it must have been 1997 or 98? I remember being asked at school what I was getting for Christmas and I rapidly said 'ANintendo64twogamesandonecontroller.' Sure enough I got Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart. Super Mario 64 is the best game I have ever played. Again, it took me years to finish. I remember thinking once we had six stars, that was the end of the game. There were 120 of the ****ers and you had to beat Bowser three times! I had a fair few games for it, but being around the age of ten, never a great deal as the cartridges were £50 each. I had Bomberman 64 (bit of a flop), Yoshi's Story (exciting at the time, crap in retrospect), Paper Mario (brilliant), Banjo-Kazooie (brilliant), Banjo-Tooie (never as good as I had hoped it would be), amongst others. I also had an original GameBoy, loads of games for that. I'll never forget when Pokemon came out. I was always a Nintendo kid, so I was clued up when I was in my teens when the Gamecube came out. I still remember pre-ordering it, and for years kept the bundle that you got from GAME after pre-ordering. I picked mine up along with Luigi's Mansion and Sonic Adventures 2 on May 3rd 2002. Again lots of games for it, the one I remember most though was Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door. I had loved Paper Mario, I first read about it in 2001 in Nintendo Magazine and was fascinated by the idea of a Mario RPG with cutout characters in a 3D world. It was a great game but the sequel was absolutely amazing. One of my true favourites. Whilst I was a Nintendo kid, I was at a friend's house one day in the early 2000s or possibly the late 90s and he showed me GTA2. I got it for PC and it was brilliant. Then the level of hype when GTA3 came out, wow. It was like you had to have that game, and I got a copy for PC. My PC was so bad though I ended up taking it back to GAME and getting a refund, my machine was just obsolete. When we eventually got a new PC with Windows XP (dun dun dun!) I got another copy and played it, but little did I know that the new PC was still way below the system requirements, and it was incredibly sluggish, the graphics were basically a load of squares, but it didn't matter, it worked - sort of! Same situation with Vice City. You HAD to have that game, and mainly because of the soundtrack. V Rock was always my station of choice. I can remember when San Andreas arrived on PC in 2006, I looked at the clock to see it was about 10:30pm. The next time I looked, it was about 5:30am. Honourable mentions for SimCity and The Sims too - very addictive. Ten years later and I'm only just about getting cities to develop in SimCity 4! I got a Nintendo Wii when I had just finished college, I have a few games for it but nothing too inspiring. By this point I'd discovered Football Manager, which has me addicted when it comes out each year. I started a new job about six weeks ago and bought an XBOX just to play GTAIV because I love that series so much. I couldn't just let it pass me by. I've got a MacBook these days and games just don't do well on it - I had a bad feeling The Sims 3 would actually make something melt on the motherboard, it was getting that hot. I remember feeling quite old when I bought the GTA trilogy for Mac and they were all on one disc - they used to take about five minutes to load each island and be on two discs! I was brought back to earth though and young adulthood when I was asked for ID at West Quay's Apple store, as they didn't believe I was 18 and wouldn't let me buy it...! I finished GTAIV today and have ordered L.A Noire. But yes, that's my life in gaming!

Well there's one positive today I suppose. Hope he does well.

Palace fans proudly singing 'Glad All Over' and superbly timing it so that the last word coincided with a Guly header, that was great.

The euphoria and novelty factor of being back in the Premier League wore off very quickly. As for the Wigan fans. Pathetic. 'Small town near Portsmouth' is an interesting comment to make. I'd definitely say Wigan was a big **** hole near Liverpool.

Well, is he? Is he 'Saints fit' ? We don't know. I'd certainly have liked him on the pitch if he was fully fit.

I sat quite close to the squad members that had been left out today. Steve de Ridder and Tadanari Lee didn't look too impressed, Chaplow was nonplussed, Hammond and Butterfield were having a laugh. The three youngsters seemed very down to earth.

Not pleased. Not pleased at all.

Yep I remember the Jones situation. Scott Parker also did it to Charlton so he could join Chelsea - a player supposedly a down to earth, nice fella.

I love how the Twitterers are enjoying that, and saying that it's a good thing. Can you imagine how the same people would feel if we had a player that did that because we were denying him a move? There'd be absolute fury. Puncheon got a lot of stick for being outspoken on his situation. It smacks of unprofessionalism too. Do we want someone that will do that every time a club in a better position sniffs around?

All three on their mobiles at the same time eh. Wow. That's the most convincing part. It's on guys.

If it's true then he needs to get a grip. We have something called competition for places.

Excuse me?