JackFrost

This depends on the extent to which you do it. The minor tweak here and there or where you have one of your better players returning means you can. If however you do it George Burley style and drop your best performing players for the sake of it then it definitely applies

and with us at home to Peterborough and Pompey away to Palace on Tuesday there's every chance the gap will get even wider very soon

Is it Richard Chorley? If it is I haven't seen any OPEN LETTERS TO NICOLA CORTESE on it yet

I do agree with you there is no way they'd set the next GTA purely in Nottingham. The only way I see it remotely possible is if their planning a transatlantic theme and it's going to feature a British city or two as places you unlock as you progress in the game. Say have sections of 2 cities in the USA and sections of 2 cities in the UK making up the 4 zones that make up the entire map

2 goals conceded in the last 5 league games oh and 15 points ahead of the skates

2 goals conceded in the last 5 league games oh and 15 points ahead of the skates

If you mean Tulsa, it's in Oklahoma

Now that googlemaps exist they should try and do part of a real life city/large town and replicate it exactly and set the game within it. It'd be handy if you were going to somewhere in the city in real life, just gotta stick on GTA to work out the best way of getting there

If Mike is part of SISA that puts their membership number up to what? 4?

What made me laugh about San Andreas was that the environment was so brilliant and varied that a lot of myths got invented about UFOs and Bigfoot appearing in the game. Then the mods came along and it became reality. I think there's a mod where you start in Back o' Beyond and hunt and kill bigfoot. You only get about 50k for doing it but it's the novelty of it. San Andreas just had everything. The variation of the environment where you had mountains/deserts/cities/countryside et. worked brilliantly whereas GTA4 was just 'a city' and it got monotonous They tried to make GTA4 more 'realistic' which I thought was the wrong direction. The whole point of GTA being to go around a city doing whatever the hell you wanted.

I've actually got back into playing San Andreas now and it is brilliant even now. The last one was a let down for me. Bring back the flying and the army

UNKLE - When Things Explode

If Pompey hire Sven that would be the cherry on the cake for 2011

That would be funny as hell. Perfect for them, a vastly overrated manager who would demand a big pay packet. You could just see the Russians falling for him

Chaplow is a bit like Paul Wotton with quality. At his best he is absolutely immense and against Man U in the cup we saw that players like Anderson and Darren Fletcher couldn't get in the game for most of it. Just needs to produce it consistently which he is starting to do.

Fergie's heaviest ever defeat as Utd manager?

Sweepstake on how long it will take Fergie to blame the referee in his post match interview?

Whilst I was watching the program I'd got distracted by something and initially only heard the commentators reaction to which I naturally looked at my TV. All I saw was 3 bikes crashing and a helmet bouncing along the track. You tell immediately it was a horrendous crash. This may sound stupid but in the heat of the moment when the accident took place I wasn't sure straight away if it was just a helmet bouncing along or it was a severed head inside a helmet. I don't know if the BBC had any control over the pictures or whether they were showing what Malaysian TV were showing but I thought them cutting to a shot of what I'm guessing was Simoncelli's girlfriend crying her eyes out straight after the accident was out of order. They actually did show one slo-mo of the accident about 20 mins after the race was stopped

He also had a tough start in life and I suspect can't handle being famous.

Marco Simoncelli came off on the first lap and was hit by Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. Simoncelli's helmet flew off during the crash. After initial reports of Simoncelli being concious they've just cancelled the race as Simoncelli is in a "critical condition". Hope he pulls through.

I see our old friend Simon Gillett got Doncaster's equalizer

Yeah it's understandable. Until it happens to them a lot of people don't realise what it is like to have someone invading their house, their private, safe area and everyone will react in different ways. I'm lucky that I've never experienced it even if I have seen the best and worst consequences of it. If they've got a good idea of who it is and they've already pulled a couple of blokes it's looking good

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and it won't occur to a lot of people until it's happened to them, but as soon as an opportunist robber finds a car unlocked on a drive or a garage the vast majority will fancy their chances at finding something else unlocked. . . If they'd have both been locked it'd have deterred a surprising amount of thieves or potential thieves who'd have moved on to the next property. But like I say if it hasn't happened before it won't naturally occur to the majority of people who live in quiet, low-crime areas. Being an ex-copper I'd always recommend trying to call the police immediately (as soon as you are aware of an intruder) without disturbing them, shadow them and see if you can lock them in a room or as a last resort try and stop them getting out. If successful they've hung themselves with the maximum amount of rope when the coppers turn up. Key thing also is to know your enemy. No one wants to be going to defend their property with a baseball bat and find their up against 4 blokes with knives. But glad to hear you and your family are all ok. It's highly unlikely the bloke will be back but the coppers should have advised you security wise, although sounds like you have a lot of it already. Keep everything locked up with decent locks and with the CCTV/alarms you'll be fine. But with security generally the main problem is with a lot of people is simply attitude. The amount of break-ins I investigated where the occupants couldn't be bothered/didn't think it necessary to shut/lock windows/doors at night was simply staggering. I'll never forget one break-in I investigated about 6-7 years ago when a family went on holiday and left their house unoccupied, deliberately left big windows open (including ones in full view of the street) "to make sure the house was aired and it was ok because their terrier was guarding everything"

I remember Earnhardt's death because that's when they were first bringing in the HANS device and Earnhardt was one of its biggest critics. He refused to wear it as they weren't compulsory back then. Sadly they reckon the HANS device would have almost certainly saved Earnhardt's life.

I'd definitely settle for Dowie. The man who once described Clinton Morrison as a "top quality PL striker"