Victor

Are you sure Jew is a race. They and Arabs are both Semitic i.e. both descended from Shem, a son of Noah? So why are they different from Arabs? Actually Fialka looks more like a Russian crook to me - hopefully he has their kind of money.

A Saints fan and having to watch the hirsuitely challenged Fred here in Eastbourne. God, I must have been evil in my previous life!

Unfortunately, Fred Dinenenenage is alive and well and appearing all too frequently with a smug and slightly vacant expression beneath a rim of freshly dyed hair on Meridian in its eastern outposts. Hopefully you in the fair city are spared this somewhat nauseating spectacle.

Let Swansea have Tisdale and we can have Speed. Unfortunately, I suspect Speed will be offered the Swansea job and that he will take it.

Just as well - looks bloody tight that table!

Charlie Wayman. 6 points clear at the top of the second division with 7 games to go, Wayman had scored 32 goals and was injured and out (basically) for rest of season. Finished 3rd, 2 points behind Fulham. Had to wait another 17 seasons for promotion to the top division.

Nice. An early thrashing. That'll give the kids plenty of confidence. Perhaps Eastbourne Borough would have been more appropriate opponents.

Now that Adams is out of the question I think we need a re-count - with Gary Speed substituted for Adams!

Is Bonny a substitute for Bonnie? (you know, the 'Bonnie' on the record cover you reproduced!)

By the time Tisdale has been around for as long as Dowie I expect his record will be 'rather mixed'.

No, Barry is not a classic example. He has given Villa 11 years of superb service, he made an agreement with O'Neil last season to stay one more when he actually wanted away then, he has probably considered whether he would play regularly at Liverpool (Robbie Keane) and he has probably been given assurances by MC regarding other players coming in. Mercenary? My arse! Good luck, Gareth.

Repair it, because: 1. I'm superstitious too. 2. If you've been using it for 15 years and it still looks good, you'll never be able to get another of that quality. The red on the current transfer one goes orange in a year or two. Also, the top half of the picture of my CMFG one that I used at work disappeared completely, like Chris's hair - spooky, so you could be right about the symbolism.

Don't panic. The job of the board is to put the right people in position to get the fotball right. Provided he goes about about it the right way and takes good advice he doesn't need to know about football. And they are not in a position to do anything about a manager yet, but keeping the current one informed about their plans, should their takeover be successful, is common courtesy. Seeking his views is also part of what they should be doing. This, to me, is a good sign. Mark Wotte also needs to know where he stands.

Adante? Avanti! avanti!

No bunch in exclusivity then. Thought he said one was. And 4 of them now - isn't it time to force action from one of them or call it a day and go back to Southend?

Couldn't he tell a little porkie and claim he played for MU? Worked for Ronaldo et al.

I suspect it's just that Fry hasn't got to the last chapter of his copy of 'Administration for Dummies'. My heart did sink when I read our administators worked from a back-street office in Southend.

Time for a poll: Tisdale/Ince/Keegan/Shearer/Boothroyd/Coppell/Cambridge mush/Coterill/Dowie ...and Gary Speed!

If your objection is to 'clowns' rather than 'Dutch, then surely you should not have mentioned their ethnicity, otherwise you are being racist? If it is the Dutch you object to, why just them and not all Netherlands nationals?

This genuinely wasn't a dig at you - 'math' seems to be every where these days and I thought it had taken over as 'train station' seems to be universal now for what I have always known as a 'railway station'. I shall keep listening to the wireless to see if they have an explanation.

Look, we all know about calculus (although you seem to be having a little problem), but can you explain the really big unanswerable - why do we have to say 'math' these days when for so long we were quite capable of getting along with 'maths'?

Oh yeah! Doh! Sorry. I'm so old I haven't got used to the fact they play football on Sundays yet.

Bugger, and I thought today was the 13th! I'm hurt that not even my daughter wished me happy birthday this morning.