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Even with all things considered, that result is still embarrassing considering Tampa are probably no better than Fleetwood Town.

or even Allesandro Del Piero for Djorkaeff and Tomas Rosicky for Okocha and i'd say we could be in with a shout of signing either of those two present day.

Not gonna happen. Will either go back to SUn'lun or have a more prominent role with the Rags in the coming season.

I reckon we could turn our very own Cherry Ghost's (Simon Aldred) People Help The People into an anthem of our own. People help the people And if your homesick, give me your hand and i'll hold it People help the people And nothing will drag you down Oh and if I had a brain, Oh and if I had a brain i'd be cold as a stone and rich as the fool That turned, all those good hearts away

Without doubt Super John McGinaly. Only remember one miss at home against Port Vale.

"When the ball hit's your head, and your sat in row Z, thats Zamora!"

Came out of a club in Worcester at 3am, only to hear someone screaming the Munich chant. Went around the corner and there was this guy off his face in our home shirt from 97/98 with Blake on back marching down the street.

Not that anyone really cares, but seems like i was right a few months ago in predicting our new formation for the season will be 4-2-3-1. Looks like we'll be quite successful using this, but i'd watch out for a few more sides playing the same way too, just as Big Sam used the 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation in our promotion season and for everyone esle to jump on the bandwagon. Only concern i have with this is potential lack of natural width, but it does give us an option to use over lapping full backs and in Steinsson and Samuel, it looks like they can do more than just a job of this. With having two deep lying midfielders it frees up a bit of support going forward and also extra protection at the back, wonder how long it will take for us to get sussed out though.

Jaaskelainen Steinsson O'Brien.A Cahill Samuel McCann Muamba Davies Nolan Taylor Elmander Subs: Shittu Al-Habsi Gardner O'Brien.J Dzemaili Riga Obadeyi

Ins Danny Shittu Watford ?2,000,000 4th Aug 08 Mustapha Riga Levante TBC 28th Jul 08 Johan Elmander Toulouse ?8,200,000 27th Jun 08 Fabrice Muamba Biirmingham City ?5,750,000 16th Jun 08 Grzeorgz Rasiak Southampton Five-Month Loan 31st Jan 08 Gary Cahill Aston Villa ?5,000,000 30th Jan 08 Matty Taylor Portsmouth ?3,750,000 17th Jan 08 Greitar Steinsson AZ Alkmaaar ?3,600,000 16th Jan 08 Tamir Cohen Maccabi Netanya ?650,000 1st Jan 08 Andy O'Brien Portsmouth ?1,200,000 13th Aug 07 Daniel Braaten Rosenborg ?450,000 1st Aug 07 Adam Bogdan Vales Undisclosed 1st Aug 07 Mikel Alonso Real Sociedad Loan 1st Aug 07 Christian Wilhelmsson Nantes Loan 29th Jul 07 Heidar Helguson Fulham ?1,900,000 23rd Jul 07 Danny Guthrie Liverpool Season-Loan 20th Jul 07 J'Lloyd Samuel Aston Villa ?0 1st Jul 07 Blerim Dzemaili FC Zurich ?0 1st Jul 07 Gerald Cid Bordeaux ?0 1st Jul 07 Gavin McCann Aston Villa ?1,000,000 8th Jun 07 Zolton Harsanyi FC Senec Undisclosed 17th May 07 Cesar Martin Levante ?0 20th Feb 07 David Thompson Portsmouth Nominal 31st Jan 07 Zolton Harsanyi FC Senec Five-Month Loan 25th Jan 07 Lubomir Michalik FC Senec ?600,000 25th Jan 07 ?34,100,000 Outs Abdoulaye Meite West Bromwich Albion ?2,000,000 11th Aug 08 El-Hadji Diouf Sunderland ?2,500,000 28th Jul 08 Kevin Wolze VFL Wolfsburg Undisclosed 1st Jul 08 Daniel Braaten Toulouse Exchange 26th Jun 08 Andranik Teymourian Fulham ?0 12th Jun 08 Scott Jamieson Adelaide United ?0 6th Jun 08 Stelios Giannakopoulos Released ?0 17th May 08 Ivan Campo Ipswich Town ?0 17th May 08 Mark Charlesworth Released ?0 15th May 08 Tom Brooks Released ?0 15th May 08 Leslie Thompson Released ?0 15th May 08 Matt Cassidy Released ?0 15th May 08 Mark Ellis Released ?0 15th May 08 Johann Smith Released ?0 15th May 08 Lubomir Michalik Leeds United ?500,000 31st Jan 08 Przemyslaw Kazimierczak Darlington ?0 31st Jan 08 Nicolas Anelka Chelsea ?15,000,000 11th Jan 08 Gerald Cid Nice ?0 10th Jan 08 Gary Speed Sheffield United Undisclosed 1st Jan 08 Abdoulaye Faye Newcastle United ?2,000,000 31st Aug 07 Henrik Pedersen Hull City ?0 13th Aug 07 Michael Roddy Lincoln City ?0 2nd Aug 07 Idan Tal Beitar Jerusalem ?0 1st Jul 07 Tal Ben-Haim Chelsea ?0 1st Jul 07 Blazej Augustyn Legia Warsaw ?0 1st Jul 07 David Thompson Released ?0 21st May 07 Cesar Martin Released ?0 21st May 07 Quinton Fortune Released ?0 21st May 07 Chris Howarth Carlisle United ?0 7th May 07 ?22,000,000

From what i've seen from Chamakh (albeit very little from highlights) i've been very impressed, but didn't realise his goals to games ratio was so low. It would be fantatsic to go back to the traditional 2 up top strikeforce, but i'm afraid in the modern game it's now only a memory. Reeves/Philliskirk, Walker/McGinlay, Paatelainen/McGinlay, McGinlay/Blake! Good times

I can see Megson using two defensive midfielders shielding the back four with us sacrificing any natural width, however we would probably incorporate the use of overlapping full backs. This is the way i see Megson playing this season with our current crop of players Jaaskelainen Steinsson Cahill O'Brien.A Samuel McCann Muamba Nolan Elmander Taylor Davies

IF we do go down i'd expect to see the following leave. Jaaskelainen, Al-Habsi, Meite, Campo, Guthire, Dzemaili, Alonso, Andranik, Diouf, Rasiak, Vaz Te, Braaten and Stelios. That would free up a lot of funds in wages, without those i'd feel we'd still have plenty enough within the squad to bounce back at the first attempt, maybe giving some of our youngsters a bit of grounding to bed in to see if they can hack it, as we're now seeing the likes of David Norris, Jermaine Johnson and Jonathan Walters more than holding their own in the Championship. A consistent selection of the following starting XI should on paper walk the Championship then we can build on the likes of Steinsson, Nolan and Cahill once we reach the Premiership. I can't see those three leaving as they still have plenty of time in their career to achieve something with Bolton Wanderers. Walker Steinsson Gardner Cahill O'Brien.A McCann Nolan Cohen O'Brien.T Taylor Davies One thing that does concern me about that side is the lack of pace and creativity, but there are a few players within the lower leagues who have this and can exploit oppositions defences at that level and would jump at the chance to play for Bolton Wanderers. They may even be able to cut it in the Prem eventually too. We'd also be able to give extended opportunties to the likes of Bogdan, Sinclair, Cassidy, Sissons, Wolze, Woolfe, Harsanyi and Obadeyi.

Or what about 4-1-3-1-1, which differs little from 4-4-2 but puts players in their specialist roles like Campo sweeping up in front of the back four, Diouf floating just behind Davies picking up his knock downs and also switching to either flank when required. Nolan being the furthest midfielder forward to make late runs and link up with the attack, Guthrie and Taylor putting in all the running in midfield and also providing a bit of width when on the attack, they could also tuck into the middle if Steinsson or Gardner overlap, leaving Campo to cover for either player. Jussi Steinsson Cahill O'Brien Gardner Campo Guthrie Nolan Taylor Diouf Davies

Step forward Jason McAteer - and these are among the other highlights of your brilliant career so far. 1) After dumping Jase, former girlfriend Donna Air told an interviewer, "I wouldn't date any more footballers - they're not the brightest of people." Which is saying something as Donna is famous for once asking brother-and-sisters bodhran botherers The Corrs how they met. 2) On spotting another famous face in a Dublin nightclub, Jason decided to make the star feel welcome by yelling out a catchphrase he would naturally be familiar with. What snooker's Jimmy White made of the sudden cry "One hundred and eighty!" is sadly not recorded. 3) Jason's nickname is Trigger, after the Only Fools And Horses character ("If it's a girl, they're gonna call it Rose, after Del's mum. And if it's a boy, they're gonna call it Rodney, after Dave"). This caused problems when he first arrived at Liverpool as Rob Jones, then regarded as the least cerebral player at Anfield, already owned the name. In recognition of his superior claim, however, McAteer was later christened 'Double Trigger'. 4) According to former Blackburn team-mates, Jason's greatest moment came on a squad night out to an Italian restaurant. Asked by the waitress whether he wanted his pizza cut up into eighths, McAteer is alleged to have replied, "Nah, I'm not that hungry - just cut it into four." 5) In another possibly apocryphal (that means it might be made up, Jason) story, McAteer is reckoned to have asked a Liverpool team-mate what to put in the space marked 'Position In Company' on a credit card application form. According to legend, the source of McAteer's confusion was that "I'm a central midfielder but the boss is playing me at right wing-back." 6) Jason is a keen gourmet. After Ireland qualified for the second stage of the 1994 World Cup finals, he spent the night eating Chicken McNuggets while sitting on the bonnet of a stretch limousine in New York's Times Square in the company of U2 bassist Adam Clayton. Among his happiest memories of first club Bolton are "getting out on my own and going down to Tesco to buy my favourite biscuits". Jason also believes Gerard Houllier's biggest mistake at Liverpool has been ordering the players to abandon their morning ritual of eating toast before training. 7) Many cruel folk have suggested that Jason doesn't know much at all. But according to the voiceover on his bewildering 1998 Head And Shoulders advert, "Jason knows he can have it all". In this case, "it all" appeared to involve soaping himself homoerotically with the well-known salve for the flaky-scalped. L'Oreal hawker David Ginola was said to be "not losing much sleep" over our boy's performance. Jason calls his best friend "a deep thinker - he could easily be a news reporter". Jason's best friend is Phil Babb. 9) Ireland's otherwise unremarkable World Cup warmup match against Sanfreece Hiroshima was memorable for two things: a dreadful late foul upon our hero by Tulio and Jason's subsequent assessment of his injury, picked up expertly by Sky's pitchside microphones for broadcast to the watching millions back home: "My knee's f***ed! My knee's f***ed!" Needless to say, it wasn't. 10) Ireland team-mate Ian Harte says: "The other week Jason gave a Ralph Lauren polo shirt to his mum to wash and those shirts are longer at the back than at the front. His mum didn't spot this until after she'd washed it, thought she'd shrunk the front, and so cut the back to make both sides equal. He says that's where he gets his stupidity from." 11) When Jase was made captain on his 50th appearance for Ireland he livened up the press conference with Mick McCarthy by announcing that as Mick had been known as Captain Fantastic he wanted to be called Captain Sensible. A clearly amused McCarthy stiffled a giggle and asked 'Since when have you been sensible Jason?' 'Since you made me captain gaffer' came the lightning reply!