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Cicinho available from Real Madrid for around £6 m.

Alan Green thought that incident was a penalty as was the incident at a corner when Hyypia's shirt was almost removed; he was quite critical of the referee throughout for giving some odd decisions to Sheffield United players.

1 Ray Clemence 2 Phil Neal 3 Alan Kennedy 4 Phil Thompson 5 Ray Kennedy 6 Alan Hansen 7 Kenny Dalglish 8 Jimmy Case 9 David Johnson 10 Terry McDermott 11 Graeme Souness © 12 Steve Heighway

It's not just about fees. Liverpool's salary bill will have already been reduced by the departures of Morientes, Cisse & Hamann; I'd imagine that Dudek's departure would also add significantly in this direction.

Didn't Juve play a home league game in Palermo a couple of seasons ago to a sell-out crowd?

Complete nonsense. Every nation develops an honours system of some description; see for example the status of the Freedom Medal in the U.S. & the Legion d'Honeur in France - neither republic was exactly founded upon the basis of an ossified social stratification. As to Britain being held back by an antiquated class structure did Britain inherit her Empire directly from Rome? If you actually knew anything about British history in the 18th & 19th centuries you would know that one reason for Britain's success in establishing a global empire was her relatively open social structure. To provide merely one example there is in London a rather large monument to a member of the aristocracy who was born the son of a parson in Norfolk; his name was Horatio Nelson.

Last season's final was between two genuinely European giants - look at the numer of European titles between the two clubs. This season we have Barcelona & Arsenal with one European Cup between them - hardly giants.

I would keep: 3. Steve Finnan 4. Sami Hyypia 5. Daniel Agger 6. John Arne Riise 7. Harry Kewell 8. Steven Gerrard 9. Djibril Cisse 10. Luis Garcia 11. Robbie Fowler 14. Xabi Alonso 15. Peter Crouch 20. Scott Carson 22. Momo Sissoko 23. Jamie Carragher 25. Pepe Reina 26. Paul Anderson 30. Boudewijn Zenden 32. Besian Idrizaj 35. Danny Guthrie 36. Antonio Barragan - Miki Roque - David Martin - Lee Peltier - Paul Willis - James Smith - Calum Woods - Adam Hammill - Jack Hobbs - Godwin Antwi I would bin: 1. Jerzy Dudek 2. Jan Kromkamp 16. Dietmar Hamann 19. Fernando Morientes 21. Djimi Traore 28. Stephen Warnock 38. David Mannix - Chris Kirkland - Anthony Le Tallec - Bruno Cheyrou - Salif Diao - Neil Mellor - Florent Sinama Pongolle - Zak Whitbread - David Raven - Carl Medjani - Ramon Calliste - Darren Potter - Robbie Foy

Xabi Prieto of Real Sociedad.

I think that there was some research done a few years ago about penalty shoot-outs which found that the most crucial penalty was the third one; most pressure & most decisive.

Charlton Home & Away also spring to mind.

Sheffield United.

1 Reina, 2 Finnan, 3 Aurelio, 4 Agger, 5 Riise, 6 Carragher, 7 Kewell, 8 Gerrard, 9 Torres, 10 Garcia, 11 Gonzalez, 12 Hyypia, 13 Carson, 14 Alonso, 15 Zenden, 16 Hamann, 17 Alves, 18 Crouch, 19 Kuyt, 20 Warnock, 21 Paletta, 22 Sissoko, 23 Aguiero, 24 Kromkamp, 25 Martin. Goalkeepers: 1 Reina 13 Carson 25 Martin. Defenders: 2 Finnan 24 Kromkamp 6 Carragher 21 Paletta 4 Agger 12 Hyypia 3 Aurelio 5 Riise 20 Warnock Midfielders: 17 Alves 10 Garcia 8 Gerrard 14 Alonso 22 Sissoko 16 Hamann 15 Zenden 7 Kewell 11 Gonzalez Forwards: 9 Torres 18 Crouch 19 Kuyt 23 Aguiero In: 21 Paletta 3 Aurelio 17 Alves 11 Gonzalez 9 Torres 19 Kuyt 23 Aguiero Out: Dudek Kirkland Raven Medjani Whitbread Traore Le Tallec Diao Cheyrou Potter Mannix Foy Fowler Cisse Morientes Mellor Sinama-Pongolle

Chelsea. Face facts.

Interesting that Sheffield United were promoted today.

The same channel on Wednesday at 18:00-19:00 is showing highlights of Liverpool v Spurs from '78 - the game with the greatest ever Liverpool team goal.

Bring back the classic Liverpool numbers: 1; 2, 4, 6, 3; 8, 11, 10, 5; 7 & 9.

It's scandalous that the rules prevent the inclusion of the great Billy Liddell.

The commentary for Keegan's tap in is genius.

A Polish man goes into an opticians. The optician shows him the eye chart and asks him if he can read it. The man says "read it? I know him".

How can anyone state that Morientes had a good game? His finishing, not for the first time, was poor; imagine the response on this board if Cisse had missed the chances that Morientes has missed in the last two games. I think its time to face facts; Morientes has been a grave disappointment and must be sold back to a Spanish side while he retains a scintilla of re-sale value - Athletico Madrid perhaps?

Simao will be available in the summer when Benfica fail to re-qualify for the Champions' League.

Joey Barton is both an ideal under-study for Gerrard and, now, available from City.

Disdain; with a tincture of schadenfreude.

How many properties does Fowler have in London?