Paul B

I have a friend from Hong Kong who uses this phrase when ordering Chinese food. I've had this discussion with someone before and because this was not what he wanted to hear, he tried to take the wind out of the sails of it. He claimed this guy was a foolish Uncle Tom but that's easy to say if you've not met him. This guy isn't 'foolish', he's a GP. And if you met him, believe me, nobody would call him an Uncle Tom; not to his face at least. He is very tall for a Chinaman and prides himself on his physique - he won the UK student body-builder of the year three times on the trot - and he does not take s*** from anyone. He once told me that it wasn't up to anyone else to be offended on his behalf so if he wanted to ask his whole family if they wanted him to go for a chinky, it was up to him.

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That depression's been dogging Collymore for ages, has it not? Or is it the other way round?

He should apologise for continuing to contaminate the air the rest of us have to breathe. But I for one won't be happy with an apology and long for the champagne day he's no longer polluting the country.

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A big round of applause please for the following; Mick Jones (The Clash, BAD etc), Pete Wylie, Apollo 440, The Farm, Primal Scream....all appearing tonight at the Hillsborough Justice Concert. http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/justice-tonight-tickets

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Players making mistakes is exactly the same thing. Several player errors could mean the difference between a team winning a trophy or finishing runners-up or also-rans. And in the Ref's Alphabet, isn't D for Dunderheads who seem to think referees have a conspiracy against their team and this comes, primarily, from our bias towards our team. If we're honest, we are grateful to get a dodgy decision in our favour but this is rarely mentioned as it's expected. If the same decision goes against us, all hell breaks loose. But who are these certain 'prominent people in the game' you mention? If you mean a certain purple-nosed jakey-struck-lucky, then you would find EXACTLY the same sentiment from him and his team's fans fans; they all think the refs are against their team. While I might side with you, albeit to a lesser extent, on the current treatment our star player is subject to and we all hate him being hacked down, it's undeniable that we do get a 'fairer' run of the ball, particularly in home games, because of the crowd and the reputation of our club.

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But players can get away with missing penalties, scuffed shots, misplaced passes, blasting over the bar with the ball a yard from an empty goal? How is it we're expected to be more lenient with our players and not tolerate a human being making a decision proved debatable by the oh-so-slo-motion images played 300 times to a sedentary audience watching on TV? I always think people who get cataclysmic about incidents like these got into the wrong sport. If it's played by humans, then it must be refereed by humans and humans must be capable of tolerance when mistakes are made. Unless the perfect human can be DNA-ed and bred into existence? And it's also funny that every team in the world has every ref on the books with a vendetta against them.

Although we can praise de lord for the likes of Dalglish, Rush, Owen, Fowler, Aldridge, Hunt etc, we have to have a minute's silence for the likes of (and some record fees of the time here) Tony Hately, Frank McGarvey, El Hadji Diouff, Stan Collymore, Emile Heskey, Sean Dundee, Eric Meir, Robbie Keane and now, to those legendary names, we see Andy Carroll teetering. But can Andy pull himself back from the brink and prove himself to be a Newcastle number 9 worthy of his place in our shirt?

Fould I wuck. But caveat emptor and all that.

There's no dial Emma here. Get everyone on the happy page; sell Carroll back to his club for £35 million, which he must be worth to them as that's what they charged us, and add £15 million to that and get Torres out of his pit of depression bringing him back to where he belongs. Fans of Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool - all happy. Carroll and Torres, ex-bleeding-static. I'll take £2.5 mill for my agency fee for that work of genius.

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It wasn't live but they showed it 'as live' about midday on the Sunday a few hours after it had actually finished. I remember it was BITTERLY cold here with a cruel frost on the ground a a nasty wind.

With all the publicity over this, you can't help but expect a spike in suicides over the coming months. Recession, strikes, winter, loads more reasons for depression and who knows who'll throw their hands in?

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Joey Barton has come in for some serious criticism for daring to comment on Gary Speed's suicide out of step with the prevailing mood. He t***ted 'Suicide is a mix of the most tragic, most selfish, most terrible (and I want to believe preventable) acts out there.' Another club-mate of ours hanged himself in a barn about 15 years ago after his carpentry business collapsed. Four years later, his eldest son was found hanged in the same barn using the same rope his father had used. When the cat's in the cradle, I see what Barton means here.

Just read that Michael Owen has tweeted how this has come as a huge shock. He lives just round the corner from the Speeds and waved at Gary on Friday as they were both dropping their kids off at school.

There's no knowing what goes through some people's minds. A mate of mine threw himself under a bus and succeeded in killing himself. It was only after this that my wife was able to tell me she'd nursed him three times after failed suicide attempts wound him up on her ward and this all came as a big shock as he'd always seemed one of the lads. All us club mates of his in total shock at his funeral saying stuff like, 'if only he'd told us what he was going thorough and we'd have taken him out for a pint and talked him through it'. When the facts came out, it all seemed so trivial and easily solved but he obviously thought differently and it must have preyed on his mind. RIP to Gary Speed and his grieving family. He was always thought so well of and all.

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It'd be brilliant if City won tomorrow to increase their lead over Ewe Knight Ted at the top of the league, wouldn't it? Who have City got?