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Fortunately for Roy, though, Gerrard didn't scratch the back of his head in a very mannered fashion, so his job is safe for the moment.

What hasn't appeared to have been considered is that, after his Arsenal appearance, the medical team might have checked him thoroughly and decided he still needed careful assessment in training. Instead of that, the immediate assumption - a la the likes of Andy Gray - seems to be that Benitez played him, all was well, and Benitez has been content to ignore him ever since. The mid-week substitution did no one any favours, but some of the speculation just seems prompted by prejudice rather than reason.

Yes, it's like that ghastly Digital Spy forum featuring so-and-so from Manchester adding their predictable views. And on ITV's This Morning today, Fern Britton simpered and whispered while she made Jenny Hicks talk her through what happened, adding the odd aside such as 'The pens, I believe, were there because of earlier hooliganism' (not verbatim, but that's what I remember her saying). 20 years on and the average London-based media hack is as badly informed, and as tactless, as ever,

You've done a fine job, but that place is full of psychotics.

He spoke about Jade Goody, too.

Hear hear!