Northern Red

Yeah it was. Was around the time that Sam Hammam would go on a walkabout around the pitch prior to kick off.

When he scored his last Test ton, Root was something like 12 behind him. Root now has more than him.

Carey with a straight red for Blackpool, meaning he misses the game against us next weekend.

Might be a battle between him and Gerrard to see who lasts longest.

It's a criminal trial.

While much of the focus will be on the batting, the bowling was the difference between the two sides. SA prepared and approached it properly, we did not. You can't go into a Test with your 4 seamers having barely bowled a ball in 6 weeks. And then, having initially bowled well after tea yesterday to get back into it, England reverted to default of trying to bounce the tail out, with predictable consequences.

Well it won't be Muse again, they've just announced for next summer including Plymouth.

That's the drawback with this style of cricket, fun to watch but when it goes wrong it'll go very, very wrong. SA have played well but we haven't helped ourselves.

Needs to be taken out of the firing line for his own good. This isn't fair on him or anyone else.

Wolfsburg were managed by Wolfgang Wolf for a time.

"Nige is right, the refs are shite"

Across the 2 rounds of games this midweek and last weekend, none of the teams won both games and only Luton lost both. So far the only team to win consecutive games all season is Blackburn, who won 3 before losing last night.

The England players have red lettering and numbering on the back of their shirts instead of the usual blue.

The fact that he's only there until January suggests that he hasn't completely burnt his bridges, whatever is presumed to have gone on.

Barry Bannan

On that subject, I recall a journalist friend of mine telling me that it was fairly common knowledge that Alan Hansen's Telegraph column often was "phoned in" literally, usually from the golf course or the clubhouse after his round. Occasionally if they got hold of him after he'd had a few drinks, the person in charge of transcribing it would pretty much have to make it up themselves as they couldn't get much sense out of him.

There was usually a comment about Paul Pogba's hair in there somewhere too.

Just noticed Leics are top of that group. Presumably not affected by Hundred call ups in the way that several of the other teams are.

This one?

No shit...

Yep, it's been TalkSport's business model for 20+ years and it seems to work for them. They'd have a presenter arguing that the moon is made of cheese if they thought it would generate calls and interaction.

Swansea were 2 up after 12 minutes as well!

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