Snakepit Boy

Count me in on this, too. We now have a great opportunity, what with Burley being available.

The comparison of Burley to Worthington is wrong. Sure, Burley got relegated and then had a bad start to the season after relegation, but that was his only bad spell during his time at Colchester, Portaloo Road, Derby and Hearts. The Scum spent years at the top of the old Division One and also finished fifth in the Premiership while Burley was in charge there. Worthington, meanwhile, has had one good spell (the promotion season) in a fairly mediocre managerial career (just ask Blackpool fans). All we''ve had this season is a reversion to type, whereas when the Scum sacked Burley it was a kneejerk reaction to a fairly untypical spell for them.

In no particular order: Mike Phelan David Williams George Burley Adrian Boothroyd Martin Allen

Yesterday was an embarrassing, humiliating day that will live in the memory for a long, long time. The performance was a disgrace, and to see people like Roger Munby come out at the end to milk the crowd was awful. If I had been him, I wouldn''t have had the nerve to come out on the pitch to embrace the players like he did. They were a disgrace and got all they deserved.

No, the press don''t need permission. If you are in a public place, you run the risk of being photographed or, indeed, being shown on television. Sure, if you are just walking down the street minding your own business and people start taking pictures of you for no apparent reason, then that would be an invasion of privacy (unless, of course, you are a celebrity who spends loads of time courting publicity). But if you go a high-profile football match in today''s age of multi-media coverage (particularly one of such significance as yesterday''s was), you run the risk of being in the paper. Also, as Kathy said, the person on the front page today summed up many''s people''s reactions at the end of yesterday''s disaster. The EDP is a responsible paper, unlike some of the national tabloids, and it would only run a picture such as this becuase it thought it was a microcosm of how we all felt. And I think it was fair enough to run it.

I can''t believe it!