90 coaches, 100 miles, 1 battering

7,000 Villa fans turned up at The Bridge last night for the Carling Cup tie, courtesy of Randy Lerner, the new owner. He organised free travel so as many of his fans as possible could witness their humiliation at the hands of a better team!

4-0 was the final score, with Lampard, Shevchenko, Essien and Drogba all netting.

Drogba finally signed a new contract this week, to keep him here until 2010. It wasn't long ago that this would have been received as disastrous news, but in his current role of "best striker on Europe", even I'm willing to admit this is excellent business!

Dictator of the moment, Mr Graham Pol Pot, sent off James McFadden for Everton against Arsenal after only 18 minutes. For swearing! Swearing? On the football pitch? A disgusting crime of the highest order, I'm sure you'll agree...

Poll, the glorified traffic warden refuses to "get involved in tittle-tattle", commenting on allegations that he told Lampard he was going to teach us a lesson before the Tottenham game. His superiors maintain he was "miked up" at the time, so he can't have said it.
Fine, if he was miked up, lets have a listen to the tape.
If we don't get to hear what he did actually say, we can safely assume the allegations are true. If they did have evidence that it wasn't said, you can be sure they'd have the tapes in the hands of the reporters before you could say "FA directive".