Any truth to the rumour that the Villa fans' reaction on the official club forum put Lerner off moving for Steve McClaren?

Given that we're even considering talking to McLeish, it wouldn't surprise me if a pack of tarot cards and a blind witchdoctor were responsible for Villa's executive decision making process.

Don't be silly, Domenech isn't on the Villa board.

Well, there it is. See you in August.

Bah to no Summer tournament.

Bah to no Summer tournament.

If you squint your eyes a bit, the current under-21 championship could be a major tournament. The Spanish are as easy on the eye as their senior counterparts and England are as tactically inept, technically inferior and generally crap as theirs.

U-17 World Cup is on too.

U-21, U-17, Gold Cup and Women's World Cup, EURO12 qualifiers and Copa America. That's a lot of football.

Liverpool closing in on Adam. Apparently Kenny offered a snack machine £8m for a Yorkie and an IRN-BRU the other day.

I don't get it - how on earth did River Plate manage to get themselves relegated from the Argentine Primera Division (for the first time in their 110-year history, no less) off the back of finishing 4th in the Apertura and 9th in the Clausura?

Is someone in the media playing some sort of cruel trick on me? Apparently, we've signed a highly rated young striker, a midfielder who scored 11 Premier League goals last season and a wide player known for his quality delivery from set pieces. Yeah, right! Whatever next? A specialist left-back?

I love your new avatar.

And assuming you watched that show upon its original broadcast, you are showing your age.

I actually got into the show through the re-runs, though I am old enough to have remembered it first time around.

They released the box set DVDs of Daria. I was so excited

Who have Sunderland signed? All I heard about was Connor Wickham and I have no idea who he is. We were linked to him though.

Still no sign of a UK DVD release. Eternal shame on whoever is putting the blockers on it!

Wickham's an 18-year-old striker from Ipswich and a current England under-21 international. Looks pretty good from what I've seen, and appears to have all the ingredients to make it in the Premier League - pace, size, brute strength, touch, finishing - though of course, it's still very early days. In all honesty, I doubt we've bought him for any other reason than to sell for a profit in a couple of years, but if he should happen to do well for us in the meantime - great.

Plus four other arrivals in the past week - Craig Gardner and Seb Larsson from Birmingham, Kieran Westwood from Coventry and a South Korean striker by the name of Ji-Dong Won, who I believe is one for the future.

It sure is a pity how the latter half of Owen Hargreaves' career has turned out thus far. In an effort to prove his fitness to potential new clubs, he's resorted to posting YouTube vids of himself running around cones and suchlike. Hard not to feel for the guy.

True, I feel the same way with Agger too.

The one exercise I don't get is this one

Found this though and it explains everything

Do people even watch the woman's world cup?

Do people even watch the woman's world cup?

Some probably do.

I've seen probably half the games so far. Isn't the women's game more popular than the men's in the States?

Sign her up, Brucey.

Nope, maybe when everyone was on the bandwagon when they won a decade ago.

A crazy River fan watching Belgrano vs River relegation game:

Unbeatable.