If I may take off my ranting hat and step back to my usual self, we have a game on Saturday. Â

We still have no internet at home so no depth to anything much I'm going to say here, but for those of you who like betting, it's perhaps worth knowing that only eight goals have been scored at St Andrews this season.

What are the laws of football for?  You get sent off for dangerous play because it's dangerous. You get sent off for fouling too much because you shouldn't foul too much.  But what are the implications of these dastardly acts? Usually nothing. Just the general cleaning up of the game and allowing it to be the free-flowing attacking game we all love.

Staines fans are concerned about Millwall's visit.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this, there are some quite amusing comments from Millwall fans.

That's all from me. Back to work...

Hello!

I'm still here.  Insanely busy week at work last week, and now we can't get internets at home.  British Telecom are sending out their best engineer, but not until Friday. So expect me when you see me really. Â

I had all sorts of ideas for posts based on last week's adventures:Â driving to Sutton Coldfield to run some focus groups, watching those focus groups on DVD (three hours of watching myself moderate:Â my voice doesn't sound half as silly as I thought it might, which is good; the overhead camera focused on my bald patch for three hours, which is less good), listening to Kerrang radio, but only in the West Midlands (why can't the rest of the country get Kerrang?

Some of Toby and Matt's photos from Rome!

Jonathan Greening was on our radar for some time over the summer, and when he eventually arrived, on a poorly disguised loan agreement (he's ours after the season), some were concerned that we had paid too much for an ageing player with no re-sale value.

For one thing, re-sale value is nice, but how often do we actually find players we can sell on for big money these days?

(this looks like it's going to be my annual 'mulligan' game will fill in more details when I've seen more highlights)

When the league fixtures came out a few hearts sank. The early going looked difficult, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa, Everton, Liverpool and Man City to be negotiated in the first ten games.

Figure 1:Â minutes between red cards for Fulham in league games since 08/09 and in Europa League games against AS Roma

Since the start of 08/09:

Fulham red cards in league games:Â 2
Fulham league games: 48
Minutes per red card in league games:Â 2,160

Fulham red cards in games against AS Roma: 3
Fulham games against AS Roma: 2
Minutes per red card in games against AS Roma:Â 60

Proof of underhandness.

Been a while since we did some music.

Genius. I was lucky enough to be there that night.

Conspiracy theories don't usually do it for me, but tonight's farce is enough to make me pause for thought. If Jack Warner can retain a high ranking position in FIFA than nothing in football is impossible; could it be that UEFA, frightened by Roma's poor start to the campaign and desperate to show off their new Europa League, have issued a far reaching anti-non-famous club mandate?

Those of you who don't like it when I go digging in the numbers may care to leave now...

As you know, I draw "inspiration" from far and wide. Today we're going to borrow from ice hockey!

This article had some interesting quotes to draw me in:

However, it is only one month.

Kagisho Dikgacoi on life in England.

Life's all about opportunities isn't it?  Sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't.  Kagisho had a debut at a time when the team's usual defensive midfielder, Dickson Etuhu, was out injured.  The Scott Parker incident meant Chris Baird has been given the nod, and hardly put a foot wrong.

I don't know where this came from but it's amazing.

Diomansy rules doesn't he?  This video gives a great sense of the current squad though, plenty of fun and a reminder why the likes of Nevland and Kamara, while not regular starters, are still important.  Nice to see Clint beating Liverpool for the first time again too.

Here's one to watch.  "Sound Off" looks very promising.  All the best, Alex!

For no reason whatsoever, a celebration of the main bits of Saturday.  Who knows, in years to come this graph may convey more than mere words.  Or it'll still look rubbish.  History will be the judge.