Hurray!

I remember when he first signed. There was uproar. Etuhu himself wasn't too happy about this, his facebook status updates suggesting that he felt a bit... maligned. I actually messaged him once (by way of encouragement) and he wrote back quite quickly saying that we had nothing to worry about, and that as soon as he was match fit he'd be playing well and showing everyone what he could do.

Top man.

Top player. Those goals look better and better.

I've heard Australian cricket commentators use a brilliant phrase for a certain type of batsman, a player who takes risks, who reasons that while the odds may be against him, the rewards (and the fun) are high. The Australian commentators say "he's not going to die wondering" about a player like this.

Not being miserable or anything, but Defoe's hat-trick probably means Bob's not going to start for England for a bit. Shame, I thought he might have done tonight if fit. Now look what's happened.

Still, nice win for England, and Captain Murphy's been a fine pundit, too.

But not in the way you might have expected. Below the line are all (most) transfers since 2006.

First, just goes to show how many players come and go. We know this, of course, but seeing them all written down is nevertheless very surprising.

I had a quick look through the ins and figured maybe 19 good signings, 16 bad ones, and another 19 in between.

What did you think of the transfer dealings then? Here is a roundup of everything, showing that we've balanced the books better than most this off-season (mainly because we had a decent squad and no manager, perhaps!).

The big move was Paul Konchesky to Liverpool. On the surface this is really disappointing, not least because it's not a move that, for footballing reasons at least, needed making.

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The goals on Saturday were down to individual mistakes, no doubt about it, but under Hodgson they probably wouldn't have happened.

By committing men forward Hughes is making life much more interesting for supporters, but is leaving his defence a bit exposed.

For the first goal we can see that Stephen Kelly's been caught well upfield.

Blackpool 2 Fulham 2

A strange and entertaining match which we could have won, but nearly lost. In the end we had to settle for our third draw out of three – perhaps a disappointment after the week's previous results had raised our expectations so high. But this wasn't your average Fulham away point.

On the pitch:

1) Was there any better way to break Matthew Briggs into the team than last night? Home game (but small crowd), weak opposition, surrounded by first team players all 'looking out' for you. Really well done by Hughes, and Briggs will have gained a lot from that, not least because he's no longer just the answer to a trivia question and is (finally) getting the chance he's wanted for a while;

2) Bobby Zamora would probably feel he could do a job for Barcelona at this point.

The heavens opened over South West 6 tonight but the football was divine. Port Vale are clearly not a wet weather team, but this was like watching Muhammad Ali sparring with a stuffed bear: "If the pitch gets slick I'll hit them for six"...

It was brilliant to watch, for all kinds of reasons.

WSC's Taylor Parkes gives James Cordon the Tim Lovejoy treatment. Brilliant:

Abbey Clancy was hired to do what Abbey Clancy does; the backroom boys worked out some skits about how Uruguay's players had long hair and looked like girls; a polo-shirted audience whooped with well-marshalled efficiency.

"Dickson Etuhu, who I had at Preston, was fantastic in training, but not so good in matches. Roy Hodgson [Fulham's manager] rang me about Etuhu. I said, 'If you can get him to play for Fulham the way he does in training, and I think with your experience you can, you have got the next Patrick Vieira.

Thrills and spills and bellyaches at Craven Cottage this afternoon as Brede Hangeland moved to the top of my own private "Great People" list and David Stockdale made an unforgettable penalty save that he'll still be talking about when he's an old man.

We were 2-1 down when referee Peter Walton (who had a strange game) awarded United a penalty based on some kind of infraction from Damien Duff.

Before I get started, allow me a quick introduction. I'm Colin, who you may remember from my dormant blog Championship at Best. Yep, I'm that stats geek. Rich invited me to contribute an occasional piece over here, and since I haven't really had the time to maintain a site on my own, that invitation sounded excellent.