Jimmy Bullard, where do you start? On and off-field prankster, dead-ball specialist, golden-locked Soccer AM favourite, the likable Eastender has won countless plaudits for his care-free attitude to the game.

Due to his qualities as the in-house joker, his playing abilities have often been unnoticed.

Reports over the weekend linked former Boro favourite and now Peterborough forward George Boyd with a £6m move to Tottenham. Boyd has been arguably the Posh's best player in their first season in the Championship so far and his recent form is thought to have alerted Premier League clubs to making an offer.

! Article Start >Big spenders. To be frank, Peterborough squad are the 'Poundland' of the Championship. Promoted last year through the playoffs, some of the figures paid for Newcastle United players in recent times would pay for the whole Peterborough squad. They even make Scunthorpe look like Real Madrid.

According to reports Peterborough have sacked Darren Ferguson. We all know that managers jobs are hardly safe these days but I think this could be one of the worst football sackings I've seen, unless of course there is more to come out from it but I doubt it. I don't think Barry Fry (Posh's [...]

George Boyd returns to Broadhall Way again tomorrow night, this time though he's a Championship player, a title Phil Wallace always said he was. What now seems like an annual fixture, Boyd's Peterborough make the trip down the A1(M) to Stevenage to take on Graham Westley's side. Posh were promoted for the second time in as many seasons last time around and Darren Ferguson is building something very special at London Road.

Things are very rarely simple at the K.C. Stadium, not while Phil Brown is there. Back in January, he raised eyebrows when he paid £5 million for the effervescent Fulham midfielder Jimmy Bullard. Not that there is any doubting the quality that Bullard offers, but that a player who had suffered so much from a bad run of injuries could be worth such a punt for a team that were in free fall at the time.

Wishing Joe Kinnear all the best for his op today, a timely reminder that football management is hard work 1. Joe Kinnear Hate to say I told you so, but this was my primary concern for Kinnear when he took the Newcastle job in September. Kinnear suffered a heart attack during his time at Wimbledon and later [.

We've linked up with a massive Birmingham blog, Joys & Sorrows. One of their readers off their forum, Nat, wrote a great article in relation to today's game.

In recent times

At the moment, Spurs are enjoying their most productive period since the days of Terry Venables, Lineker and Gazza.

The pressures of being a Premiership manager aren't a secret – the mood status of thousands of fans resting on your shoulders, juggling the egos of 30 prima donas, probing journalists, and managing the bank balances of multi-million pound businesses can be a testing existence.

But is it also bad for your health?

The pressures of being a Premiership manager aren't a secret – the mood status of thousands of fans resting on your shoulders, juggling the egos of 30 prima donas, probing journalists, and managing the bank balances of multi-million pound businesses can be a testing existence.

But is it also bad for your health?

Jimmy Bullard, where do you start? On and off-field prankster, dead-ball specialist, golden-locked Soccer AM favourite, the likable Eastender has won countless plaudits for his care-free attitude to the game.

Due to his qualities as the in-house joker, his playing abilities have often been unnoticed.

Big FryBy Barry Fry and Phil RostronPublished by Collins Willow2000, From 1p (Amazon), 978-0002-189491Barry Fry's autobiography is now ten years old, but I thought it would be informative to return to it as a Nineties period piece - a time capsule shedding light on the wheeler-dealing of that decade and before.