No ifs or butts Barton's red card shows cheats DO prosper in the Premier League

Let us be happy for Bradley Johnson. He is enjoying his moment in the sun. A few hours after the Norwich midfielder got Joey Barton sent off at Loftus Road on Monday, he was hamming it up for the cameras at the darts final.

There's no butts about our game watching habits this weekend we simply gave our slimming selves complimentary passes to forgo our regular homework.

What an arousing, aggravating and action-packed weekend we picked to skip, so we've been told.

Fill us in on any or all the things you found pretty, peculiar or just plain mad from the last two days, puhlease Kickettes?

Hold on to your butts, Fire fans... the season is about to start. Line-ups after the break.

FIRE XI: Tornaghi; Gargan, Gibbs, Anibaba, Segares; Pause (C.), Pardo, Pappa; Grazzini; Nyarko, Oduro

FIRE subs: Nolly, Jumper, Bone, Paladini, Barouch, Robayo, Puppo

Impact XI: Ricketts; Brovsky, Ferrari, Wahl, Gardner; Arnaud, Felipe, Bernier, Mapp; Nyassi Braun

Impact subs: Sutton, Corradi, Mallace, Neagle, Thomas, Warner, Wenger

MLS coaches go to bed nightly without fearing relegation. Most world soccer leagues operate on a system where the worst teams over a season fall into a lower league, replaced by the best coming up from below. Apply the word disaster to the relegated. Those going down lose revenues, a fire sale of their best players likely follows.

If you are one of the several thousand season ticket holders and waiting list "holders" that did not purchase tickets to the Reserve Team games, get your arse down to the Jelly tonight for the 7:30 pm match vs. LA Galaxy Reserves. If you're still holding on to anger from Wednesday night, let it go and know that many of the guys playing tonight were not on the pitch Wednesday night.