By Chris Wright

Just Sir Alex Ferguson and Falkirk striker Farid El Alagui sharing a moment outside what appears to be an air-raid shelter...

Pies says: "Sir Alex's smile begins to fade as a fifteenth consecutive game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' ends in a draw"

You say?

Schoolboy attacking There are not too many professions where key strategic decisions are made on the basis of the outcome of a playground game of chance. Just football and investment banking. Borussia Monchengladbach duo Marco Reus and Mike Hanke couldn't decide who should take a free-kick against Cologne, so they resorted the international argument settler [.

Of all that you may learn this week, this is easily most important:

Rock, Paper, Scissors is called, among other things, Schnick, Schnack, Schnuck in German. Which is plain and simple excellence.

It's also the manner by which Marco Reus and Mike Hanke of Borussia Monchengladbach speaking of things which need another name decided the taker of a free kick this weekend.

A win from Town today would see the Blues getting three great results from what we thought would be the three hardest games of the season: Middlesbrough, West Ham and Brighton.
What a wonderful time it is to be a Town fan!
I was speaking to @FelsedBoy this morning and he quite delightfully described today as 'feeling like the first of the season, with the glorious weather and the feeling of hope in Ipswich'.

Jimmy Bullard. One of our all-time blog favorites. The former Hull man was an on-and-off fantasy footie force in the bargain priced bracket a few seasons back, and here he is turning out for Ipswich this past weekend and ... Continue reading →

It seems as though football is pushing us in the direction of evolution recently, giving us the idea of what football could be, but is not yet. Much work to be done then.

Jimmy Bullard is offering his contribution to the future of football, and no, it does not involve rumblings of Slovenian prostitutes while on preseason tour.

During Ipswich's game with Coventry last night, both Jimmy Bullard and Keith Andrews wanted to take a free kick. How did they settle who got to take it? Like men with a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors... I'm not a fan of the game because whenever I have a kickabout with friends, we always do rock-paper-scissors [.