What was all that about during the build up at Eastlands? Lights off etc.?

they did it in midweek against Arsenal in the league cup.

its about there blue moon song, did they shut the lights off and put a blue moon on the stand?

Yeah. Certainly not my cup of tea.

They didn't do it again did they?

What is it? Ice hockey?

The lights were off for ages as well as they waited for an assistant ref. Never seen anything like it at a footy game, stuff like that belongs at the MEN.

Got to laugh at the Chelsea players, everytime they miss or make a mistake they run to the ref.

Do you laugh at Paul Wellens too?

Not at all, it's the first time I've ever genuinely believed we are capable of more than the last 16. But with the route to the final we will probably have we really should be in with a strong shout. Should it be them, if we can get over the Germany hoodoo in the quarters we're a better side than they are IMO, and the semi-final opponents will more than likely be whoever emerges top from the most difficult group - in which case we may be in better shape at that stage of the tournament - or the Dutch who will be about due to go mental, decide they all hate each other, and crash out with their worst performance as per usual. I personally think this may be one of Italy's poorer world cups.

I'm not for one minute saying we should march to the final easily, but we are definitely capable of getting there.

Why have Chelsea barely played Zhirkov?

He's been injured most of the time. Had problems with his knee, some of which he put down the stress of joining a new club in a new country. He played the full game on Wednesday and reports said he looked strong in attack but fairly weak in defence.