Ryan B

Option 1) Motherwell installing an artificial pitch at Fir Park, with all the potential concerns about the effect on players' knees and the unnatural bounce, OR:

Option 2) Motherwell stick with natural grass - either keeping what they have now or laying yet more fresh turf, and then the same problems persist?

If you have Firefox and that little quick search box in the top right corner of your browser, select Google from the drop-down tab and start typing "Sepp Blatter" and one of the auto complete options you get is "Sepp Blatter corrupt". Click it, and you find within the first 2 pages links to stories about basically how Blatter is on the take. Now, switch the drop-down tab to Yahoo!, and try the same thing. Not only will it not auto complete "Sepp Blatter Corrupt", but the results are significantly less damaging for Blatter.

The Difference? Yahoo! are a FIFA technical partner.

...they had those bus adverts that proclaim "There's Probably No God" on some of the pitchside hoardings? That would be taking the campaign where it's most needed I reckon!

Following the convictions of 2 youths for the murder of Sophie Lancaster, who was beaten to death while trying to protect her boyfriend - both were targeted as a result of their 'goth' image - is it time for the UK government to expand their definition of hate crimes to take into account a victim's appearance or subculture?

Personally speaking I don't, and here's why...first of all in football, it's very easy to deny a team posession, so if a team know they're down to 10 men for, say, 5 minutes then their first reaction will be to simply get the remaining players behind the ball and ironically teams a man up will be less likely to score. Sin-binnings would very quickly become something that completely kills the flow of a game (probably also the in-stadium atmosphere as the supporters realise they've got 5 minutes to go to the loo or get a pie.)

And also, the player who gets sin-binned is getting a breather, so imagine him coming back on the field and right away making a lung-bursting run to skin a tired defender and score - who's really been penalised then?

...are team mates at club level, team mates at international level, and were even born on the exact same day?