Maybe Mr Gold should invite Her Majesty to a game, preferably the last one this season when we are crowned Championship winners. Maybe we could get her to present the campaign medals?

Now that would be memorable!

Yes, but Bobby was a character beyond reproach, the accusation was made in a hostile country, and the lack of evidence was obvious.

You are right that the FA stood by him, and rightly so. But this was avoidable simply by Terry keeping the original trial date.

Sorry Mate! I'll just call that Chinese fella back and see if I can talk him into it......

I must admit, I have never quite got the whole 'cult of Harry Rednknap' thing. He is good, but he's not some god like figure with a midas touch and a spotless record.

I think it must be partly press generated because he is very good with the media. However, he hasn't shown much loyalty to clubs over the years. His moves between Portsmouth and Southampton hardly edifying. Nor some of the transfer activity or the financial situation of clubs he has managed. West Ham, Portsmouth and Southampton all suffered financial difficulties after he left. How much can be laid at his door is however debatable. If his transactions broke clubs, he certainly had a lot of help from some very willing chairmen.

He is also a bit thin skinned, which he has hidden well at times but can poke through if pushed.

Add to that his defence in court that he is basically illiterate and innumerate (though I'm not sure I really believe that).

But players seem to love him - we loved him while he was with us, it was only after he left that we passed a more critical eye over his tenure. Spurs are playing some really good football, and he does have charisma. Hard to see another Englishman with similar qualification for the job.

The best manager for the job is Guus Hiddink. The best Englishman for the job is Redknap.

China apparently. But they aren't sure he's good enough yet! Maybe MLS might be his ultimate destination.

I'm in Norfolk Aussie, about 40 miles from peterboro as the crow flies I guess. The temp here this morning was about -7C with about 1-2 inches of snow. I don't think the snow will ultimately be the big issue, it will be the very low overnight temperatures and the inability to get the areas around the ground safe from ice. The pitch ultimately should be OK if Posh have undersoil heating. If they don't, then they might as well give up now!

We have had a week of extremely low temperatures in East Anglia, well into the negative numbers overnight but not getting far above zero during the day - with forecasts of similar for possibly 2 weeks Could be a lot of games disrupted..

I'd hope that we would not be in the unenviable position of having a man of John Terry's character at the club in the first place.

Yes, I probably would, but on one or two conditions.

1) Our youth policy should be structured to bring through as many local kids as possible, thereby making the club more representative of the local area.

2) That we win or lose trying to play attractive flowing, entertaining football.

I can accept losing, so long as we are losing while doing the right things for the right reasons. And it would have to be demonstrated that we were paying off the debts adn the improvements were happening at pace.

1) The thing about the John Terry case is that the player forced the issue. He could have taken the opportunity to be cleared of this long before the plane left for the Euros, but went to court to plead for a continuance til after the tournament.

2) In South Africa, certain journos who were in the know and in direct contact with players have let slip that the camp was already very split over the JT/ Wayne Bridge issue. There was a lot of bad feeling, leading to poor communication and poor performances. The whole camp was in disarray. Capello caused this by taking JT, and not understanding the lines that cannot be crossed between players.

3) Running a national side canot be compared to running a club. A club is a business, you employ a manager to manage and while all issues are sensitive, that manager in truth only represents the chairmen. The England manager represents the country, so the position is more sensitive, and the FA board has the right to dictate the terms he works under. This is more prescient when the manager in question has made so little obvious effort to understand the culture that he is working in.

4) Capello himself was a terrible choice for the job. Unable or unwilling to improve his English, he failed to understand or relate to either the fans or the players. It was always just a job for him. In 2010 he attempted to engineer a situation which would allow him to walk away (with comp) before the World Cup, by engaging in a web site that rated his players performances when he should have been focussed on supporting his team. This is a similarly engineered situation, not a point of principle. He just didn't want the job.

5) While the issue is sub judice - the FA have a duty to ensure that they are not seen as a body promoting double standards. The footage is out there, and will be reviewed by the courts in good time, but that does not mean that the FA were in a position to ignore it in their processes. The kick it out campaign has been spearheaded by the FA, and to not stand down a captain accused of a race related crime, who then refuses to take the earliest opportunity to clear himself, would have been a terrible failure.

The FA's only mistake in this saga, was not to exclude JT from the squad immediately at the point he went to court to delay the case.

I agree that the whole thing looks like a bad deal now Tom. The best option for me would be to look very closely at the deal the Mayor of London has done with Tottenham over investment into the transport links.

Spuds tried to interfere with our plans for the OS, but while I don't avocate sinking to their rather despicable level, there is now a precedent for challenging investment into an area which has a specific benefit for a business. If nothing else, it is a government subsidy - illegal under EU law if deemed to be for the sole purposes of adding value to a private business.

The residents of East Ham/Green St, should not be penalised over renewal of transport and business links simply because they had the good grace not to burn down their own shops and houses. If its good for the A10, then its good for Green Street.