Asthma....it's a killer.

Hello, dear reader, and welcome back after a week away. Yes it went well, except for the aforementioned asthma problems which is why this blog has been away for two days longer than it said it would. But you don't want to hear about that.

News: And Lee Chung-Yong (cue much xenophobic merriment when he arrives) has not yet signed for the Wanderers, although he is in "talks". Whether this means that he is the "flair player" that fans have been promised is not known, although the bet is he is. Now, stop me if I'm wrong but the of all the asian players that have done well in the Premiership, we had one (Nakata) and Stretford have one (Park) and.....well that's it. For the fast paced Premiership, people from the Far East just do not seem to have the stamina, more suited to our Southern European cousin's leagues. I'm not against people from other cultures having a go but it will take a special player and Mr Chung-Yong would not appear to be one. While it looks like he will join, work permit notwithstanding, I would stick my neck out and suggest that this is one of the GSO's more bizarre signings.

Mark Fish, yes THAT tosser, has managed to get himself a coaching job in his native Sith Africa. Along with Michael Ricketts, we at the Towers hope he falls on his arse.

Talking of Ricketts, the other one who currently plays for Hull has reportedly been the subject of some close scrutiny of Bolton. So, that'll be another defender then. But as Ricketts plays right back, if he is to move across T'Pennines, that should see the end to Nicky Hunt's Bolton career. Really, wouldn't it just be kinder to put him down?

A non starter story was Damien Duff leaving Newcastle for T'Reebok. Seeing as how Newcastle cannot do anything until they find a buyer, we at the Towers would have given this a minus mark out of 10, even before the MEN said it was pretty much a pile of something nasty.

And that is pretty much it for transfer news. In other news, however, Commercial Director Gareth "Gaz" Moores has cocked up once again, after already suggesting that sponsors prefer to watch Match of the Day than Super Sunday. You may have noticed that the club has been doing a day by day reveal of the new away kit (concensus: It's Crap). However, as the reserves played a friendly in the new kit at Leigh on Tuesday, photos appeared all over the internet, including here on Leigh's own website, two days before ours. Further proof indeed, that the Reebok is run by a bunch of monkeys banging a typewriter and hoping to one day come up with Hamlet.

In Nigeria, two season wonder and all round Bolton Wanderers icon, Jay-Jay "Austin" Okocha has been made an ambassador for Guinness. Besides asking myself how I can get a gig like that, a fondness for the black stuff finding me asleep in Piccadilly Gardens once upon a time, Guinness' MD, a man with an appropriate Irish name, said that Austin's "exceptional soccer achievements qualified him to become an ambassador of soccer". Well, OK, that is pretty much like saying "Hello, my name is Dave because my name is Dave" (proving that Gaz Moores is not the only person who can get their marketing line wrong). However, besides the article calling Austin "the former PSG dribbler" (which I again can sympathise with having done that many times after drinking Guinness), the one poster on the article suggest that this is the best thing to happen to Guinness for a long time, which may be slightly over egging the pudding.

Well done to the reserves for beating Leigh 4–1 on Tuesday in the aforementioned new away kit, Tope Obadeyi scoring twice. The reserves will need him next season, having been monumentally appalling last.

Michael Ricketts? Didn't play for Brighton and has "had his little spell here". Harsh.