Those Monday newspaper comments and average ratings...

The Currant have nothing, nowt, nada to say about Bolton, which must say something.

"A dismal game saw Bolton create the best chances but fail to take them" The Mirror

"Bolton created the best chances but failed to take them and the ‘Megson Out’ chants have started already" The Star

"No one needs to tell Gary Megson what his team lack..." The Torygraph (although surely someone should have told him in June, just to make sure that he was looking at the same sheet...?)

"Bolton Wanderers, though, should have taken at least a point" The Times

"For the next 15 minutes City ripped their opponents apart" T'Guardian

And so to the averages by all the weekend reporters

Jussi 6.3
Ricketts 6.04
Cahill 6.42
Knight 5.38
Stefan Dennis 5.09
Muamba 6.8
Davis 6.18
Mark Davies 6.24
Taylor 6.67
SuperKev 6.18
Elmander 5.98
JLS 5.13
Ward 5.13
Lee 6.04

Man of the Match therefore is the sometimes pilloried Fabrice Muamba, although to be fair the one paper that allows fans to vote (The Tory) has him at an average of six with six other players ahead of him. The worst player was Stefan Dennis, but that was only a matter of time. Don't It Make You Feel Good.

I'm now off to hide behind a pillow to listen to the Tranmere commentary. Until later, fellow masochists....