What would you like to ask author William A Rieser?

Nice one Mersey. But I should warn you I'm a Wolves supporter so obviously I know nothing about football. I know what I like though and I do like to see Man. Utd. get well and truly stuffed now and again simply because they are, in the main, responsible for the time when the Premier League won't be won out on the pitch. All you'll have to do is put in a sealed bid some time in July and it will go to the highest bidder who will be . . . . . . . all together now . . . . . . . Man. Utd. That's the trouble with anything good. The working class start it then the middle class buy it off 'em. If you don't believe me think of 'Rock Music, Public Houses and above all Football. If you are middle class - give us our stuff back, will ya? I hate to admit this but Man. utd. have got one saving grace. He's called Juan Sebastian Veron. Go on admit it - it won't kill you. By the way Michael Owen is a kind of man-boy-God amalgam, wouldn't you say? Oh sorry the question I would ask this bloke? 'Who the f*ck are you.' No, sorry that's unnecessarily rude. I would say 'Excuse me, my fine fellow, but would you mind awfully enlightening me as to your identity.' Then when he replied 'What the f*ck are you talking about?' I'd just say 'Who the F*ck are you?'

I was in planet of the apes or was that woddy or malcolm mcdonald or is this the wrong mcthread?

John L, I think we are of a breed, you and I. If anyone asked me what my politics are I'd say I am a Shankly Socialist. He believed in the Working Man, in community, in working as a team. Sad to say, what once was true is now no more. As i write I am looking at a picture of the great man wearing a Liverpool scarf, with his arms outstretched in front of the Kop. I was there that day. I was there every other Saturday. I started watching Liverpool when they were in the Second division (I'm 52). I have been spoiled rotten ever since (apart from a 10 year 'rest'). If Liverpool were to drop through all the Divisions and end up an amateur team i would be just as passionate as I am now. I'm sure you would be the same about Wolves. You can't divorce your team. Michael Owen is The Boy Whippett. Don't believe all those 'out for 6 weeks with a hamstring injury' stories. He was having a secret left foot transplant. Veron? Pah! Was he on the pitch last Sunday? Can't say I noticed him, let alone let it kill me.

What are your writing 'pet hates'? Things that other people put in their writing that set your teeth on edge. For example, certain words or phrases. Elmore James hates excessive use of exclamation marks...

Derek Dougan - leave this thread immediately. you Man of Straw, you nearly ruined my beloved team. Mersey Boy, Not only are we of a breed we're exactly the same bloody age. Bet we've even been to the same matches. Were you for example there (Anfield not Molineux) when Wolves took the lead through Alun Evans (remember him - you bought him off us, he was the first £100,00 teenager) Stevenson (Willie (?) old fashioned half-back, No. 6) equalised and in the end you beat us 2 - 1? I guess this was the late sixties or early seventies. You still had Gordon Milne, Tommy Lawrenson and all those guys in your team. We had Phil Parkes, Geoff Palmer, and loads of others I should remember but don't. Were you there (Molineux) when we played you ona mid-week afternoon (it was the year of the three day week, winter of discontent, Ted Heath and consequently no floodlights) when we beat you in one of the later rounds of the League Cup. We won it that year, beat Man. City 2 -1 in the final. I was there. I promise you I could go back and stand on the exact spot - no I mean the exact spot - from where John Rochards fired the winner with six minutes to go. Were you there (Anfield) when a one-hit-wonder striker of ours called Steve Maddenborough scored the only goal of the game and we hung on desparately for eighty-odd minutes to win at Anfield for the first time since Noah was our goalie? Were you there the night you came to Molineux and you had to win to be champions and we had to win to stand any chance of avoiding relegation? We scored first, you beat us 3 - 1. You were champions we were relegated. As for supporting your team all the way through the division, I've done it. Wolves were relegated three straight seasons in a row in the early eighties. From first to fourth in three easy lessons. While our stadium crumbled around us. The aforementioned Mr. Dougan presided over some of this debacle. But we're on our way back now. Then came Steve Bull whose goals (50+ two seasons running) saved us. Steve Bull was to Wolves what Michael Owen is to Liverpool. And before you scoff, consider this. Steve won 13 England caps the first when he was a third division player. His debut - he came on against Scotland and scored after being on the pitch for about ten minutes. Of those thirteen caps nine were as substitute. He was on the pitch as an England player for the approximate equivalent of 5 and a half matches and scored four goals. Not a bad record when you think about it. Sure there were lots of things Steve couldn't do but one thing he could do was stick the ball in the back of the net given half a chance. Riches beyond diamonds. Am I the only one who thinks like this, Mersey, or do you, like me yearn for the days of terraces, choirs and urinals an inch deep in, well pretty obviously, urine? Football ain't meant to come to you all homogenous and wrapped in cling film. it's meant to be dirty for God's sake. it's one for the lads. Leave us alone to push and shout and swear and scream at the ref will ya, ya pussies. How can you watch a footie match properly sitting down eating a prawn sandwich? Anyway, don't want to tempt fate but not far from the Molineux there's a pub called The Goalpost. How about having a pint in there for old times sake next season, Mersey when we play you in the Premiership? Er, sorry about this posting all you non-footie people. What the hell is the matter with you anyway? Erratum: Re Phil Parkes. He was our regular goalie but I've just remembered he was injured that day. His stand-in was a Welsh bloke called Euan Williams. Check your program collection, Mersey. Betcha I'm right. Sorry, but I still reckon Veron is some player. See what happens in next year's World Cup. My money is on Argentina just because of him. Remember folks, you heard it here first.

How good did you feel when your free kick flew into the back of the Man U net?

Hi Joohhn, when was the last time you washed your shirt. The nation has a right to know!