The blame game...

A new day brings a new something or other, and our first duty on this first spurt of the month is to send a message of brotherly solidarity to improbably vowelled Bolton keeper Jussi Jaaskelanen, who had a bit of a shocker during Saturday’s lunchtime Premiership outing.

Diverting an off-target Steven Gerrard into the back of his own net, via first hands, head then body, the ham-fisted, klutz normally cat-like Jussi copped a lot of flak for his mistake, which handed Liverpool the initiative and arguably helped them triumph in a tricky away fixture

As veteran keepers ourselves in our delinquent youth (which is thankfully not quite over yet, the fire still burns, it still burns we tell you!), we can eminently sympathise with young Jussi.

We can confirm that all anyone ever remembers is your high profile howlers trifling mistakes as a keeper, never the four or five times on average per game you save the team with your outstanding reflexes, clairvoyant positional sense and admirable personal courage.

Ahem, rant over, but Jussi you have our keeperly sympathies, we keepers truly are a breed apart.