Blimey, here we go again. Another meeting of the International Football Association Board (or the whisky-soaked gravy train, to give it it's proper title) takes place next week where the agenda will include, amongst other wastes of time, a proposal to increase half time to 20 minutes. Apparently, players do not have enough time to rest at the moment! When you've stopped laughing, I should point out the obvious fact that this proposal is designed purely to bring in more advertising revenue for televised matches, and to provide more tedium for fans at all other matches who will have to endure yet another five minutes of the local territorial army running their dogs through hoops, or the spotty 15 year old X Factor hopeful squealing her way through "I Will Always Love You".

So, two more Premiership managerial casualties during the short international and FA Cup break, and it seems as though the removal of Tony Adams has had an immediate effect on Portsmouth's underperforming players. It always appeared that Adams's appointment was made more from a financial perspective than a footballing one, and his reign seemed doomed from the start. No surprise there then, but it remains to be seen whether a change of manager will be able to heal the obvious rifts that have affected Chelsea's squad in recent months.

I would imagine that all of us have at some time had cause to complain about one or two players in the teams we support not giving their all or failing to get involved at times, which was certainly true of Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda in Sunday's surrender at Liverpool. That charge can certainly not be aimed at Cheltenham's Damian Spencer, though. Brought on at half time on Saturday with his side already 0-3 down at home to MK Dons, he managed to score a second half hat-trick to reduce the deficit to 3-5, and was then promptly sent off for a foul on Dean Lewington! Martin Allen has an unenviable task in trying to work out how to deal with that performance.