Dear god no. I'm sure plenty of people contributed more useful stuff than me but TG's stuff was a mismatch of contradictory nonsense more inspired by endless gloating over England's demise rather than any decent attempt to analyse why.

His suggestion that the criticism of certain players would be racially motivated was a disgrace, his suggestion that I should be tarred with the same brush because I commented that Heskey, Lennon and SWP had shocking tournaments still rankles.

I have done well with such claims over the past month, I was also accused of this for daring to suggest that the Turkish League was not world class. What a slur against a country, its people, its football and perhaps even the entire Muslim world that evidently was.

As to scapegoating of black players, I stand by my comments, see the reaction to the Heskey retirement and the blaming of him for England's poor performance.

Heskey Hangs up England Boots: After Emile Heskey announced his international retirement on Thursday the fifth estate were all too happy to comment on the fall of the striker.

For Daniel Taylor, “seven goals in 62 appearances for England is a paltry return as a striker who was once unplayable lost his self-belief… Heskey played under England’s last four full-time managers and it is difficult to think they all misjudged what he could bring to the team. At his best Heskey was virtually unplayable. Tony Cottee describes him as the best strike partner he ever had. Owen – the real Owen – could well agree. It is just that Heskey, somewhere along the line, forgot what he was really good at: terrorising defenders, burning them off, relying on his instincts.”

Robin Scott-Elliot opted to embarrass Heskey in a stats comparison. “The decision ends an England career that began 11 years ago on a spring evening in Budapest and has meandered through 62 caps, two World Cup finals, two European Championship finals, six managers and seven goals. It is that last figure that will be held against him. It is one fewer than Jose Luis Chilavert of Paraguay managed and he kept goal.”

Far less politically correct was Jim White, who adopted almost bullying tactics to beat up on Heskey after his international retirement announcement. “We must brace ourselves for a Heskey-free future. No more will his name appear in an England squad list. And, as a result, never again will the rest of the world scratch its head in astonishment at how it was that the glitch in the Football Association’s computer system – the one which continued mistakenly to insert his name in every squad list – had still not been fixed. Over the 11 seasons since his name first featured in an England 22 in 1999, Heskey picked up 62 caps, scoring seven times. Which would be a fine record were he, for instance, a right-back. But Heskey was an international centre-forward.”