The Mill's daily bread is forever marginalized by our society's slavish friendship to boring stuff like facts and reports, so on a day like today, when there had been a load of games the evening before, there's scarcely a rumor to be found in your 30p emergency toilet paper.

Veloso, Sporting Lisbon's deep-lying midfielder, has made a decision to move on at the end of the season, and he's got a big call to make. It's right up there with the truly tough ones : orgy or enema, Peep Show season one or Peep Show season 5, Catherine Zeta-Jones or catheter, Ralph Lauren or Ralf Tiny . In other non-news, arms depot and Chelsea both wish to get their pudgy ones on Atltico Madrid's 16-year-old midfielder Sergio Marcos, who will be an independent agent in the summertime.

Arms depot, Spurs, West Ham and Fulham will have to discover a helluva lot of beans 5,000,000, to be specific if they need to sign Charlton's 17-year-old Jonjo Shelvey, no relation of Jonjo O'Neill.