Glory comes in all colours of the rainbow, with gold being recognised as the pinnacle of glory in any colour. And whilst Gold isn't formally in a rainbow, I'll bet there aren't many Hull players in fantasy league teams around the country either.

I, along with 95% of football supporters, predicted a swift return to Championship football for the Premiership new boys. It appears former Sheep boss Phil Brown has completely different ideas on that front.

Brown studied the footage from Tuesday night at the Emirates Stadium, as a group of 9 year olds scored 6 past Sheffield United. He and his team set out to face a group of elder statesmen on the Saturday, led by the ageing Cesc Fabregas (23 years old!).

When the final whistle went in North London every one associated with the Gunners must have been thinking "why didn't he leave the kids in" after witnessing a 2-1 defeat to the Tigers.

The FA headquarters will be busy on Monday morning, as the big wigs try to rescue their already flailing RESPECT campaign. It would help them however if the referees they pay so handsomely got the easy decisions right! After last week's 'Ghost Goal' at Vicarage Road the FA must have been praying for an incident free weekend. Enter Rob Styles!

A superb tackle by Bolton's J-Lloyd Samuel, on hair gel Ronaldo inside the penalty area, was regarded as a foul by the Hampshire ref. To the credit of the Portuguese winker, he made no sign of protest regards the tackle, nor did the 75+ thousand inside Old Trafford. But the man in black and ultimately the man that makes the decisions saw fit to grant United a penalty that changed the face of the game.

If the FA are to demand this respect they will need all the help they can get from other areas of the game, not just relying on players and managers not calling the official "a little twerp", or something a little stronger. The old saying "get your own house in order" springs to mind.

Respect, something that doesn't go around easily in the land of TOON and this week the 'respect-omiter' fell below the minus mark. If Mike Ashley already considered himself unfairly treated by the toon army then he really wasn't thinking straight in his latest managerial appointment. As if it wasn't bad enough, having Dennis 'are you lookin at me' Wise in the mix, he insists on hiring none other than Joe Kinnear as the interim manager.

The whole of the Nottingham Forest Supporters community must of fallen to the floor in tears of laughter, after the man we described as 'fat and round and he's taking Forest down' was appointed into the managers hot seat at St James's Park.

Let's face it though, there might be no harder job in football at the moment but a man like Kinnear wasn't going to turn down £50k a game, especially if results don't matter. Here's a manager that took our Forest team to the USA for pre-season and forgot to do any training!

Forest!!!!!!!!!!

Why? What is it that we've done to annoy the footballing gods? Goals conceded off the keeper's head, off the Defenders head from a clearance and now a clearance on to an advancing striker finds it's way into the bottom corner to consign Forest to yet another away day disaster.

With 7 games on the board and only 5 points to show for it the word disaster is a fitting a description but unlike some, so called, supporters I've spoken to this weekend I won't begin to lose faith in CC just yet.

The same it appears can not be said for CC with his players. In his after match interview the Scotsman appeared disappointed and annoyed, not just in the manner of the defeat but with certain elements of his playing staff. A lack of commitment and effort seems to be the problem.

The signing of Joel Lynch would indicate that maybe his frustration stems from a shaky back line, a disappointment shared by most after a wonderful League 1 defensive record. But that was League one and now in the Championship Forest are being severely punished for their error's, that in retrospect, we probably got away with last term.

Forest must visit Sheffield Wednesday, on Tuesday and get at least a point, otherwise CC can expect nothing more than hostility on Saturday at the City Ground.

Alan March
Commentator for visually impaired spectator's at Nottingham Forest and Wembley Stadium.