Football Daily | The unique embarrassment of being 36th in a football league table

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Europe’s most exciting and unpredictable competition continues on Tuesday night, and even a quick look at the early league table will tell you we’re in for a thrilling season. Famous old clubs crowd the summit, a handful of points cover the top 10 – and in this leviathan format, every point and every game matters. Truly, the Championship is the gift that keeps on giving – and even the division’s stragglers can have hope. This time last year, Russell Martin’s Southampton were 15th in the second tier, and look at them now, eh? Eh? Oh.

It is not important anymore whether I am the best or not, I no longer care about that. It is good for a player to score goals, but for me it is better for the team to win. I am used to breaking records and I no longer look for them” – Cristiano Ronaldo, 39, claims to have finally twigged that football is a team sport.

As much as I appreciate Ken Muir’s concern (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) that if we followed the advice of Harry Webb (by the way, how nice to have Cliff Richard writing to Football Daily using his real name) and had voting for the letter o’ the day (Friday’s Football Daily letters) then it would mean vengeful people stopping me winning, all I can say is look what happens under the current system of Football Daily deciding anytime there’s a free book up for grabs” – Noble Francis.

The only way that José Mourinho story (yesterday’s Quote of the Day) could get better is if it transpires he was watching the game on his laptop via a dodgy stream. I can’t have been the only person who watched the video and tried to see if there was a firestick plugged in to the side of his computer” – Ed Taylor.

Imagine my disappointment when I clicked on the terms and conditions link in the hope of being directed to some humorous page, only to end up with the terms and conditions, which I then read out of spite” – Tony Purcell.

Dundee United do not have a player called Mo Sylla (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs – full email edition) . Dundee, however …” – Stuart McLagan (and 1,056 others).

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