Wayne Bridge has let his personal problems interfere with his professional judgement by throwing his toys out of the pram and swearing never to play in a team alongside John Terry, thus presenting Fabio Capello with a huge problem at left-back for England. We look at the left-sided Englishmen who could fill the void.

It can’t have been easy for Wayne Bridge, turning down the once in a lifetime opportunity to feature for England at the 2010 World Cup. That aside, it’s about time professional footballers started to live up to the ‘professional’ part of their job title and realise that playing for their country should be a duty and an honour, not something to be discarded when times are tough.

With every red-top tabloid dragging the image of footballers through the mud, and footballers doing their best to provide them with material, in the interest of balance we delve into the world of the ‘brainy footballer’ (and we are not including Graeme Le Saux, on the basis that he reads the Guardian.)

On a ploughed field, our non-league blogger watched his team scrap for a result against high-flying Retford, and encountered a dodgy ref, a thuggish centre back and a stern telling off from a steward whose uniformed status had clearly affected his rationality.

Although tempted, we decided not to simply include the entire Everton team as our Team of the Week, despite their amazing display against Manchester United on Saturday. See who we included instead…

The bad tempered game between Derby County and Swansea City at the weekend could see the Rams brought before the FA again after Gorka Pintado’s tackle on Robbie Savage sparked an 18-man brawl.

Chesterfield ended Bury’s run of six successive victories last weekend, but I expect them to bounce back against Shrewsbury tonight.

Former Chelsea, Coventry, Liverpool and Blackburn striker David Speedie is the focus of our Remember Them? section this month.