Pottering off

It's farewell for now, at least, to Shola Ameobi, who today joined Stoke on loan for the rest of the season. Despite being chased by his former gaffer Glenn Roeder's Norwich as well as Ipswich and Plymouth, Big Lad (copyright the bloke who used to sit next to Paul at St James's Park) has instead lumbered off at no great pace to the Championship leaders.

Having been brought in from the Antarctic