You can forget Robert Green’s howler, Spain’s shock defeat to Switzerland and the Jabulani controversy – the big news to rock the football world this week is that super striker Nicky Forster is back at Griffin Park.

Just over 13 years since the Cockney chancer David Webb flogged him to Birmingham City, Forster has returned to TW8 and, although some may raise an eyebrow at the fact we are giving a 37-year-old a two-year deal, I’m happy to put my reputation on the line (er, what reputation? Ed) and say that I believe this will turn out to be a great bit of business for our club.

While he has been away from us, Forster has played for plenty of teams, including Reading, Hull City and Brighton, and, in that time, he has racked up nearly 200 goals.

Eighteen came last season so, clearly, his goalscoring powers are far from spent.

Unsurprisingly, there were a few teams vying for Forster’s signature and therefore great credit must go to Brentford for getting the deal done.

Without tempting fate, he does appear to be just the kind of experienced goalscorer we have been crying out for for a while now.

As well as we did last season, perhaps our biggest weakness was a lack of goals, particularly away from home, so hopefully the arrival of Forster will take some of the pressure off Charlie MacDonald.

The phrase “unfinished business” is certain to be bandied about more liberally than cocaine at a BBC staff party as far as Forster’s Brentford return is concerned.

He was an integral part of the Bees squad disgracefully denied promotion to the second tier, despite finishing second in Division Three at the end of the 1994-95 season, due to the restructuring of the Premier League, and I am sure he’ll be desperate to put that right and help fire Brentford to promotion this time around.

Amid the excitement of Forster’s arrival, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Ryan Dickson has left us to sign for Southampton.

Dicko has annoyed some Brentford fans by appearing in a Saints kit a few weeks before his Bees contract expires.

I’m not going to get myself too het up about it.

Southampton should walk League One this time around and, although it pains me to say it, it is a good move for him – and seeing as Alan Pardew, the hideous David Brent of League One, is responsible for nicking him off us, it really does pain me to say it.