On a PC (and I thought on a mobile as a long as it is not the App) you can hover over the space between the * to see a 'hidden' message
I feel like a stand-up comic on stage, leaning to the bloke in the front row and explaining a gag.... doesn't seem to have worked
We hadn't signed Virgil at that point, and Gardos had a long-term injury. We needed someone to fill a hole. Edit: Sorry I see the underlying point in your question. It does make you wonder why he couldn't get into a crap Fulham side.
It depends a bit on how bright your mobile phone screen is. Granted, it can appear quite grey, but I've just checked this desktop version of the forum on my S2 and the text was very similar to the background to the extent that I wouldn't have noticed it if I didn't know the form. It could be browser dependant also. The trick absolutely doesn't work on the Not606 App. It's too simple.