Shearergol

Every time he plays for us. It's why he should have been replaced 3 years ago. Not sure why nobody has done anything about it to be honest.

I really am amazed that after seeing the worst central midfield pairing in the league for at least 2 seasons now that we've done absolutely nothing about it. If we're gonna pick Butt and Nolan then we may as well just play 9 men.

Nobody would EVER sign for us.

It's lack of ambition to celebrate a last minute equaliser? Jesus wept.

real madrad can compete if they start trying to build a team instead of just assembling star players and hoping it comes together. the mix of more patience and centralised management works in the premiership's favour. when you have one person doing transfers, another picking the side and interference from a host of others, like at many continental clubs (or happened here under KK), it is asking for trouble. when you get it right like at sevilla it works well but there's a reason Benitez came to the premiership and it's because of what he had to go through at Valencia "i asked for a sofa and they bought me a lamp." Now he buys hundreds of sofas. Cheque-book manager. Sorry for going off topic

to be honest shearergol, if it hadnt happened at hillsbrough, it would have happened somewhere else, the fences at the fronts of the stands in the 80s were a disaster waiting to happen. That's exactly what I mean. It could have been a lot lot worse.

No Hooper then? Interesting.

i can't believe that in 2009 people are so parochial and xenophobic regarding a competition they have no vested interest in going to another english club, the fans and players of whom you'll likely be spouting venom at when they play NUFC in days/weeks/months to come I am English, I have a vested interest in the Champions League as I watch it through out the season & my preference is I would like to see a English club win the Champions League is that so hard to comprehend in 2009? the champions league is a club competition, and i presume you support NUFC, so i see no relevance in your nationality and the outcome of this tournament mate I support England too, which means I tend to end up liking English players (Rooney, Lampard, Walcott)

i can't believe that in 2009 people are so parochial and xenophobic regarding a competition they have no vested interest in going to another english club, the fans and players of whom you'll likely be spouting venom at when they play NUFC in days/weeks/months to come always blew my mind that, people should want the best team to win when they're not involved and the best team on the planet this season is barca The best team will be the one that wins the competition, in fairness Pretty sure any of the three English teams could beat Barca over two legs. Pretty certain that any of the three would dominate La Liga too. missed the point dude Not really. You're saying people should want the best team to win, rather than just choosing an English side? Well I think most people do.

i can't believe that in 2009 people are so parochial and xenophobic regarding a competition they have no vested interest in going to another english club, the fans and players of whom you'll likely be spouting venom at when they play NUFC in days/weeks/months to come always blew my mind that, people should want the best team to win when they're not involved and the best team on the planet this season is barca The best team will be the one that wins the competition, in fairness Pretty sure any of the three English teams could beat Barca over two legs. Pretty certain that any of the three would dominate La Liga too.

Watching the documentary on the history channel last night got me thinking about what would be different if the crush would have happened but nobody died? Would the changes to stadiums have happened? Or the fences come down? It's heartbreaking that people died, but as with most disasters, it's lead to a safer environment for football fans these days. RIP

Joint top scorer in the league is still good by anyone's standards bar his own form of last year. Anelka should be there then, no? There's no way in the world that Ronaldo has been as good as either Torres or Lampard this season. Laughable. (and I actually like Ronaldo, unlike most people).

As if not signing Torres was a decision! I'll add one then. Signing Viana instead of Ronaldo.

Ronaldo hasn't even been that good this season. Torres and Lampard should be in that list, and probably any of the Fulham defenders

I'm determined to enjoy it even if we're in the Championship tbh.

We have zero chance of getting anything out of that game tbh.

Ronaldo scored over 40 "scrappy" goals last season too. Must be s***. Talking about THIS season mate. And it was about 37 goals last season? It was 42. So he's over-rated this season, but not last? Glad to clear that up.

The person who people seem to think is the best midfielder in the world was completely outplayed by the person who actually is. I love Essien. Absolute beast of a player.

Ronaldo scored over 40 "scrappy" goals last season too. Must be shit.

Gutted.

Saved Ashley a lot of money n all. Really? How much is he going to hand over to Keegan compared to what it would've cost to pay off Dennis Wise. That's what he means, isn't it?

OK, What good did he do? Signed Nile Ranger, what more do you want. Nah he also signed Vukcic, Jonas probably Bassong but I can't be arsed to say he did in case NE5 is watching. Our youth team is looking all the better for him but in the end he had to go. Christ on a crutch I don't think Wise was contributing anything of note really. We were already bringing in young talent prior to his appointment (Ngo Baheng, Zamblera and Kadar). Seems to me that Vetere found the players, Wise gave him the green light to sign them and then took all the credit. Yeah no-one knows who signed what but I think it's a bit harsh saying he's done a s*** Job when you have no evidence to contrary other than the crazed ramblings of retards who can't spell. I am not defending him, I am just saying you don't know. I could say you are s*** at your job (not that I know if you have one or not) because to my knowledge you haven't achieved anything of note. Bassong knows who signed him, although i'm not going to get into a debate about it as it will just wake up the mong brigade and flood this thread. Fact of the matter is we brought in three people - Wise, Vetere and Jiminez. The latter two are renowned the world over for their scouting and deal breaking abilities, so much so that they've worked for Real Madrid. Dennis Wise is an unsuccessful manager/former player who met Mike Ashley via their shared lawyer who has no notable reputation for discovering young talent. I think it's safe to assume that Vetere did more 'scouting' than El Den. I'm not argueing with you I'm just saying that its not fair to judge when you don't know the facts. Oops

We should go along and boo, like at the games

Souness is probably one of the best players I've ever seen play, so I agree with the point. However, I think Shearer was the main reason Roeder looked so good in his first season.

Has Shearer got his coaching badges yet then?