James

All were headers from the centre-circle. Amazing stuff. Who are you, and what have you done with Dave?

I think you've just found Maddy!

Did you not say something similar before he scored his second? The first two comments was a remark about our typical performances to date. The third was an attempt to see if I can tempt fate all night.

This game will end 3-0, and we may as well take Carroll off as he's done all he will do now.

We are probably going to win 2-0 now

Right that is Carroll's goodness for the rest of his career. Sub him off now and don't play him again!

With the world cup coming up it is more about the squad than the XI for the day. Therefore I'd make Beckham squad captain, yet he doesn't have to start.

Rio missed the drugs test, he didn't fail it. [/devilsadvocate] Funnily enough, my personal opinion is that Rio was completely innocent, just stupid.

Horrible. RIP

I personally think we had no chance of getting any prolific goalscorer for this league over the past four weeks, so is Ashley's fault for not taking responsibility last summer.

He is basically Guttierez (and yes Guttierez is in the Argentina squad but Maradona is mental) Has Jonas ever scored a hattrick against a nation that went to the previous major championship instead?

He's struggled to score since 2004 in big games, he plays his best football when he's relaxed and confident. Did your flatmates lock you in the cupboard over the weekend?

Someone said something interesting at work mind, if the FA effectively forced out Sven and the other guy over Faria Alam, then isn't it double standards to not do the same to Terry?

I don't mind him tbh, but if we're talking about fucking one guy off for adultery and giving it to another who has also committed adultery where is the statement? Who's next, Ashley Cole? It wasn't a team mate's wife though. I voted no, but I never wanted him to be captain in the first place. Think him and Lampard are the weakest players in the team and have held us back over the years.

£600k for 3 months with promotion on the line? I think we would to be honest. Would then look into signing him for next season, I reckon he'd drop his wage for first team football again.

Failed to secure a loan move I see. Could be one to watch, lets see how things go during February, and if things aren't too rosey for all parties, get him on loan for the final three months. Worth a shot surely?

How fast can he run then? 13. May aswell just put a screenshot up and then we can all make a fair judgement on the lad It's not pretty. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/599/thebestr.jpg Corners 2. Don't see what people are complaining about, he is clearly a replacement for Geremi, only twice as good.

I'd agree with those ratings as Championship players. As Premier League players: Simpson - 4 Williamson - 6 Routledge - 5 Best - 2 The contract lengths for these players scare me, and don't make me optimistic for next summer at all.

How fast can he run then? Coventry is billytray's local club to be fair.

Unfortunately all the good goalscoring strikers for this league were only available last summer. Club's don't want to sell their goalscorers in the January transfer window. Therefore any failure to be promoted due to lack of goals can be pinned firmly on Ashley's shoulders for his refusal to take responsibility for footballing matters last summer. Sounds like Hughton has bought in the best striker he can get. Sadly, I think he's done what other managers would have not done in the past - got a player for the sake of it. I think he's made the wrong call. This transfer is not going to benefit us.

If they cease to exist then the Premiership temporarily becomes a 19 club division, the bottom two clubs will go down at the end of the season and three will go up to bring the numbers back up to 20 clubs. That is right. Then there is an increase in the number of promotions from the leagues below us.

I find it highly unlikely that FIFA won't support this. I find it extra unlikely that anyone with a brain would support South Africa getting punished for the actions of the Togolese. It is called brinkmanship. The CAF would withdraw with that threat imo. If there was the remotest liklihood that FIFA would get all heavy-handed and start threatening one of their member associations in order to go against a rule they strictly uphold themselves, which of course there isn't. The rule exists to stop governments interfering with the appointments of managers, team selections, competition rules etc, for political ends. This is something completely different. FIFA may well be in a difficult decision when it comes to deciding whether to intervene. That doesn't mean that the CAF have acted wisely. I don't know anything about the political situation in Togo, but it doesn't take much imagination to come up with a scenario whereby the Togolese government called the players back for a day of national mourning in order to make some political use of the event. The political situation was that people were murdered, the whole Togo team witnessed it, and the players needed someone to tell them what to do. That is all there is to it. History is littered with dictators who think they know what people need to be told to do. Did you miss the bit where Adebayor actually asked the Togo government through the press to tell the team what to do?

a week or so ago.

I can not comprehend this lineup one little bit.