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I remember he did the same in an England match--can't remember which one it was now. He came on on about 75 mins--maybe later--and really gave the team a jolt. Did he win a pen? Maybe someone can remind me. But he's definitely got something we need: the balls and ability to run at defenders at a pace they don't like one bit. turkey, rooney's debut? That's the one. We don't actually need him to score--which is asking a bit much from him--simply bursting into the box, commiting defenders and collecting fouls would help us out. If he can stay fit.

I remember he did the same in an England match--can't remember which one it was now. He came on on about 75 mins--maybe later--and really gave the team a jolt. Did he win a pen? Maybe someone can remind me. But he's definitely got something we need: the balls and ability to run at defenders at a pace they don't like one bit.

Presumably went to some kind of hairdressers. Well duh I just didnt think people with hair like that could get it straightened like that! Try Googling 'straightening Afro hair'. It not uncommon, really. You big racist.

Lots of people rate him, it's just that most think he's never going to play many games.

Brilliant touch?

To a degree, I concur. However, Parker's scored two goals so far in the league from midfield which is two more than Emre, plus that crucial goal against Watford in the League Cup. I think he is becoming a box-to-box midfielder, and if that's to the detriment of Emre's game, then I say drop Emre.

Presumably went to some kind of hairdressers.

That's because Emre's poor games are when he's stuck in the middle with Parker. Or, alternatively, almost every match except today against poor opposition. What if it was just a one-off? Even Lee Bowyer had the odd decent match.

Funny how Emre's had dozens of poor games, yet people are calling for Parker to be dropped.

Good time for injuries now we've got a bit of a break. Let the young-uns have a crack over in Germany and rest up the senior members.

Firstly, I haven't seen the match, but isn't it more a case that Pompey were just shit and nothing to do with Parker going off?

Apart from run?

Well you're true in some respects... only i remember the only other game he played out wide® for us, which turned out to be the game that he got injured, and he put in a couple of sublime crosses that day aswell, very early in the game. He got injured but he was appalling in that game! It's the quickest ive ever thought "oops, we mayve made a mistake here" I have to agree here. I also thought, 'Oh, oh. This doesn't look good'.

All pretty poor, tbh. Distin's proably the best there, but he wasn't all that for us. Always liked Bernard but it appears he's shit nowadays. Hughes, Dabizas, Barton are three of my favourite Toon defenders even though they were never up to much.

not biased at all Bilic, Suker and Stimac were very good IMO, and Asanovic did quite well at Derby. Of course you can;'t expect positive things being said about Croats coming from a Serb...... Even Biscan wasn't that terrible. He's right about Maric, though.

Ljungberg, the bald freak, should've scored.

Bollocks. He's class. Has excellent control, fantastic technique. Just because he's a simple player (similar to Alonso) doesn't mean he's 'average'. He does what he's supposed to do extremely well when in fact, he could actually do a lot more (like he showed when he was with Athletic Madrid and Rangers) but doesn't need to. We would be lucky to have him in our team and dictating the game. I rate him, but he'd be Luque mkII for us.

So, that's the O'Neill effect.

Matches looked proper boring today.

He's a total prick. Sometimes I have this great dream where Bellamy and Diouf are strapped by their legs into chairs facing one another. Diouf punches Bellamy, Bellamy responds in kind, Diouf hits him back and that goes on until I wake up and have my cornflakes.

Good point.

I think Nobby would be pissed off at starting at right-back, but I'd definitely give it a crack against Pompey. Seemingly no worse than Carr defensively and miles better on the ball.

He looks competent at centre-half, but he's utter, utter shit at left-back.

Great win. If we could play in the PL like we do in Europe we'd win the league. Great composure, good passing, came from behind, two good goals, nothing particularly stupid, patient. Like a different team. Thought everyone played well except Luque and Ramage. Solano looks a better right-back than Carr, tbh. Thought Butt was having a good game and was surprised to see him come off. Having said that, Parker played some excellent balls when he came on, although he possibly didn't have the discipline of Butt. A good professional performance, really, like every match so far in Europe.