Bad Mongo

Christ.

I'll reiterate, we underrate Parker a lot due to our experience with him.

 

Granted, he's definitely not the best player in the Premiership. Just a pretty good player who's worth is being well overinflated because he's probably the best-performing English midfielder in the league.

Grossly underrated here simply because the team had no form and coherence whatsoever. Like James Milner (and Enrique, in his early days), he looked worse simply because the other players would run into hiding when he got the ball.

Edit: So yeah, it's the "looks good because of the shite around him" argument in reverse.

Yids playing 4-4-2 is brave. I see lots of goals.

 

0-0 it is then...

No, not anymore.

We'll just fill a sack with £35M in coins and put it in front of goal.

HUSEKLEPP I LOVE YOU

He's a pretty decent player.

I wish Bergen would just fall into the ocean already.

… … …, can you hear me … ? … your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

exactly. For that reason I`d put us 20th in terms of form right now. Apathy indeed.

 

Form Last 6 Games

 

10. Fulham                W2  D3  L1

11. Man City            W2  D2  L2

12. Wigan                W2  D2  L2

13. WBA                  W1  D4 L1

14. Stoke                W1  D2 L3

15. Birmingham      W2  D1  L3

16. Newcastle    W1  D3  L2

17. Aston Villa        W1  D2 L3         

18. Blackpool          W1  D2 L3

19. Blackburn        W0  D2  L4

20. Sunderland      W0  D1  L5

Is Steve Bruce a bit Souness-like in that he sometimes can manage to string together a series of wins, making people believe the club has turned the corner, only to head into an equally long losing streak? He needs to sign a really big name to stop the stagnation, someone like Michael Owen.

More like a rich man's Sandefjord.

Wishing harm on Molde is alreet. They're kind of the Norwegian Chelsea, just without the success. A despicable club, rich, blue.

Molde lost 0-3 to some newly promoted team in their first game under manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Good headline: "Ole Gunnars feilskjær" ("Ole Gunnar's mistake"). Hope to see many variations on it.

how much would any new owner be able to spend with the new financial regulations coming in ?

 

As much as he likes. They apply only to entry into UEFA competitions.

Besides, rules don't apply to rich clubs.

For starters, I'll name a woman as general secretary, FIFA's most powerful appointed position.

 

For me, it fell down here.

 

Employing a women just because she's a women is no less sex discrimination than avoiding female employment in the first place..

Really? You would only have a point if that was the sole qualification needed. Besides, when appointing women for the sake of appointing more women, you simply have to appoint women, and not men. This is about the organisation itself, not some silly "equal opportunities" action. There's no irony to it, no more than it would be for Mike Ashley to appoint someone with some knowledge of football as chairman. (Actually, come to think of it -- that would be ironic.)

While true, the fact that Souness was able to overspend on "star" players like Luque, Boumsong and Owen, whereas Pardew just had to let his only decent striker go, makes their management radically different.

Souness was amazingly good at getting the board to spend. Pardew evidently isn't.

It's a good price for a decent striker, but fact is he was the only decent striker at the club. The other half-decent one is now out for some time with a fractured jaw, and we have to rely on championship quality strikers, at best. It was a position that needed strengthening, and instead they chose  money and potential relegation.

First time I've seen Duff outrun someone since signing for us.

That's just shit.

Some suicidal defending right there.

Hangeland should have had two penalties so far.

 

Want me to pick you up some geps when I go to Asda at HT?

Gastroenteropancreatic tumours? Nah, I don't need any.

Hangeland should have had two penalties so far.

Nice try.

Oh no, Løvenkrands.

Enrique really is a god.

For some reason I kinda like Ameobi.

Got a strange feeling this Shola/Bent partnership is going to become a cult favourite.

Shola/What?