The College Dropout

Good player but over-rated by the media.

Beckham can take a half decent corner to be fair. He seems very one paced and one dimensional. He just stuck out wide doing his little Milner thing. Still a decent player.

You lot will never be in the least content until we get Arsene Wenger as our manager.

Pre-Lisbon I would be confident about us going through. However knowing we can concede 4 goals in 35 minutes with virtually the same defence always has me thinking we are 1 mistake away from capitulation.

My venomous hate for Chelski doesn't make Frank Lampard perform below-par, so it doesn't matter what I think.

Pennnant looks out of his depth.

Once he's able to consistantly a fullback of Cole's cailbre he'll be unstoppable. I must add that he must be one of the best penalty takers in the world, he often goes for the unstoppable top corner shot.

I fully agree. We took a step forward by selling him then took another back by replacing him with someone of the same abilities any larger wages.

What was wrong with Dyer anyway? I reckon he just needed a long long rest (and yes i am the appropriate type of doctor).

Finishing above Spurs, Everton and even the Smogs will be difficult.

I actually feel quit bad for King. It's a shame for him personally, he could've lead Spurs to great success and had the ability to play at a very high level. And compared to alotta his colleagues he seemed a nice lad.

Tactically Fergie is much better than Wenger.

Butt has good vision and on his day can pass very well. Scott Parkers passing is like a poor mans Jermaine Jenas. I'd rather have Emre and Butt in the middle.

Without Bramble or Taylor I fear a Partizan stylee result would've occured against Zulte.

Fat bastard

They don't need the money so I reckon they can sign players of the calibre to bring them back up.

Gary Neville not good enough for NUFC??? That'll be the day.

The thing is though, if 2% of football managers in the uk are black then that fits in with the fact that 2% of the UK population is black according to the last census blowing his moan out of the water. By that argument you are wrong. Last night we had 4 "black" players in the starting XI 2 of which are English. Blacks account for much more than 2% of footballers in England at the very least.

"Bargain"

This thread is hilarious. Could any other player earn 15 pages of arguments? Personally I still like Bellamy and wwould wish him the best of luck in his career if he didn't play for L'Pool. Great footballer. Useless manager hired by a useless Chairman gave him rope. He jumped. He was sold for a pittance. All agreed? Now can we go back to moaning about Luque?

Was instrumental last night but I'd rather he was used as an option rather than an automatic starter.

The Souness defeat hurt the most. Although we had some chances against Marseille they probably had the cutting edge that we lacked, I just thought they played better than us. Sporting on the other hand had no pace at the back whatsoever not to mention we where winning 2-0 with 45 minutes left. If we had Bellamy in the side we would've won...... This year the teams are better. More so than any over year this Newcastle team is more unpredictable, I'd fancy us to beat most sides in a 1 off match but I fear the likes of Seville will be to strong over 2 legs.

Oh Dear

The worst part is that John Barnes has actually come on leaps and bounds since his early days as a presenter. He is much better on his own proper show because there he can just talk normally about football. His autocue reading skills have also improved, he's not as smooth as Linekar/BBC but he has that cheap Channel 5 charmless charm to him.

Baba isn't that bad a player imo. Highly average not to great going forward and not to great at defending but he is fairly reliable not to play like Carr and Bramble.