Shak

Duff and N'Zogbia on the wings and Martins up front is enough pace for any team. We just suck at using pace effectively.

The flowers of English football...

He's better on the left IYAM. Better than Duff or N'Zogbia, IYO? he was last season He sure was.

No way Spurs will get rid of Lennon.

Zoggy's run against Man U. Would have been one of the greatest dribbling goals I've ever seen had he finished it off, wish he'd just hit the thing and at least forced a save at the end of it though.

Dreadful player, shocked at how bad he is. I'd genuinely rather start Shola.

He's better on the left IYAM. Better than Duff or N'Zogbia, IYO?

Smokescreen...

Why were sound effects from the Super Mario games being defiled by their inclusion in such a song?

Like anyone could possibly know that.

I've been whinging about people mentioning him for months. Miserable sod.

I defeated Dave!!

Isn't Carrick likely unattainable?

Pfft, I said this should have been brought in back when they only allowed 3 subs tbh.

'Big Girls' by Mika.

I don't buy into this whole "If he wants to leave, let him go" mentality at all. By that logic, Man U would have sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid a couple of years back. Would have been a suave move, eh? I'm not saying he's as good as Ronaldo or even close, before half of you break your keyboards replying to me btw.

What sort of person would make such foolish, risque generalisations...

Not England, obviously, but mine was the Ireland vs Romania penalty shootout from Italia 90' I was only 6 at the time, but I remember watching it with a big group of neighbours and everyone mad into it, was amazing when David O'Leary (of all people) slotted home the winning penalty and the entire place went wild. Everyone out on the street afterwards for hours, kicking a football around until it was dark. Magic, one of my earliest prominent meories, of any kind. Beating the Italians at USA 94 was pretty cool as well.

Pretty fair synopsis IMO. Who voted "I was happy, now I wonder" based on the last few weeks then? I would suggest a long, well thought out word with yourself if that's how you voted tbh.

What a game that was, pure 100% commitment from both teams the whole way through and fabulous, open football to boot. Spurs were the better team and deserved to win to be quite honest, don't like them but anyone who thinks that team isn't very close to being Top 4 material is deluding themselves. Dawson was immense for 94 minutes tbh, giving him an OG would be extremely harsh. I've got 5 quid that says they won't show Rooney's dive on MOTD. Absolutely as bad and premeditated a dive as I've ever seen, Dawson pulls out and Rooney throws himself on the ground with Dawson not within a yard of him. Didn't stop the little scumbag mouthing off to the ref about it though. On that note, thought Clattenburg had a tremendous game. Could easily have gotten out of control and had 2 or 3 red cards, despite not being a dirt game, with a lesser ref in charge. Managed to keep it under control somehow, fair play to him.

Fuckin hell, don't know how some of you lot have the heart to do this time and time again.

fookin hell leave it till the last minute and its too late then more than likely loose him in the summer well done mort . sorry getting angry now s*** timing I totally agree willow, why couldnt we have struck up a deal last week or earlier for this player, same with Giles Barnes, and Alvaro, what is an extra couple of million to a billionaire? fair enough he might have put £250m into the debts and the club but if he wants success he must know that we need players I'm inclined to doubt that he became a billionaire by throwing the odd million here and there at random things that he may not have needed. TBH I reckon if we actually wanted this lad and have made a botch of it in the way it would seem we have then I'm not overly impressed with Mort and Co. either. I just really can't stand the "Ah sure we're loaded, may as well throw it around for the laugh" attitude that some people seem to be adopting. what like buying a football club for £250m? if the management team wanted the lad then they should've been backed and we should've paid more, the price was lower than most would've expected anyway. if we're being stingy over one or two million here and there, to the extent that we'll go a whole window buying no-one and missing out on 3 or 4 targets, then it suggests reports of us having a big fund stashed away are as mythical as el dorado. Quite obviously the same thing, yeah.

fookin hell leave it till the last minute and its too late then more than likely loose him in the summer well done mort . sorry getting angry now s*** timing I totally agree willow, why couldnt we have struck up a deal last week or earlier for this player, same with Giles Barnes, and Alvaro, what is an extra couple of million to a billionaire? fair enough he might have put £250m into the debts and the club but if he wants success he must know that we need players I'm inclined to doubt that he became a billionaire by throwing the odd million here and there at random things that he may not have needed. TBH I reckon if we actually wanted this lad and have made a botch of it in the way it would seem we have then I'm not overly impressed with Mort and Co. either. I just really can't stand the "Ah sure we're loaded, may as well throw it around for the laugh" attitude that some people seem to be adopting.

Agree for the most part, but really he's not a winger at all. He has no defensive responsibilities at all, he along with Rooney and Tevez basically form a front 3. Great move by Fergie to let him off whatever small leash he may have been on when he started out at Man U. He's just too good to waste in any defensive capacity.

I can see what Keegan means with his Shola-Adebayor comparison, even if Adebayor is more talented. Shola has never learned to play to his strengths at all. You can see that managers have told him to be more physical but this just results in him giving away free-kicks all game long as he has no idea how to be more physical without breaking the rules of the game. He's a player who desperately needed a top class coach to teach him how to best utilise the talents he has got, as he clearly has no idea himself. That's Wenger's greatest ability for me, seems to be able to teach players how to be the most effective they can be. Had Ameobi aged 18 fallen under Wenger's tutelage, I believe he'd be a pretty good Premiership striker. Not top class, but not the wreck he sadly has become at NUFC.