Ashley17

What the fuck? If he doesn't want to go to the pub to watch the game then that's his choice, it doesn't make him any more or less of a fan. Odds are in the pub you'll have some gobshite syaing how shite Benfica are this season and some cock will stand in front of the screen for bits of the game, and ultimately if you don't buy a drink in the pub you're just scrounging their television really. Kezman, didn't you work as a steward on a match day? How's that supporting your fucking team, you're supposed to stand with your back to the pitch.

Not mine but my Dad always goes mental when a player is standing to take a throw in then decides to give it to someone else, makes me laugh anyway

I didn't think we ever finished in the top 4 whilst Woodgate was here? He signed in January 2003 and that year we finished 5th. Signed in January 03 and we finished 3rd. First full season (2003/04) we finished 5th. Then he left.

Eduardo will be fucked over the Christmas matches, he can barely go a week without getting a knock, 2 games in 3 days will probably kill him. Any chance Arsenal will get a loan striker in January? Huntelaar? Ruud? (Although he'd probably never play for Arsenal after what happened when he missed that pen)

Since 96, we've had a bit of a mixed bag: 1998 - Hoddle's England really played quite nice stuff iirc, 3-5-2 was brave but we played it a fair bit. Two major factors here were the emergence of Beckham and Owen. Unlucky to lose to Argentina on pens but realistically, the Dutch, Brazil or France will probably have done for us at some stage. 2000 - A bit of a mess. I love Keegan but his England team just never worked. 2002 - Went into the first game with Heskey a "guaranteed" starter on the left with Vassell and Owen up front. Brilliant. Trevor Sinclair was awesome Played well for 45 minutes against Denmark and grafted against Argentina in the groups, think the heat did for us. 2004 - Rooney was awesome, Scholes hadn't scored in about 10 games but the real standout was the defence. Campbell, Ashley Cole and Gary Neville in particular. Pens to Portugal 2006 - Sven gambled on Walcott and never picked him. Taking 3 strikers, one of which was Owen who'd played 20 minutes since the turn of the year, and an unknown quantity in Walcott, was always going to be daft. Hargreaves did well once he got in the team, but IIRC we played Carrick in holding midfield instead of him against Ecuador.

Insulting Coloccini around Ronaldo is worse than insulting Macgyver in front of Patty and Selma

Liverpool finished something like 3 points behind Man Utd at the end of last season. Chelsea are currently top with Arsenal second. Could you point out which 2 of the 4 you're referring to? Which two teams have won the Premiership for the last I don't know how long. Even if you include the big 4 then, the Premier League is twice the size of the SPL so instead of having two big teams you have 4. There is no real difference. When was the last time Rangers or Celtic didn't win the league? f*** it, when was the last time they weren't the top two? When Fergie was around in the 80s? 05-06, Hearts came second. They probably would have won it if their owner hadn't gone batshit insane. Otherwise, I agree with your points.

Eh? Shamehe has to retire like. Can;t even remember SWP's tackle on him that caused it tbh. It was in an England training session

Jonas' run was class, but I don't think he shot, their defender got a block tackle in and it came off Jonas' shins and went in. Deserved a goal though and he's off and running at last

Am I right in thinking Bent misses quite a few penalties? Speaking of penalties, keep an eye out for Milners goal.. Bruce said a few weeks ago [on Jones taking the second pen against Wolves instead of Bent again] "I don't think Darren's ever missed a pen in his life" Nothing like jinxing it, eh Steve?

Fucking hell, put Smith and Ranger up front, we'll score 10 at this rate.

FA Cup 1st round

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5680460,00.html

Guthrie hits the beans

Smith or Enrique next then?

Having players that can cross with these 2 up front will probably help us anyway.

This is for your old man, Darren.

Their front 3 are pretty good, at least one of them always seems to score. Boyd in particular has been getting a lot of praise. However a quick check of the league table and they've only scored 5 goals away from home in the league in 7 games, conceding 12. Similar record to Doncaster really, hopefully we won't struggle quite as much here.

He got away with it though Yes that's why I said could've. Oh and

I thought Coloccini was good, don't get me wrong, but he kicked the guy needlessly from a long ball (before the ball got to them). The ref was card happy, surely even you Ronaldo can see why that could've been stupid?

Ryan Taylor won me a free pint, even if it's gone down as an OG I've drank it now Awful game, glad to have won it and well done to Harper for making a few good saves. We were embarassingly deep by the end, but with 3 strikers on Quick ratings because I've had a few: Harper - 8 - Top saves in stoppages, didn't have to do that much until then as Sheff Utd can't finish for shit. Simpson - 6 - played like a man just back from injury, don't think he crossed halfway once Kadar - 7 - Aye, canny. Coloccini - 7 - Did well tonight, shouldn't be getting dragged down into kicking people slyly at this level, could have been silly. Enrique - 8 - Our best player. R Taylor - 6 - Scored, well, sort of. Couple of good crosses but corners were shite and like most of our midfield the game passed him by. Jonas - 5 - Anonymous for large spells. Butt - 6 - Didn't do anything particularly stupid Smith - 6 - Didn't get booked Nolan - 6 - Has the eye for goal that most of our team don't have, forced a good save from Bennett. Crunched their guy on the goal Carroll - 6 - Battled well against a big oaf in Chris Morgan, doesn't look in control of his limbs sometimes. Harewood/Ranger - No time to do anything, difference is Harewood let Henderson get his header in whereas Ranger on the opposite side just did enough to put the Sheff Utd guy off. 4-5-1 (4-4-1-1) is all well and good away from home but having Smith, Butt and Nolan down the middle is just stupid. Carroll seems to give a crap but can't help but feel Ranger would be more of a threat with his pace, Sheff Utd's defence was on half way and left our midfield pretty deep. Jonas didn't look like he could be arsed, fortunately Enrique can do the work of 2 men.

Had a sleep this afternoon and dreamt we lost 2-0. In the dream I fell asleep in the pub and missed the first goal, I must have been really tired.

A lot of chances missed, which could come back to haunt them ala Cardiff last year. think he might have been wondering how they can win games 5-0 then draw/lose at other places So his team talk was no doubt 'Why can;t you play like this every week?!' Well put it this way, if they don't go up I guarantee the following sentence will not be said by anybody at WBA: "We've had a good season but for me only winning 5-0 at home to Watford has cost us big style"

A lot of chances missed, which could come back to haunt them ala Cardiff last year. Yes if they miss out on promotion they'll look back to that game they only won 5-0.

Drogba clearly offside like. He couldn't have been offside, the best striker in the world is never offside. He's that untouchable