Unbelievable

no, considering it's the middle of the season I didn't know there was no football being played in the middle of the season like.. Figures then.. wtf are you on about you tool? you wanna go and ask any club if they'll let us trial their left back? go right ahead numpty Ah, I see... It's because we NEED to trial a left back in the middle of the season..? It all makes sense now.. Thanks for clearing that up..

no, considering it's the middle of the season I didn't know there was no football being played in the middle of the season like.. Figures then..

Is anybody surprised this is the best option for left back our 'scouts' have come up with?

For what reason did you omit Hatem Trabelsi?

He's nowhere near good enough, but the biggest blame should go to Roeder for not getting a decent left sided full back two transfer windows running..

Taylor was worse..... You must be selectively blind then. Taylor elbow was bad, yes he coud have been sent off, plus he lost his man once which could have proved costly but he managed to block. Bramble was at fault for BOTH goals (first one he played them onside, second one he lost his man for the header) nearly gave away a debated penalty, his tackle he was yellow carded for was horrofic and worse than Taylors elbow. His passing was abysmal as usual and he lost his man countless times. How on earth was he worse than Taylor? Bramble should have been booted out years ago. Selective blindness is running in you too...The WHOLE defence was crap crap craaaaapppppppppp...Solano kept lossing the ball, Bramble and Taylor were shocking, Huntingdale is just a kid playing in the wrong playground... I was impressed though with Alkmaar's defender who was wearing the number 2 top...Who is he ? Kew Jaliens... Dutch international..

How has he not said that? He didn't confine his statement to just England did he? If that's what he meant I am inclined to agree, although you never know if other talents will come in in the next few years to claim the honour of being the best of this generation..

Rooney is nowhere near the level you suggest. I would have him as one of the top 10 players in the world in his age group, but he's a long way from being the undisputed best of this era in football.

5th goalkeeper this season for them actually..

I wouldn't even have him here for 2.5 million let alone that much! Everybody was convinced he was nothing special before the world cup. A few good performances haven't made me change my mind. It's happened before where somebody played out of their skin in a big tournament (Butt being Pele's player of the tournament in 2002 anyone?), and the players who normally shine and have had a full season are too tired to make an impression.. If we are looking in Germany for a creative centre midfielder (which Hargreaves is by no means) I would much rather have Van der Vaart or Diego..

You don't seriously think that Sol Campbell would have been expecting 100k/week to play for us now, do you? I'm with Gemmill on this one. In our situation, taking a small chance on some proven quality available for free (Campbell, Hasselbaink) had common sense written all over it. Woodgate is another story. Now, if we were all slating Roeder for not getting Woody I would agree that hindsight got in the way as the risk would have been too big to blow our wages on him. Of course, now we regret not going for him, but that sometimes happens.. What shouldn't happen however is missing out on a couple of excellent stop gaps (if nothing more long term is available) and ending up with nothing or inferior stop gaps as we did..

If you insist on excluding Kluivert, it appears so..

Interesting point. I know of a story where a couple were sentenced to several years in jail for kissing each other in a sacred square in the Middle East. Is it normal to kiss somebody in public, or is it normal to sentence somebody to several years imprisonment for it? Is normal different depending on location? I agree with you that he should have known better, but you can't expect a visitor to the UK to know of all the cultural delicacies straight away. If you think otherwise, it would be interesting to see you abroad, interfacing with the locals when you are on a holiday. How often will you unknowingly have "insulted" somebody because of a lack of knowledge of their culture?

if Newcastle lose tonight we will have some egg on our face mind.. Dave, can you make sure all of this gets deleted in the case of such an eventuality..

Murloseduck more like..

Full time.. AZ through

I think Murwinduck may have jinxed his team at half time..

AZ

3 minutes plus stoppage time to go

2 2 now!

AZ have clawed one back. 2 1 now

lol

2 0 Fener

Fener 1 0 up

0/0 after 10 mins in Alkmaar