Unbelievable

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

I am a lot more confident of us beating Fenerbahce than us beating AZ, so the Turks for me..

Are you watching the game on Dutch tv NUFC06? rt7 Didn´t know you were from NL? Or are you watching over the Internet somehow?

I actually agree with you on this one. Robinson was very good before his current form dip. There is no reason as yet to suspect he will not come back to his former levels. Just goes to show how short people's memories are when a good player loses form. Strangely, when a lesser player has hit a good patch of form and then doesn´t play for years on end people still rate him based on that short patch of good form.. Harper anyone?

Are you watching the game on Dutch tv NUFC06?

3-3! Great goal! Very good match too. Really enjoyable.. I think both these teams can cause us problems..

3-2 now.. Good goal Tuncay..