Alberto2005

4:05

My initial reaction was Smith would start next week, but then I remembered what Pardew said about Abeid and Gosling fighting to replace Cheick in Jan which suggests he's above Smith in the pecking order.

Wondered what was going on...thought lights went out.

This presenter is annoying.

Already? Fuckin hell.

Tiote and Cabaye cost 8m combined, they're probably worth 35m combined in reality so it's pretty impressive.

Why does that Rochina never play.

Still played reserves games.

BEN ARFA=OZIL 10 AND 7 or 11 Pardew wants ben arfa plays as RAUL CONZALO BLANCO Can you explain that again please?

Hope he's our manager for a very long time.

Mascherano example pardew i don't understand why For best why not but shola and obertan Doing a poor job isn't he.

Clearly joking. Posts in the joke thread more than anyone else.

Out of the top 10? Below who you moron.

I know our defence is shit, but imagine if we had their defence...we'd hardly be comfortable would we.

Lol.

Lovenkrands

Think he's finally found his bite, he's come out fighting, fair play to him. About what though? The press criticizing the teams performance? justified. Gary Neville criticizing their defending? Justified.

Worryingly for Chelsea fans, he's quite defensive about a lot of things.

I disagree, seems like a forced act if they haven't already got unity.

would not be surprised if Raylor was in central midfield. He was allright there last year, until that horrible tackle.... No.

Cordoba.

Update it to Nile Rangaaa shooooots like a nobheddddddddd

For me, a captain on a football pitch is one who is able to inspire the other players through his own example. A captain like Coloccini, for example, isn't one who is really vocal on the pitch but is one who leads by example (in Colo's case, it's his calmness on the ball, won't give up etc.). Such a captain should be able to inspire the others. Kevin Nolan was a vocal leader and wasn't afraid to give his view when needed. He was able to keep the players together by his own example, sure he wasn't a proper athlete but he was dedicated to the cause and was a professional. Now let's look at Michael Owen. He was quite frankly the worst possible choice for a captain because his example was not really doing anything on the pitch or even off it. For a player who really wasn't arsed with the cause of helping to keep us up nor was he a model professional is hardly the inspiration his peers needed. Great leadership material eh? I agree, however in the Owen scenario it was clear that team didn't have anyone capable of been a leader.

I always enjoy when a decision goes against him and he does that "No no? Please it isn't...he gave the foul? Please hear me outt..I.."

Yeah probably this actually.