Alberto2005

With the FA Cup final the following week (?) and the potential CL final as well, it could well be. I doubt it, Fergie's a big believer in playing his best team a week prior to a final.

Mahaan Merson talking about Gavin Mahon.

I'm not sure Allardyce will be too happy players are being bought before he comes

2-2 OG Neville.

Clanger, 2-1 O'Shea

If Allardyce is available we must take him, he's the best manager we could possibly attract and a reliable one at that.

Exactly. Anything lower than Northern League isn't great, and anyone with a reasonable touch and good fitness can play at that level. I realise at the age of 29 it must be hard to take the big 30 is coming up and your footballing days are coming to end as you played at a very high standard didn't you? anyway the pitch wasn't lightly watered as it was raining anyway, have you not ever seen players trying to play straight balls to players on a wet pitch and it just skips away because it's very hard to judge this is the same, i was never arguing that passing on a damp pitch isn't better because it enables the game to flow more but in this particular goal it was harder.

Just remebered this... Robert to Shearer away at Blackburn to clinch the CL sport, it was a disguised short pass.

Loved that goal.

Luque

Those passes are easy, Bernard deserves just as much credit for the run he made. If you've got the ball and someone is moving it doesn't take a world class footballer to pick them out, you do need some vision however and they always look good . The best passes are the disguised ones, Messi does them all the time. Your wrong, it wasn't easy because the night we played the pitch was very wet and this meant the pass had to be timed perfect. Have you ever played football yourself, Alberto? A greasy surface is ideal for sliding through balls, I was at Highbury that night, it did rain, but it was hardly Noah's Arc conditions. It doesn't take a genius to work out the pass is harder to judge on a wet pitch than a dry one. Exactly ye taakin fuckin pish. How many times do you hear a commentator say "a nice greasy top, perfect conditions for football." It's easy to judge a pass on a greasy top, as I said clearly you've never played the game at any sort of level. Firstly, yes i've played football at a higher level than you have or ever will and secondly the thing between your ears is quite useful when used, the commentators saying this probably haven't played football in their lifetime either dickweed, yes it is better to pass the ball about to each other but that's direct to a player, judging the weight of a pass is completely different.

Good shout, Sibierski's for Dyer's goal against AZ should be mentioned.

Is this Banes lad a good player like KD?

Those passes are easy, Bernard deserves just as much credit for the run he made. If you've got the ball and someone is moving it doesn't take a world class footballer to pick them out, you do need some vision however and they always look good . The best passes are the disguised ones, Messi does them all the time. Your wrong, it wasn't easy because the night we played the pitch was very wet and this meant the pass had to be timed perfect. Have you ever played football yourself, Alberto? A greasy surface is ideal for sliding through balls, I was at Highbury that night, it did rain, but it was hardly Noah's Arc conditions. It doesn't take a genius to work out the pass is harder to judge on a wet pitch than a dry one.

I don't understand the point of the Roeder slagging, he's here for the season at least, he's going to get money and hopefully that will be spent mainly on the defence and lets see how we do with a better defence and Michael Owen who is without question one of the best finishers in the world,although i'm not disagreeing with Roeder's managerial abilities, if we've done shit at the end of the season he deserves to go but i still don't believe he's done bad enough to deserve a sacking, we're not the team we were with Bobby Robson so stop thinking we are!

Those passes are easy, Bernard deserves just as much credit for the run he made. If you've got the ball and someone is moving it doesn't take a world class footballer to pick them out, you do need some vision however and they always look good . The best passes are the disguised ones, Messi does them all the time. Your wrong, it wasn't easy because the night we played the pitch was very wet and this meant the pass had to be timed perfect.

Nor have the teams you've mentioned, barring Sevilla the highest team you said was Espanyol who are 10th... Osasuna, Deportivo and Villarreal are all below that.

Luque La Coruna in the prem, no no no.

Because they are managed by a bunch of c***s The same can go for the champions league,since 3 english teams have reached the semi's then its the strongest league in the world. Players wise,talents wise us and spurs ARE better then the likes of Zaragoza and Espanyol. But they way we play,the way our players preform,the way our c*** of a manager uses the players is whats keeping us from reaching the semi's or the final of the UEFA cup,heck we got knocked out by a Dutch team who has relativly unknown players. Zaragoza are a better side than us currently but as for teams such as Espanyol,Depor,Osasuna i don't believe they are.

Even Racing could be closing on a uefa place mainly down to Zigic and also their centre half who's got about 8 goals all be it from the penalty spot more often than not.

I think teams such as Zaragoza and Athletico Madrid are the teams he means.

All four of the "mid-table" Spanish clubs you just mentioned are very average these days.

Confuzzlefuseringering.

Why do i get the feeling the addition of 'attitude and professionalism' to performances was put there to sway it in Milner's favour.