Dr Spectrum

I wonder if there has ever been a less influential England manager? I mean, what has he done in his time in charge? He has just carried on doing the exact same things that got Sven the sack...Is it too much to expect an England manager to make a decision off his own back, get it right, and stick to it? Ok, he dropped Beckham - Right decision IMO, but things haven't been great, so he's got out his little "What would Sven do?" handbook and recalled him rather than give someone else a run? Dropped Lampard, right decsion in everyones opinion, but no, back to form tonight by the looks of things. He's even doing the same old "Whoops, someones got injured, lets put a square peg squad player in a round hole instead of calling up someone who actually plays that position" shite with Wes Brown. He's a fucking embarrasment, he might as well be wearing one of them Sven masks.

Thats because skysports.com has precisely fuck all to do with sky sports. Its planetfootball.com, sky just bought it and changed the name. The site is full of the same old shite.

Shouldn't this thread be called "Toon in for David Rozenhal - Planet Football"? :parky:

That would seem to be complete b***ocks from Southgate. I seem to remember Barton being touted at about £8m not that long ago - it seems that since the training ground incident, on top of other things, City are basically accepting that they will let him go at his release fee, because they clearly fear no-one will take him for any higher. Its never been any higher than £5.5m. Not sure what Southgate is getting at. Could be he thinks that Barton was a £3.5m player not so long ago - Im memory serves Boro made a bid last Jan in the middle of Barton's contract negotiations, but it was rejected.

wow. they had a fantastic team back then. Too bad its not like that anymore fantastic team that got themselves relegated, and now only Ferdinand can say he has gone on to better things Yes, Dacourt playing for Roma and then winning the league with Inter was a real step down Kewell might have won the Champions League with Liverpool but he still pines for Elland Road Even Viduka achieved more at Boro than he did at Leeds- UEFA Cup runners up and League Cup winner compared to no medals at Leeds wrong tbh Danny Mills went from getting fuck loads of money for not playing particularly well, to getting fuck loads of money for not playing at all. Thats a step up in anyone's language! And, unlike Viduka, he did actually win the league cup.

I was going to put a little "fingers crossed" picture here. So I put "fingers crossed" into Google image search. As it turns out, that wasn't the best idea I've ever had. PS: Fingers crossed!

He's not as good as people think. They think Parker is better than Barton, in my opinion i'd take Barton anyday. They've seen a lot more of Barton than you have though, I'm guessing. But with that said, it works both ways, you've no doubt seen a lot more of Parker than they have. Hard to make a call on this. On account of his attitude and behaviour issues I'd prefer us not to sign Barton, personally. Would love us to sell Parker and replace him with someone of the calibre of Appiah, for example. Replacing Parker with Barton (in my opinion) would at best be a sideways step. As you all know there's a lot of water under the bridge with Barton. I've always been of the opinion that a lot of City fans use the BS as a stick to beat his ability with. IMO he's a much better player than a fair chunk of City fans are willing to credit. Plus I think its pretty apparent that many haven't seen much of Scott Parker, as most seem to think he has some level of ability.

PAPA Bouba Diop, Darren WASSA.....ll, Wayne ROONEY, Uwe FUCHS, Danny GRAN.....ville.

Why do they so desparately need a top quality striker? Rooney with Saha, Ole and Smith as backup is a more than decent setup. Smith is shite. Saha is surely going. Rossi has never done anything in professional football in this country to put him anywhere near "decent" Solskjaer is a million years old and his legs are falling off. Rooney breaks his leg first game of next season, they're fucked. Well, depends if they replace Saha with anyone decent.

"Joey Barton's fist of fury" You can have that. 'Smokin' Joey Barton "Joey Barton's side parting" Except he doesnt have one. Joey Barton's nan cuts his hair. Fact.

I don't know. I read it ages ago, I can't remember the name the name of the guy - It might have been someone who has severed his ties, will sever his ties, or the story might have been a load of shite.

As far as I know most of the shadyness comes from when he avoided tax when he sold his company - but that was legal. How that became legal is somewhat iffy. Most of the other controversies surrounding him seem to be a load of trumped out bollox spouted by an illegal government and its puppet media. He's my #1 choice. Many a true word said in jest - I've read he'll put one of the Chang bigwigs on the City board if this goes thru. A few people today have been saying that Thaksin has cold feet and its not looking promising. But then this Cloudy Rainy thing comes out...and Ranson backs off...but we're still waiting. All very confusing to someone like myself who doesn't really get all this off-pitch mumbo jumbo with the stock market and all that shite

"Ranieri to takeover Citeh if Thai deal goes through" I know its only two letters, but "if" is a pretty big word.

1. Barton 2. Parker 3. NRC I would say Barton is comfortably the most accomplished player of the 3. However, "flawed character" isn't half of it, but that doesn't really come across on the pitch so I won't mark him down too much just for the sake of it. Parker is pretty limited, but at least he has some plus points in terms of effort. NRC also hasn't done owt in a long time to make anyone think he has any serious amount of talent, but unlike Parker, he can't even be arsed with trying, so I'll put him last.

I thought the stories yesterday (was it from his agent?) said WH were willing to listen to £8m for him. PS: One does hope that 64.7% of this bid will find its way to Sunny Manchester. We need shot of Barton please

How different are they then? Any pics? I think its a pretty valid reason to disqualify someone from hosting a cup final myself, but it depends how big the differences are...

Are the home and away dressing rooms at SJP the same size?

So. Matthew Taylor's habit of scoring wondergoals cost Pompey 5 points. Bobby Zamora is better than Tevez. Bentley, Shorey and Baines are there teams worst players. And Kevin Davies is the worst player in the league. Lets kick Nerds out of football.

4. Against Boro(h), Fulham(h), Boro(a) and Fulham(a)

Chelsea finished 4th, 6th, 6th, 5th, 3rd in the 5 seasons before Abramovich appeared. Mediocre? Er, nope. But they did have money issues, I think in the last season the only player they signed was Enrique De Lucas on a free.

Steven Gerrard, Paul Butler. Spartans, what is your proffesion. Etc. Collins John, Drew Talbot. Bit more obscure. And fictional.

David James, Michael Brown. I feel good. Dernernernerner. Francis Lee, Joe Harvey, James Oswald I also thought of using Michael Johnson the City player, Michael Johnson the Derby player, to make Michael Johnson the runner...

When its rained for a bit: Ever fallen in Love? When he's just gone up for a header and got a bump, and is feeling a bit groggy: Your Love While he's warming up just before coming on to end and injury layoff: You can't hurry Love When he makes his comeback, and looks a bit shit: What is Love? When he finds his feet and gets a hattrick: Must be Love, Love, Love... Too. Many. Possbilites.

What a fantastic name as well. http://daniel.tipos.com.br/media/315/20050424-vnr_10.jpg Blatantly the coolest guy ever. I can imagine St. James' in a chorus of 'All you need is Love'. Love will tear you apart. Blatantly. Man...the song possibilities for this guy... When he decks someone in a melee and makes a run for it before the ref pegs him : Whats Love got to do with it? When the ref pegs him and sends him off: Crazy little thing called Love While hes suspended : Where is the Love? When he makes his triumphant scoring return against Chelsea: One Love... When Abramovich gets his chequebook out: Money can't buy you(me) Love So much potential. You'd be crazy NOT to sign him!

Is Elano that guy who scored when Brazil played Argentina at Arsenal...?