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It saddens me a little bit that a whole generation of people will only associate Keegan with the time he kicked off with his headphones on. Sky in particular love bringing this moment up, but never seem to point out that Ferguson’s comments were out of order and they like to make Keegan out to be some silly little jumped up man who thought he could go toe to toe with Fergie. The man was an absolutely legendary footballer and was also a very good manager aswell. He has a 50% win ratio over his career, compare that to someone like Fat Sam who is apparently a good manager and has a 39% win ratio. I wish he was recognised a bit more for that. What exactly were Fergusons full comments? I've searched a bit now and before and this is all I've found: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/jan/15/sir-alex-ferguson-mind-games https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/babb/11586896/The-full-story-of-Kevin-Keegans-I-will-love-it-rant.html

Christ. I envy your poor memory. I can't remember it either I remember Allardyce for some reason used him as a right winger to begin with, and then moved him back to CM where he had played during his last appearances for Man Utd.

That rough man. Feel for all of them but especially Steven Caulker with his history of mental illness having to experience that.

Reading/looking at chroniclellive.co.uk gives me pink eye too. At least copy/paste the article!

They're fucked either way iyam. Maybe, but you're over estimating the championship imo. Look at Blackburn this season. Comfortable mid table after promotion.

He'd go on to truly fulfill his potential under the tutelage of Eddie Howe

Was more impressed by what Muto did in his 13 minutes than what Atsu and Kennedy did combined. Should start next match regardless of whether Ayoze is injured or not.

Talk about lowering our standards to their level.

He clipped his heel. Ah, haven't seen an angle that shows the leg. Commentator and production was focused on the sholder on my feed.

Never a penalty in a million years He throws himself to the ground the split second he feels a slight touch on his sholder man.

Get Ayoze off Rafa. No need to risk him. Gone down two times, and hasn't been able to run it off in 10 minutes now. Edit: Good work Rafa, keep him on!!

Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Colo, Ba at al. Think Leon Best was pretty good that season too. Maybe not on goal amount, but being a menace and holding things up. Ba was on fire, so was Cabaye and Ben Arfa. Then you have to say Guti was reliable, Santon and Krul too. Then Cisse came in late and fucked up shit for oppositions with tons of goals in short space of time. Tiote was also decent. We also had a tremendous amount of luck that season. Games where we scored, but did fuck all else and picked up points. Probably the only time there was a flurry of cheap Carr deals that all were in the same side in their peak so to speak. Was harder for Pardew to fuck it up than make that lot play well. He tried his best after the Wigan (?) match after which he stopped using the 4-3-3 that gave us the most exciting games of the whole season. The start of the season before he stumbled upon it we played a dull 4-4-2 and somehow managed to scrape a few 1-0's, 2-1's etc.

It would indicate to me that Rafa is naive. Ashley will go back on anything, even if it's in writing. Possibly, but as long as Rafa has it in writing and signed, there's consequences for the club/Ashley not delivering what he's committed to so there's little risk for Rafa in that case. He can walk away on his terms if there's a breach of contract.

As one does on a friday evening

It's still under Ashley, but if Rafa signs on that to me indicates that Rafa has gotten contractual commitments that he believes are good enough to take the club forward, despite what Ashleys intentions or wishes are.

Might as well include Marc Walton, Fabio Zamblera, Aaron Spear, Adam Armstrong and that tiny ginger fellow in the list if Chopra is on it

He was a fantastic striker in the championship for Cardiff and Ipswich, even bagged a fair amount of goals for Sunderland in the PL.

But what's the point if he's not being used anyway? He got lots of time on the pitch first half of the season but is rarely even included in the squad these days. That wouldn't change no matter how much or little he costs. Use it on someone else instead.

He's played 86 minutes of first team football since Christmas despite, to my knowledge, being available the whole time. Rafa clearly has no faith in him, and based on his performances that is warranted. They'll never get anything close to £30m for him from anyone. I agree, I wouldn't even give £3m. No point if he's not being used anyway.

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He was actually pretty good up to that point. I remember him at home to Spurs where he was class. Had to read up on this one a bit He was 31 years old, so not sure age can be used as an excuse but apparently he was struggling with an strain injury. His next match against Fulham he got MOTM. Portsmouth lined up in a 4-5-1 with Benjani as a lone striker. Only speed merchant in their team was John Utaka on the wing. Benjani was rapid at Portsmouth (85 acceleration and pace on Fifa iirc ) and we still played a stupidly high line with a slow defender over 30, like. I'd say it's fair to say the set up was suicidal. Cacapa had 78 accelleration and 80 pace on Fifa, wtf is your point? No matter how poor or good, old or young, slow or fast he was, in that particular game he played awful and shipped 3 goals in the space of 11 minutes and got rightly subbed. Match report: First goal came due to a poor Butt clearance from a corner, so none of the goals had anything directly to do with a high line necessarily. If the '' didn't give it away, I wasn't being entirely serious, but Benjani was still fast - certainly faster than Cacapa - and we still played a suicidal high line, so I'm not sure why you have such a bee in your bonnet about the suggestion that Sam Allardyce's shit tactics might have been to blame, when Cacapa was old, slow, new to the league, and had other performances where he wasn't badly exposed and played well. It's hardly outlandish. Your last sentence is just wrong, you've picked one goal in a 4-1 loss and then claimed that none of the goals had anything to do with a high line? The other two goals when Cacapa was on the field were due to a high line, because they were nigh on identical goals. It's ok to admit when you're wrong man, just give it a rest.

Josh (?) Sims was tracking back, not that far away from where Almiron played the ball past JWP, and is quick enough to overtake everyone on our team bar Almiron in that situation so wasn't that fussed about the decision as much as I was cursing at JWP.

Same. I was out at the start of the season but Rafa pulled me back in. If he is satisfied with what he's getting and stays, that's enough for me to know that the club can progress.

Muto too

"Heart" and "passion" doesn't need to be quantified as it's just bullshit