Ronaldo

You're the one who looks stupid for not recognizing an improvement.

I might shove £100 on Barca ht/ft and Real.

You can easily apply that logic to 6 months earlier. They turned down bids for Rio for £20m plus.

You 'feel' for a footballer who gets paid probably 5 times what he's actually worth and repays us with a red card on the back of 2 years of 'performances' that almost make Alan Smith look useful? Give over.

No he wasn't. He's proved time and time again that he doesn't pull his weight.

Then I guess you haven't seen him play when he was in NUFC? Leeds sold Ferdinand with a smile on their faces because they knew Woody was better. Too bad he's crippled. He would have kept either Ferdinand or Terry out of the national team. They knew Woody was better yet sold him 6 months after Ferdinand for a third of the price.

Did well again today. My only problems with him are the loaning out of Routledge and constant inclusion of Lovenkrands. We literally look a different team when the useless pile of shite is replaced with Ranger.

Safety first. Fairly happy with that.

Was handed a highly undeserved chance today, and did that with it. Cunt should be fined a month's wages and never play again.

Radio said he was having a decent game till the sending off The radio are absolute cunts.

The decision to loan out Routledge vindicated once again.

Should never play for us again.

Will still be 4th choice No he won't.

He's had the ball 3 times. His movement is abysmal.

Ryan Taylor and Lovenkrands might aswell have watched from the stands. Neither want to assert themselves.

What on earth is wrong with Tiote? He's given the ball away about 10 times in the last 10 minutes.

What is Tiote doing there, man? Fucking hell.

Shocking from Raylor.

Well timed by Best. If he keeps that up he'll get a fair few goals.

Merson should just be shot in the face at close range with an AA-12. Put him and his family out of their sideshow misery.

Rodallega is no better than Best or even Shola.

Had to follow you in on that.

That's where you're wrong. Loven takes many solid runs without being used. Because of Nolan we don't have a cm that's able to serve him the balls we need (through balls behind the defense, either on ground or in air). Barton is able to do this, but since he plays as RM he's often crossing the ball to the other side. It's much harder to hit a through ball from his position. Loven is not that gong ho as Ranger: He doesn't run that much, but his runs are good and accurate. If he's calledd off for offside, it's often very marginal or a wrong decision. We need an attacker today that constantly is trying to break through Bolton's defense. That's what physical teams hate: passing and through balls on the ground in the longitudinal direction. We will not win this game by hitting those long balls. That's also why we played so well against Bham and Burn: we kept the ball on the ground. Mate, you're talking about Peter Lovenkrands here. We were the only team in England prepared to offer him a contract 18 months back, and he's deteriorated since. If you look at our worst attacking performances of the season, he's the common demoninator.

I'd love Zhirkov, even for big money.

Bad odds.