Ronaldo

'He isn't the best player in the world because he was rubbish at the WC' - Darren Gough.

Well happy with a solid £150 weekend profit that looked fucked when Chelsea got that penalty. Takes me up to £1200 for the last 4 days.

He's been unbelievably bad in his last 4 games. If you were to isolate his contributions in a highlight reel it'd resemble evidence in a match-fixing trial.

It implies the exact opposite to me, like.

This lot are very, very beatable. They're shit, basically. 1-1 or 1-0 to us.

He's demonstrated that he can run. Makes him more worthy of a start than Shola.

Look at our lineup at Villa and you'll see why. True, a team full of cowards and spineless twats. Not just that. Guthrie and Lovenkrands on the wing, Edgar at RB, Duff fuck knows where, Butt in CM and reliance on Viduka/Owen/Martins for goals.

Look at our lineup at Villa and you'll see why.

If Ben Arfa's back, perhaps. Jonas made James Perch look good.

His PL stats must make for terrible reading. 1 goal and 5 assists in about 50 games.

He's just complete rubbish, mate. Hunger has nothing to do with being unable to control the ball.

Of course we don't, the useless bastard can't even run.

I always enjoy listening to Collymore on TalkSport. Talks a lot of sense, mostly.

Coloccini's an absolute must in the first Xl. He's the only one with genuine class, for lack of better words. As it happens, I wouldn't object to the return of Willicini as neither Sol nor Taylor have looked convincing to me, both are just so clumsy. With players running at them they look like two lorries attempting simultaneous 3-point-turns in a pub car-park.

At lot of Simpson's bad performances last season came (unsurprisingly) with Guthrie in front of him.

awful awful awful side, hard to believe man usa's ressies lost to them They do it on purpose, Lynn.

Green is good. Not great, but good. Upson is dogshite.

West Ham have gone.

Pedro always sits in the Milburn. Nobody banished him, for crying out loud.

Howay man... As much as I love and respect you, Shearer's where you cross that murky line into outright bias. You think he's as good as El Phenomenon, for a start. 10 league goals from open play by Decemeber in a team far worse than Shearer played in during his goal-happy years. The lad's incredible.

Bolton?

If he was a penalty-taker he'd walk Shearer's record. No reason he can't be better than Shearer at this rate of improvement, he's already better than the post-97 version.

He was absolutely abysmal.

He still has loads of improving to do, but time is on his side.

Let's change the thread title to "Joey Barton is absolutely fucking magic" please.