Ronaldo

Rights Arsenal in the league cup and Derby (a) last season are two examples.

It's 36F and 2C.

This is a fair point. But Harper hasn't been making mistakes, in fairness.

Myth. He was far, far more passive in his first season. He's asserting himself far better now. Against Arsenal he was throwing himself in to every header, and it worked. This is also wrong. He's our quickest starting CB, so that wouldn't work, obviously. He's been playing higher up the pitch, and with good results. As for set pieces, he has marked the opposition's stronger players, on a number of ocassions.

He's perfect for the press/media in this country. Doing the business on the pitch, while making bad headlines off it. During a perioid in which the national team are crying out for both youth and efficiency (goals) in the forward area.

He broke his arm a week before the WC and played in that.

Jose, of course.

Me?

90% of the abuse for Colo appeared after the Chelsea game in which he was at fault for the first goal. This should tell you everything you need to know. A lot of football fans are sheep. It's a by-product of following something passionately within a very large group. And when sheep are angry, they'll follow without discrimination. As a foreign, expensive NUFC defender, Colo was always going to become a media target. And as an expensive Dennis Wise find, he was inevitably going to recieve contempt from a few fans when his form dipped. A lot of it just biased and embarrassing nonsense. Neesy calling him a shit defender who can't pass has to rank somewhere in the forum HOF.

No. They're all cunts, every one of them.

Durham's been putting a fair few toon players in his team of the week recently. Tiote, Coloccini, Barton, Carroll and Krul have all appeared in the last couple of weeks.

He's been fit and available for each of the 49 PL games we've had since he signed. Quite impressive.

The bias against Barton is starting to become annoying tbh.

Start Lovenkrands? Yeah, that'll happen.

Saves are the easy part. His judgement, distribution and handling were spot-on. And he did actually make a fantastic save, too.

Good point. It's amazing to think how much has changed in 3 weeks. A win on wednesday and we're on 20 points. Incredible.

That's how he was initially signed.

Disco agrees, and that's enough for me.

Krul 9 Simpson 7.5 Williamson 7.5 Coloccini 9 Enrique 7 Barton 8 Tiote 9 Nolan 6.5 Jonas 7.5 Shola 7 Carroll 8

This was miles better than Palermo, man.

Exhibition of defending from him. Especially in the second half. Shares MOTM with Tiote imo.

Surpasses the WHU games as his best performance. Brilliant.

How fucking good is this guy?

Eto'o.