Ronaldo

At us? I don't really see any reason why we did it in 92-93 but shouldn't repeat it now. These set of players, especially in defence are a lot more talented than the class of 93 but in fairness they've shown a lot of character in the last 6 months.

Why not, just for a laugh.

I wouldn't be adverse to giving Hector Cuper a go, providing his english has improved in the last 6 years.

Well all want him to do well. But i don't think i'm the only one on this board who now goes into away games hoping that we don't take the lead early.

Plenty of it, clearly.

On the whole, 'B' list Dutch and German managers seem to be streets ahead in tactics, planning and organisation compared to their British counterparts. Aye, exactly, think Mclaren might of learnt a bit with Twente, seems to of taken them to the next level which is a very good achievement, think he could turn our to become a very good manager. Strange to think that we've never appointed a manager from abroad. Would love this to be the case becasue there are some excellent manager out there who im sure would love to manage at a premier league club with 50k turning up every week, shame it wont happen at all. McLaren's doing very well with Twente, in fact they're top of the league atm. i'd take him over Hughton too. just goes to show how provincial our club have been in terms of never recruiting directly from abroad, ie a manager at an overseas club. the only foreigners we'd have were managing in the UK and actually not very good. I suppose robson is the closest, though he had left PSV for the FA by the time we approached him. Precisely, really irks me how we didnt have the foresight like Liverpool to look outside these shores. There are literally only 3 british manager i'd have at this club, O'Neil, Mclaren and Hughes, the rest are miles behind there foreign counterparts, even putting Hughes with the other 2 is stretching it a bit. Unfortunately this is all a pipe dream cant see us going foriegn, my guess would be Ron Atkinson shoudl Hughton leave. Ferguson?

Not very.

That'll do for the weekend bets.

Really? I was under the impression that for both of those, the Stoke game especially, the defeat was the result of creating chances and not taking them, before the standard sucker punch at the end. Feel free to elaborate though. I had the 'pleasure' of watching that game, you're dead right with that summary.

Get ready for Owen vs Wigan style wankfest.

I'm really looking forward to Arsenal's first clean sheet with Campbell in the team.

What did you see from Shearer that suggested he'd do any better?

That's not true at all, he could use it a bit better but as could most 23 year olds.

Jesus, what terrible refereeing.

We've got to take Agbonlahor to the world cup, he scares the hell of defenders.

Yep, which is Ashley's thinking exactly. And i'm not sure I blame him.

Just chucked £10 on Villa.

Just a bit of banter mate. Who's the new Shearer btw?

He did it with Nolan 20 minutes before that.

Better control than Lovenkrands.

Apparently £500,000 has/had been agreed between the clubs.

When I'm confident about something it generally comes through in my posts, nowt wrong with that.

Not really, i'd never seen most of their players play. It's a predictions thread, some of us also predict lottery numbers. Never said I was confident of any of them. Except Chelsea winning the league tbh.

Did you really go through all my posts to find that? I was under the impression at that point that we'd be losing players like Colo, Enrique and Jonas.

I thought we had things bad, Portmouth are actually going to end up in the conference.