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Chopra will anihilate Simpson man, pace is nowt to do with it. Chopra will be thwarted by intelligence Your statement makes no sense. Our defense is Premiership quality, Chopra is not, this is why we've conceded so few goals this season as most players they've come up against are not premiership quality. How on earth is the part in bold relevant? Simpson has only played CB in 2 games we conceded 3 against League 1 opposition when we had Simpson at CB. It wasn't entirely Krul's fault Coloccini has to return, is all i'm saying

Was Shearer a genius out of curiosity? He was [skirge]fkn[/skirge] fantastic at what he did, and aye he was smart but wouldn't really call him a footballing genius. Had quite a good footballing brain on him and his technique was brilliant to. Rarely did you ever see him miscontrol a ball. It's quite a common conception that Shearer's style was that of a target man. Yes it was in his later years, but before he lost his mobility he was brilliant at linking up play across the pitch. The best example of the true Shearer for me was the 5-0, he'd control a fairly loose ball, pass it 25 yards diagonally then make a soaring run into the box, absolutely undefendable at his best, comfortably in Drogba's league

Chopra will anihilate Simpson man, pace is nowt to do with it. Chopra will be thwarted by intelligence

Did you miss the Leicester game? He did ok. It's still blatantly obvious that he isn't a CB, not even in this league

GK - Green, Foster, James (through gritted teeth) DEF - Johnson, Ferdinand, Terry, Upson, Richards, Lescott, Cole, Bridge MID - Lennon, Barry, Lampard, Carrick, Gerrard, J Cole, Young, Walcott FWD - Rooney, Defoe, Agbonlahor, Heskey/Crouch - whoever has the best season

Danny Simpson will get anihilated by Chopra. Did you miss the Huddersfield game?

In that case, Cole on the other side to help Johnson out sounds like a plan, not ideal, but better than Lennon giving him protection

Which will probably be Joe Cole. Him and Ashley on the same side will cause problems

Surely Vuckic will get on ahead of Lua Lua though

Joe Cole is clearly the better player tbh.

Butt on the bech ahead of Vuckic :dowie:

He was bloody woeful man Edgar looked a lot more assured on the ball, and that's saying something

Hilarious As it happens, it'd be Lampard and Carrick/Hargreaves for me

it's almost 3 years to be fair. The leeds fans think he's absolutely woeful and they're right, he had no business playing football at the level he did

Carroll is hardly the most experienced striker in the world is he? And Lovenkrands will still be trying to get his fitness up, as he hasn't played any games since May. lets not get silly and forget the the Leicester game represented our weakest attacking performance. If Lovenkrands does well in training, then yeah, start him

Right now i'd probably have Cole on the left, Gerrard/Young/Lennon on the right

I'd happily start Carroll and Vuckic, or one of them with Nolan Ranger and Vuckic have 1 start between them, not a good idea to go with that against one of the best teams in the league

Bobby Moncur is such a fence-sitter, it's embarrassing Hughton

this

"have already caught the attention of AC Milan no less" Didn't they let him go in the first place?

hatrick for Nimar, 4-2 Brazil. Him and Baptista have been brilliant tonight

Home, then away to Uruguay

That's not really deep s*** though. They'll beat Uruguay, and Colombia won't beat both Chile and Paraguay, imo. I can't see them beating anyone right now

I'd like to see Rooney, Defore, Agbonlahor and one of Crouch/Heskey go.

Loving Brazil-Chile. 2-2 now, what a game