Ronaldo

right, which was 8 years ago, he isn't half that player now

However you can't prove that, Owen will get more goals than RVP if he was in the Arsenal team im sure. They will carry him lengthy periods sure, but will get more goals. this is the same Owen who never managed 20 premiership goals, even at his best 8 years ago

of course they are tbh. Owen's primarily an instictive finisher, not a clinical one

if that happens we're down

who is that shocking no.6?

my word what a horrible goal

Hopefully the first of many goals i'll see live from Vukic going to be a god

Carrick's a magnificent footballer, heartbreaking that we wouldn't pay £2m or whatever it was for him

just to clarify I was refering to that ridiculous article

I agree with most of that, but you surely cannot have your best defender at LB when Liverpool's attack comes straight down the middle. Swap Bassong for Taylor and get Carroll in there

what a load of nonsense

our best central defender once again at LB, honestly, what do you people take?

I heard the bit about the car like i think the guy's a fucking embarassment btw and it's sad that we have to employ somelike like that to create a half-decent atmosphere which quickly became a non-atmosphere

Yesterday he had a chance through on goal & was key in setting up Viduka for a similar chance. He also linked up play quite a few times, though first half he was to deep for me. Think you're one of the few saying no passion/no graft. Please explain why you think Owen is our top scorer this season/last season & who you'd replace him with/why. Owen is doing nothing, so it's not hard to find a replacement. Carroll or Lovenkrands should have started in his place yesterday, not that i'm massive fans of either, but one will work hard and frighten defenders with pace and the other will at least rough up the less physically capable defenders in the league - Sol Campbell an obvious exception to this. as a footnote to all those who are so confident that Owen is more of a goal threat than the lad, Carroll has scored 3 goals since Owen's last.

Id go for the guy who can score goals using magical mind powers, but we dont have that either so we'll have to stick with guy #1 wont we. Owen should stay in the team yes. However when people start talking baout him going to Arsenal or Man U next season I just find such things perplexing. The thought of Wenger playing Owen ahead of the likes of Adebayor, Van Persie, Eduardo ... I mean come on! Still debatable, depends really on the ability of the team. It could be argued that if you're a side that passes nicely, Owen is more likely to get more chances as his movement is better than Adebayors. Not something we could compare unless Owen was in a side as capable as Arsenal really. now you're just talking absolute nonsense, he'd get nowhere near an attack like Arsenal's

The question HAS to be, what have seen of Owen recently, ie in the last 8 games or so, to suggest that he'll be effective for the remainder of the season we've seen fuck all, no goals, no passion, no graft, nowt. After every game most of us are saying the same thing, Owen did nowt, it might have been better had he not started. Surely it's now more of a gamble to play him from that start than not to

Barca would roll over Arsenal with half their team on glue to be honest

Surely it's best for you if Chelsea make the final

come on Chelsea. Think they'll get through like, Drogba should be far too much for Barca's somewhat diminutive defence

will you blame him in 4 games?

Beckford

Carroll should start this one imo, just the type that Carragher might struggle with

9 good games under Keegan, 7 good games under Souness. 16 effective games in 4 years leading people to believe that Owen will 'come good eventually' absolutely pathetic. People dont want to admit that it's the patches with goals that are the exception, not the rule

Far too many people on here ignoring the fact even Michael Owen at his best gives you little else but goals The same people will come out with nonsense like '1 in 3 is pretty good' when it clearly isn't for such a player

2 singles for the night £2 on Drogba first scorer at 8/1 £10 Chelsea to win at 5/1