Ronaldo

Ruud Van Nistelrooy would be nice for a couple of seasons. Better goalscorer than Owen

anyone remember Lampard and Drogba's late goals at Goodison 2 years ago, jesus.

Duff, as I said in the summer will only ever be effective when coming off the bench late on and exploiting tired legs. He shouldn't start unless we're down to the bare bones, ie Smith and Shola

Poll: "Yes, it was a red card but i'm surprised Phil got it right" too high, but give him the benefit of the doubt man, give him a yellow card and a warning

see ya

Micah's not been great but I actually cannot believe how bad Richard Dunne has been this season, shockingly poor. Their defence seems to be holding a pretty high line all the time and he's just not coping with it at all.

Good news and all, but not sure of impact on Owen's contract? well surely if Owen's watching it'll put things into perspective. He'll think, ah bollocks to it, what's an extra 20k.

Craig Moore makes full recovery from bollock cancer, fair play to him

"we was robbed" - David Beckam (England captain)

That's needlessly harsh. Not really, the game was on a knife edge until Martins scored, had we lost we couldnt have really complained. we were well on top for the vast majority of the game man Well on top?, after we went 2 up I'll give you that but Pompey were the better side in the first half. See, i'm happy to admit when we're the lesser side (ie today, 2nd half) but we really weren't against Pompey. First half was even and second half was clearly ours with the exception of 10 mins after Owen's goal

really need to forget about Keegan. One thing i'll say for Joe, he's got rid of the shit and given Bassong a chance which he's taken brilliantly. Could never see Kev dropping the local hero, but we'll never know.

That's needlessly harsh. Not really, the game was on a knife edge until Martins scored, had we lost we couldnt have really complained. we were well on top for the vast majority of the game man

Elano - jump all over him if available

by far our most important and influential player tbh

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lovely assist by Rossi there for Villareal. 1-0

hope to god he keeps N'zogbia on the left wing though

why? he's not good enough to manager of nufc in any capacity other than short term

Did he f***, Lennon raced away from him time and time again, it was the excellent cover from N'Zogbia, Bassong and Jonas who kept Lennon in check. Twice he went past Enrique into the penalty box and sending in good crosses. Lennon impressed me today, excellent running and good decision making, although lazy in his tracking back. In Enrique's defence I think the none yellow card he received early on didn't help his game vs Lennon's. thought Enrique got to grips with him very well after the booking

just got back, we were poor for most part in the second half but who gives a bollocks Given - dealt with everything thrown at him, cool as you like 8 Beye - best performance of the season from him, great defensively 8.5 Coloccini - decent, played it out of defence well 7 Bassong - cant give him owt else, flawless 10 Enrique - struggled first 10 minutes and his touch can be poor but wrapped Lennon up the ugly way 8 Jonas - defended and scrapped well, needs to get forward a lot more 7.5 Butt - game bypassed him for the most part, but did well on the ball 7 Guthrie - like him a lot but wasteful today, battled hard as usual 6.5 N'zogbia - constant threat, on any other day he'd be motm, f*** all the idiots who played him LB 9 Owen - static, not involved much, wasted little in possession though 6 Shola - christ he was shitter than normal, poor 30 mins 4 Viduka - not fit, static, lack poise, get the ball to him and he's still dangerous though 6.5 Duff - my word, fair play to him 7

WOW was going to start a new topic on Bassong but this will do, absolutely phenomenal again today, i'd happily shake hands with whoever found him. If Colo is living up to his £10m price tag, Basssong is playing like a £15m central defender tbh. Has it all. Plays like a 30 year old who's spent his entire career in the premiership

Under Roeder (whilst under caretaker charge) we were fantastic though. When we started losing under him when he permanent manager he got a dog's abuse, including some shameful shite from yours truly.

passing ability and pace through the middle of the park. We presently have none.

aye I hope they sort it out. Especially when godawful, abominations of clubs like Stoke are 2 leagues higher

My best pal is a Leeds fan and informs me that Huntington is their best defender, says it all. Real shame for them like.