Ronaldo

Evasive, lacks credibility and looks like nature's idea of a sick joke.

I think it's pointless to put so much energy into debates comparing footballers from different eras, like. The modern athlete is far better refined. As are the boots worn, footballs used and protection given to players by officials. It's difficult to theorize how Pele and Maradona would have faired or vice versa.

There are a lot of great centrebacks who are not excellent in the air and are still top class defenders. Mbemba has the physical side and makes a lot of great tackles. IMO he has a bright future. People tend to forget how shit our back 4 is and how much it has changed during this season. Exactly. I don't remember Liverpool's centre backs being huge when Rafa was there, and they are not giants now either. I think you do need one big stopper though and we've not had that for about 6 years. A decent midfield in front of the back four can make all the difference as well. We've not had a stopper type since Keegan got rid of Faye 8 years ago. We really have had a plethora of physically inept CBs since Bobby left.

Smith and Raylor barely contributed to our Championship season, man. Smith was shit throughout and Raylor was rightly on the bench. Simpson was OK that season, no more.

Underselling him a bit there, like. Benitez is the best manager we've appointed in our modern history.

Or ideally let Rafa appoint two people to work with him for the scouting and day-to-day running of the club.

You can't really have expected the club to anticipate the possibility of relegation when we were 18th, like.

Mahrez, Kane.

Seem to remember him saying Cabaye was a poor replacement for Nolan in the summer of '11, too.

http://postimg.org/image/6gqeut0uz/ http://postimg.org/image/cmi9jzsrl/ I don't fib. EDIT: Ta.

Yeah, they and 1 other Spanish speaker were in from 8.30 till our group left at 11. I didn't take pictures but 2 of our party did. I'll happily upload them tomorrow. There were 3 waitresses working the tables, which are you, Penn?

Williamson was talking loudly and clearly for the benefit of the two Spanish speakers so the whole restaurant could hear him after he'd had a few. He did a cracking impression of Taylor trying to block a shot which had the other two giggling away.

'You'd want Simpson next to you every time but managers would prefer Janmaat for some reason'. - Williamson. He's had a bottle of red to himself.

Fair to say they both dislike Janmaat and Taylor with a massive passion. Williamson was offered 5k per week in January to stay. 'Taylor's a fucking idiot and he loves the club too much so he can't play against QPR'. That's what Pardew said to Williamson.

I'm at Fratelli. Coloccini and Williamson are in eating together.

Not sure anyone would've bought him. Players only stay at NUFC long term if they're not good enough.

Dude it's not even his worst performance in the last 2 months. Chelsea away he might as well have been a traffic cone.

Michael Owen club captain, man. What the fuck was Keegan on the day he made that happen?

Hopefully that's it for Scum's CL hopes.

They needed a handball to beat us, so I wouldn't make any big claims for them for the rest of the season. They also should've been 3-0 up at HT. They deserved to win that game, comfortably.

This isn't really fair. Of course you get a larger proporiton of dickheads in those positions than driving buses but some of the warmest people I know own/run very, very successful business. Agree with the rest.

Not if Bernhard Langer wins the Masters at 58 tonight.

That's your best ever post, DJ. Genuinely.

Nailed.