Ronaldo

Gini, for sure.

Aye - the thought of him being the all time top scorer for England is grim like. As opposed to a turncoat pretentious arsehole like Charlton? Aye, OK.

He's got an almost 1 in 2 record for England almost despite not being the penalty taker till last year, the fact he's not an out-an-out goalscorer anyway and taking in account he's had a host of poor partners up front. I think he deserves a lot of credit.

I'd say his goal against Man U the following season when he was pretty finished. Absolutely ragdolled West Brown before slipping it under Carroll.

State of this pitch in early September.

The second wasn't long before half time. Nearly right, though. With the shout on the Villa goal. My favourite too.

Williamson narrowly ahead of Alsoran and the other shit French striker.

Did it? Could've sworn he was a substitute. Him up top also coincided with our worst run in form. More to do with Carver but it felt like a waste for him. He needs to be facing goal. Eh? Carver hardly ever played him up top, he was desperate to get Cisse and Riviere together We look awful with Cisse up top, his goalscoring isn't really as impressive as its made out to be. Squanders a lot of chances Why's his goalscoring less impressive because he misses chances?

Same here, Perez should start anyways tbh Perez isn't a main striker and never will be. He's lost when he's up top. Cisse at least guarantees you goals.

Still think this squad's going to struggle. Our defence will be exposed for what it is when we push up to try and win games.

Fuck you.

I got 18. I'm fairly certain that the ones I got wrong, you're meant to get wrong - Bournemouth and Watford.

It's on an old external hard drive I think. When I find it I'll post it up.

Still got that video somewhere. I remember seeing him play against Milan and Real in particular and absolutely fucking bossing it. Pace, touch, awareness, composure in front of goal, good in the air for a Spaniard, too.

Luque was fucking brilliant for Depor. Such a shame it didn't work out for him here.

Dummett's still our best option for LB by a mile. Madness to let him go.

What? I might think he's absolutely shit (and he is) but I wish him nothing but the best after what he's been through.

Picked for Argentina? Steady on. I don't think they're that bad.

Man U are an easy mark now. Nobody will dread playing them.

Perez isn't a main striker in a million years.

I hope when you use those smilies your aren't legitimately sad, BG. Keown's a cunt, Shearer - though obviously a hero - is as thick as pork mince and BT are all pricks too. Who cares?

Neesy, man, stop being such a pansy please.

I've got to say, I was vaguely happy with SM's appointment given the fucking alternative and I've more good than bad to say about him relating to our start to the season. However, I just can't get fully on board with a lot of the optimism on here right now. There are still massive gaps in the squad and apparently no appetite to remedy them. When we push up and try to win games our defence will be shown up for exactly what it is and our only decent bet for PL goals is probably going to be off before September. We're still massively lacking a cutting edge and I do worry where we'll be in the table in a month or so.

A tiny club that shouldn't be in the Premier League; yeah, I think you're right. Bit of a stupid comment, this. None of us like Pardew but don't lower yourself to that.

Surprised Shearer thought it was a definite red, mind. Easily a yellow and Mitrovic needs to learn how to harness his aggression.