Ronaldo

Yes. In pre-season '93.

I really wanted Berba to sign for us.

Game on at Barca.

I like his positivity. His knowledge of individual players is very good too. Can you imagine Andy Gray discussing Davide Santon's career at Inter, or Tiote's midweek indiscretion? He can be annoying, that I'll concede.

Said some daft things today, but he's generally a good commentator and certainly seems to like us.

Redknapp certainly seems to have a high opinion of him, having seen him up close at Southampton.

About as realistic as the rest of their guff.

We had almost 50,00 for this apparently. Extremely impressive.

The best midfielder in the world at it again. 1-0 Barca.

Wow.

Krul's kicking is very poor, like. Needs a lot of work.

The negativity on here's been crazy since roughly the Norwich game, like. You'd think folk would've learnt from that nonsense in the Man U pre-game thread, but it was the same today when the lineup was announced. We have a top manager, a superb central defence, some real quality in CM, a nutcase in Ben Arfa and a superb finisher in Best. 1-1.

Africa happened.

Krul Simpson Williamson Coloccini Santon Raylor Guthrie Cabaye Jonas Ben Arfa Best

Lovenkrands hasn't scored any league goals.

Basically an identical performance to WBA last May. Can't run, can't control, and about as much goal threat at Tim Krul.

We've barely even tried anything other than 4-4-2 though, so how do you know? By your own admission you think Ba will score less goals in that system. We simply can't afford that.

He's our John Terry. Only Good. Bit of a daft thing to say, like.

Not that again. It's no good controlling games if we don't score. 4-4-2 is out best system - especially for Ba - with everyone fit.

And how many points have we dropped this season after taking the lead? Very few. Liverpool is the only one that springs to mind.

How many goals did we have on the pitch when Best went off? None. I don't blame him for shutting up shop.

He was basically my favourite player in the Championship, but he disgusted me with his attitude and application last season in response to Hughton's admittedly woeful mismanagement of him. Been a completely different player under Pardew. He's lost at least a stone, looks very sharp, motivated and aware of those around him.

Henry is such a useless c***.

Few could.