Ronaldo

I get the impression Ronaldo doesn't love him as much as he should actually.

How is that relevant? It presents just as much adversity as our scenario.

7-1.

They finished on 10 points. We finished on less and went through. They didn't do particularly well, but they didn't comfortably exit the competition, either.

Luke Young's turn to look like a world Class right-back this week. Good for him.

They were a goal against Napoli away from going through, man. Don't talk such rubbish.

No he's not. He figured out that Coloccini and Enrique were good players, and Owen and Butt were finished long before most on here did.

Samba's good, but fucking hell. You'd think he was a big, black Nesta or something.

Graham Taylor, David Pleat, Souness and Gullit.

Wiki reckons 11 in Championship season, 9 last season and 1 this. He's never scored more than 9 Premier League goals in a season for us, next best 7, next best 6. Ta. Didn't seem like he's scored 9 last season, but I guess penalties here and there and goals in the Carling Cup against Accrington all add up. Shocking record over 12 years, like.

Is it actually 71? Where have 21 goals since he hit 50 came from?

Ben Arfa is a natural athlete, Raylor is far from it.

To be fair, even that doesn't tell the whole story.

Aye, City are only on course to finish with over 90 points. Also comfortably out the CL in the group stages. Comfortably out? They finished 10 points ahead of 4th and a point behind 2nd. Stop telling fibs.

John Barnes played well for us in 97-98.

We wouldn't have finished 2nd under Keegan, fwiw. And anyone suggesting we'd have finished top needs their head flushing down the bog. Daglish deserves a fair bit of credit for the 2nd place and the cup final a year later.

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60 points from 42 league games says you're right, if understating the case for him a little bit.

had the 'pleasure' of sitting next to him and his cronies a year or so back in the simla, he was OK but his hangers on are pathetic scum (especially the horrid little tart). can only think he surrounds himself with those that wont say 'no' so no-one had the bottle to say the ground was not really going to work. What's the Simla?

That's what baffles me, the inconsistency of it. Pardew seems to have no problem with players being s*** on the pitch as long as they run around a bit on the training ground. he thinks shola is the sort of player who'll respond to praise and an arm round the shoulder, whereas ben arfa will respond to being challenged. it's inconsistent but you can't treat everyone the same, different things work with different people and it's the managers job to find and use the trigger for each of his players. i think he's got it wrong. He's played a key role in 2 of our last 3 wins over a 4 game period. I think he's managing him OK, although I would've loved to see him on the RW instead of Obertan from December onwards.

Yeah, I saw it. He looked superb against that lot.

Some truth there. Shola's always appeared to be incredibly lazy, but maybe his hips are so bad the useless fucker can't run. Who knows?

Nothing. Why do you ask?

Footballer first, athlete second. We'll revisit this discussion if and when an African side wins the reaches the last 4 of a World Cup.

Loyal Europeans.