Chris_R

When he's being played as a left back and people are creaming themselves over his performances, then I think it's a valid point.

I think he's very promising defensively, but utterly gash going forward. Probably a worse crosser of the ball than Alan O'Brien.

What, so composed he completely mis-hit the ball 90 degrees away from where he was aiming for?

After 15 minutes, if someone had said we'd be gutted with a point I'd have laughed at them.

FUCKING GET IN!

Styles' angle was his own fault for not keeping up with play and the change in ball direction showed Beye got a clear touch. The assistant ref should have a better view, I think this one can get overturned The assistant ref probably wouldn't have seen the change in direction of the ball, so perhaps hard to blame him as well. Just a case of "shit happens" for me with this one, much as I'd like to find a reason to cover the ref in petrol and set him ablaze in the middle of Eldon Square.

You absolutely out of your f***** mind, hes bad positioned and he doesnt even care like following up the play (fat f***) then he just gives a pen, and if it was because of the touch then hes outside of the box, give the red but not the pen. Either way its one of the worst decision ive seen against us... If you genuinely think that, you can't have been watching us for long! And sure, it was a bad decision. Slow motion replays show that. And the decision has massive repurcussions given where on the pitch it occurred, our league position and how long was gone in the game etc. So you could argue it was one of the most important mistakes a ref has made against us, but it was far from being the 'worst mistake' which is a totally different thing altogether.

Loved Ameobi's shanked finish. Went about 90 degrees wide of where he was aiming it. As for the penalty, well with a slow-mo replay you can see Beye got the ball but it's hard to blame the ref for giving a penalty when you see it full speed and from his angle. Maybe we can appeal and get it overturned and have Beye back for the mackem game?

How on God's Earth can we seriously be linked with anyone when we have an interim manager, Tony Jiminez has gone and the chairman is selling up but nobody yet knows who to?

Not what I said then!

OK, I've cheated slightly here. Actually I've cheated a lot. Monkou had a trial with Sheff United in 2001.

No idea about Ken Monkou though. I would have said Huddersfield but that's already been ruled out so I'm stuck. I'm guessing it's something obscure like he went on loan somewhere famous as emergency cover on a 1-week contract or something and never got a game.

And number 8 isn't Michael Schumacher, is it? I know he's supposed to be pretty decent at footy and I think the clue in the question is that it's not UK leagues...

Nigel Martyn?

They all have sex with men, apart from Freddy Shepherd who just regularly screwed 50,000 geordies.

As for number 4, the Ben Tozer question, I'll say Trevor Francis. Both born in Plymouth, that's the only link I can find so it's a bit of a shot in the dark.

Grobbelar was exposed by the Sun, was he not? Memory fails me, it was a long time ago.

WHS. *1000 though as I've just started a new job. In Sunderland.

Geremi is OK, but should never be allowed to play RW. Far too slow, stick him in the middle instead of Butt any day but not as a winger.

Great result, really good performance. Bassong is very good defensively, but offers very little as a fullback going forward. For starters his crossing is absolutely and utterly terrible.

I'm not seeing that myself. Nearly every response in here is backing him on his comments. He's certainly gone up in my estimation, gone up a lot. As others have said, let's hope it rubs off on the players and they go out against Everton and put in a decent performance.

That's absolutely brilliant. People inaccurately write "lol" all the time, but that genuinely made me laugh out loud. Well played, sir.

Great gesture. Can't see it catching on though.

Yep, contract's up at the end of the season and he'll be looking for a new one either here or elsewhere, so doubtless the injuries will clear up around January and he'll go on a good run.

* >>>>>>> Venables But I'd still disappointed.