Pilko

Bet you if Becks scores even the Man United fans will cheer.

Milan got Hughton to take the team talk for one night only.

Neville shanks another cross for a GK

Neville is well past it defensively but he's still got that knack of the overlap, and my word, what a ball that was.

Rooney just shit hot atm. Taking the piss with these constant headers.

So, who cares what they said back then? Some people said the French Revolution would cause the Earth to shatter, and I think it turned out alright in the end, didn't it? He's still a top top player (admittedly not as good as a few years ago) and his place in the England squads of late have been merited. He wouldn't have been in my World Cup 23 a year ago but he's won me round now.

He wanted a few supporters to come down from where they were sitting, and when it looked like one of them was about to do just that, he nearly jumped over the sponsor board to get at the guy. This was his first game back at LA Galaxy after his Milan stint. And in that one act, which didn't even involve him kicking a ball, he showed more guts, passion, determination and loyalty than the spineless little s*** currently occupying your avatar space. Showing the desire to prove yourself and caring what other people think, and striving to correct them is part of what makes truly great players. Wanting to fight a supporter of the team you are playing for is now considered loyal? It's loyal towards his family, who were being targeted.

Excuse me. Look at the very high percentage of footballers who constantly go out on the piss several times a week. Beckham in 2005 had been on something like 4 or 5 nights out in his career (not including ones after a cup final win) or something like that. His 'stag do' before getting married was sitting in his house with a few close friends, a few bottles of beer and a games console. There's no way you can say the man is unprofessional, he takes the game very seriously. Yeah screaming at his own supporters and offerring to fight them is certainly professional. Also, his first stint at Milan showed utter disrespect for LA Galaxy and their players - his behavor isn't exactly model. Also 'he takes his game seriously' - well then why is he playing in America? Taking the game seriously has nothing to do with who he's playing for. He shows passion for the game, and does not think he can abuse his body just because he is minted. The man is only human, anyway. Who are the other candidates for this title? Steven Gerrard... well, he's been a whisker away from the clink on a few occasions and is constantly out on the piss. If I remember rightly, the supporter that was shouting at him was saying incredibly disgusting and untruthful things about his family, and I don't blame him at all for reacting to that fan. Highlighting that one incident as your main basis for him being unprofessional shows that there's little of a case against him. Half the bloody England team have been banned, locked up, arrested, unfaithful or found sozzled after a night out. Our national team is filled with people who aren't exactly saints, but Beckham is the most professional of the lot, almost. In terms of being a 'professional' player, the only player who I can think of since Gazza who rivals Beckham is Paul Scholes. And as much as he was (and still is, to an extent) a terrific player, I don't think he was quite as good. 'Taking the game seriously has nothing to do with who he's playing for' I don't agree with that at all, by doing that move - he damaged his England hopes and didn't want to achieve anything else significant in football basically. Only went for the money. What other offers did he have, like? And also, he didn't damage his England hopes at all, did he? He was out of the team for about 4 or 5 months because Steve McClaren forgot that he was still a very good player, and he came back in and showed his worth. He's been in more or less every squad since.

He wanted a few supporters to come down from where they were sitting, and when it looked like one of them was about to do just that, he nearly jumped over the sponsor board to get at the guy. This was his first game back at LA Galaxy after his Milan stint. And in that one act, which didn't even involve him kicking a ball, he showed more guts, passion, determination and loyalty than the spineless little shit currently occupying your avatar space. Showing the desire to prove yourself and caring what other people think, and striving to correct them is part of what makes truly great players.

Excuse me. Look at the very high percentage of footballers who constantly go out on the piss several times a week. Beckham in 2005 had been on something like 4 or 5 nights out in his career (not including ones after a cup final win) or something like that. His 'stag do' before getting married was sitting in his house with a few close friends, a few bottles of beer and a games console. There's no way you can say the man is unprofessional, he takes the game very seriously. Yeah screaming at his own supporters and offerring to fight them is certainly professional. Also, his first stint at Milan showed utter disrespect for LA Galaxy and their players - his behavor isn't exactly model. Also 'he takes his game seriously' - well then why is he playing in America? Taking the game seriously has nothing to do with who he's playing for. He shows passion for the game, and does not think he can abuse his body just because he is minted. The man is only human, anyway. Who are the other candidates for this title? Steven Gerrard... well, he's been a whisker away from the clink on a few occasions and is constantly out on the piss. If I remember rightly, the supporter that was shouting at him was saying incredibly disgusting and untruthful things about his family, and I don't blame him at all for reacting to that fan. Highlighting that one incident as your main basis for him being unprofessional shows that there's little of a case against him. Half the bloody England team have been banned, locked up, arrested, unfaithful or found sozzled after a night out. Our national team is filled with people who aren't exactly saints, but Beckham is the most professional of the lot, almost. In terms of being a 'professional' player, the only player who I can think of since Gazza who rivals Beckham is Paul Scholes. And as much as he was (and still is, to an extent) a terrific player, I don't think he was quite as good.

Excuse me. Look at the very high percentage of footballers who constantly go out on the piss several times a week. Beckham in 2005 had been on something like 4 or 5 nights out in his career (not including ones after a cup final win) or something like that. His 'stag do' before getting married was sitting in his house with a few close friends, a few bottles of beer and a games console. There's no way you can say the man is unprofessional, he takes the game very seriously.

Agree with Keefaz but still backing him to score (might back him to score from a freekick).

Babayaro shouldn't be in there, purely for that game against Liverpool where he showed intense courage and bravery to play hours after his brother had died. Otherwise he was shit and a sicknote, like.

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Highly topical after this weekend's result: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7944/barnsleykeeper.jpg

The Everton home kit is the pits but the away one (black and pink) is very good.

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Need adding please Dave!

I'm not sure how Mr. Vuckic can question why brummie posts on here when he never actually celebrated our demise in the first place. What's his crime? Supporting the same club as them people with the banners? Being there on the day? Bloody hell man, I haven't a clue what he's going on about, but it's totally uncalled for and he is making himself look pretty silly.

Fucking hell lads, two banners, probably accounting for less than 0.1% of the fans present that day. Why have a go at brummie, and why have a go at Villa? You get knackers like that at every club, it doesn't mean they're all the same ffs. Have a word, man. Imagine if someone read everything NE5 ever wrote, and then assumed every Newcastle fan in the world was like that. It's pretty much the same.

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Why wasn't Arteta taking the pen? Yakubu has a very patchy history of penalties.