Froggy

Liverpool getting a complete hiding. 3-0.

Might be seen as cuntish to chant that, but it's really just payback for their cheering of City's title-winning goal last season. Fuck them.

If Newcastle can just get a goal here, they'll be level.

Anita is tidy.

Two floated corners to Williamson (who's having a stormer), in a 2-1 win. Everyone goes home happy.

Do you understand the offside rule?

I'm probably missing something here as well, but didn't Pele score over 80 goals a few times in a season? Were they in friendlies and that's why FIFA doesn't recognise him as the holder of this record Messi has now?

They fully deserved to lose like. Still think this will be a draw. Ben Arfa out is a massive loss if true.

Dem compilations on youtube. I think the compilations on Juninho are far more impressive to be honest. The technique he uses in striking the ball and the swerve he generates is ridiciulous. I know who I prefer watching anyway but it's up for debate who was better.

Is gotten a real word?

The last two mentioned and Beckham are as good as it's ever gotten.

Siniša Mihajlović is where it's at for Serie A free kick takers of the late 90s.

George Best, Eusebio, Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini, Lev Yashin, Bobby Charlton, Stanley Matthews, Gerd Muller, Lotthar Matthaeus, Dino Zoff, Ferenc Puskas, Ruud Gullit, Franco Baresi,Laudrup, Zinedine Zidane, Micahael Laudrup, etc Cristiano Ronaldo.

De Gea Jones Ferdinand Vidic Rooney Scholes Valencia Anderson Young Van Persie Hernandez Do it. Honestly think we'll inflict a heavy defeat on Sunderland and NUFC will get a draw from City. Let's help each other out here.

He actually holds the record at scoring in 6 consecutive Clasicos. Big game flop.

Nonsense. Are you saying there isn't an art to taking penalties? There is a reason Rooney takes our penalties and not Rafael. There's a reason Arteta takes the penalties for Arsenal and not Mertesacker. When he played in the EPL, Ronaldo took something like ten penalties in a row that were ALL in the bottom left corner. The goalkeeper knew it was going there, everyone in the stadium knew it was going there, but it was hit with such precision and pace and it was unstoppable. Ronaldo takes incredible penalties. It is absolutely a plus point and something that warrants inclusion in regards to rating a footballer. Agree with you almost everything Neil except this. In the last few seasons Ronaldo has bulked up and put on a lot of muscle which has restricted his movement a little, but he still has a lot of skill and more than enough to beat players, which we have seen on numerous occasions. This aspect on his game is absolutely nowhere near the likes of Messi and Iniesta, but it's still top class IMO. In fact, in his earlier years at us he only seen as a trickster who tried to beat opponents. His skill was mental, just back in those days his end product wasn't great. This one is obviously debatable enough though, unlike the penalty argument. This is a really poor comment IMO. The first part isn't recent at all. Off the top of my head, he scored important goals in the league against Arsenal, Chelsea and City in his first few years with us. 2008 CL final he scored the opener. Two goals in the Club World Club final later in the year. The year after we got the final and he scored crucial goals in the knockouts against Inter and the winner (voted goal of the year) against Porto. International wise he scored in the Euro 2004 semi. Voted in team of the tournament aged 19. He's basically carried Portugal to all of the tournaments as well, scoring a massive amount in each of the qualifying campaigns. Joint top scorer in Euro 2012 and team of the tournament again. He scores in big games. It was a completely off the mark claim. He's show this by scoring the winner in the Copa del Rey and consecutive Clasicos. This sums it up perfectly. It's just a case of people being so spellbound by Messi that they're forgetting there's another couple of geniuses in the footballing World. I'm actually disgusted that some people think he's just a powerful guy who hits the ball really hard. Fucking hell man. The guy is magic.

It's a glorified friendly. I'm disgusted at those prices. If I can't get a category B ticket in the next ticket sale I'll probably miss out.

Tickets for the pre-season match between Man United and the A-League Allstars in Australia went on sale this morning at 9am. 15,000 tickets sold out within 2 minutes. Tickets on Ebay already with prices of $2000 for two tickets.

Who do your work colleagues support? Fulham Arsenal x2 Everton Chelsea West Ham Working with a scouser in London? Surprised there isn't a Man Utd or Liverpool fan. Yeah, those cunts are everywhere.

The injuries ruined him even before he went to Real sadly, was great to watch in his prime though. I'm also now willing to stick my neck out and say that Iniesta is as good as Zidane was, maybe even better due to the consistency that he shows and the fact that he has a better temperament. Iniesta is incredible. Such incredible close control and vision. In the last few weeks he's been in absolutely scintillating form as well, as good as Messi. He also has a knack of scoring extremely important goals, i.e. Chelsea in Champions League, World Cup Final etc. Easily the third best player in the World.

Who do your work colleagues support? Fulham Arsenal x2 Everton Chelsea West Ham Working with a scouser in London?

1-1.

Devastating ability and another player who was virtually unstoppable at his peak. Said before on here when we played against him in the CL, we were absolutely helpless. We could generally deal with Milan everywhere else on the park but where he went, magic happened. His pace with the ball at his feet was dynamite and he was extremely intelligent. The goal where he heads the ball between two of our defenders is an example of his determination, composure and overall genius as a whole. He was doing that for fun for the best part of two years. Loved him in his prime, and was sad to see his decline.

Cronaldo is absolutely one of the best ever for me. Messi is a class above, but fucking hell, Ronaldos level is absolutely incredible and I think it does speak a lot that he's done it in England as well. 42 in 47 the year we won the CL. The tag that he doesn't score in big games was incredibly off the mark as well. Someone else also said he doesn't have an all round game? That is lunacy. He is a physical machine who scores a massive amount of goals, is lightning fast, can cross, can dribble, can take free kicks, can score penalties and can head the ball extremely well. He's getting under-rated now because of Messi, which is nothing but stupidity. Of course he's one of the best ever.

They stealing your Asians now? When Zabaleta scored, this happened: http://i.imgur.com/S0W6N.gif