I haven't kept an eye on Australia's qualification for the next world cup. Are they on target to qualify?

Must be tough playing the likes of Thailand rather than Samoa. Big step up in class

Bernie Ecclestone was at the game on Saturday, sat in the back row behind Abramovich.

If you're going to sell the club though, surely you don't just get rid of a new, highly paid manager and install a caretaker in his place. That'd be retarded. Wilkins has never done a thing as a manager or coach so having him in charge could be the thing that costs us a CL place. If Scolari was kept in the job then he'd have either sorted things out or if things had got worse then the blame would clearly be with him. But if we fall out of the CL placings now then the blame is obviously with Abramovich for making another dozy decision.

TBH the only situation that would make sense to me is if we already have a manager lined up to take charge instantly. Putting a caretaker in charge for the rest of the season and then bringing someone in at the end of the season just means more instability. We'd have been better off leaving Scolari in charge so he had the chance to sort things out.

I agree he was the weaker of the 5 due to being hit and miss on occasion, but it was still sublime at times. Gullit and Cantona were every bit as classy as the other 2 IMO.



Fair enough if that's your opinion, I just wonder if your judgement's clouded a little. In Robinho's case because you're probably seeing him on a more regular basis so you can think of more examples, and I think the Berbatov thing is often because people don't expect him to have such ball control because he's tall and gangly.

yes we are leading our group

just a win and draw will get us through now

win the oceana group .then play the 5th best south american side . and thats what we did last world cup . last time we played eeengland .we won



we are comming too get yer .we made the last 16 world cup germany

Frederick, you are my favourite "Other Sports" poster.

£19 season ticket for under 16's at Sunderland
wow

It's about the same at Wigan. For, what, 6 or 7 games. Great value.

Do you even know what you said, seriously?




I didn't say Crespo is still world class, he's an old man now and he's past his prime, but in his day, he was world class, Lazio broke the world transfer record to sign him, any player of that quality is world class. Crespo's not done much in the past two years, but he was world class, you said he wasn't.


As for Mascherano, I think he's the best defensive midfielder in the world, if your opinion differs, then fair enough, but I think he's world class.

Also, international football, for me, only adds to about 10% of my opinion on a player. We all know how well David Healy done for NI in the Euro qualifying, but I wouldn't use that in argument to say he's better than a good striker who's disappointed at international level. Club level is a higher level than international football now, in my opinion. Besides, Ronaldo hasn't been that bad for Portugal in his international career, he's been very good actually, he just had an average Euro's.

Are you officer crabtree from allo allo disguised as an aussie?

They were class players but I am talking about first touch.




'Clouded judgement'? I chose someone who plays for United. I promise you, I am calling it 'as I see it'.

IMO it's a combination of both club and internatonal. David Healy had a purple patch at international level. That is all.

In terms of Ronaldo at international level, I didn't say he'd been awful, just that he doesn't come across as world class at that level more often than not.

You've an affinity towards special people.