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Admittedly, he has never been a natural goalscorer, but I think you are underestimating how good he used to be at times (e.g., LCFC 5 Sunderland 2; Germany 1 England 5). You portray him as a clumsy clown who fell over and gave the ball away all the time. This is far from the truth.

You obviously don't remember the Heskey that used to run at defenders and gave Argentina a torrid time: see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/654325.stm http://www.gabrielbatistuta.net/friendly/afa_news02252000b.html

It was a collapse but Leicester were only one point ahead at the top of the table, with 8 games left (9 left for the chasing teams). After they were overtaken, the team went off the boil as the players' thoughts turned to not getting injured before the cup final. Man U were near the bottom of...

Don't understand why we can't join a reserve league and loan out players. Other clubs do this.

Re: Christian Bermúdez How does a Mexican with one cap get a work permit?

You obviously never saw him shouldered charged off the ball and dumped on his back side in his own penalty area by the Leicester reserve centre forward, who then put the loose ball into the net!

Wellens was the best player on the field.

Agree. Also, his first touch is not good and he is outmuscled a lot. His main asset is his quickness.

Rowley being so left footed seems to be a myth in his obit in the Guardian. I also read on a Man U fan site that he couldn't head! One of the tributes on http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/22/sport_arthur_rowley_feature.shtml correctly states that he could use either...

I don't remember Arthur having a useless right foot. Sure he used his left foot when he scored from 35 yards, but inside the penalty area he would shoot with his right foot when the ball was on that side.

The Norwich and Portsmouth defenders were quaking in their boots!!

Sheen will sue if he's left out.

No because they are the same! But a modern defensive midfielder is completely different from a centre half. It matters little.

You also said in an earlier post: "No, it's not. A centre-half was a position popular decades a go (Billy Wright was a centre-half for example) that is virtually never played in the modern game. It was much more akin to the modern defensive midfielder, than the modern centre-back." From...

Sorry, but you are wrong. Billy Wright was originally a right half, who became a centre half (the equivalent of a single centre back in modern parlance). He marked the centre forward and was the last defender in the middle of the pitch in the W-M. I played right back in the W-M in my school...

£50 million is a massive gamble for a player that has never been the same since his injury a year ago. Perhaps, Barcelona are not 100% sure that Torres will ever regain the combination of pace, strength and sharpness that made him so valuable.

Take Cantona, subtract out the genius, and you've got Kermorgant!

In which way? My ex-in-laws used to live near Sonny.

I think that the loan deadline is at 5 pm on the last Thursday in March.

But Ridgewell played at left back last night!

When has a player been sacked for being crap?

Players want it both ways. They want long-term contracts to cover them in case they are injured. But they don't want to honour their contracts if they can get higher wages elsewhere.

Re: Mad Mandy Gone Sousa is available!

There are plenty of teams (Italy for example) that start out slow in the World Cup and end up beating the best teams. But I agree that Sven deserves credit too. He was one of the best England managers.

I watched the whole of the 1990 World Cup on TV. As I remember it, Lineker drew the fouls by the goal keeper, he did not dive. Cameroon were a dirty side, they beat Argentina 1-0 in the group stage by hacking down players from behind (they had 2 men sent off). Also, note that England were...

Precisely. So why all the talk about King?

Don't get this thread. Selling King is not an issue! He is happy, the club is happy with him, and no one has made an offer.

In physics, power is work rate. But doubtful that the average journalist knows this!

I agree with that whole heartedly. I have been looking into a couple of hardware tech databases and generally I am thinking it is a hardware problem. With these problems, I always first check to see if the drive is registering. Either via bios or the utilities on a windows disk. (generally...

Actually IH20 is bios, just a next gen flat model. It still has a bios (basic input output) setup config. I double checked this via the manufacturer. According to the manufacture, f2 will enter setup config.

Hi, I'm okie fox's son. I am a system engineer. Without looking I would say your HD is fried (which u can replace yourself) but there are a few things you can try. If you have a system disk (windows), u can boot from that and see if it see's a hard drive in the init setup screen. My best...

Westwood yes, Carson no (we already have blundering goalies).

Re: The annoying, but traditional, totally unfounded Autumn/Winter rumours thread The Waghorn of this season has not been shrugging off big defenders and has been ducking out of aerial challenges.

Re: The annoying, but traditional, totally unfounded Autumn/Winter rumours thread Vassell is a lot stronger than Waghorn.

Re: The annoying, but traditional, totally unfounded Autumn/Winter rumours thread He doesn't fit into a 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 as the central striker.

Re: Ex-players (the thread nobody's been waiting for) Delaney was impressive, McAuley looked a bit cumbersome at times.

That's because he is out of contract in the summer.

Re: City v City Making fools of ourselves on TV is not a good idea!

A left-sided centre back.

It could be Marcus Bent! From BBC gossip column: 0922 GMT: Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has told striker Marcus Bent that he is free to leave the club in January. (Press Association)