Optimistic Nut

As good an excuse as any to post....

Spitting double of Alan Partridge there.

I still laugh at Dirk Kuyt as when I see the name I think Dick Kunt.

Lampard should not be in the same side as Gerrard. In Euro 2000, even though Del Piero & Totti were probably their best two players in the squad, only one would play as it wouldn't have worked to play both. IMO, it should be Carrick/Hargreaves alongside Gerrard with Rooney off Crouch.

Chopra scored a tap-in and he's became a bit of a figure due to is, so there should be statues and everything erected for Camara.

Pompey trying to re-sign Yakubu...that's where I'd put our money (if we've got any).

You know that first-hand don't you.

Another example of journo's putting a negative spin though. If Luque genuinely wants to stay and fight for his place people will still say it's only for the money. Harper does the same and it's his love for the club...nowt to do he'd get nowhere near as big a club as Newcastle or wage if he were to go.

Good. Only room for Chopra or Ameobi in the squad, and Chopra isn't as good as Shola.

If Boumsong stays, he'll be branded a mercenary only staying because he can't get a better deal elsewhere. If Harper stays (again), it's because he loves the club and wants to help the squad.

Becks: "Why's that BastianSchweinsteiger looking for pictures of naked men on the internet?" Cole: "F*ck knows".

1-0 down to Liechtenstein. EDIT: They've just equalised.

I loved that grey USA one.

Clark was in the squad but didn't appear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSpFwUsL-k&search=lithuania Loved watching that, especially with Wogan's commentary on BBC with the "Benny Hill lookalike".

Nothing different in those quotes from Luque to ones from Shearer saying he'd have won more had he not came back to us...just the journalist putting his own negative spin on it.

Yeah, that Newcastle were interested but no clubs are interested...I understand.

Seeing Maradona was the highlight of it all for me.

Probably not but it doesn't really matter because they'd both still score a shitload. I don't really think Shearer & Ferdinand were a great combination as such, but they both had a good supply-line and could finish. I don't see why Owen & van Nistelrooy couldn't do the same.

Palace remind me of Blackburn 6-7 years ago when they were in Division One, and I reckon that's what Simon Jordan is looking at too.

He doesn't want all the pressure and scandals...yet whats the odds he ends up in Serie A at Milan or someone like that next season.

Cheers, wasn't sure. And I agree with Catmag, if you want a team of English players, that's what international football is for. Club football is all about getting the best players, whether they be English, Italian, Chilean or Alien.

Even the Liverpool team of the 80s had only 1 or 2 Englishmen. Most were Irish, Scottish and had the odd Zimbabwian & Australian. Here's their team from the 1986 Cup Final. Grobellaar (Zimbabwe) Lawrenson (Ireland) Beglin (Ireland) Nicol (Scotland) Whelan (Ireland) Hansen (Scotland) Dalglish (Scotland) Johnston (Australia) Rush (Wales) Molby (Sweden?) MacDonald (Dunno)

If Hitzfeld had taken over, Hargreaves would have been a cert.