Football Focus

[Jah Lush]

Crap goalkeepers more like. That's got to be a must have for the Gooners next season. Memo to Arsene Wenger - Go out and spend some money on a decent goalkeeper. Actually, no don't. I'd rather you didn't.

[Sandperson]

No, don't do it. And keep Bentner playing. While we're at it Rafa in!

[matthew123]

Arsenal have plenty of attack minded players in their team - so maybe an out and out striker is not as important as other Clubs who maybe rely on more defensive tactics to achieve results.

[jimmy two times]

I think they made a mistake selling Adebayor. Ok perhaps his attitude was poor at times, but he's exactly the type of centre forward / striker they are missing. He's excellent in the air and can hold up the ball when it's played out to him from defence so that the more mobile deep lying strikers / attacking midfielders can play off him. It is so obvious to me yet Wenger is rarely slagged off for selling him. The same could be said of Fergie's decision to sell Tevez as well looking at his current form.

[Ladygooner]

He was right to selll Adebayor - his heart wasn't in it any more. If Robin van Persie hadn't been injured in that international "friendly" last October then our season would have been a lot different.

[jimmy two times]

Perhaps. But was it a good decision going into a season relying on one striker who has always been injury prone?

[red devil]

Jimmy x 2 said...

Tevez wasn't a Utd player to sell...

[jimmy two times]

That's true. Then perhaps he should have been bought by United.

[Jah Lush]

I think United are coping very well without him. League Cup winners, top of the Premiership, and in the quarter-finals of the European Cup. It would have been a needless expense and looking at their finances probably couldn't have afforded him anyway.

[titch juicy]

i know it's not an exact science, but for what it's worth this is how i see the race for fourth going:

Burnley v Man City (city 3)

Sunderland v Tottenham (spurs 3)

Birmingham v Liverpool (liverpool 1)

Tottenham v Arsenal (spurs 1)

Liverpool v Fulham (liverpool 3)

Man City v Birmingham (city 3)

Man City v Man Utd (city 1)

Tottenham v Chelsea (spurs 1)

Liverpool v West Ham (liverpool 3)

Arsenal v Man City (city 0)

Burnley v Liverpool (liverpool 3)

Man Utd v Tottenham (spurs 0)

Liverpool v Chelsea (liverpool 1)

Man City v Aston Villa (city 3)

Tottenham v Bolton (spurs 3)

Man City v Tottenham (city 1 spurs 1)

Burnley v Tottenham (spurs 3)

Hull v Liverpool (liverpool 3)

West Ham v Man City (city 3)

totals:

city: 14

liverpool: 14

spurs: 12

final table

4th: spurs 70 points (current goal difference +28)

5th: city 70 points (current goal difference +19)

6th liverpool 68 points (current goal difference +21)

[jimmy two times]

Far be it for me to question Fergie's nouse in the transfer market, but Tevez is an excellent striker. I agree that they are doing ok without him and Ronaldo. But he would definitely give them that extra edge going into the end-game of the season where every little bit extra counts. Having a player like him could be the difference between winning a cup final and losing one.

[ruffers]

He's not worth 25 million, maybe 30? If Berbatov is then Tevez must be more..

[Jah Lush]

To be fair to Berbatov he has stepped into the breach and aquitted himself very well recently especially considering he has been carrying a persistant ankle injury and has often been played out of position to accomodate Rooney playing as the loan striker. Berbatov's last couple of performances playing up front on his own in place of the injured Rooney have been nothing short of superb. I think most Man Utd fans are split down the middle in their opinion of him but I think he deserves some credit.

[jimmy two times]

I think Berbatov is a class act. People bang on about his work rate, but he's an artist, not an artisan.

[Jah Lush]

Well, of course I'm going to agree with you JTT having watched him regularly at Spurs. He was a fabulous player for us but at a club like United he's not always going to be the main man.

[david_carnell]

He reminds me of Le Tissier. Not the quickest or the hardest worker but a deft touch, skills, great vision and can score goals.

Le Tissier would have had a national team built around him if he was from continental Europe. For once the English got a player of skill and craft. And the man was barely picked. Disgrace.

[jimmy two times]

Berbatov reminds me more of Frank Worthington. Another misunderstood maverick who never got the credit he deserved. I still remember a goal he scored for Bolton as one of the best I've ever seen. He chipped it over an onrushing defence who were trying to play an offside trap and then ran onto meet the ball as it dropped behind defence.

[Jah Lush]

I remember that Worthington goal. Against Chelsea if memory serves me right.

[ruffers]

Didn't he have his back to the goal and chipped it over his head as it were?

he does in this one which was the one I was thinking of anyway for Bolton v Ipswich.

 

[jimmy two times]

Yep that's the one. I loved all those mavericks. Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles, Tony Currie, Alan Hudson. All really skilful players who never got the credit they deserved or the opportunities with England.

[Jah Lush]

That's the one Ruffers. Well done.

[Jah Lush]

jimmy two times Wrote:

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> Yep that's the one. I loved all those mavericks.

> Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles, Tony Currie, Alan

> Hudson. All really skilful players who never got

> the credit they deserved or the opportunities with

> England.

You've got Don Revie to thank for that. But Ramsey played his part too. I find it hard to believe that someone like Alan Hudson only got two England caps.

[jimmy two times]

Mind you..they were all p*ss artists as well.

[????]

Yeah, but to be fair so was Bobby Moore

[Mick Mac]

ruffers Wrote:

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> Didn't he have his back to the goal and chipped it

> over his head as it were?

>

Apart from it being a brilliant goal, what you notice is how the ball bounces higher and is much harder to control than it is now. No grass on the pitch hard surface, harder ball.. amazing Frank managed to get the ball under control.