lawrie

surprised by the Anelka one - I think he would have continued to do well for us

Crouch because I didint think he was good enough to be a Liverpool player

it would have been if he'd made contact

I'm mysified by those who dont think having a goalscorer would be useful. I'm sure there's one out there somewhere who can both play with his back to goal AND capitalise on our every increasing number of chances created. What's more I'm pretty sure Rafa thinks there's one out there somewhere as well. It's OK being happy with our current form, I'm personally ecstatic, but against the better teams sometimes its taking that only chance in the game which is the difference between three points or nil points.

I don't expect Lampard to be in the running for Player of the Year to be honest. I expect it to be between Stevie and Rooney

they obviously saw our defensive performance last night...

any excuse for another Owen thread

Very unlike Rafa to be so critical of the officials but I guess the emotional strain of it all has taken its toll

Round 16 Fixtures: Saturday, 10 December 2005 Birmingham v Fulham 1-1 Blackburn v West Ham 2-1 Bolton v Aston Villa 2-0 Charlton v Sunderland 1-0 Chelsea v Wigan 1-1 Liverpool v Middlesbrough 2-0 Newcastle v Arsenal 1-2 West Brom v Man City 1-1 Sunday, 11 December 2005 Man Utd v Everton 2-0 Monday, 12 December 2005 Tottenham v Portsmouth 1-2