Allardyce

[anny road]

From the offal

 

"Crouchy is my top man. Everyone can knock him because of his height, the fact that he is ungainly or sometimes not pretty to watch - but he is the best striker England has at the moment.

 

"He is also developing a goal record worthy of any striker at international level and the fact that he scored his first World Cup goal will give him a major boost.

 

"It was a big game for him after that dreadful miss and he might easily have gone the other way after that but he picked himself up and has now slammed the criticism down people's throats. Brazilian, Argentinian, Spanish and Italian centre-halves will find it very difficult to cope with Crouch."

 

Stop it Sam youre worrying me

[Guest Cally77]

He's only saying what most clued up Liverpool fans, and football fans in general, have known for a while.

[Guest Portly]

Sam isn't very pretty to watch either!

 

Pot, kettle, black.

[floyd]

In the article, he actually covers Carra and Gerrard, and talks a lot of more sense

 

Jamie Carragher

 

"The ultimate utility player and a crucial part of the England camp. The Liverpool ace was called into against Trinidad for Gary Neville who has a lingering hamstring injury - and Carragher didn't let England down.

 

"He is a solid, reliable, dependable, defender and would be first-choice centre-half for any other country in the world. Jamie enjoys his defending, he likes getting stuck into tackles whereas some players these days don't seem to like breaking up attacks. Defending is a dying art in the game Jami keeps alive."

 

Steven Gerrard

 

"Steven scored the crucial second goal against Trinidad but he is clearly not enjoying playing in a central midfield two and it is obviously taking time to adjust. England fans may think he plays in a two with Liverpool but he has either played on the left, right, in the hole or up front.

 

"Gerrard wants to be free to express himself. He is one of the best in world football but isn't being allowed to operate effectively."

 

Well we all know why that is, and so does Sven, but he won't drop that Chelsea fvcker for fear of upsetting Fleet Street

 

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N...060618-1013.htm

[chrisbonnie]

b****x, im agreeing with thatfat headed f***

 

i still cant understand why Garra isnt first choice centre half for you england,

[Stevie H]

i'm a bit bored of people still referring to carragher as a 'utility player'. he's a f***ing outstanding centre-half who just happens to be an intelligent enough a footballer to adapt to other positions, something that all pros should be capable of doing. it's lazy and unfair to still call him a 'utility player'.

[smithdown]

He wasn't so full of praise for them when we played notlob was he?

[Swagger]

i'm a bit bored of people still referring to carragher as a 'utility player'. he's a f***ing outstanding centre-half who just happens to be an intelligent enough a footballer to adapt to other positions, something that all pros should be capable of doing. it's lazy and unfair to still call him a 'utility player'.

 

[Ombudsam]

He wasn't so full of praise for them when we played notlob was he?

 

What you mean he didn't choose to wax lyrical about us after his own team had just played us

[G Richards]

Fat Sam is talking a lot of sense here, but I still don't care for the way he sets up his Bolton side. I wonder if he's building bridges to the England camp in anticipation of being in the running again when it all goes pear shaped for McClaren?

[Guz]

I think Bolton were one of the clubs in the race to sign Crouch last summer but were basically blown out of it by our interest