For all the Harbingers of Doom, Dread and Disaster...

Case · February 22, 2006

All intelligent lifeforms have conceeded that we have made massive progress this year as a TEAM. To work out for yourselves what on God's Green Earth you have to be upset about, try this little test ...

Pick the team from last year, as individuals, and say whether they have improved or not. Where a player has left, pick his replacement ...

Reina (Dudek).................... IMPROVED

Finnan ............................... IMPROVED

Riise .................................. IMPROVED

Hyppia ............................... IMPROVED (Massively)

Carragher .......................... SAME LEVEL

Kewell ............................... IMPROVED (Massively)

Gerrard ............................. IMPROVED

Sissoko (Hamman) ............. IMPROVED (Didi himself is same level)

Alonso ............................... SAME LEVEL, Recently Degraded performance

Garcia ............................... DEGRADED

Crouch (Baros) .................. IMPROVED

Others ....

Morientes ........................... SAME LEVEL

Cisse ................................. IMPROVED, Recently Degraded performance

Traore ............................... WHO KNOWS?

Fowler (Sinama) ................. IMPROVED....

and we also have Kromkamp and the kids - Warnock has improved too for example.

ONLY Garcia of the first XI has to take a real step up, and he's been unfit for three months. Xabi needs a rest, which anyone can see.

Now, HOW can things be as bad as the Kneejerkers make out when this is patently true? Do we have to win the Champions League every year to stop people getting slaughtered?

Get a grip.

Guz · February 22, 2006

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