Who does this 'Grella' play for? Is he anything good?

He plays currently for Parma, he is going to be very good I think. I don't know if Italy is the best place for him. He has the right qualities for the kind of midfielder that flourishes in the English league. I think he will end up here eventually, probably at Middlesborough or Everton

I expect Australia to line up as

-------------------Schwarzer

Neill---------Popovic-----Vidmar-------Lazaridis

-------Bresciano----Grella-------Cahill

Emerton-----------Viduka-----------------Kewell

It is alright playing 4-3-3 against the Solomon Islands but against a European team Farina will revert to 4-4-2

Bresciano will be on the left with Cahill and Grella in the guts. As silly as it is, you know he is going to push Kewell up front with Viduka

At club level he is much too inconsistent, I still stick by the fact that the reason he took Euro 2004 by storm is that mainland Europe hadn't had a good look at him.

Players like Zidane, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are the absolute class at all levels and can maintain it, this little imposter doesn't rate a sniff on some of the English players gone before that his talent is being associated with

I have heard people boldy claim that United where now once again a force because of Rooneys signing, what has he done in the Premier League to suggest such outlandish statements?

Let's all get some sense and hold our judgement once he has played a couple of seasons

He is still an unknown, in the premiership and on the world stage. Let some defences get used to him and then judge on what kind of player he is.

Potential to be Englands greatest player?

02 / 03 Everton 33 appearances 6 goals

03 / 04 Everton 34 appearances 9 goals

04 / 05 Man Utd 2 appearances 3 goals

Not exactly stuff of legends just yet

I think the point is being missed. It is not about the choice of patrons to stand or sit. What is about is MANAGING RISK

While probably 99% of patrons would do the safe thing what of a small percentage of those who don't? We live in an increasingly legal society where people are being sued for reasons 20 years would be seen as comment sense issues, the thing is it isn't 20 years ago.

The clubs and footballing stadiums are taking action to limit the chances of their getting their asses sued off.

This is not a right of the footballing public, it is the right of the footballing clubs to protect themselves against unneccessary future litigation.

For what it's worth, Soccernet.com put Jansen in their team of the week for his goal. There's a little spiel about his goal, too. Very nice of them.

I wouldn't mind seeing Hughesy with that team

Football History

You can search every stat by rankings. The one I used for that list was a points table for each appearance made in the old first division or premiership table at the end of each year i.e for every first place 12 points is awarded, second 9 points and so on

Tournament 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

English League (1889-2004)

12 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The first column refers to how many points a team receives for winning a tournament, the second for second place, the third for losing in the semi-finals or finishing 3rd in a league, the 4th for losing in the quarter-finals, etc.

This was based of top flight football, you can also filter by euro victories, cup wins, goals scored blah blah blah

If you do it by all club competitions it comes out like this

Liverpool

Manchester United

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Everton

Tottenham Hotspur

Newcastle United

Leeds United

Sunderland

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Chelsea

Manchester City

Nottingham Forest

Sheffield Wednesday

Blackburn Rovers

Derby County

West Bromwich Albion

Bolton Wanderers

Burnley

Preston North End

Sheffield United

Huddersfield Town

Ipswich Town

West Ham United

Portsmouth

Blackpool

Leicester City

Southampton

Middlesbrough

Bury

Charlton Athletic

Birmingham City

The Wanderers

Stoke City

Queen's Park Rangers

Notts County

Cardiff City

Old Etonians

Wimbledon

Oxford University

Royal Engineers

Norwich City

Oldham Athletic

Coventry City

Bradford City

Bristol City

Watford

Brentford

Barnsley

Clapham Rovers

Crystal Palace

Luton Town

Blackburn Olympic

Old Carthusians

Queen's Park Glasgow

Accrington

Fulham

Grimsby Town

Brighton & Hove Albion

Millwall

Swansea City

Bradford Park Avenue

Carlisle United

Darwen

Would love to see a similar table spanning the history of the football league.

Rank Entity

Liverpool

Manchester United

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Leeds United

Everton

Huddersfield Town

Sunderland

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Ipswich Town

Newcastle United

Sheffield Wednesday

Burnley

Preston North End

Brentford

Tottenham Hotspur

Derby County

Blackburn Rovers

Manchester City

Swansea City

Nottingham Forest

Portsmouth

Bolton Wanderers

Chelsea

West Bromwich Albion

Blackpool

Oldham Athletic

Sheffield United

Queen's Park Rangers

Charlton Athletic

Watford

Accrington

Bury

Wimbledon

Cardiff City

Bristol City

Southampton

Leicester City

Norwich City

West Ham United

Middlesbrough

Notts County

Bradford City

Stoke City

Crystal Palace

Luton Town

Grimsby Town

Bradford Park Avenue

Coventry City

Birmingham City

Fulham

Barnsley

Brighton & Hove Albion

Carlisle United

Darwen

Glossop North End

Leyton Orient

Millwall

Northampton

Oxford United

Swindon Town

We can do two things either

1. Sign Li Tie

or

2. Change some players names around, Mao Flitcroft Chung anyone?

What about

Hughes Mighty, Blue and Whitey

or the Clockwork Orange version

The Mark Hughes Collective Idiosyncratic Individuals Dressed in Blue and White Footballing Militia

Just joined, see how it pans out when I get confirmation

Stack the midfield, deny service to the forwards, play for a nil all draw then when Hughesy gets here we can start fresh

Saying that I think we are going to get a touch up

Le Saux, in fact can we get him back now? He would still offer more then the handbags we currently have

I wonder if Derby said the same thing about Clough, Man U and Busby, Leeds and Revie

Hughes has played under the some great managers and taken a sub standard Wales squad and done very well, a little depth and they probably would've gone to Euro

I am not putting him up on the saviour podium yet but give him a chance

It seems no one will be happy with a left sided midfielder unless his name is Duff.

The whole team aren't cutting it, we are missing a class of player that 2 million is never gonna buy

I just got rid of souness from champ man and we ended up signing dino zoff, is he in the names mentioned? I hope so, Rovers finished 5th in the first season