Grounded Wingman

in my eyes it´s the hardest group of em all and your not on the good end of it. :-/

Craig Gordon is probably not worth £9m but he is the best UK born goalkeeper around and will certainly more than hold his own in the Premiership. He's a top keeper and a massive prospect - can see him being at a top 4 club within 2 or 3 seasons, unless he bottles it in the big leagues (which I don't think he will).

Like I say, I like many others thought he did well in midfield, and was even being brought up by SAF as being the ideal person to replace Keane...if ever anyone could.

Football First is great if you just want to watch lengthy highlights of your own teams game, but the short general highlights section at the end is crap. I watch matches live on Sky but catch up on the rest of the Premiership games on Match Of The Day, which usually has 3 or 4 games covered to a decent degree and shows all the goals from the other games.

Why are Will Smith, Gary Busey and Robert Carlyle modelling the new Watford strips?

Around £21m in for Bellamy, Cisse, Garcia and Sinama. £21m out for Torres and Voronin. Not bad business. Even given that Liverpool have also spent around £10m on Lucas and Leto, there should be significant funds for 2 more first team quality attacking players. I expect Le Tallec and Gonzalez will be moved on this summer as well, which might bring in a few million.

To me the image looks like a large logo so you could try moving from the normal folder to the large folder. And of course the background titlebar logo's should be in Program Files > Football Manager 2007 > Data > Graphics > Pictures > Logos > Background > Left or Right > Clubs > USA > MLS

The problem is that, while £5m is an astronomical amount for a fine (Hell, it's nearly 2 weeks wages for some Premiership players ) West Ham will now earn £60m or so because they stayed up. Sheff Utd, poor litle paupers that they are, will only get a £20m parachute payment. So, if my maths is correct: West Ham gained £55m by virtue of not having points docked. Sheff Utd lost £40m by virtue of West Ham not having points docked. If I was Sheff Utd I'd be fighting the decision until all avenues were exhausted. £60m can buy Bryan Robson a lot of crappy players.

Except for Robin van Persie...he can't tutor anyone, he seems to piss everyone off. I tried to have him tutor Nacer Barazite and despite having the same personality, they had a falling out.

This argument is ridiculous, because if Crouch's goals were only because of the opposition's lack of quality then surely everyone else would've been filling their boots as well?

Can I ask you why Rooney is a definate? At the top level he's not done anything in three years so I don't see why he's a cert when there are other players who could warrant the opportunity. Crouch has been our best striker in recent years so surely he gets the priority over a non-scoring striker (for a long time) and one who's played around 13 club games in 21 months.

Basically, the base of any England squad should look like this: Goalkeepers: Robinson Defenders: Gary Neville, Ashley Cole, Wayne Bridge, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and arguably Jamie Carragher. Midfielders: Joe Cole, Hargreaves, Gerrard, Lampard Up front: Rooney, Owen (when fit) and arguably Crouch. 12 definites, 2 arguables and then you can basically pick any other 9 players in the knowledge that they will be decent Premiership players but not good enough for a team of England's supposed international standing.