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Listed below are comments made by Captain between Tuesday, 7th April 2009 and Thursday, 3rd December 2009.

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England's high hopes 6:52pm on 03 Dec 2009 What a great comment to make on a British website Gazza, when England are the only British representatives at the finals. That was such a well thought out and objective thing to say.

I think sports science is too advanced these days for any of the cup favourites to go into the tourny unprepared. It is the less fancied and poorer nations that will struggle so at the end of the day I do not think altitude with be that great of a deciding factor althoguh it will play its part.
Can James answer England call? 2:31pm on 08 Oct 2009 I cannot look past Paul Robinson and I really hope he gets a chance. he had a long run in the side under Sven and no-one can say he didn't deserve it; he performed admirably in fact. Fingers crossed Fabio Capello will look in his direction when crunch time comes.
Can Wenger fill the gap? 6:40pm on 04 May 2009 Please remember that English teams place much less emphasis on Uefa cup success and also that Champions League clubs drop into the competition.
Can Wenger fill the gap? 6:12pm on 04 May 2009 I understand the point about not resting our best player (Rooney) but this is not just taking him out of the lineup for the sake of it. It is making a calculated decision in putting a team on the pitch that can finish what we already started against Arsenal. We have a greater chance of finishing off Arsenal without Rooney (that's not being over confident as I know we can lose with or without him)but our chances in the Finals, if we get that far, without him are that much less whether it is against Barcelona or Chelsea. The plan I cam up with during our domination of Arsenal was for Wazza to score the 2nd or 3rd and then take of his shirt, thereby missing the second leg but being eligible for the final : ). Regrettably we did not score that many.

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Berbatov is indeed very good at keep possesion of the football and waiting for support. Both against Spurs and Arsenal there were times when it seemed as if teh ball was stuck to his feet. Did you see that juglling bit against Arsenal at the edge of the box before working it wide to Rooney and then getting back into the box only for Silvestre to track him and narrowly head over his own bar in intercepting. The man is brilliant and I think some people refuse to recognise this simply because of all the running Tevez done. The little man is definitely a heart warmer but one cannot let that deter them from noticing Berba's positive qualities or from seeing Tevez's negatives ie can be a wayward finisher, tends to lose the ball to often and tends to be pulled out of position by losing the ball and then chasing after it. he is however a valuable player as well.
Can Wenger fill the gap? 4:05pm on 04 May 2009 Andersonleftboot - I think Tevez played in a lone striker role in the first leg. The team I suggested is the same as used a week ago, save rooney of course. Tevez would get support from both Ronaldo and Park and with Anerson in the hole Tevez won't have to track that far back. He'll be left to focus on rushing the defenders into making decisions and not allowing them to pass out from the back comfortably. I can see the benefits of having Berbatov in there as well thugh. he could hold the ball up and allow Ronaldo and Park to get down the flank while allowing both defensive mids and Ando to push up in support. I'm glad SAF has that decision to make and not me.
Can Wenger fill the gap? 3:31pm on 04 May 2009 I think SAF should leave Rooney on the bench for the tie against Arsenal and go with Tevez as the lone striker just as he did in the first leg except Park should replace Rooney on the left. His energy and tracking back would help Evra in containing Walcott just as Rooney did. Therefore my team would be
==========VDS===========
Oshea==Rio===Vidic==Evra
===Carrick===Fletcher===
=======Anderson=========
Ronaldo=============Park
========Tevez=========
Relyin' on Ryan 6:15pm on 27 Apr 2009 Oops it was actuall Steve Bennett :).
Relyin' on Ryan 6:13pm on 27 Apr 2009 Lat game of last season was Mike riley so shut up mightysoprano.
Relyin' on Ryan 6:02pm on 27 Apr 2009 Biased of course but I can't see where the decision was as iffy as everyone is making it sound. There was no obvious touch by Gomes in real time. In slow mo maybe but in real time it looked liek a penalty and Gomes obviously made contact with Carrick; he did not dive.
Footie in all its Glory 5:05pm on 07 Apr 2009 Robbo, I guess you Wengered Agbonlahor's 'noticable' injury after scoring. It was quite a bit of time.

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