posted Nov 13, 2008

i thought cole was as brilliant as the service he got. Giggs beckham keane scholes and yorke were brilliant at creating cole chances which he did very well to finish. as a forward, not brilliant, as a goal scorer, he's up there with owen, fowler, nistlerooy and shearer.

p.s ole soskjaer an absolute legend

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posted Nov 13, 2008

How many times did Shearer wish he had signed for Man Utd?

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posted Nov 14, 2008

To go off at a complete tangent to the original topic, you could say Shearer’s choosing Newcastle over Man Utd in 1996 was a case of the heart ruling the head. If he’d gone to United, he’d have won several Premiership medals and at least one Champions League medal (he would almost certainly have made the difference in the 97 and 98 CL campaigns when they went out to teams they should have beaten – Borussia Dortmund and Monaco). Then again, when you think how close Newcastle came to winning the Premiership in 1996, he must have thought they were going to win it at last with him in the side. Turned out he was wrong. He got a hatful of goals for them, true, but ironically enough he didn’t really make them a better side from what they had been, if anything they became a weaker side after the 1995-96 season and never came as close to winning the Premiership again. The arrival of a great player at a club doesn’t always convert into success, just as the addition of the brilliant Berbatov isn’t making the difference for Man Utd in their start to the season, at least not yet.

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posted Nov 17, 2008

cole was a nobody!

Anybody can stick a ball in from 2 yards out if you get a quality supply and most of his goals were easy tap ins. For England He scored just 1 goal in 19 games again a tap in a game already won in moldova.

He will be a an even bigger joke as a coach if any club is stupid enough to employ him. one of the most overrated strikers in the game. Without Dwight york and Peter beardsley nobody would have known who he was, I would be well known if I played along side them.

As for where he rates as a united striker? well I guess there are a few worse than him, but I cant think of there names!

What do I know,having scored only 9 goals in my last 5 matches!none which were tap ins!

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posted Nov 19, 2008

tonytaba (U3056361)...

Surely someone who scored nearly 300 goals in his career knows a thing or two about scoring goals. So most of his goals were tap ins?

Overhead kick vs Leicester 99/2000
Overhead kick vs Watford 99/2000
Overhead kcik vs Marseille 99/2000
1-2 with Yorke vs Barcelona 98/99
Chip vs Everton 97/99
Half length of pitch run and finish vs Leeds 99/2000
Control & Volley vs Fiorentina 99/2000
Hatrick vs Barnsley (all 3 goals not tap-ins) 97/98

...All not tap-ins.

If he's had good players round him like Yorke and Beardsley etc and he was there just to put the ball in the back of the net then it was £7million well spent by Fergie because he knew he was buying someone who could do just that. With the players round him at United, I'm not surprised he scored a lorry-load of goals.

A lot of players don't do it for England and Cole will be the first to admit he's one of them. But his striking record at club level is something that this generation of strikers can only dream of.

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posted Nov 20, 2008

Tonytaba

Nine goals in just 5 games? - that’s impressive I’m sure your junior school must be very proud of you!

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posted Nov 21, 2008

TonyTaba you really don't have a clue do you?

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posted Nov 21, 2008

After all, everyone knows "tap ins" are so easy it's a wonder Alex Ferguson didn't get Joe Bloggs off the street or someone in a wheelchair to play centre forward instead. They'd have saved themselves £7m!

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posted Nov 22, 2008

Good club striker but out of his depth at international level. Used to enjoy watching him when he was at Bristol City.

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posted Nov 23, 2008

If Glen Hoddle’s claim that Cole needed ‘6 or 7 chances for every goal’ he scored, then it follows that he must have missed about 300 chances for Newcastle for whom he scored 55 goals in a total of 70 games. It really takes a lot of talent just to get in that many goal scoring positions, which he must have been better at than Shearer!

According to Hod’s “logic”, I assume we’re supposed to take it that Shearer (assuming he needed only half as many chances as Cole before scoring) would have scored twice that total, that is, 110 goals in 70 games. At that rate, Shearer would have scored going on for 500 goals for Newcastle in his 10 season there instead of the actual 148 he scored!! Somehow the maths just don’t work out. Then again, Hoddle was often given to talking through his (_|_).

All in all, Cole's international career was on a par with his Holiness Glen Hoddle's career as England coach.

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