I recently asked whether Martin O’Neill was a great manager, or greatest and a few people contacted me to suggest that I was ahead of myself a little and he hasn’t really achieved the title “great” yet. Yet.
That’s a fair point. A touch of semantics aside, it was obvious that a large slice of subjectivity would influence any debate, so ultimately greatness, it would seem, is in the eye of the beholder.
With this in mind, I enjoyed Phil McNulty’s
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When I did the first of these Player of the Month blog posts I set the rules that players had to play in all the Premiership matches that month in order to be eligible, but I was concerned that might be a bit harsh. I was trying to stop someone playing only a single, maybe a couple of games, getting some freak rating and topping the table unfairly.
However, in August and September there were only 3 Premiership fixtures each
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I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty excited about the potential attacking force of the four players above and I’m optimistic that we’re going to see this foursome regularly celebrating scoring in front of cheering fans.
Stewart Downing, as the newest player, is the biggest unknown, but he looked good as a provider in his brief cameo at the end of the game at Burnley. He put in an impressive performance for the reserves before scoring on his full
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With Wayne Rooney unavailable for tonight’s final World Cup qualifier against Belarus, Fabio Capello is expected to hand Gabby Agbonlahor his third cap, most likely alongside ex-Villan Peter Crouch.
Gabby last got a run out for the senior men’s team in the 2-0 loss to Spain back in February. If you can’t recall, care to guess who his strike partner was? Yup, our own Emile Heskey. Well, for the first half anyway. Crouch was brought on in
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England
10 men England lost 1-0 to Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk after Robert Green won the dubious honour of being the first goal keeper to be sent off for England. Fortunately Fabio Capello’s side have already qualified for South Africa next year and the Italian will be reasonably pleased with the way the team battled with a man down. Rio Ferdinand on the other hand…
Emile Heskey played 72 minutes and James Milner came on for the second half in place
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Gabby Agbonlahor’s recent run of form has been recognised by Fabio Capello and is included in the England squad to face Ukraine and Belarus.
James Milner and Emile Heskey are also in the squad, but there’s no place for Ashley Young.
At least 24 hours after a game I collect scores for the players’ performances voted on by fans. At the moment that comes from two sources; Sky Sports & The Telegraph, but as I use the average of these scores I can easily add new sources as and when I come across them.
The important thing is that these are scores directly from the fans, not the journalists. It also means that this is restricted to Premiership games for
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Fabio Capello has his eye on a few of Villa’s young stars, but you might be surprised at what he has to say about our current record signing.