Recent content by NessunDorma

Drinking problems can manifest in a number of ways, surely? Drink driving in and of itself is indicative of a problematic relationship with alcohol. It's dangerous, and it's illegal. If you're doing it, then maybe you shouldn't be drinking. Not saying he's George Best or anything, but it's not...

Imagine having to go to your title rivals and win during a run-in. If there's one 'good' team who you'd expect to cock it up spectacularly, it's Wenger's Arsenal post-2008. But Wenger's Arsenal in the late 90s were an entirely different beast.

One of the last links to what is now definitely a bygone era, namely mid to late 90s Premiership football. And Wenger was definitely key in the transition of the Premiership from a league dominated by British and Irish players, to a league with a strong global presence. Revolutionary, in a way...

Just watching the highlights of the 7-1 game against Roma in 2006/07. Alan Smith was the starting centre forward that night. Incidentally, he's still playing now, in League Two for Notts County.

In fact, he's quite unlucky that he came through at Arsenal just as they were entering their baron period. At a United, or Barca, or Madrid, or Bayern, or Milan, he'd have won everything.

For his last two seasons with Arsenal, and his first season with United, he was legit world-class. Scored 89 goals in 129 games, and loads of them were absolute beauties. He was far more technically gifted than most strikers. Wonderous left foot on him, good balance, good feet, great big game...

That was basically my point. His last competitive game could've been a 10 minute cameo in some meaningless, end of season dead rubber defeat. But it wasn't. It was lifting a European trophy as captain. And his career has been littered with moments like that.

Yeah, but it's 99.99% certain he'll leave, because he wants to actually play.

Not at all.

Scoring a hat trick in the Champions League on his United debut, 2004: Lifting the Europa League cup, to secure Champions League qualification, in what is almost certainly his final competitive United game, 2017: Classic 'Roo of the Rovers' stuff.

Is there any doubt he's one of the greatest players of all time? To go from a flying winger with immense skill and eye for goal, to what is now basically a domineering forward, while maintaining a goal a game ratio or better for over half of his career. It's simply amazing, and the case for...

Much less angry than he was 3-6 months ago. I think it's because he knows he's won the argument now, and isn't having to fight to convince anyone.

What are peoples thoughts on the old Barkley Vs Wilshere front? They were head to head on Saturday, and Barkley got a goal and an assist, while Wilshere got an assist. I remember arguing about 2 and a half years ago that Barkley would eventually prove to be the better player, and comfortably...

I thought he was very good today. Looked like he knew he had the beating of the (admittedly poor) Leicester defenders, and was just toying with them at times. He also made it count by scoring. So that's 20 goals and 7 assists in 33 games, at 35 years old, in his first season in the Premiership...

The stats suggest progress anyway.