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It’s nothing to do with strength, it’s about the wisdom of what is actually being said and what he said wasn’t smart. Putin can use it to legitimise his actions; the narrative will be about Nato and Ukrainian Nazis working together to overthrow the Russian government and now he’s gone and implied as much with his own mouth.

Thats not as stupid as it sounds.

Four faces which couldn’t look any more like they’d rather be elsewhere.

Biden put his foot in it with that comment, it’ll galvanise Putin’s support at a time when we’re trying to weaken it. We all want Putin gone but the best chance of doing that is to keep quiet and let them fester. Don’t take any bait, just keep quiet and let Russians dwell on their own losses and self interests.

The shirts did have names. You have cataracts, not Alzheimer's.

This is probably the most repeated post on the forum and I can't tell if it's a superb piece of ironic self-parody or just a coincidence.

You've deliberately ignored the, "playing at his best for 12 years," part. Rooney scored 208 goals in 16 top flight seasons, bang on 13 per season on average. Like I said, a solid 15-20 goal a season striker overall but not as prolific as the likes of Andy Cole.

This circuit’s a farce. Can’t go ten minutes without a heavy impact and a red flag. The F2 earlier was ridiculous.

The point about Henry, Suarez etc. is that Rooney was always ‘very good’ and never the best. I’m not denying Messi wasn’t at his best for Argentina but he is one of, if not the greatest players of all time. Somebody summed up Rooney quite well on here once. He’s Stan Collymore, playing at his best for about 12 years, in a world without Shearer, Owen, Sherringham, Les Ferdinand, Andy Cole, Le Tiss and Fowler.

Would probably be a bit more credible without the DPR flag flying in the background.

For Man United he was consistently a very good player, a solid 15-20 goal a season player, without ever really looking like THE guy. Across his domestic career he just never quite looked as good as Henry, Suarez, Torres, Ronaldo, Aguero, Bale, Drogba, Kane and a few others, on their day. For England he burst onto the scene with two braces against Switzerland and Croatia at Euro 2004 but then what? Lineker, Shearer and Kane all have golden boots from major tournaments, Hurst has a hat trick in a WC final, Owen and Beckham have big goals in crucial games. Rooney just has a consistent stream of goals in qualifiers against Moldova, Estonia and Kazakhstan. He has one goal at a WC in his whole career, a tap in in a defeat to Uruguay in 2014. His career just doesn't scream absolute greatness.

I knew Neil had been arrested for it, I didn’t realise the other two were involved.

I think both could be loaned out if nothing else. Some mug will probably take a punt on Theo like we did, except without all that faux nostalgia about coming home. Djenepo will probably end up abroad somewhere, albeit with us paying a slice of his wages. He may have been in the right place for a handful of tidy finishes but aside from that I just don’t think it’s true. Too many games just pass him by.

Depends what your criteria are I suppose. Bale is certainly up there. Aside from those already mentioned; Keegan had two Ballon D’Ors Shearer and Lineker were consistently prolific for club and country. Ashley Cole. Probably sounds silly but has there been a fullback in English football who’s come close to his achievements. Shilton. Englands most capped played. Owen and Gazza would certainly have been in the discussion, if they’d stayed fit.

I'm going to be unpopular and say I still don't rate him and I'd look to sell in summer. He's had a period of looking better, much like Vest last year, but in the last few games I'd say he has dropped back again. Overall, I just don't think he's that good and I'd rather lose him, Walcott and Djenepo and use the wages on two better players.

Don’t be silly, that’s a Ukrainian sunflower. Spring must have arrived.

It would be good, longer term, if we can provide the Ukrainian AF with some reasonable NATO aircraft. It’ll take years to equip, train and bring their pilots up to speed with the operation and logistics, so not much use for this conflict but some second hand F16s or F/A18s would probably be handy.

Donbas maybe, but I think Crimea may be a bit of a stretch. It’ll be interesting to see how much attitudes have changed in these areas since the invasion.

If we’re doing nostalgia, these were probably my favourite two from recent times.

So it is working. So he’s not going to get rid of it. So we can’t get rid of ours. Pretty much end of discussion.

So it is working.

As long as we don’t get anything like that dreadful Man City third shirt from the cup game. Looks like the kind of thing you’d buy for 100 lira at a market stall in Bodrum.

I wouldn’t want it to happen, personally. He’ll be 33, is barely fit and will want enormous wages.

In other words Russia would, "dispute the legal basis," but I don’t think that’d make much real world difference, if it was agreed upon by Ukraine and nato.