According to the radio commentary on Five Live that is. Not watching but it's nice to hear that young Ameobi is doing the business for U21s.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

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To be honest it is a crap match so far.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

The away leg was crap, too...Except for Dunn. Glad Hokey Cokey's having a good game, though..

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Shola turned and crossed the ball from the by-line to Carrick who steered it in from close range. 1-0 to England> Shades of things to come at SJP?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Set up Carrick for a goal, according to the text commentary on sports.com. :-)

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Waht do you mean?

Is shola going to set up a WEST HAM player for a goal?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

You'll be glad Shola's having a good game since it's an England game, no doubt Kev...

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Never really cared if they win or lose.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Eh? I think I must keep mistaking you for someone else on here or an impostor because a Makem had a right go at those of us who said that England was very much second to Newcastle in their scheme of things. Apologies.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

I do not undertsand what you are getting at.

I have never sung the praises of England.Indeed I wrote an article on RTG about club v country and how club wins every time for me.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Yeah Superkev I think Carrick's going to score an own goal for West Ham against us

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

England won 1-0 so Shola is due for an appearance in the U21 Finals> Where will they be and when?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

What I meant, Kev, was that I had a recollection of some Makem on here having a go at us over some of our indifference towards England. I wrongly assumed it was you. Sorry.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Nee bother.

As a practising (qualified?) gobshite I expect it!!

Nightie Night

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

soops check yer email.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Shola's "Cruyff-like" turn on the by-line and cross to give Carrick a tap in was absolutely brilliant.

However, on the BBC Breakfast programme this morning, despite showing the video clip, they made zero comment on Shola's wonderful part in the goal.

If Joe Cole had shown such a deft touch it would have been lauded from the bloody roof-tops of the capital. Tossers!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

aye clarky... but if they had mentioned his part in it the papers would have been full of "Ameobi Arsenal bound" .. and the like

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Thought a few of the U21s booked their places in the U21 championship rather than the World Cup.

I only watched to half time, and the highlights at the end, but Carrick was hopeless. I'm a big fan but last night in the first half he was useless. Dunn had obviously read the papers and realised he was the new Gazza, sham ehe didn't have the skill to match. Defence looked okay, Bridge is likeable, Kidman a decent goalie. Shola played okay. Strangely for him some of his best moments were doing the Shearer like headed flick ons, probably headed the ball more last night than in his whole Newcastle career. His turn for the goal was brilliant.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Clarky - to their credit, Sky news this morning attributed the win to Kirkland's performance and 'a moment of individual brilliance' (or something like that) by Shola.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

the sun wax lyrical, Shola for Aresnal?

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

That was Rob Bonnett on breakfast news though Clarky, he doesn't like football. Since the last of the meagre broadcasting standards were flung out of the window and the News has become a forum for non- entities to display their ignorance in painstaking detail and where the public are invited to e-mail in their views on the day's stories (give me strength), the BBC sports news is now Rob sitting in an arm chair holding a conversation with the other nobodies at the news desk. He doesn't simply comment on the latest sports result or even rumours, but "chats" about it to that w*nker Jeremy Bowen. They were talking about the passion on display during last season's relegation battle and Bonnett was of the opinion that football fans are all just sad and that it was a relief that they were being replaced by people in football grounds who were simply neutral and had come to enjoy the match. Right up there with Gerald Ratner I'd have thought but he's still there most mornings. Helen Rollison was a thousand times better.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Sky News sports is pretty good - even though Chris Scudder looks like Davros.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

"You wan' chilli sauce on kebab?"...oh, Davros...

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

They were doing okay dan but have now included a drum track behind the goals roundup on the highlights bit at 10 to the hour.... Now I ask you, is there anything less in need of music to keep your attention than watching people score goals? If you assume that everybody has a goldfish attention span then you'll pretty soon prove yourselves correct.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

sorry what were you saying ?

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001