Steve Staunton's Republic of Ireland were unrecognisable on Wednesday – the ramshackle outfit hammered 5-2 by Cyprus last Saturday morphed into a brave new world. Posted October 13, 2006 by Tommy Martin

With almost a third of the Premiership season gone, it's a good a time as any to rate the impact of your club's summer signings so far. Posted November 10, 2006 by CaughtOffside.com

Manchester United came into 2006 like lambs as they almost went for a Burton in the FA Cup and were beaten 3-1 by City in the Manchester derby. But they're ending the year like lions - back on top of the Premiership and with the Champions League very much in their sights. Posted December 30, 2006 by StretfordEndFlags.com

Granted you cannot go all out against them. All I would like to see is Rafa being a bit more positive, the old two up front would make a change; on that note, if Torres had been fit, who would have been dropped? alonso, keane. You are correct about the pr

but the thing is although the formation may look defensive, what you actually have is balance, with Reira and Kuyt out wide, keane up top it creates the hole for Gerrard as an attacking midfielder to run into where he is devastating more often than not, co

jose knows what he would like..... in monetary terms, keane + degen (or insert any other crap fringe donkey rafa bought) = berbatov....... obrigado!!!!