***Offical*** English Football Season 2004/05

[Craig]

Sorry but can you explain that better Pratyush?

 

[Pratters]

Sorry but can you explain that better Pratyush?

Sure.

Best XI of each team based on the performance of the players in the 2004-05 season

 

[Tom Halsey]

• What kept you going throughout the season? Great (or at least encouraging) results? Hope that things could only get better? Or simply blind loyalty?

The belief that we could win it (right up until late-ish March)

• What were the best moments of the campaign – for example, the best performance / result?

Without doubt for result 2-0 v Arsenal at OT. For performance, probably the FA Cup final.

• And what were the worst?

The humiliation v Chelsea.

• Who was your team’s best player of the season?

Christiano Ronaldo had a great second half of the season, Rooney was great all season though. Rooney then.

• And the worst?

Roy Carroll.

• How did you rate the performance of your manager/coach?

Check thread. A legend, but his time has come.

• And the squad? (If you like, give the players marks out of ten, where ten is out of this world and one absolutely awful)

Alright apart from having Ruud out and having an awful 'keeper really affected our chances.

• What was your side’s goal of the season?

Rooney v Newcastle at OT.

• And what was the biggest howler during the campaign (eg a crazy own goal, shocking miss, bizarre team selection, etc)

Carroll. Pick any of them.

• Who were the best opponents your team came up against? (Team and individual player)

AC Milan.

• And the worst?

West Brom in the first half of the season (Robbo improved them greatly though).

• How did the media generally treat your club?

One week we had a chance of catching Chelsea, next week we were rubbish again. Just about sums it up.

• What was the biggest slice of luck that went your way during the season?

Haven't a clue.

• And what was the most outrageous in justice?

Losing the final.

• Looking ahead to next season, who would you most like to see arrive at your club?

Any 'keeper better than Carroll to back Howard up a bit (shouldn't be hard to find).

• And which person(s) would you most like to see leave it?

Ferguson, Carroll.

• Overall, how did the campaign measure up to your pre-season expectations, and how did it compare with other seasons in which you’ve been following them?

Badly.

• What are you expecting from next season?

Win it. (For a club like United, that's got to be the ambition).

 

[Link]

• What was the biggest slice of luck that went your way during the season?

Haven't a clue.

No, what about drwing with tottenham. (i think your avatar sums that up)

• And what was the most outrageous in justice?

Losing the final.

no what i said before

 

[marc71178]

• What kept you going throughout the season? Great (or at least encouraging) results? Hope that things could only get better? Or simply blind loyalty?

The belief that we could win it (right up until late-ish March)

Otherwise known as simply blind loyalty!

 

[Scaly piscine]

I wish ITV would let up with that garbage about how England is behind Liverpool - 2 English players out of 11.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Why couldn't Liverpool have defended like that against Chelsea, so we could at least see a few more English players in the final.

 

[sledger]

so you would rather see milan win ?

 

[The Baconator]

The Kewell gamble doesn't seem to have paid off, he's injured now.

 

[Scaly piscine]

so you would rather see milan win ?

I don't particularly care as long as the two English players do well.

 

[sledger]

What do you guys think would be the season ending first elevens of the English Premier League teams? (before some of the transfers took place after the last match of the league)

GK) Cech

LB) A.Cole
RB) Carragher
CB) Terry
CB) Carvalho

ML) Robben
MR) C.Ronaldo
MC) Gerrard
MC) Lampard

CF) Henry
CF) Rooney

 

[sledger]

I don't particularly care as long as the two English players do well.

what is the logic behind that ?

 

[Scaly piscine]

The Kewell gamble doesn't seem to have paid off, he's injured now.

Yep, replaced by another 'gifted and skillful' waste of space.

 

[Scaly piscine]

what is the logic behind that ?

It's a team game, those 2 English players don't make a largely English team - Chelsea's 3 main English players are hugely involved for Chelsea and are the whole spine of the team (Johnson occasionally plays as well).

 

[superkingdave]

GK) Cech

LB) A.Cole
RB) Carragher
CB) Terry
CB) Carvalho

ML) Robben
MR) C.Ronaldo
MC) Gerrard
MC) Lampard

CF) Henry
CF) Rooney

official team

Petr Cech,
Gary Neville, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole,
Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Arjen Robben, Shaun Wright-Phillips
Thierry Henry, Andy Johnson

 

[superkingdave]

how i don't know

 

[sledger]

hugely involved ? somehow i think gerrard might just qualify for that grouping, as would carragher, those have been liverpools 2 most influential players this season, and carson also plays occasionally ( a lot more than johnson has this season anyway ). Gerrard and Carragher are the spine of the team.

 

[The Baconator]

2-0 now, but perhaps a bit unlucky with the possible handball at the other end.

 

[BoyBrumby]

****. Can't see AC jibbing two goal lead.

 

[Scaly piscine]

hugely involved ? somehow i think gerrard might just qualify for that grouping, as would carragher, those have been liverpools 2 most influential players this season, and carson also plays occasionally ( a lot more than johnson has this season anyway ). Gerrard and Carragher are the spine of the team.

Carragher is not involved much because he's a right back, Gerrard basically just seems to defend all game and occasionally passes the ball sideways - he's not really influencing the game particularly like Terry, Lampard or Cole do.