Ashley Cole

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Birmingham City

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/137887255/birmingham-city

• Birmingham City announce Wayne Rooney will be assisted by Ashley Cole and John O'Shea. Former teammates from England and Manchester United respectively, they will be part of the coaching staff with Carl Robinson and Pete Shuttleworth who both assisted Rooney at D.C. United.

• Wayne Rooney gave his first press conference as new Birmingham City manager and it was clear that he was delighted.

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Ronaldo CR7 just said he was the toughest defender he ever played against

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1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Ronaldo CR7 just said he was the toughest defender he ever played against

And Puyol said Drogba was the toughest he ever came up against.

Rooney said JT was the toughest he played against.

The glory days were great when they lasted. Best of the best. All across the pitch.

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17 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

And Puyol said Drogba was the toughest he ever came up against.

Rooney said JT was the toughest he played against.

The glory days were great when they lasted. Best of the best. All across the pitch.

and Figo said Claude Makélélé was the best DMF he ever played with and against (and that Real selling him to us destroyed their spine)

Edited January 25 by Vesper

[Blue Armour 4,436]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

and Figo said Claude Makélélé was the best DMF he ever played with and against (and that Real selling him to us destroyed their spine)

When we went 1 up today, I was thinking back to other big games we played in the past decade.

Almost any of our defender combos from the Roman era would have put up a fight to preserve the 1 goal lead.

JT-Carvalho-Cole combo, Alex-Ivanovic, Cahill-Azpi-Luiz (yes, even calamity Luiz), Rudiger-Silva...any of them.

Instead my mood started to drop seeing the Sanchez-Colwill clown show.