[Dan]

Originally Posted by ForeverBlue'86

Really? Well, for starters, he's only been here for 2 seasons - the rest on that list were in the Premiership for far longer than that, and the majority of them are already retired.

To us he's been a great asset, in his first season he played a pivital role in getting us to the FA Cup Final (Which we won, he scored the winner in the Semis Vs Blackburn), played a massive role in the Carling Cup final (Which we won, he set up Drogba with a great lob to equalise), and he played a big role in the Champions League scoring the winner past Porto - we completely fell apart when he got injured though, both in the league and against Liverpool in the CL Semi's, you know what it is? Media driven bollox.

I'm not saying that he hasn't had an impact.. I'm saying players like Friedel etc. have had a bigger impact than him.. If he keeps up the way he has been playing he'll be up there, but he isn't yet..