return of the king

a goal, a penalty won, an assist. it should have been a hattrick.

welcome back, thierry henry.

i think it was a very good performance from us this time round, although i won't hurry to pour champagne or what; we were playing against ten men. if you don't beat a team playing with ten men, if you don't beat a weak team, something is very wrong.

and the most important thing now is to get another win. and then another. and so on. we can't afford to do what we were doing last year: win, lose, win, draw. we are just committing suicide.

there were indeed a lot of positives from the charlton game. the movement was good, the dominance was there, henry seems to fit in well, etc etc. and even hoyte played ok. it could easily have been 10-0 but for scott carson, and he's def my man of the match. i think he pulled off at least 5 top quality saves to deny us. but the most important lesson for us is that we must take our chances. without those two penalties, it would have been only 2-0. which will not reflect our dominance and the amount of chances we had created.

we need to do justice to ourselves: convert those chances. we just need to convert 50 percent to score 5 goals. and if you score 5 and don't win, something is very wrong.

please score.

now, don't get complacent about this win. it was a very nice win, but remember, a 10-man charlton is nothing. nothing at all.