English Premier League 2012/2013

Football: ADDICKS EYE CHRISTIAN AID... FROM RONALDO.

Byline: TONY STENSON

CHARLTON are chasing Ronaldo... Christian Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon and his strike partner Ricardo Quaresma.

Manager Alan Curbishley has had both players watched recently and received glowing reports.

His latest check was a recent Portuguese under-20 international against Greece.

Curbishley admits his problem has been the lack of goals - Jason Euell is top with five in the league. "The transfer window stays open for a month so there's no hurry to act without thought, but I am not ruling out moves," said.

Charlton have a good reputation in Portugal after the signing of Jorge Costa from Porto.

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CURBISHLEY: Reports

It was the fans complaining not the club.

Ticket prices need to be high to get the money from Sky/BT.

If tickets were reasonable, people would go to games rather than watch them on TV.

Also the fact that most of the people watching the Premier League on tv are from overseas means dropping ticket prices wouldn't do fuck all to tv numbers. It's the same with kits, there is no fucking way it costs them anything near $50 to produce it let alone $130 and that's what they try and flog it for over here in Australia...

Stewart downing Twitter Q&A turned into shambles.
When Liverpool came up with the, perhaps not carefully thought out, idea of hosting a Twitter Q&A with Stewart Downing they obviously didn't think it would become a field day for the haters loitering in cyberspace.

Instead of gentle questions such about who was the biggest dressing room joker or who is the most difficult defender to play against (probably all of them), the #askdowning thread was besieged by fans making fun of the player even we refer to as LEFT WING JESUS in our MirrorFootball Twitter feed.

Downing has had a torrid time at Anfield since his £20million move from Aston Villa, which included failing to score a single goal or assist last season and being publicly criticised by manager Brendan Rodgers at the beginning of this campaign.

Here are a selection of some of the wise cracks aimed at the Reds winger:

@DualeAdam1 If you were a footballer, what would your preferred position be?

@Liam Payne ?Payny_01 How did you feel last season knowing Tim Howard was closer to lifting the golden boot than you?

@BillHansen28 So you left Aston Villa for Champions League football. How's that working out for you?

?@McFarlaneJordan A re you the only professional footballer to be neither footed?

@Notcarlcole On a scale of 1 to Jesus, how good are your crosses?

@Dave B MUFC ?Bowsy_How did it feel to have more arrests than assists last season?

@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?

@Jon Barbuti Which Premier League bench is the comfiest?

@Fergie's Hairdryer How do you get to the other side of the road when you don't know how to cross?

@marc sepetowski ?sepo_efc Do you consider yourself to be just as bad as jordan henderson?

@?JacobCampbell5 Did you pick number 19 because you knew it would take about 19 months before you did anything of any kind of use ?

@?Abdn_Horror_Guy If you were to transfer away from Liverpool, how many goats and cows would your new club receive in the dowry to take you?

@?lloydturner1 How do you ignore all this abuse and carry on day to day ?

I reckon it's funnier how people will lie to themselves to refuse to give Redknapp any sort of credit whatsoever

I reckon it's funnier how people will lie to themselves to refuse to give Redknapp any sort of credit whatsoever

It's often journalists who delude themselves into giving Redknapp none of the credit. - Not aimed at any one on here.

Redknapp has done a very good job so far and QPR have a very good chance of staying up, if he manages to pull it off then he should definitely be in the running for Manager of the Year.