Sheriff Kimbo's Thursday Thoughts #12

As an Aston Villa fan with Tottenham coming to town on Saturday, I am understandably hoping that they have scored all their goals for the week!

There has been a lot of talk about Jermaine Defoe since that, and his five-goal performance. It was undoubtedly quality. His ability in the box is great to watch, and he is definitely a danger to the opposition. He should also be on that plane to South Africa. But for me, anyone that thinks Defoe is world class or anything else is lacking something in the brain department. He is a world class finisher, but his overall play will not be good enough when England try to win the World Cup, and it doesn't match up to a Rooney, Torres, Drogba or a Van Persie. There are reasons he will never play for a Champions League club - unless Spurs can crack the top four. I am not having a go at him, I am just saying that his five goals against a dismal Wigan do not make him better than what he was before, and neither does his hat-trick against a poor Hull. Defoe has some real quality in his game, but his overall game will never be good enough to make him an absolute top-draw striker.

Whatever you think of Roy Keane, he is very rarely wrong in his rants. His anti-Sky, anti-Richard Keys etc rant is one of my favourites. Recently, there was the press conference that Sky Sports News covered. Now if they had more to fill up their twenty four hour, seven days a week schedule then they may not have made such a big deal about it but they don't and therefore they did! Now they made a big deal about two points, and one of them was that he told a reporter off about having his mobile not switched off or on silent - was he wrong? Of course not! He also wasn't wrong when he suggested that Ireland's defending for the Gallas goal was woeful.

Now part of me is angry that Henry did what he did, and part of me thinks the officials really should have realised when every Ireland player put their hand up that it was indeed a handball. But let's face it, the ball should never have got to that position and every Ireland player should NOT have had their hands up, they should have been playing to the whistle. Ireland had their chances and blew it, I'm afraid. That said, in their defence - it was an offside to begin with as well!

On that subject, I know 're-tweeting' is usually reserved for Twitter, but I felt the need to share this: "@LaurasiPhone: Thierry Henry, I'm happy for you and imma let you finish, but Diego Maradona had the best handball of ALL time.". Very funny indeed!

Speaking of funny…. I heard that after Paul Scharner deliberately handballed the ball to score for Wigan on Sunday that Wigan did the honourable thing and offered for the game to be replayed.

Well it is good to be back. I hope the announcement on Sunday isn't that Sheriff Kimbo will not be allowed to post on here anymore….!