Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

basketball is all abt racism
hockey is all abt fightin

Ha yeah, I was struggling to make a start on an XI, my bad for thinking that playing for a Big Six or England should rule you out.

xp Is this all because Rooney snubbed Ireland?!

if there is a type of player routinely neglected in english fitba its the lower table twinkletoes swansea specialize in

every honest toiler has their day

rooney didn't snub ireland he couldn't oust keane/quinn

from the past five years

given
baines
distin
dunne
??rb??
muamba
murphy
ireland
ablongahor
fletcher
zamora

seamus coleman shld be in there somewhere i guess.

wld have said downing or young for width but they dont count any more. would have said n'zonzi instead of muamba for DM but was going for the 'kinda british thing.

oh shit distin obv not british. chuck in taylor for lols.

Given/Dunne/Ireland not British either, you imperialist dog

eh you knew what i was going for

Fletcher has maybe been a bit of a sicknote, which may've scared bigger clubs away. This run has been the longest sustained period of fitness he's managed with Wolves. He's better than a goal poacher but not a complete forward by any means, one of those guys who gets himself in the right spot and has the talent and composure to convert the chances he gets, but imo he goes missing for stretches - he's never gonna be the team engine. But if he can score 15 plus in a Prem season that's a valuable commodity right there.

you're lucky ilf doesn't tend toward the hypersensitivity of the rest of the site with that attitude imo

i didnt go through the ronaldinho bottle opener wars for nothing

i didn't presume you suffered it just to thumb yr nose at 800 years of persecution tbh

The ilf gender thread will be a treat.

http://www.epltalk.com/media/2011/01/andy-gray-richard-keys.jpg

lock thread

we fuckin had it, i took a break afterwards ffs

'how can I be sexist, totti is one of my favourite players?'

interesting that the sky sports news ticker doesn't reveal the nature of ravel morrison's alleged twitter comments. they're just "twitter comments".

do they mention that they're homophobic at least? I mean I wouldn't expect them to break out the other f word.

loves his banter does ravel

not to my knowledge. every time i've seen it mentioned, from when he was charged to today, they haven't mentioned homophobia once. not on the scrolling ticker anyway.

It's a long word innit

longsight word

Walter Smith for Wolves!

He's still not favourite though, that's Steve Bruce

If you just want to stay up and don't care how mind-numbingly tedious the process of staying up is, I'd go with Smith over Bruce

or mick mccarthy

This is looking less and less like a masterstroke with each passing lol

Is it just the short term thing or is something else happening in these interviews that sends candidates running and screaming? Except Brucey of course.

being expected to outperform mmc with those players, tbh

Not a Herculean task for a good manager

well find me an honest man etc

Meanwhile having made one league appearance this season, well known spelling mistake Fraizer Campbell is called up to the England squad. Psycho by name!

Goalkeepers: Scott Carson (Bursaspor), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Robert Green (West Ham United)

Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Leighton Baines (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Micah Richards (Manchester City), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur)

Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Stewart Downing (Liverpool), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), James Milner (Manchester City), Scott Parker (Tottenham Hotspur), Ashley Young (Manchester United), Theo Walcott (Arsenal)

Forwards: Darren Bent (Aston Villa), Fraizer Campbell (Sunderland), Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck (Manchester United)

no dawson, king, lennon, no credibility

How is Scott Carson doing, does anyone actually have a clue?

No doubt little Frank will point to the sky and think of his dear old mum when he makes a triumphant return to the squad as captain under uncle 'arry.

How many right backs does one squad need??

How is Scott Carson doing, does anyone actually have a clue?

Don't know but I'd be praying Joe Hart doesn't get injured before the Euros

Smalling and Jones aren't really right backs tbf (apart from in the way that every Utd player is in a spiritual sense)

lol love the concept, even though i may have invented it

Smalling and Jones aren't really right backs tbf

Rooney is though

huh? fraizer campbell?

funnily enough quite a lot of the google results for "team of right-backs" are from Spurs forums. There are a few ilx ones in there as well though (including a bemused NBS asking where the where the whole thing came from)

why didnt the Ox get a call up?

never used a spurs forum just sayin

"He's played only a handful of games," Pearce said of Oxlade-Chamberlain.

"Alex is playing extremely well for the under-21s and if we elevated him into the senior squad and he played for 10 minutes then I can't see what the footballing education would be."

of course logically most teams have a higher number of potential right-backs than any other position. Simply because there are more right footed players and with full-back seen as a lower risk position than centre-back you're more likely to get non-specialist players filling in there in the case of injury

this is an outrage