Anyone Who's Good Enough For Middlesbrough Won't Be On Dis Ting: SPL 2010/11

Usual places have the Celtic v Man Utd friendly up, if anyone's still awake and fancies watching Mark Wilson being shit.

Charlie Mulgrew = fearbringer.

btw, Shaun Maloney exists. 21 minutes in and his legs are still intact.

(see also: Thomas Rogne)

Looking not bad so far but I can't really be arsed watching it all.

two huge chances for Man U after I posted that :)

looks like they've got quite the good crowd there. This has been pretty decent but gosh I'm tired.

Aye. Crosas looking useful. Also <3 Shaun Maloney.

Oh, here's a good idea. Let's leave Berbatov standing on his own.

ah that was nice, probably a mistake to not bother marking Berbatov though.

Good goal from Berb. Giggs & Scholes, with a combined aged of Davie Weir, are bossing this.

OK, the dude whose stream I'm watching on Justin is about to lose his copy of the Man Utd POTY Awards 09/10 off his Sky+ box.

Decent shot by Mulgrew. now learn to defend please...

Hey Fortune we've signed a bigger non-scoring forward than you, time you looked half-interested!

Half time coverage on Man U telly makes ITV look positively professional. Is C67 this bad?

MUTV now conducting interviews with women about which shirts they like best. Fascinating stuff.

haha, xpost

oh look, it's Sami on for Fortune. One non-scorer for another non-scorer. Whoo.

"Celtic should be ahead in the their fitness as they've already played a game" - aye two days ago! Plus we've got half a team of permabroken guys. Hard to believe they're managed to get Rogne, Maloney and Wilson all running at the same time.

Sami on oh joy...

Darren O'Dea is a Bad Defender. It worries me that no-one on the staff seems to have noticed.

Yay - oh, no, offside Sami ya clown :-/

btw, link from some fud in a justin.tv chatroom:

http://www.setanta.com/ien/Articles/2010/07/15/Bullard-set-for-Rangers/gnid-72703/

You get rid of Darren O'Dea, you are left with Glenn Loovens, who is also a Bad Defender. Does Jos Hooiveld exist still?

Loovens > O'Dea imo.

Then again Caldwell > McManus > Loovens but what do I know?

Obertan has Mulgrew on toast here. Whole defence is running away from him. Thank fuck there's no-one in the SPL who can run with a ball.

114 shots in 2 minutes for Man U.

More than Tony Mowbray, imo (xpost). You're aware I'm not a huge fan of Darren O'Dea, but he never used to give me the fear this badly before he went away on loan. Loovens has less bombscarey moments, but I'm never wholly comfortable with him either. Would rate any of them over World's Slowest Man Josh Thompson though.

Saying that, comedy defence and THG 2.0 keeping Man Utd at bay there.

ooh, penalty. Who takes them now that Robbie's away?

pen!

Should have been red card tbh

nice! Bring on the new Sami, better than the old Sami!

Sami! Never in doubt (apart from the doubt written all over his face) :)

Go Sami! (don't actually go, like, not if yuo're going to run past people and cross balls in and stuff. that's useful!)

Hang on, who went off for Sami? Shaun?

Here come the Koreans (noticed a lot of Korean-based advertising hoardings, so presumably this is where they are brilliant and sell lots of jerseys)

Aye I think so. Crosas off now - we'll not bother passing it any more then...

Cha Du Ri = blimey, a speedy full back!

Hang on, what, this might have to go to penalties because Canadians don't understand the concept of draws? Madness!

Hang on pt 2 - Ben Hutchison?

Hang on pt 3 - Maloney was still on?

Shop window performance from Sami here - might be the last time we see him.

Aye Cha looked fast + good there.

Maloney just coming off now - no idea who disappeared for Sami then :)

So who went off for Sami? Is James Forrest still there?

Actually, is Scott Brown still on?

Ben Hutchison wtf

Aye I think Forest's on the right, can't really see much through the pixelation. Brown maybe? xpost aye I think so

Oh look, comedy defending :-(

Hey Darren, get the right side of your man for once, eh?

pfft total pish at the back there, you can't even call that defending.

pfft what I just said

This is better than last year when we were romping the Wembley Cup and dreaming of glory though, eh? Least this way we have no expectations to be crapped upon.

^ do not necessarily believe this

Hooray, we're still crap. Bring on teh Portugeezers :-/

+ves: Sami, Forest, Crosas, Ledley, Zaluska (though I think he could maybe have saved the 2nd one)
-ves: Fortune, O'Dea, Fortune, Wilson, Brown, Fortune

Jury out on the rest. Liked what little I saw of Cha and Ki. Where is Morten Rasmussen?

Fortune OK then (two negatives make a positive!)?

Thought Brown did OK first half, but then again, it took about 20 minutes before I noticed he wasn't even there in the second :-o

Think Sami's doing a Donati; as you said, I don't expect him to be there at the end of the window but he's doing everything to make it look like he should be.

Facebook has just suggested Jimmy Bullard to me. "Many who like Jeff Stelling also like Jimmy Bullard". :-(

i posted it in rolling wtf thread because i didn't think it should languish in our provincial thread, but i don't think that gets much traffic either. it's really a must read for anyone who likes laughing.

Was toying with the idea of a separate Vlad thread years ago, around the time of the monkeys stuff. Guy needs a wider audience than the SPL thread, def.

Getting near time for a new thread with the season kicking off in less than two weeks. Title suggestions anyone? Will we make it a generic Scottish football thread now rather than SPL?

Was toying with "Summits, Sex Offenders and Shite Football" but figured no-one would want that open in a tab at their work.

"There's no grass on it - Scottish football in 2011"

Scottish football 2010 - Oh god not another year of this rubbish...

2011, even

"tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - Scottish Football 2011

Celtic B v the jags at fir hill 3pm,tenner at the gate. Apparently going to feature 45 minutes of EMILIO. Going solo like roald dahl.

Half thinking about that. Still in close-season mode though, can't believe we kick off next week.

Aye it's ridiculous. Not complaining too much tho,my life is p empty without it!

"tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - Scottish Football 2011

― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:22 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^seconding this.

Hi thread. I've been away. Have we signed or sold a left back?

no.

izaguirre looked like he'd gained a few during the off-season today.

"Tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - rolling Scottish football 2011/12 thread

Have at it.