Liverpool still won't win the premiership (2007/08 edition)

lol at idea of Spurs doing better with English manager

fixed for the current reality under a dutch manager.

with the money spending, most decent managers would have a better squad, to be blunt.

Like those managers who did so well establishing Leeds and Newcastle as stable top-four clubs, you mean?

Also lol Ian Holloway - "tell all the WAGs we've got a new shopping centre down here in Plymouth".

United's striker crisis is self-imposed. they should have bought a substitute for Saha, not another Rooney (bit like us last year with Gallas). But they'll be up there in May.

errrrrrrrrrr surely another Rooney was a genius move since he's going to miss at least 8 games???!?!?!

You have Strachan, we'll take Jol (xp)

we just need park ji sung to be fit again.

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he's immense at pro evo 6.

"tell all the WAGs we've got a new shopping centre down here in Plymouth".

haha not really related but i've been there that new shopping centre is shit!!!!

yesh, i can finish besht of the resht after shpending more than mosht.

letsh buy another shtriker, and make jenash captain.

i just amn't seeing it.

we were lucky last year to finish where we did, and fukd up over the summer. what would spurs supporters out there be happy with this season under jol?

5th again?

6th?

7th and the league cup?

we'll be lucky to finish 8th this year with that midfield.

blackburns squad looks pretty nifty again this year

I'm trying to read that as Jol but it keeps turning into Sean Connery.

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i think everton and blackburn are the uefa cup spots this year, they both look very solid.

in my head it was pretty dutch, onimo.

Everton and Blackburn both look like Chelsea before Roman at the moment, solid if never spectacular. Which I suppose is what the kids want these days.

i'm having no problemsh at all reading it ash mishter jol

I'm trying to read that as Jol but it keeps turning into Sean Connery.

I thought he was drunk!

'Everton and Blackburn both look like Chelsea before Roman at the moment, solid if never spectacular. Which I suppose is what the kids want these days.'

Oi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6b71ooeBRo

Second the good Jol impression.

solid if never spectacular

wtf, chelsea pre-abramovich were just about the most unpredictable, inconsistent team in the premiership, beating man u 5-0 one day and losing to derby (or watford) the next, plus they had ZOLA ffs, and MARIO STANIC who did one thing in his career, viz. score one of the best, most outrageous goals i've ever seen.

Yeah I never thought I'd say this but Lou1s J@gger OTM. If anyone is going to be Chelsea pre-Abramovich it is probably Spurs :/

one of the best, most outrageous goals i've ever seen

Indeed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7WyqIrx_4

I'm not sure there's been an Everton or a Blackburn in recent Premiership history - stable, well-managed clubs who look like consolidating in or around the UEFA Cup spots without ever looking like making that extra jump.

Also in looking back blimey Everton nearly went down the year before they finishe fourth. I'd forgotten about that.

Chelsea were not THAT inconsistent pre Roman. probably no more than Liverpool at the time.

i think this 'Spurs lucky to finish 5th' thing is hogwash also. they were more unlucky to finish 5th after the food poisoning debacle.

this one is quite good too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNdefw7u-Eo

that was the other one i distinctly remember, cheers ken

not even going to bother linking zola ones

wao steed

i feel sorry for sammy lee but he just LOOKS like a shit manager

3-0 in 11 minutes.

Could Man U's 9-0 be under threat?

Watching this live on the internet (god bless the 21st Century) - Spurs look SO much better now. Huddlestone especially, when he's on form, plays like a harder Michael Carrick and totally dictates the game. Wayne Routledge is playing well too - see what I mean about playing ppl in position and actually using your massive squad if there are injuries?

Bolton are going down, I'm calling it. Revising my earlier table, I think Birmingham will stay up now, ditto Fulham.

Bolton play like a good team unmotivated at the moment, I'm sure getting rid of Little Sam will have them finish, I dunno, 15th or something.

Warnock at Bolton by the end of the season then?

What the fuck is David Pleat doing on Five Live? If I hear him say 'Chimbomba' one more time I'm going to break my machine.

Warnock at Bolton is depressingly inevitable, although I'd like to see them keep Big Sam's heritage alive by picking some disgraced cast-aside foreign manager instead. The match-fixing guy from Austria or something.

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Mido scores on his Boro debut, lol Tony Warner fuckup again.

WTF is going on at Wigan? Antoine Sibierski of all people with three in three.

Not going to get too carried away with a result against a very poor Derby side, but I'm still pretty happy. Adel Taarabt looks like a top-class player in the making.

This is because Sibierski is in my Fantasy Football team.

Said to the missus in the car as we were listening to the pre-match preview on Five Live - "this'll be about 4-0". I believe the Pinefox was there. I hope he wasn't late.

Usual Everton on Sky Sports News Sat afternoon experience - Charlie Nicholas (or Peter Reid or Phil Thompson or whoever): "It's all Everton, Jeff." For 20min. Still "nil" though.

have Newcastle really not scored a goal at home in the league since February?

As far as I am concerned, Sven-Goran Eriksson is just another City manager,' he said. 'That's all. Carlos Queiroz knows more about him than I do. There's a few people tried the England job and a few people tried the City job.

... Are you surprised he came back to work in England, after the grief he went through with the national team? 'No, I think he probably got a better financial offer in England,' Ferguson said. 'I think that will be far more suitable to Sven.'

Ooh this is going to be good.

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mourinho still paying off referees, nice to see

Worst penalty decision ever. Malouda is a cheat.

Well, by all accounts Malouda wasn't actually appealing for it.

Essien has also apparently received two yellow cards without being sent off...

Liverpool have conceded twice as many pens in the first two games of this league season as they did in the whole of 06-07. Now, I can't believe Liverpool defenders genuinely only committed one foul in their own box in 38 games last season so, maybe, there's some cosmic balancing goin' on. Having said that, daftest pen since...Gerrard was fouled by a phantom in the Sheff U box last August.

sickening.

Fuck off Styles.

Ha ha ha.

Soft penalty at Anfield shock! Revenge for when Molby upended wee Pat Nevin in 87 and the ref played on...

We never forget.

Mourinho in 'still banging on about the 2005 Champions League' shocker.

I guess sometimes ridiculous decisions go against you and sometimes Steven Gerrard gets a free kick on the edge of the penalty area for bumping into somebody and then asking for a free kick.

Nah, they got fucking rinsed, Torres looks useful though.

"You're So Violent" Jens Lehmann continues to amuse.

Somebody really needs to make a GIF of Ferguson standing up in triumph thinking Tevez had scored and then slowly adopting the wounded outrage of a child whose ice cream's just fallen onto the floor.