NAMING RIGHTS THREAD: Liverpool really won't win the Premiership 2010-2011

Big man for a big job: Blackburn's Sam Allardyce has been tipped as the next England manager by one of his former players, Kevin Davies

‘If you speak to the players they would say they enjoyed playing under him,’ said Davies. ‘His knowledge of football is very good but he’s also very good at getting the best out of players, whether that is from a rollicking or an arm around the shoulder.

‘It’s one of his strengths. I remember going on a pre-season tour and he invited me up to his hotel suite and we had a chat and realised my confidence was low.

'He worked on that, as I’d taken a few knocks at Southampton. I realised I was basically on trial here, but he made me feel great.

‘He knows how to get you firing. I was out of shape when I got here but that soon changed and here I am now.’

worryin already about who we're gonna get to replace arry

bilic to keep the croats happy, maybe

                   gomes
corluka   dawson     kyrgiakos     aurelio
               huddlestone   palacios
kuyt                   lucas               bentley
                       crouch

he'd never play thudd

darragh, let's have a bet, i would put my fucking annual salary (meagre sum) but basically anything pool finishing outside top 7. that team is no way finishing in top 7, too inconsistent. reckon 10th is best roy will do.

anything on*

they're two points behind sunderland in 6th

hmmm.

twenty quid on top 8?

there's gonna be five points between 6th and 18th ffs, it's pure coin toss.

or, as i originally typed and took ten seconds to work out what i had done wrong, toin coss.

haha i can see 8th, at best. but in my mind i reckon liverpool come 10th/11th.

i dunno, genuinely. i think that meirelles has settled in really well with lucas in midfield, and with gerrard back torres might start firing again, and yer not that badly placed as it is.

wont miss carragher, he's a bit of a liability these days, ye've a shit left back but so does everyone cept utd and chelsea, ok midfield width's a struggle, but tbh i dont know if uncle woy has done too much wrong bar accept the lowered expectations.

koncheskey though, fuck. would take ekotto first.

this would be more of a thing if u weren't competing against bolton (probable firesale in january), sunderland & newcastle

kolarov is a good player iirc tho yet to show it at citeh between injuries and suspensions

didn't s bruce say that k richardson could be an international in his new left back position. fuck a cole.

he played lb for utd a few times

u thic xp

there was that story going round back in the day that he proposition girls in clubs by asking if they'd like to suck an england player's dick

(k rich that is)

and the anecdote suggested he was referring to his own dick rather than wayne rooney's or w/e

with the women's world cup approaching, I am imagining the gender reversal of that situation and it is oddly compelling

gods, I still have an essay to finish and I've been out bloody partying

KILLED THE THREAD YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

hey i've been out partying too, perfect time for us all to do a collaborative essay.

PERHAPS better suited for another thread, but i've read that peter hook hangs around bars talking to VERY young women about his time in joy division. although i'd be more surprised if he didn't do that.

yeah i mean unless 'very young' is a euphemism for foetuses, i dunno what you'd expect outta that cunt

ya the figure i've heard is 16, which is even legal. i expect better self-trolling from that guy tbh.

their response must run the gamut from 'who?' thru 'who?' to 'fuck off grandad'

hey lassie i played tambourine in a lonnie donegan #25 hit you know.

i kent yer faither

going to make every cunt on this thread sick apart from mysel'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61aOwigj_8E

give a newcastle fan a break btw, i was going to put some lindesfarn on but resisted.

damn u gots to vote

Tyno AsPOLLia: Songs of the Great River

lol

Radio 5 Live's 606 host Robbie Savage was recognised with an award today from the Plain English Campaign.

The Derby County midfielder who presents the nation's biggest football phone-in show every Saturday night at 6.06pm, minutes after playing, was honoured as part of the Best National Radio Programme for 606.

Chrissie Maher, the founder of the Plain English Campaign, said of Robbie Savage: "I know that some of our sports commentators are probably best out in the game rather than in the studio, but Robbie has won the hearts of people on both counts. He understands what he's talking about and he doesn't make a big deal about it. He goes on air just like when he is out on the field – straight to the point and no messing."

Shame there's not a Dour Faced Cunt Campaign Shearer can get an award off.

The Plain Englander Campaign.

http://i.imgur.com/Ph4it.jpg

Bolton (4-4-2): Jaaskelainen; Ricketts, Cahill, Knight, Robinson; Lee, Mark Davies, Holden, Petrov; Elmander, Kevin Davies. Subs: Bogdan, Steinsson, Muamba, Taylor, Klasnic, Moreno, Blake.

Blackburn (4-5-1): Robinson; Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Givet; Olsson, Emerton, Jones, Pedersen, El-Hadji Diouf; Roberts. Subs: Bunn, Dunn, Kalinic, Mwaruwari, Hoilett, Hanley, Mame Diouf.

torn loyalties here

hoping for 2-1 w/ dioufy consolation

Chrissie Maher, the founder of the Plain English Campaign, said of Robbie Savage: "(I know that) some of our sports commentators are probably best out in the game rather than in (the) studio, but Robbie has won the hearts of people on both counts. He understands (knows) what he's talking about and he doesn't make a big deal about it. He goes on air just like when he is out on the field – straight to the point (and no messing.)"

isn't 'no messing' redundant if he's being 'straight to the point'? don't tell me the campaign for real english is actually an affectation of its own

i really want to write a prank letter to the plain english campaign, complaining about their use of the word "campaign"

'samba and knight, two giants among men'

also Maher's use of parentheses (including doing the shapes with her hands) when speaking is beyond the pale

big phil jones booked for trip on big johann elmander

sometimes there can just be too much bigness

this is like two different games, a central core of titanic struggle among the bigs, the flanks left to a dainty tika-taka among the olssons and lees

Need a gif & loop of Woy's mad face rub

Found the first bit:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2dl90qs.jpg

McCarthy out?

xp How bizarre that he was shut out by the English game for so many years.

Wow, what a crazy 60 seconds.

Sorry, 48 seconds.