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

I'm not sure that Chelsea's ENTIRE FUCKING FRONT LINE can really shift the blame that easily.

Can you name the Premier League goalkeepers with the most appearances by club?

A frankly hopeless 46 out of 126. Blind spot well and truly exposed here. I didn't actually miss that many big names, but I've got to be disappointed not to get at least half of those.

he'll be disappointed with that

really should've made the keeper, the-big-lad-what's-his-name, work there

I only got 49. Big ones I forgot - Barthez, Shaka Hislop, Scott Carson, Kevin Pressman, Thomas Sorensen. For some reason it wouldn't accept Chris Kirkland, only Christopher Kirkland, so I actually got 50.

got 78. spelt kuszczak correctly with 2 seconds remaining. got some pretty tricky ones, also missed out on (reversed coz not to spoil) a few sorts like moop tram, namdeh sungam and imein ittna, which left me feeling somewhat embarrassed, also forgot dudek haha

only shut-outs were swindon and wimbledon

i lie; barnsley was a shut-out too

imein ittna

he's no finished he's only 28!

dnaltocS rof imein ittna

You scored at the 96th percentile

awesome

my least-guessed get, btw? yad sirhc :D

rot13 ffs

OH MY GOD WHAT IS EVERTONS CURRENT KEEPER CALLED I CAN SEE HIS FACE SO CLEARLY IN MY MIND AND YET... must not wiki...
OH MY GOD WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BALD FELLA WHO WAS FRENCH KEEPER WHO WON THE WORLD CUP AND WENT TO UTD BETWWEN SCHMIC AND VDS... must not wiki...

etc.

GAH. Biggest team I blanked was Everton. 53 although I remember trying Fulop... must have mispelt it. One I am genuinely annoyed with missing the most: Paddy Kenny.

pro-tip for a happy life: never forget paddy kenny

new ilf board description

Matt, I got 49 in the goalkeeper quiz too. I couldn't remember Kasey Keller's name. Misspelt Fulop. And Jaaskelainen (repeatedly).

Arsenal fans are expected to give the Stoke player a barrage of abuse, but Stoke chairman Peter Coates said: 'Ryan has got over it. He has overcome any difficulties presented to him and everyone has seen how well he has been doing for us.'

Given that that quote's clearly a response to a reporter's question about Shawcross, I can't really find anything specifically objectionable about it

101, think I got at least one for every club tho the Oldham one was sort of by accident. Dunno what my least got was, but at a guess it'd be either Barnsley or Burnley's second choice.

NB it is generally possible to just put surnames for Sporcle quizzes, which I think boosted my score by at least two.

superb effort nonetheless

Yeah, I noticed that too. I got 71, one of the Leicester ones was my least got one.

"Sam Allardyce's sacking by Blackburn is a bit like a fat girl having a one-night stand - they should have been grateful to be there at all but now wronged, they feel worthy of better." - James Olley, today's Evening Standard

(the report ended "He'll be back. Fat girls rarely go without.")

dude needs to get beaten into unconsciousness imho

WHO'S WITH ME

#getjamesolleysacked

the littlejohn memorial week of extreme press offensiveness rolls on unabated

did u just c&p that from the evening standard thread or is it ~synchronicity~

evening standard is all wrong

we used to lol at the metro cuz there'd occasionally be a tramp nesting in about a dozen torn copies on the train back from school, but that service rendered to the mendicant community is more than the evening standard has ever done for anyone, ever

vile, vile rag

lol bad writing in a free paper

nah that's a given but not so much the relentless crudity, nor the unwanted insight into james olley /olley james / random hackbloke's depraved mental firnament in which BIG SAM is substituted with FAT GIRL

you having been a schoolchild seems a bit wrong somehow

lol fat

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/std/siteimages/eveningstandard/columnists-2/james.olley.gif

perhaps big sam should invoke the spirit of allen ginsberg and summon up a u.s. sugar daddy to rid him of the indian poultry interlopers and reinstall him:

"America when will you send your eggs to India?"

did u just c&p that from the evening standard thread or is it ~synchronicity~

― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:33 (1 hour ago)

ahahahaha no I headed str8 here :D

three laotian drug traffickers have been sentenced to a combined 54 years in prison for a botched attempt to import siamese cats made of heroin

namdeh sungam, 42, moop tram, 37 and imein ittna, 34, claimed that they had befriended the 'lonely' cats in a duty free shop [reuters]

Coming late to the party: I got a miserable 43 goalkeepers. I spent ages trying to remember the wobbly-legged penalty-saving Polish keeper from Liverpool's 2005 season, but it just wouldn't come to me. For some reason I couldn't imagine *anyone* in goal for Spurs, and only eventually got Darragh's all-time favourite because I was thinking of Leeds.

There's something incredibly depressing about the fact that Ian Walker still has the most Premiership appearances in the Spurs goal.

LJ you missed another pearler by that Olley dude in the same column, re Tevez and City's general profligacy

"By dressing up in their sluttiest lingerie and highest heels to entice the best players to take advantage of their assets, they leave themselves open to being used."

gomes, having fucked up again at the weekend, is still the goalkeeper i've most confidence in since i can remember. Espen baardsen was ok but never got a run iirc. Sullivan was brilliant for his first season then got jittery, robinson much the same. Walker let in soft goals too. Dont think any of them made up for their shortcomings with regular saves a la gomes

enjoying mencap's move from high concept showpiece dns to bawdy englisher injokes

LJ you missed another pearler by that Olley dude in the same column, re Tevez and City's general profligacy

"By dressing up in their sluttiest lingerie and highest heels to entice the best players to take advantage of their assets, they leave themselves open to being used."

― ITV2: Jimlectric Beglinoo (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:09 (53 minutes ago)

O_O

makes our rape/rake jokes look terribly tame, we've really got to step up the appalling sexism.

just gonna formally request that this thread, of all ile threads, doesn't become that discussion.

i will even beg

anyone watching itv4 right now? haha playing in an inch of snow

What game? I would have enjoyed watching that.

that was painful to watch, turned off after 10mins

yall

why is david o'leary so hated/so crap?

didn't pay a lot of attn to football in beween 2000-2007

thought leeds in last 4 of cl was an achievement tho....

why is david o'leary so hated/so crap?

Just off the top of my head:

1)He really overused the 'they're just a bunch of kids' excuse to justify any shortcomings of his team circa 2000

2)He looked like a pig

I'm sure there was more to it than that, though

http://i53.tinypic.com/91f14g.jpg

haaaaa