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

What with all the postponements, City beat Everton on Monday and they're top at Christmas

for the first time since 1927 or something according to the bbc earlier.

Gah. It's a remarkable turnaround for the crisis-club-before-Chelsea anyway. They've been top of the Third Division more recently than 1927 of course.

xmas 27 was shit iirc

ramsay mcdonald fedexed a box of his own shit to alf fotheringdale, salford polenta magnate and a city nonexec, in protest at their conniving ways

popularity was only restored when bert trautmann renounced hitler and delighted postwar crowds with his agility both on the field and in the music halls

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Football stars including John Terry and Frank Lampard were snooped on by Greenpeace protesters -because they drive "Chelsea tractors".

Wayne Rooney was also targeted for having a 4x4 as a status symbol, according to former MI5 agent Chris Penhaligon - who was recruited by the sneaky eco-warriors to do the spying.

The astonishing claims come in his new book One Blood, where he reveals activists compiled detailed dossiers on stars and their WAGs who drive gas-guzzling 4x4s.

The files included where they lived, trained, shopped and even bought petrol. Former soldier Chris said: "The plan was to clamp their luxury 4x4s, tie themselves to the vehicles or block them in.

"I spent quite a bit of time at Cobham, where Chelsea train, and Stamford Bridge, targeting players who had 4x4s.

"Other teams were in Manchester and Liverpool in a co-ordinated attack against the top clubs."

The astonishing claims come in his new book One Blood, where he reveals activists compiled detailed dossiers on stars and their WAGs who drive gas-guzzling 4x4s.

DO SOMETHING BETTER WITH YR LIVES

spurs game cancelled.??

all 3 are

motd2 is gonna be EXCITING

100 greatest comedy haircuts

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nah seriously think if they could've only clamped Lampsy's suv then the scales wd fall from the public's eyes and global warming would end by Tuesday

100 greatest games with an orange ball

lol darragh u lightweight

good morning darragh, how is the head?

not got that far yet tb

Shearer: do you want me to stay?
Logan: for the rest of the evening.

When asked what chance there was of him taking the reins at Rovers, Shearer replied: "Jol in."

The brightest of orange snow balls was out for PSG-Monaco last night xp, which pleased me. So much so that I scrambled about for a good few minutes trying to get the perfect stream purely to see the ball in its best glory, and thereby missed what should've been PSG's winner. WHEN GEEKERY GOES WRONG.

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how does cesc compare in the ranks of inspirational captains compared to such luminaries as keane, vieira, terry, gerrard?

he is only 23, too

not inspirational, imo. Great footballer and all, but too self-focused to be that guy as yet.

none of the luminaries were 'that guy' at 23 iirc

i'm gonna say first three outta four were well on the way tho.

i'm not sure 'inspirational captain' is much of a thing outside england

milan are the most successful club of recent decades, in some respects a model for how to run (though not finance) a football team, and they usually award the captaincy to the player who has been at the club the longest

it is of course a great honour, but it doesn't mean ambrosini suddenly goes from loyal utility player to monpolizing shouty 'big man', rather he seems to be merely one of a group of senior players who fulfill the functions traditionally accorded to the english 'captain'

the furore about which overvalued big four big man would hold the england captaincy was merely shuffling of deckchairs

i dunno if you dont have a big man shoutin then how do the other guys know when to try?

Dunno how far back you are goin with milan refs, but baresi maldini and gattuso tick most captain boxes?

maldini is the exact opposite of a risible caterwauler like terry.

i guess i probably do undervalue the 'inspirational' qualities of people like terry, cuz i think they're cunts and distrust the overemphasis and manipulation of 'passion' in english football.

you could see vs tottenham that terry's indefatigibility and presence do count for something, but enshrining it in the numinous role of a single captain seems stupid

chelsea is like a malign gerontocracy, senior players rutting with each other and periodic slumps which probably correspond to inane internecine wrangles. the drogba/ballack squabble of a few years ago probably happens all the time.

expect to see more rutting when tevez is 'stripped of the captaincy' and de jong/bary/kompany etc becomes the new 'big man'.

or don't see, because english clubs are well run ships. everything subject to pr supervision, and almost no public training sessions.

I actually want City to do this tonight.

Tevez back in btw

tevez, smallest big man in the history of football, keeps the captaincy

nb 'big man' is a concept related but not identical to 'bigness'

i'm suspicious, i feel that 'big man' is, unlike 'bigness', a very broad term. i'm sure there are big men no taller than 5'5 out there.

yeah i mean engelbert dolfuss was like 4'10 or something

they've all got 'little man syndrome' though

Man City asleep to start. Wonderfully horrible start. Love it.

hate when andy gray tips come up

:)

v nice

better than nasri tbh

Beautiful goal. Lovely, lovely shot by Baines.

From Paul Scholes is the best tackler in the Game on 606: "Cahill is more dangerous in the air than an aeroplane caught in a snow blizzard."

nice to see cahill getting the shit kicked out of him so far. odious little fuck

anichebe not fit for purpose

PHIL 'BIG PHIL' MCNULTY: Paul Scholes is the best tackler in the Game 'A 606 LEGEND'

oh lol just switched on

:-)

So far, this is one of the great party-pooping performances of modern times.

ay, me? leo s tevez?

that was frombbc liveblogging legend jonathan 'jonno' stephenson