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

i spend my life vmic. Ppl make allowances eventually.

Essien was never yr creative midfielder, he did (and will do again) everything else you's want from your centre and more.

baird!

West Brom are fucking beautiful.

This is probably getting boring now, but West fucking Brom. Had a throw in near their own goal, left back took it, they passed their way out of their own box, Scharner ran it out and passed it across to the left back who had bombed on after taking the throw... just making everything they do look so effortless. The midfield's so fluid! They're a joy to watch.

The midfield's so fluid! They're a joy to watch.

1621: GOAL West Brom 1-3 Blackburn (Mame Diouf)

srsly

what'd kboul do?

head butt on Tiote. More like an agressive head rub than a butt, to be honest. They were both jawing and Kaboul pushed his noggin onto Tiote's face. At least Tiote didn't go down like he was shot or anything.

Blackpool are 15 points away from the magic 40, assuming this is the end result. And West Brom 18. Surely they must do it....

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smh lichaj

xp
BBC liveblogger dissing Super Mario for shame!

Or perhaps it was meant as a compliment?

tap in and two penos tbf

Spurs should start every game with ten men and a one-goal deficit IMO.

traditionally they play as if that were already the case

7pts between 18th and 8th. is that normal or a bit low for this time of year?

Shit could still get rocky for Blackpool, they have a small squad and a growing fixture backlog, but I'd be overjoyed to see them stay up. West Brom I think have enough to make it pretty comfortably in the end. I'm having difficulty seeing anyone other than the three Ws going down at the moment.

no, that's more what I'd expect at, say, that start of November xp

rip gerard houllier

*the start of November

RIP Avi Cohen

Seven points separating the top five seems unusual as well. It's just a condensed, inconsistent league this year.

not that it'll happen but if Bolton leapfrog Chelsea w/ Spurs legitimately ahead of both I'll prolly frame a copy of that table to look at during the bad times

Spurs' first clean sheet in the league since the opening day v Man City.

looking at their upcoming fixtures i can't see many games from which blackpool definitely won't get points. don't want to tempt fate but with west brom, birmingham, sunderland again - reckon they could be safe by mid-feb.

Phil McNulty reports: "West Ham boss Avram Grant will want his side to build on the Boxing Day victory at fellow Premier League strugglers Fulham to make it an excellent Christmas programme and ease any lingering doubts about his position, although they must do it against an Everton team that have proved a thorn in their side in the past. Everton counterpart David Moyes is hoping their outstanding win at Manchester City will finally inject momentum into their season, and they will be well rested after the Boxing Day meeting at home to Birmingham City was a victim of the big freeze."

= west ham want to win
= everton want to win

thanks phil

how the fuck is avram grant still employed

houllier, grant or ancelotti next to go?

this is no longer just the most terrible game I've seen all season, it's the most terrible game and West Ham are winning. stream closed.

West Ham managed to climb out of relegation for all of 26 minutes there.

Everton looking much better than their league position suggests </footballing cliche>

'Too Good To Go Down' watch update:

1 Wolves, Some Wolves fan, 21 September
2 West Ham, Harry Redknapp, 24 September
3 Everton, Phil Neville, 27 September
4 Birmingham, Alexander Hleb, 4 October

'Not Too Good To Go Down' watch:

1 Liverpool, Football 365, 4 October
2 Fulham, One F In Fulham, 18 December
3 Aston Villa, Everywhere, last couple of days

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 9:55 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i made a huge mistake earlier on with a double on the manchester teams today. before remembering how shit man u's away record is/how decent birmingham's home record is. goodbye £50 :(

nah utd will win that

ye of little faith

Yeah, there's no way United aren't winning tonight - Birmingham being dire + Utd hitting form + City going top = perfect alignment of planets

you can't've got great odds on that double though

im essentially too stingy to gamble anything over a fiver.

£64 pounds profit if it comes in. i liked to go for short odds, that's usually were the money is imo. put £2 on ridic accumulators, fiver on first goalscorers/score anytime, and £20-50 on doubles.

7pts between 18th and 8th. is that normal or a bit low for this time of year?

It was 14 points this time last season, 7 the one before, and 15 the one before that.

Seven points separating the top five seems unusual as well. It's just a condensed, inconsistent league this year.

10 last season, 10 the one before, and 11 the one before that.

faubert just did one of the most malcoordinated things I've ever seen on a football field

What was it? Egg-and-spoon race while warding off swarm of flies and hopping? Relying on u here.

ball nodded back to him from edge of pen box to near corner quadrant, had the option of checking back, first-time cross or trapping and winning corner off defender...but he chose to try and beat the defender first-time around the back despite having abt 2 yards of space and basically bundled the ball out for a goal-kick in as comprehensive a fashion as I have ever seen

viking sagas have been written of less, I know

* 01 Van der Sar
* 03 Evra
* 05 Ferdinand
* 15 Vidic
* 21 Rafael Da Silva
* 08 Anderson
* 11 Giggs
* 16 Carrick
* 28 Gibson
* 09 Berbatov
* 10 Rooney

idk how that works as a 442

is scholes broken still

also wingers are so passe

some ppl who deserve to be given to unit 731

phil mcnulty
avram grant
'wazza'
anyone associated with birmingham city