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

everything the naysayers said about him was true, that he's negative, that he can't win away, that he's not proven at top level.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:52 (3 minutes ago)

that was obviously true, he wasn't a success at inter, but if he wasn't appointed then the other choices were similarly unproven

de jong tryin to get a second booking for encroaching on a corner kick? Fuckin clown.

rvp pushing him in the face was funny tho

yep

Sorry Arsenal, you're great but there's only one game to be watching for the rest of the evening

am taking a couple of co-codamol to get thru the next half hour

city not afraid of launching into tackles in the box, all good so far but can see a peno happening

just to be clear, liverpool got 63 points last year. to beat that they'd have win 13 out of 18 games after tonight. they lost 11 games last year and unless they rescue this tonight it's 9 lost already this season.

x-post fair point nakh, i'm not saying it was a bad appointment, just that you know, it hasn't worked out. good luck to roy but i don't have a huge deal of sympathy for managers, they get huge payoffs.

just a thought for lg....would u rather finish 17th this season and 4th next, or 5th this season and 5th next?

not thinking abt managers here necessarily

no he's not. "about as well"=way lower points total. rafa would never lose at home to wolves/blackpool etc.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:55 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

In fairness, against the teams that finished bottom five last season, Liverpool lost to Portsmouth and Wigan and drew with Hull. Wolves are the only current bottom five team Woy's dropped points against as Liverpool manager.

jo wtf get up you dick

I was in Currys today and the HD tellys were all replaying that night in Istanbul, which I like to think is some kind of sign

great strike from rvp saved well by hart, two of the top 100 players in world football there

rvp has such a nice striking technique

that is a football reference etc

we competed with Liverpool at Anfield for 45 minutes last season too, only got beat after Ward got himself stupidly sent off. Held them to a draw at Molineux playing well again.

city playin with 11 behind the ball, fuck this noise

oh man my obvious act of trolling worked a treat

fucking hell I think Grant might yet make it out the door before Woy does

kean next

newcastle five up

this is like watching ireland (man city) play a big euro superpower

hard question nakh...i can't really answer out of context, and things like how much money is made available by the neo yanks would be a factor.

btw leon best hat trick wtf

x-post to nv not saying rafa wouldn't do badly at anfield, i just feel there's a vulnerability there since roy came that is at a far more serious level than it was when it first seeped in last year under raf

x-post to sam if you think obvious trolling is clever why don't you just start denying the holocaust or something.

also just had my brother say he might throw me out for suggesting that jose mourinho may be a better tactician than 'arry, even after my brother made the point that real lost to barca.

Newcastle goal: A night to remember for Leon Best, who completes his hat-trick

the term, i believe, is 'lol'

sam, when ppl cant tell yr posting from yr 'trolling' it's a problem

Alan Pardew in at Liverpool, everyone's a winner.

never said it was clever. just want to add some gunpowder to the fireworks display put on for woy's send off

xpost

yeah in all honesty I don't think there's anything to indicate Rafa would've done worse at Liverpool than he did last season, but I do think it was time for a change.

And there's the third Blackburn goal.

cunt

ah come on, woy failed, we can all enjoy the scouse revolt

West Ham wiping out their favourable (in bottom 5 terms) goal difference in one match. Kind of amazing that Blackpool are only five points off the bottom of the current table.

Best made his first Premier League start for Newcastle against West Ham United on 5 January 2011, scoring 90 goals in the process, his first goals for the club

just think liverpool fanz should adjust to thinking about next season and the need to get back in the cl

they will end this season in midtable whatever happens, roy will almost certainly leave before next season.....but it's after that where thing really get difficult, liverpool surely need cl money but with city and spurs resurgent it's a lot harder than it was during the rafa 'big four' years....

Q. Has Hodgson done himself more damage in the last 5 months than he's done to Liverpool?

rip dimatteo and eyebrow too

on any other night wolves 1 0 chelsea would be quite the story

and avram

tomorrow is going to be phil mcnulty overload of joy

rafa wouldn't have done worse and hell, could have got them back playing again. but i agree, rafa had become frustrating. roy hasn't brought any real change though.

this season is a write off imo. and it's going to be incredibly hard to get back into the CL. the thing i cling to is the fact the club makes a lot of money and is now debt free. there should be money there.

xxpost

SHHHHHH THERE'S 15 HOURS TO GO YET IN MY HEAD

fuckin utd if it all stays like this

Rvp broek

City look to be struggling more than most teams with Arsenal's short passing, like a one-twos is some amazing new trick they've never seen before.

Q. Has Hodgson done himself more damage in the last 5 months than he's done to Liverpool?

― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:13 (29 seconds ago) Bookmark

Depends. His record at international level pretty much speaks for itself, any third tier European nations (Belgium, Israel, Ireland) could do a lot worse than take him on board as gaffer, see if he can repeat his Switzerland exploits.

spurs have 4th locked if they get a winner imo.

apparently Bale has broeken tho

onimo well said....arsenal playing triangles a lot of the first half

anyway i don't think there's a huge difference between liverpool finishing 5th or 15th, either way they miss out on cl and torres (and maybe others) leave

who will be next pool manager? surely they aren't stupid enough to give it to dalgleish?

rvp is alright just a heavy landing

3-0

I think I said ages ago that as long as Rafa got them in the CL each season I don't think the yanks gave a shit if they were 1st or 4th. This probably holds true of most of the clubs in with a shout of a top 4 finish?

15th/midtable is NOT the worst-case scenario here ffs

what about bale?

Ps england fit into that international insp slade