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

Mind you I wanna see if Hansen pops a blood vessel on MotD

and Gooners outraged that a visiting side assembled at an unprecedented cost of approaching half a billion pounds played for a draw instead of going for a win, despite knowing this would leave them further behind in the title race in this year of all years when they have their best chance of winning the league since the 1960s

just the first point is enough, fuck this city outfit

yeah yaya and tevez are champions league winners, they aren't exactly 'play for a draw' calibre

always love to see unnecessary caution over the headless Light Brigade approach

plus a team ultimately has to accept some of the blame itself when it fails to break down a team that sits back

Swear Woy's just said Liverpool attacked too much first half.

WODGSON : "WELLY, WELLY DEJECTED... IF STEPHEN'S PENO COME IN MAYBE WE'D HAVE GOT A WESULT."

2214: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini: "Before the game we wanted to win, but sometimes it happens that the other team plays better than you. I prefer one point and being booed than zero points and being applauded off the pitch."

It's better to have never loved at all, than to have loved and lost, eh?

the phone-in on the lfc channel's kinda awkward, roy evans fielding a load of 'hodgson out' calls.

noodle this wasn't omg why aren't they going gung ho, this was omg they haven't come out of their own half in the past 25 minutes

Swear Woy's just said Liverpool attacked too much first half.

"We were too offensive". Insert obvious joke.

I prefer one point and being booed than zero points and being applauded off the pitch.

is that still a stealth arsenal dig when city were playing arsenal tonight

How were Chelsea, by the way? Seems kind of a sideshow tonight.

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nah I'm semi-trolling hoy I get why y'all are pissed but like I said sometimes you have to break teams down

word on bale so far? Sorry for botherin yis an all

606-substitute trailer: "Hodgson ... Ancelotti ... Grant ... Houllier - but we're also talking hmv, is this the death of the record shop on the high street?"

"Phil in Blackburn"

Can't believe there's only 23 hits on Google for "Wodgeson".

stupid offside from crouch

All spurs in these extended highlights, all possession ending at jenas or crouch. Wasters.

Not sure what Zabaleta got sent off for other than pish refereeing

racism fact

did the ref even hear what he said? couldn't read his lips.

jesus I thought Hodgson was at least able to organise a defence.

u can tell by sagna's reaction to him that zabaleta was racist, is the theory?

btw u should chill on mick he's doing a very fine job

"very fine" is stretching it. I dunno man, I always say judge the guy by his results but I don't see v. much progress this season despite the money he's had to spend, he's tactically v. rigid and has some weird favourites in the squad. On the plus side we've been a shade unlucky at times this season (but fuck it luck starts with organising yr defence and not shipping soft goals) and we look pretty tidy when we keep the ball and press to get it back (but still lacking a lot of guile in breaking teams down)

you can spend 500m and lack guile. Feel that wolves have been better than results so far but there's a hell of a pace being set at the bottom and all-in-all i think most of the managers of the pre-season relegation faves are outperforming their established pl countrrparts.

Bale out, but dont look too bad. 'clever' tackle by honest phil neville jarred his back.

Like last season I do wonder if there's a decline at the top or an improvement at the bottom of the league and like last season I think it's a bit of both

Actually to be fair we are playing better football than last season, but poor defending is unforgiveable imo. Two or three howlers we got away with tonight.

yeah serious contraction.

Spurs defending is shocking tonight. Only dealin with counter but no tracking, no marking, no nothing

ekotto is being killed out there by coleman, and he doesnt rly care

fantastic run and hit from crouch, shit head for a big man tho

wasteful as fuck in the air, I think he shuts his eyes.

lol as i typed that he nodded the assist across for VdV

he wants burning for getting offside there tho

means fuck all tho, % wise his aerial return is negligible

Aw fuck that coleman goal is just cuntish. Vdv let hm in to nod a rebound. Soft as fuck.

Coleman's a rizla from being offside there

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reckon beckham would be better than abt 75% of credible alternatives for the manager's job

not a challop

Sure he'd be great as a man manager, no idea what his tactical ability wd be but you could always cover that.

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sayin not a challop does not negate a ridic challop

look at guardiola, the recent players know best amirite

haha but srsly, beckham has played in the big 3 leagues and is sharper than everyone thinks - plus there ain't anyone else coming to mind - give him a shot i say

Liverpool fan is letting the side know how many they need to equalise

jesus ranger

players i subbed out of my ffl team two nights ago

Bardsley
Nani

Off top of me head, no doubt there were other disasters

Hodgson's gone.

breaking bad news

Of course, there have been rumours that he's been sacked pretty much every day since October, but sources in this case appear to be more reliable than usual.

hat trick hero leon best could have walked in build up to first

Nothin official yet chris?

Nothing official, but sources seems pretty reliable (more than usual anyway). Press conference was cut short.