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

Yeah alriiiiight, easy.

scalded with hot brine-vomit

pestilence

shingles

enough about your music taste

castration with bricks

Subjected to tedious liveblog invective

guys they are worried about the gypsy wedding dress going up in flames from the battery powered butterfly decorations

best night ever

he's thinking i've got some good momentum going, i can build this up to a few SBs.

meteorites

extinction

Don't forget to rejoice Arsenal's victory LJ, it will soften the ManU blow

Chief football writer Phil McNulty at Bloomfield Road: "The whole atmosphere has changed here. Blackpool fans silent and Manchester United fans scenting an unlikely victory. Worrying injury for Rafael."

at least someone was surprised

stop posting the real McNultys, it really confuses matters in a distressing manner.

Looked a solid penalty claim at 2-0 to me. Looked more like a penalty with every replay.

Fair play to Rafael trying to stagger his way off the pitch too avoid a stoppage.

The commentators seem to have been instantly unanimous that it wasn't a penalty ('just an old-fashioned body check' said the guy on my stream). Can't really see why it wasn't, myself.

Did you have Efan Ekoku on your stream? He seems to be some perpetually stern advocate of Man Utd being allowed to do whatever they want because it's common sense.

Yes! He seemed to waver ever so slightly when he saw the replay a few minutes later ('he's not got control of the ball properly, it's not a penalty ... arguably') but it was only a momentary crack in the facade.

sounds like a fox soccer channel/fox canada stream, esp. the body check line

See I didn't even watch that game, but I guessed from the last fucking five times he's covered United. If you "wouldn't have booked him for that" maybe start your own fucking sport.

Looked like a penalty to me. Rafael was Utd's best player before Giggs came on though.

He seemed to waver ever so slightly when he saw the replay a few minutes later ('he's not got control of the ball properly, it's not a penalty ... arguably') but it was only a momentary crack in the facade.

That's pretty much what Waddle did as well. His immediate reaction was that it wasn't a penalty, they showed one replay and it confirmed his opinion (i.e. that the attacker had already lost control of the ball), then they showed another replay from behind the goal and he started to doubt himself.

was just going to post the latest Richard Keys video, only for it to have been taken down, suffice to say he used the phrases "of course he smashed it" and "anytime you would have gone round, Redknapp would have been hanging out the bag of her" while Redknapp looks embarrassed, Gullit shows much pity and Souness contemplates murder.

Has the fact that Gray is suing the NOTW been discussed on here btw?

Thread for continued speculation on l'affaire KEYSY etc, rolling reactionary stupidity/misogyny/prejudice in football

ah, I don't go over there

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/gabriel-agbonlahor-wigan-8292481/

That's another great save by Al-Habsi, followed by the ugliest possible goal.

No video of the Blackpool non-penalty yet.

ah, I don't go over there

Yeah, you don't want to give the mistaken impression that I Love Football ought to be allowed to exist.

It wouldn't've mattered anyway, United would just've won 4-3 instead

Bloody hell. Compare that pen shout to the ridiculous one given against Agger at Old Trafford in the Cup. Refs not even bothering to hide this blatant corruption now. Rafa's "rant" against Ferguson being vindicated more and more every season.

"anytime you would have gone round, Redknapp would have been hanging out the bag of her"

"Hanging out the back of it" actually. Even worse.

Bloody hell. Compare that pen shout to the ridiculous one given against Agger at Old Trafford in the Cup. Refs not even bothering to hide this blatant corruption now. Rafa's "rant" against Ferguson being vindicated more and more every season.

I really hope this a cut and paste

Refs not even bothering to hide this blatant corruption now

Yawn. Do you have any idea how pathetic that sounds?

Paranoia worthy of us lot on the SPL thread :-)

It's not paranoia. Manchester United are ridiculously favoured by referees. Go and check the facts.

note the smiley, dude! (I have no idea about the veracity of your claims, but I have yet to see anyone accusing Celtic of paranoia who is able to name a single decision that has cost Rangers points, was basically sort of sympathising)

That was more directed at NB&S than you, Ailsa!

venga morelike wenger

Where are these facts you speak of Venga? I would like to peruse them

And why is this corruption so hit-and-miss in its effectiveness? United get a soft penalty against Liverpool in the FA Cup, but have a late, late equaliser wrongly awarded against them at Birmingham when there was a blatant handball to set it up. Gary Neville commits a foul that should have seen West Brom get a penalty and himself possibly a red card but the ref waves play on, while Rafael does very little and gets himself sent off at Spurs. And in the decisive match for last season's title, Chelsea effectively win the league with Drogba's goal which was miles offside. It's almost as if there's no conspiracy, just human error that evens itself out in the long run.

It's almost as if there's no conspiracy, just human error that evens itself out in the long run.

and maybe, just maybe people are more likely to notice decisions that go United's way rather than the other way round. I mean the ten minutes injury time will be largely forgotten about now, cos United were winning at the time.

Whereas if it had been 2-2 and United had scored a winner in the 100th minute that would be yet more evidence of the influence of lizard men secretly ruining our beloved game.

Gonna shoot for a tediously McNulty-like middle ground here and hazard a guess that referees are less flagrantly pro-Man Utd than Liverpool fans claim they are and more pro-Man Utd than Man Utd fans claim they are.

surely Dad Fucking Dowie btw, opportunity missed

kind of cool visualization of the premiership table
http://www.footytables.com/index.php?league=1

yes!

shows how far Utd are ahead.

So all this talk of Chelsea being back in it is rubbish right? I guess if they beat Utd twice they are still 4 points behind Utd and 5 behind Arsenal. And that is if they beat Utd twice, which is seemingly impossible for anyone atm ;_;

Chelsea are still in it in the same way that Man City and Spurs are still in it.

Spurs are keeping the pressure firmly on Man Utd, one mistake from them and the title is theirs, according to 'arry.

Thanks Harlan for posting the link to the visualization of the premiership table. I actually created the visualization and would love to get feedback from you guys on it's use/any improvements you'd like to see etc. Cheers, Johno