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

if motd had any balls, they'd go for the lowly game with 'only' 3 goals* in it first and lead up to everton/bp and newcastle/arse as it seems like all games are worth watching but people would still be likely only to tune in to see the 'big' results?

*some motds have this seem like the exciting game ina weekend of 0-0s

viperdk1 on Twitter: "I'm recording Match of the Day and the Football League Show tonight. Incredible games today."

crazy scenes

that was all very lol. i had a huge lol myself. definitely more lol than other weekends.

sorry....challops!

And so it begins.

Here we go!
It's going to be 35,000,000 - 0

Remind me, what was the Wenger water-bottle throwing for earlier in the season? I hope he scrunched up some newspaper today

Arsenal blowing the 2 goal lead at home to Spurs iirc

Thanks, that did seem pretty bad at the time

Now looked back on fondly as a golden era almost. We never knew how good we had it.

The dream is dead

I'm not worried yet. The Crap Invincibles have still got plenty of time to turn this around. Nani to set the second half alight with a goal blizzard.

Do you ever get worried? Seems a waste of effort.

Any less than six goals/game average would be a massive let-down now. So we need another seven in the second half at Molineux. 4-6 FT?

(Turned on the radio in the car at about 4:25; was 0-4 at St James's and 2-3 at Goodison at that point. Not often you get the chance to cheer seven goals in the time it takes to drive from the Rotherhithe tunnel to SE19. Eight if you count Spurs' kinda-welcome winner. Amazin').

haha Scholes

why wasnt giggs sent off there?

Do you ever get worried?

I am now. Well, more resigned to defeat than worried. Worried was fifteen minutes ago.

astonishing

shoulda been a double yellow, as he used both his hands
xxp

if giggs scores now big mick ( and noodle vague) will explode

wolves don't even get off the bottom of the table for their effort

As a left back I'd take Elokobi over Lee Naylor and that isn't cos Big George is a Premier-class LB

― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 February 2011 17:50 (Yesterday)

So... who's going down now?

Three from ... eleven is it? I'd draw the line below Stoke/Bolton I think

who's going down now?

I don't want it to happen, but I've been saying all season that Blackpool will go down.

I think, realistically, it's three from the bottom six. Increasingly convinced West Brom will be one of them, probably alongside Wigan, leaving one spot up for grabs.

Blackpool are at Old Trafford on the last day of the season. That's got to be some kind of omen.

Blackburn have to be a possibility, they're too ludicrous to keep going without incident

January 2004: United are top of the table, one point ahead of Arsenal, five ahead of Chelsea, and sixteen ahead of fourth-placed Charlton (!), joint top scorers and joint best goal difference. They go to bottom of the table Wolves and suffer a shock defeat. It's the start of a spectacular defensive collapse with Ferdinand banned for months: United only win six games out of seventeen and rack up further defeats against Boro, City, Portsmouth, Liverpool and Blackburn, slipping to third place and ending up fifteen points behind Arsenal.

Bobby Charlton! Ian Curtis! Terry Christian! Sir Anthony Burgess! Tony Wilson! L.S. Lowry! Richard Arkwright! Professor Brian Cox - can you hear me, Brian Cox? Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!

McCarthy in?

Nah, bringing on Ward and Foley second half was horrible, I was shouting for him to be sacked on the spot.

Arsenal ominously closing the gap today xp

Next game is a trip to the Emirates, but then we're done with the top 3/4 depending on how Spurs do. It's a long way from over, but going down after beating Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool wd be a huge lol.

Great time to play Arsenal though - they can take months to get over a result like today's

Arsenal ominously closing the gap today xp

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:01 (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

muahanananaanananananananananaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

ok hit the the n by accident but im keeping it

Beaten 5 of the top 8 so far this season.

That second James McCarthy goal = very, very nice.

That Chris Samba goal = very, very Chris Samba.

Wigan got a real bargain from us for McCarthy.

Craig Gordlol amirite?

God I love Asamoah Gyan.

There is no way Craig Gordon is older than about 17.

"There was a suspicion of offside for two of them, there was a definite handball for one of them, but I'm not going to criticise because that would be wrong of me."

Yeah, that was 80 mins well spent. Would say McCarthy's 2nd pick of the bunch, just ahead of Gyan taking Huth to Cash Converters and Tiote's wallop.

Szezezcnzy getting booked is fucking ridiculous, he was trying to return the ball to his own team mates so his team could take their kick off, it's Arsenal's possession so Nolan and co have no particular claim on the ball if they don't happen to get to it first, nevermind getting into headlock takedowns.

Redknapp and Shearer can also fuck off about the Spurs penalty, when two of your players are two yards into the penalty area and massively advantaged over the defenders of course it's gonna be retaken you mongs.

Pretty sure Stoke's goals ticked off all the boxes on some infernal Stoke Bingo Card, somewhere.

Gotta go for Tiote's volley, mostly because the sheer likelihood of those kind of attempts ending up hilariously high and wide makes the occasions where they come off like, the best shit in football.

reading this thread since my last bookmark = the purest of joys

West Bromwich Albion have today relieved Head Coach Roberto Di Matteo of his duties and placed him on gardening leave with immediate effect.

This was the unanimous decision of the Football Club's Board of Directors in light of a worrying sequence of results which has seen the Club lose 13 of their last 18 games in all competitions, winning only three.

First-Team Coach Michael Appleton will assume control of first-team affairs whilst the Club considers all available options for a new Head Coach.

Chairman Jeremy Peace said: "This has been a tough decision but we, as a Board, believe it is the right one to give the Club the best possible chance of remaining in the Barclays Premier League.

OH FFS

Sniff of a shout of staying up has gone to their heads. Great news for the rest of us. BOING

no matter how many times I see it I am still baffled at the way 'gardening leave' has passed into common usage

Must be a bastard if you live in a flat.

Best result for us today would be a localised Ebola outbreak in the Upton Park area.

"xbox 360 leave"