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

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"

New League Managers Association / Yahoo! venture gets off to a good start : http://yhoo.it/g4Lbzb

Rotten decision because the die is cast for them. This isn't going to make them suddenly discover a spine. If they stay up di Matteo would've had a great learning experience, if they go down he'd've brought them back up comfortably. A new guy might not.

He wasn't even one of the 'four under pressure' ffs.

Love this from Gab Marcotti's Twitter timeline:

Will never forget doing ITA football on Eurosport w/Di Matteo. In between games, he'd sit with finance textbooks + study

Finally watching last night's MOTD. Everton v Blackpool makes you feel good to be alive. And Newcastle's fourth was a hell of a goal, given the context.

Oh James McCarthy you are spoiling us.

wtf west brom

must ALL my dreams be ruined

Suarez is on the bench again.

rip robbie - hope you and zola get dece second chances eventually

also fuck yesh and fuck you west ham, i hope you go down. and fuck you for making me celebrate birmingham winning in a match

i cant tell whether this is a game where an english commentary would be essential or not. if our favourite american coverage is on a stream somewhere?

whatever stream it is i'm on here just had the quote "well the contrast between blue and red is staggering, isn't it." so.

i'll stick with my chinese fellas then

whatever stream it is i'm on here just had the quote "well the contrast between blue and red is staggering, isn't it." so.

Hah, I heard that as well.

Words cannot express how much I want Liverpool to win this.

3-3 w/ torres hatrick only to be countered by three punts-by-reina-scored-by-suarez in the last five minutes. also carroll to run on and nut torres as he celebrates his third

well this is dull and i may go back to bed

I've enjoyed root canal work more than this match.

WTF

o good lord

oh fuck how did he miss that ?- am I about 3 minutes behind everyone?

I'm watching on actual tv today, will try to avoid spoilers

"The financial fair play rules are all about not spending more than you earn"

Bring back Andy Gray.

I'm watching on my phone as I can't get a stream to stay on anywhere, even this keeps hanging on wifi.

enjoyed the "where's your famous plastic flags?" song tho

lol handbags coming up you guys

This is shite.

Greatest Premier League weekend ever and then these losers have to ruin it.

Maybe Liverpool are contractually obliged not to draw attention from the Super Bowl or something.

I'm perfectly happy to cheer on Citeh and Spurs for the rest of the season if it means Chelsea finish fifth #suddenrevelation

I actually turned over to watch Aberdeen v Dunfermline halfway through that first half :-/

No chance of this ending 50,000,000 - nil, is there?

yea!

get in

Good old Liverpool.

sorry guys

really wasn't expecting anything to happen, that'll do for me now

That was great.

fuck yes! we out-Chelsea'd Chelsea by playing Like Mourinho era Chelsea

Another Chelsea collapse in form would be vv welcome right now.

that and the spurs late winners drying up please

liverpool fans be gettin' greedy

Pissed-up Scousers on 606 already. We can revive "won't win the Premiership" for next year's thread.

that was excruciating and marvellous at the same time, not a good game, such a sweet result.