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

moving it a little better now tho

real scramble there from corner

do sunderland usually struggle defending set pieces? i've only really seen them today and against stoke last week, and it seems to be a 'thing'?

midfielders all standing about a yard apart, cant pass to each other nor cover effectively.

that sunlun team is as good as tottenham's xi

yep, and we're making them look a lot better than that.

great goal krancjar

that fucken guy

great pass from corluka to release sandro, his cross deflected for niko to volley into bottom corner. peach

this is quite ridiculous

The former Portsmouth and Hajduk Split man will be relieved. The goal is only his fourth in a calendar year that has seen the birth of his child Junichi and the sale of his failing ice sculpture boutique. Never fear though, as son of former Croatia boss Zlatko, Kranjcar will have a few tricks up his sleeve.

                    Gomes
Corluka     King/Woodgate (loljk Gallas)    Dawson       Anyone else
                   Huddlestone
        Modric                            Bale
 Lennon                   Van der Vaart
                          
               Pavlyuchenko

kranjcar should be backup for Vdv/Bale in that set-up, should get plenty of opportunities

been auditioning for Only Connect

oooooh. how'd it go?

gone completely longball now.

Dunno, thought it was okay. Auditioned last year and didn't get on, so we'll see. I'm not mad fussed tbh - it wd be a fun thing to do but a friend of mine is the instigator and I probly wouldn't've made the round trip to Madchester under my own steam.

this is threatening to become gratifyingly violent

lol pav making dents in big john mensah this whole game

gomes is such a baby

christ anyone would have thought he'd taken a cannonball in the stomach there with that reaction

ha he's the worst actor too, it's embarrassing

jeez pav will shoot from anywhere

kind of a relief, sometimes.

defoe has not been worth the cost of transporting him north today

the look on 'arry's face was great

and finally a yellow for him. 'arry must be doing his nut

lols

ffs gallas just giving it straight to sunderland attack again

gomes fuckacting now, been booked after a warning only a minute ago. twat.

gonna be a rough 15 mins tbh

If he was an outfield player 'arry would have him subbed by now

don't see why given that defoe and jenas are still out there

sandro much better this half i think

shiit

p sure bae is taking the piss at this point. probably means he will be brilliant against milan, though.

that was to easy & too close

so crazy that a ground ball can travel 30 yards through our midfield with such consistency

never a free kick. watch them score from it

gonna name my next ulcer benoit

shhhhhhhhitttttttt that could have been a peno

ok not really

feckit here comes zenden

jeez where'd they get 4 mins

we didn't deserve that one

said that a lot this season. sounds good.

2 points behind city with a game in hand

Yeah, people have scored better overhead kicks, so what? It's a fucking brilliant goal and if literally anyone else scored it you'd be saying as much.

otm

ott churlishness on this thread over Rooney daring to score a good goal. Overhead kicks like that are always great to see, even if it is hateful greedy cave troll doing it.

Liverpool's turn to throw away a lead (albeit a narrow one) and fuck up my coupon this week :(

we didn't deserve that one

said that a lot this season. sounds good.

Spurs aka the Man United of the rest of the Premiership

17 	West Brom 	26 	-17 	27
18 	Wigan 		27 	-18 	27
19 	West Ham 	27 	-18 	25
20 	Wolves 		26 	-19 	24

all the Ws propping up the table.

the best overhead kick I've seen an age. what a beezer

Would love to see our Noodle on Only Connect, that show is dope.

the best overhead kick I've seen an age. what a beezer

They were debating the moment 78 minutes into the Manchester derby when Rooney cast aside a season of relative under-achievement and occasional animosity with a strike that had a fitting home in the self-styled "Theatre Of Dreams".

big theo walcott sidefoots wide

I feel like that's a big result for Spurs, going to the side that's been definitely the best of the 'not big' clubs this season and coming back to win with a rubbish XI playing badly, and all with an eye on Europe. Should really have lost that one by any typical yardstick.

It's a bad set of second halves for Liverpool - own momentum blunted, would have preferred a Sunderland win or at least a draw there, and next opponents West Ham turn humiliation into heroics. I've just fixed up to take in the West Ham game yesterday, and am feeling much less sanguine all of a sudden. Had been hoping to see Carroll unleashed, but am now fearing what could go wrong.

guy mowbray is the nult of commentary

steve cram the bbc athletics man - he knew how to run a bit

it's simple, one foot after the other, isn't it?