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

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?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/12/sexism-row-pundit-richard-keys-shock-racist-slur-on-black-player-115875-22919246/

wonder why this wasn't leaked years ago

rats jumping on to a sinking ship

So that headline's eleven words without a verb? Crikey.

ismael otm, partic when added to away win while under par at blackburn.

guy mowbray is the nult of commentary

― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:18 (Yesterday)

been saying this for ages

this season still a write off imo for liverpool, just glad we're playing better. europa would be a great result.

that keys clip btw is kinda surprising, i mean you know he's a dick, but he really is a bigger dick than you could have imagined. the overall impression of all these leaks is that keys is the one utter bigot trying to start a bigoted lol session with all the other pundits, all the time, as they nervously titter, praying he'll stop. what a vile man.

Ew motd feeling they need to do a preview that doesn't actually tell you anything for the derby.

Adebayor scored a similar kinda-overhead kick against Villareal and I was shouted down by lj and a few others for calling it an unbelievable beaut. Rooney's is just as great but cos its Rooney and he's English that it is gots. No-one has mentioned how average he looked the rest of the highlights, including a shit pass that was lucky to get to another teammate that led to his goal. Kompany looked a fucking beast and is on better form than the much lauded Vidic imo.

Ok I spoke too soon, motd saying that it was 1 moment of brilliance in a shit game.

They've edited in a clip of Joe Hart saving a penalty to the motd title sequence - that wasn't there before was it? It hasn't been given any of the production treatment that the rest of the (already a bit ropey) sequence has, it looked like I'd inadvertently changed channel in the middle.

lol at the Mirror padding the story out towards the end - if denigrating woman and black people wasn't enough he then tutned his bigoted ire on Joe Kinnear

well, he is irish?

It means Keys will walk into his first day in his new job at TalkSport radio station tomorrow having to answer serious questions about racism.

Surely this will instantly make him the most popular presenter on TalkSport?

was the gyan dancing in the motd title sequence before too?

I hadn't noticed that. Got to assume not, given that they had it ready from the off this season. I think I've got an old one saved on my tv box, will compare & contrast.

You are correct. Three changes to the sequence that I can see. The dancing Gyan used to be Crouch wheeling away in celebration, Joe Hart is making a save that used to be Shay Given's, and (my favourite) where there was once a tiny Torres over Neville Southall's shoulder, there is now a pint-sized Luis Suarez.

Strangely, the old edition then cuts to Richard Keys presenting, with Tommy Sheridan and Emmanuel Goldstein on the sofa.

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Does Hosni know if you've got a lot of money of dubious provenance to spend, an English football club is the perfect investment?

penny hosni dropped

Does Hosni know if you've got a lot of money of dubious provenance to spend, an English football club is the perfect investment?

― Tom D (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 February 2011 13:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

omg now this needs to happen just to see Utd fans try to defend him as "less evil than the Glazers"

or for liverpool fans to blame hodgson for it

That felt like a huge result for Spurs yesterday, playing shit and winning is what all the really good teams *do*. I think if we'd lost we'd have slipped out of the reckoning pretty quickly but a win against Blackpool would put us in third, which is kinda crazy.

Was it the best team or you could field or a bteam because of midweek?

lennon and crouch the only available regulars that were rested

So then Milan are going to pound you :(

Not so sure Future-of-England Sturridge is working too well in this team.

vdv and bale could be back for milan, modric probably not

Hasn't City's boy wonder scored twice already incl. some a game winner?

yeah but those were one-offs

So then Milan are going to pound you

Kinda resigned to this, hoping for damage limitation and then an inspired performance in the second leg. It's Spurs in the Champions League, something ridiculous has to happen by law.

So whats the problem?

xpost to big ds talk

Matt its ok half of north london will be crying like big girls at getting knocked out by a better footballing team whereas you guys can just wait for the crazy (its not just spurs in the cl remember, but cassano in it for the first time in about 4 years)

Dunno, I kinda fancy the Arse to beat Barca and then slip up against someone else later on - leading to mass crying like big girls, small girls, allkindsagirls

anichebe is the worst footballer in the premiership

please to see your worst xi

well there's that, but i still don't rate him

Daniel Sturridge scores. Sort of thing that could earn him a move to a club like Chelsea.

love these one-offs