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

shoulda had his hat trick there

well well

totally deserved. Awful defending/keeping

i wonder how both games today would have turned out if the referee had sent players off for clear red cards like they should have.

well we've been shit anyway and hutton's a liability.

The disallowed goal, tho

maybe defoe's just lost that much pace?

Had no idea he hadn't scored in the league this season til today

i wonder how both games today would have turned out if the referee had sent players off for clear red cards like they should have.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 6 March 2011 17:50 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf this could be taken to mean anywhere between one and three red cards in the earlier game

so annoyed at Gomes, really think he should be a lot less comfortable in his first choice status

I feel like Mark Halsey's status as a complete fucking jackass has been neglected a bit in recent years

1. United, nine games to go
2. Arsenal 3 behind, one game in hand
3. City 7 behind
4. Chelsea 12 behind, two in hand
5. Spurs 12 behind, one in hand

still not sure if there's a title race on, or who's in it

There is. Arsenal and Man U are in it. Everyone else is playing for third.

Wondering if Liverpool can get a wee run going and catch 4th/5th.

nah, they're eleven behind City, six behind Chelsea having played two more

If Chelsea win their 2 games in hand its 6 points, beat Man Utd at OT and it's 3 points.

still feel like citeh pose more likelihood of a utd challengin run-in than arsenal

Would have took a point at 4 o'clock, would've still took it at 5. Hutton not being sent off was a fucking disgrace.

Also Suarez is quite good.

for a bad game this is a pretty great game so far

― deeznults (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 6 March 2011 16:56 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sums it up I think

hutton was kept under a new ruling that allows the opposition manager to choose the punishment iirc

wolves, like most times i've seen them this year, were unlucky not to take more from that. maybe a bit slack in central midfield will ball retention

doesn't look quite as bad in that one. wouldn't thought shin guards wd save you from that but maybe carra's just /that/ hard

― el tuomboto (cozen), Sunday, March 6, 2011 5:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh oh

The basic compulsory equipment of a player is:
- a jersey or shirt
- shorts - if thermal undershorts are worn, they are of the same main colour as the shorts
- stockings
- shinguards
- footwear

nani has high level energy in those shins: he clutches them whatever the foul.

knew that, caek, my man. was just wondering if nani had weird low shin guards or if carra's studs tore right through an ordinary pair

think carra went in over the ball *and* shinguards tbh - looked like he caught him almost on the knee

that was fantastic from suarez. just fantastic. the sort of thing we take from granted by messi but find spectacular when others do it.

and lol nani assist.

i have to say i like kuyt as a goalhanging striker, dunno why its taken this long to play him in what must be his natural position

If Kuyt had scored that first goal on my primary school playground, he'd have got a slap for being a goalsnatching bastard.

rafa ffs

in his first season he played there and showed some promise, then he had a poorish second season there but tbf he has spoken a lot about having a lot of probs performing when his dad died around that time.

lol the hobgoblin refused to speak

i really wish the league would just censor ferg, he's such a lord of the manor at this point.

If Kuyt had scored that first goal on my primary school playground, he'd have got a slap for being a goalsnatching bastard.
― oppet, Sunday, March 6, 2011 10:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

hiyo, i know you knew coz. i was saying that if nani wasn't wearing shins then he should have got a yellow card, and the ref is in trouble for not checking equipment.

someone needs to tell gomes that goatees in 2011 are nagl

goatees are so awful

i sometimes am tempted to shave my beard into one for a laugh.

i did that for charity last year. Ran a half mara bearded as rafa, cos my mates promised twenty quid extra if i did.

each, mind. They paid up too, fair play

Pav's goal was the best.

might cut my hair into a "rooney" for a half mara, if i ever get over these fucking shin splints.

deflected

Love how his first ouch is designed to go somewhere.

think carra went in over the ball *and* shinguards tbh - looked like he caught him almost on the knee

Yeah, very cuntish. And actually kind of pointless - Liverpool were already two-nil up and well in control, it's not as if Nani and Carragher were involved in some kind of grudge match, it's not as if Nani had just fouled someone (in fact, he'd just gifted Liverpool a goal, so Carragher should have been shaking him by the hand), it's not even as if he was in a dangerous position.

that was fantastic from suarez. just fantastic

Yep. That was good.

Carragh's challenge was def red card-worthy, can't believe the ref didn't apply the full letter of the law even tho he actually saw the incident, Fergie must be outraged at this omission

I heard he reckons you have to take the rough with the smooth, the ref did well in difficult circumstances, and these things even themselves out over the course of the season.

Seriously though, why is the headline this morning 'Ferguson snubs media'? It was the same on Wednesday. It's not like not getting an interview is hardly the most important thing to say about United atm.

It's not like

thought he was contractually obligated to talk to Sky, the cunt.

my theory in the pub at the time was that Nani went to hospital rather than get his bollocks kicked in at half time, cos the play-acting little twat had been stood up for a minute before he decided that he was really hurt

I know a guy who covers Chelsea for the local paper. I asked him if any hacks dared raise the notion that Ferguson was a bit of a hypocrite in the post-match conference on Tuesday after his comments regarding Clattenburg and Atkinson. He said that Ferguson hadn't turned up to a press conference at Stamford Bridge since 1999.

Ridiculous pro-English bias from Sky yesterday showing the Carragher tackle for as little time as possible and relaying the Rafael one over and over again.

the rafael one that wasn't as bad, didn't make contact and was provoked itself by a pretty nasty foul?

yeah, maxi's preceding challenge was naughtier. Rafael's was minimal more by look than judgement tho. neither of them was a patch on Carra's yellow.

Rooney was absolute dogshit btw