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

there it is.

snap, crackle, pop

ken c is on a roll lately with the stale quips

lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUYhOfgLjE

file with the other 10,000 "passionate northern accent sells football product with passion" ads

difficult to hear a sunderland accent without thinking of phil brown

with lauren laverne

phil brown with lauren laverne's hair

ws?

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2328/messifab.jpg

yall

shd arsenal get rid of cesc and make wilshere their new captaain

http://i.imgur.com/P2mPR.jpg

ferguson looking oddly placid there, and with the lighting looks like a venerable marine mammal

wtf

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6808655,00.html

not that wtf, following many players back home

7.6m seems like a lot for a Brazilian club to be paying

Brazil's getting rich, I flagged up the possibility here not that long ago

wtf at sevilla refusing twice that very lately from spurs if reports are to be taken at all seriously, rly

I also spot Arsenal footballer Nicklas Bendtner flirting with a mystery woman. (Later he will disappear into a toilet cubicle with her — presumably to get to know each other — as the attendant turns a blind eye). The footballer, who earns £2.5million a year, recently split from his Danish fiance, Baroness Caroline Luel-Brockdorff, just a few weeks after she gave birth to their child.
But any Gunners fans in there might be more surprised that he is not keeping a lower profile, for when I spot him it is just one day after he missed the golden goal opportunity that may have seen the club through to the Champions League.

As the night wears on, the atmosphere at The Box grows tense and expectant. The performances are about to begin. A semi-naked American master of ceremonies, with bleached blond hair shaped into devil’s horns, leather waistcoat and bare tattooed torso, appears on stage flanked by topless dancers and sings into a microphone as the audience cheers.

Introducing himself as ‘Raven O’, he announces that ‘here at The Box, anything goes’ — to the delight of the whooping crowd. And just in case anyone was in any doubt about what he means by that, he brazenly encourages everyone to ‘take medicine, do a line, let’s get ‘f****d up’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1364926/Arsenal-striker-Nicklas-Bendtner-hits-London-club-Barcelona-defeat.html

A source said: "Two players who were pissed up had a frank exchange of views."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/11/aston-villa-investigation-players-confrontation/print

everyone hate houllier

Fittingly for a club devolving into vulnerable children down on their luck, I'm doing this charity gubbins on Saturday, running 10 laps around the Emirates Stadium for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint before the Sunderland game. Sponsor me, even if it's not much.

Give more and I'll let you come along and point and stare if you want.

http://www.justgiving.com/jxmitchell/ if you want to donate.

Cometh the hour......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/12735013.stm

Love him or hate him, the game will be a more interesting place with the experienced German stopper back at Highbury.

http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lehmann.gif

he's just so into that bbc sport logo

Arsene having to turn back on the complete and brutal excommunication of Almunia that came with his being dropped has been disappointing, so hopefully he'll reassert it a bit by making him backup to the guy who's been retired for a year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/apr/12/newsstory.sport8

forgot about this, bodes well.

Always thought it was strange how he ended up with the 'Mad Jens' nickname when Almunia is the one who's mentally unstable.

so nani first has no leg left, then he does but he can't play for 3 years because it might be infected, then he's fit for the next game. is ferguson trying to out-wenger wenger?

Fergie's been doing that kind of thing since time immemorial man

According to the Daily Mail, Blackburn nugget-peddlers Venky's are looking to add to the club's battery of strikers by signing Arsenal goal-turkey Nicklas Bendtner in the summer. Bendtner, who has had a curate's egg of a season, will cost £15m. Kaká is apparently also still on the menu.

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/2751/venkner.jpg

This teaser made me laugh earlier - just which former champions could it possibly be?

nicklas bendner has gone to chelsea??

kaka is going to venkys?

Whoever would have thought there was something dodgy about the £35mn transfer of Andy Carroll?

Would have presumed it was at the Newcastle end rather than Liverpool, though.

?

just misread this thread as "Liverpool don't really want to win the Premiership.."

xp Confusion Over Agent In Carroll Transfer Deal

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/03/16/2396876/sunderland-midfielder-lee-cattermole-has-pub-and-club-ban

@JonKander_IEG Jon Kander
"Man U sells more jerseys annually than all NFL teams combined" - Phil Clement, Aon #IEG2011
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Fulham today confirmed a commemorative statue of the late Michael Jackson is being erected at Craven Cottage at the behest of chairman Mohamed Al Fayed.

Al Fayed, who was a close friend of Jackson, commissioned a statue in memory of the pop icon following his death in 2009.

The Fulham chief originally planned to erect it outside his Harrods store, but following the sale of the Knightsbridge landmark, he decided it should be situated at Craven Cottage.

I can rely on away fans to come up with inventive ways of decorating MJs status. It'll be fun, like The Gallery for Blackburn fans.

Fans can finally expect a Thriller at Craven Cottage etc boom boom arf.

The Fulham chief originally planned to erect it outside his Harrods store

Steady on, Mo!

MJ erected at a cottage its what he would've always wanted etc etc

Blood on the Dancefloor after Stoke visit Craven Cottage etc.

I presume the Diana & Dodi shrine was hoiked out of Harrods the minute 'Mo' was out the door? I haven't popped in for a while to check.