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

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lol NB&S has the swagger of career champions imo

rte doing intros to each match again. funny stuff. for rte.

Lineker's "What?! What?! FFFFFarewell" actually had me in stitches then.

don't see what the problem is re: Rooney's swears. Sky already show 15 and 18 movies during the day, so just make the football pin-coded the same as them. And have a voiceover at the beginning to warn people the following game may continue strong language, or scenes of graphic violence if it's Stoke.

proper suggestion that.

then anyone bleating on about 'role models' can go fuck themselves even more than at the moment.

just watching the elbow that nearly eggtopped nasri's head being described as an 'unfortunate accident' by good old chrissy kammy.

fulham blackpool will be worth watching y/n

^ questions that you can't believe you ever asked yourself two weeks into the off season

holy fuck they did the michael jackson statue i thought that was a meme.

it's fucking terrible, too

Mohamed Al Fayed has told Fulham fans they can "go to hell" if they do not like the statue of Michael Jackson unveiled on Sunday afternoon.

thinly veiled millwall reference imo

brilliant buildup play & save their

oooh bobby z

bobby z with a cracker

he's the real-life cherno samba that boy

england's number 10 nice header from set piece

holy hell
http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/images/2011/0403/michaeljacksonstatue20110403_576x324.jpg

i love to say i told you so

Did UEFA/Chelsea/Sky/The Daily Mail fine Drogba when he swore into the camera after that Champions League game?

tbf that was a fucking disgrace.

6 match ban, cut down to 1 on appeal

So Spurs r gonna win the league, rite?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:27 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Surprise CL semifinalists, fade badly in the league imo

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:32 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

dis fuckin guy

moment of truth on Tuesday though

i think you're on 1/2 kudos rations regardless tbh.

tho really it was the only possible prediction tbf

rooney is unutterably vile

Charlie Adam likes a hollywood ball doesn't he.

excellent beginning in city-sunderland, a johnson scores on a lovely 1-2 with yaya

yeah, city in 442 with the same personnel are title challengers. look very dangerous.

Sunderland sliding from the Bolton/Stoke group towards the Blackburn/Birmingham group with every goal. Another couple of weeks of this form and they should start worrying.

they've had a couple of weeks of this form. they shouldn't be worrying, but the board, were they that type of board, would be justified in asking bruce where the expenditure is getting them

wow Shaun Wright-Phillips still exists.

Who woulda thunk that making use of their attacking options would pay off for City.

Sunderland should easily be fine, but they did well to get those 38pts while they could. Blackpool and Blackburn are the only other sides I can think of who've made really big dives down the table though, mostly clubs seem to be just inching around together.

Sunderland shd be okay but they've lost 6 of their last 7 and not scored since mid Feb. It's a bit more than a wobble I think.

I'd love to put Arsenal down there in a dogfight right now, just to see what would happen.

Did UEFA/Chelsea/Sky/The Daily Mail fine Drogba when he swore into the camera after that Champions League game?

He got into trouble, but not for swearing, for basically suggesting the referee was corrupt.

is there anyone still out there ringing even the most tentative cautious note for kenny at liverpool? granted there are manifold mitigations re injuries, personnel and shortness of timespan but i'm not sure these all cover some of the more indifferent results

i suppose it's just looking at the table in hindsight you realise that fifth and even fourth spots werent quite as unattainable as they first looked

also in the name of cup romance i sincerely hope spurs don't live to regret their league lassitude this year - realism dictates otherwise though

No, I've been impressed with Dalglish. Despite getting on for quite a few poor results and performances now, the team does look a lot better, happier, and there are to my mind great signs of progress in terms of fringe players being able to come in and do a job rather than leave you head-in-hands every time - suggests the building of a cohesive unit to me, whereas before (not just under Roy to be fair) it felt more like a desperate plugging of gaps until Torres or Gerrard or whoever could do some magic. And the club does not feel like a complete shambles any more, which while it has a certain entertainment to it is not really the way forward long term.

If, say, Klinsmann fancied it as a project and became available during the summer I might reconsider, but for now I'm happy enough.

The 31 points bottom club Wigan have amassed so far would have been enough to stay up last season. What's the most anyone's gone down with, 43 or thereabouts?

Everyone always mentions West Ham in 2003, which was something like 43. Don't know if that was the highest (since 38 games a season).

Late substitutions and Spearing on the right wing apart, Kenny's done a good job. It's going to be an interesting summer.

Just checked - they were highest (since 3 points for a win and 38 games) and it was 42.

By the way, Reina to Arsenal's gotta be on right.

you'd think that

hodgson did a better job pickin up after rafa than kenny's done picking up after hodgson.

that is way too fucking good to be true. so it can't be. wenger obv sees chesney and fabianski as the way forward, and if we can leave almunia in the woods and bring back mannone or bring in a dece third choice, then we'll be alright <<< is what i think wenger is thinking. wd personally hump his leg if he bought reina this summer.

n'est pas?

no

So rule out Arsenal and that leaves Utd. And adopted Scouser Reina would never go to them so.