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

VDV was irrelevent and Bale was plain awful - if anybody offers you 40m you should snap it up. He's no Robben or Ronaldo, more of a cross between Ruel Fox and Andy Sinton

Love this kind of fronting.

Liverpool would be mad to pass up on Dalglish at this stage, given that Man City are going to make it very difficult to get back into the top four quickly.

yeah they're in negotiations i believe, have been for a while. as long as mancini is city boss other teams will have a chance imo.

if we got 40m for bale but could keep modric, i'd almost settle for that. But you are talking rubbish pete, all the same. One game doesnt give the measure of a player either way, be it against inter or chelsea.

I agree with those posters who have said that Tottenham have been inadequate, have underperformed, have lacked players in key positions, have failed to win winnable games; and that the manager must take blame.

I think it's been quite a poor season except for a few games, notably:
Inter away 2nd half
Inter home
AC Milan away - these two the best
FC Twente home
Arsenal away

can't really think of any other decent performances now.

i'd actually disagree that arsenal away was even a good performance!

Arsenal at home wasn't.
Stoke away might have been.

Back to CL: again, we didn't expect THFC to beat City for 4th this year. Last year always looked like the one window where it could, and did, happen. This makes it the more frustrating, maybe, that in fact we could and should have beaten City to it this year. We haven't missed out cos of narrowly going down all guns blazing vs United or Arsenal, but because (eg) we couldn't beat West Ham or WBA at home - in fact we've taken one point from bottom club West Ham all season. We've been mediocre and ineffective where we needed to beat inferior teams. We've thrown it away, repeatedly, and it's our own fault.

Howard fucking Webb?

lol

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2011/1/9/1294598017940/Howard-Webb---Twitter-007.jpg

The fix is in ;)

what's up?

I wonder how many non descript performances Bale will have to put in before people really start to see that maybe it isn't fronting when people say he isn't actually all that good and Spurs should sell every week.

not as many as it's taken for walcott, if anyone actually wanted to buy him

Walcott has been a figure of fun for good while now.

Walcott was a figure of fun before anyone saw him play tho tbf.

well tbh he's impressed me lately but the bale backlash was tired abt 3 months ago

and he hasn't put in a decent performance since.

And he recently won some award iirc

snap, snap

just like the previous welsh left winger

Think Giggs might have won the odd trophy over the years tho. Not that he should have won that award either.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/04/fifa-goalline-technology

oh good now England will win the World Cup

a minimum of 90% accuracy in recognising whether both a static or a moving ball is across the line

This sounds like it'll work.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2011/5/1/1304250920609/Heurelho-Gomes-005.jpg

this angle, though - I'd still give the goal

ur biased

it's a fucking goal

we just need to get this technology introduced post haste so there will never again be an argument about whether a ball has crossed the line, like in tennis

except for the fucking rules, like

The rules are merely there as guidelines to assist the officials in exercising judgement.

they're only there when they support what fergie or fat frank want

smde at how the emphasis is still on line tech rather than that cutting edge concept of instant replays

replays leads to the prospect of Fergie holding some poor guy at gunpoint in the viewing room and making him press "Goal Disallowed"

nah he's a blade and cosh man if ever i saw one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypOu81UNGFI

that looks deliberate every time i see it. what a horrible bastard if so.

He totally meant that. Dick.

I thought that at first but if you look at it again he clearly touches the ball around the defender and attempts to change direction to go past him. He is a dick for not apologizing though.

if you look at it again that's what he wants you to think

it's so blatant esp. if you pause just two seconds in

Just realised that my son is having his first communion thing at 12 o'clock on Sunday, the same time Wolves-Albion kicks off on the telly. Fucking rats' cocks.

well in fairness

he'll understand?

don't ask me why but i wouldn't do that on him. gonna be the first one out of the church when it finishes tho - there's a pub 50 yards up the road.

you could score on gomes from there tbf

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/291030389.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1304595888&Signature=zxkYjpEocVvn2PS0Ku7715kIxVA%3D

according to man like OptaJoe this is the table if all the shots that hit the woodwork this season went in

I can't see that but would like one for wrongly disallowed/allowed goals.

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Always been a fan of <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - they've got some cracking players.

also one if Liverpool had played well all year