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

He does seem to have returned to the Ramos form after a good last season.

beauty

he's still shit tho

This ref seems happy enough to give out cards for dissent, but not for violent fouls.

Get in! Come on Spurs!

OTM It probably won't get much chat cos the 'big' decisions ie pens were right, but I think this game has been reffed shockingly badly.
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handball if dawsons was?

we're right back to where we were under jol. Talent to waste, so we're wasting it. Decision making an optional extra, panic in the box either end.

Would kill to have berbatov keane back

talent to kill, for

hate to kick a man while he's down, but o gotta say that 2nd pen was proper laugh out loud stuff. how the fuck does harry get rid of him?

Yes, Charlie "ME, FUCKING ME ME ME!" will be a fine replacement for, er, Stevie Me.

I'm really concerned that that story will not die.

well after it's official that he's fucked bale's ankle for the next 3 months we won't be buying him anyway, the cunt

i feel like positing another of my favoured shitty theories- that if a team has a rep as a 'footballing' team the ref allows the 'non-footballing' teams to kick the shit out of you a lot more without censure, because he has pre-supposed that eventuality in his mind as the accepted way of things.

thank fuck for that equalizer tbh

Charlie Adams appears to be a bit of a dick

^^ Englisher football fans slow but get there in the end.

Somehow managed to not pay attention to this guy all season, but David Silva's looking amazing at the moment. The way he brought that down in the area in the 1st half today was gorgeous, and that pass off his thigh on the halfway line - had to look at it a few times to see how he actually did it.

silva is probably the most skillful player in the epl as far as i can tell (and i don't watch enough of it/know enough about fitba to say that with authority).

fuck all end product, technique 20 decisions 10 passing 10 crossing 10 shooting 10

tscchhhh w/e

next months 'bale vs ...' poll will seperate the men from the boys imo

Yeah Silva's sensational, but City are so the wrong team for him. He'd be ideal unpicking defences somewhere with guile, like Arsenal or New Liverpool. With City it's as if the US Navy Seals team had taken along a top-class fencer.

So if Man Utd are playing Chelsea at Old Trafford, how come Ryan Giggs has been caught playing away?

Finally getting round to watching motd - lol @ Charlie Adam bigging up the badge after scoring in what he hopes will be his 3rd last game for the club.

Terrible challenge on Bale - straight red if the ref sees it imo. VDV seems to have lost whatever it was he had. Gomez/s wtf are you doing son?

Great insight from 'arry - "we're drawing too many games and maybe we're not playing as well as when we were winning all the time..."

Being as the ref can't have seen the Adams challenge seeing as he didn't even give a foul does that not mean that the FA can look at it retroactively and give him a 3 match ban? I mean if that was Joey Barton it would be nailed on that they'd look again.
Loved the "oohs" from the crowd when Silva plucked that ball out of the air.

1-0 to Noodle's boys atm.

Charlie Adam bigging up the badge after scoring in what he hopes will be his 3rd last game for the club

ha

2-0 come on wolves!! Sort out your set piece defending Woy. Man for man tch.

3-0!!! Game over!!

lol
http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine/features/2011-05-08/check-out-hilarious-twitter-banter-between-phil-and-gary-neville?

not quite but CMON WOLVES

great save hennessy

If I've jinxed 'em I fear noodle will kill me. Gah almost 3-2!

yeah they're defending like spurs out there

Is O'Hara still one of yours darragh?

yep, tho he'll go to wolves if they stay up i think

Great from ward

Yeah he's impressed for both pompey and wolves but tbh not quite good enough for spurs, or rather spurs alreadyhave players in his position better than him.

rate o'hara considerably higher than several players we keep round the place, in a few positions. Great player to have on the bench.

presumably adios to palacios this summer.

pity, but i would think so, tho there's not really anyone to fill in if sandro gets injured

Another pity that more teams cant serve up matches as entertaining as this

for all my criticism of hodgson i've gotta confess that wba haven't been noticeably less attractive than under di matteo which i thought would be the case.

they've not look uncomfortable most games i've seen under either.

Wolves ftw

no reason doyle and fletcher dont get double figures each in the league, if played as a partnership.

oh shit two more matches, i got shit to do ffs

From Issy D, on text: "Dear Agony Uncle Stevo, what should I do - spend the afternoon revising for my degree finals next week or watch the Blues go top of the league?"

a tactical viewpoint from the brilliant Pat Nevin

hey thanx DirectTV for not carrying FoxSoccer, I get to either bootleg this soccer match or find a pub showing it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13323009.stm

I hope someone good/morally defensible signs Hitz in the summer

short list of clubs

Hope arsenal cunt these cunts and wenger decks pulis

LiterallyJamie Not Jamie Redknapp
Stoke are gathered around a 50" LCD. Charlie Adam's horror tackle loops, endlessly. Pulis' arched eyebrow is today's team talk.

'van persie just couldn't manage to get that onto his right foot'

FFS where do they find these guys