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

if Blackburn or Birmingham lose next weekend then I think they'll at least be theoretically capable of going down on the last day, however much it looks like 3 from the bottom 4.

I've been wondering the how good are United question as well.

They were brilliant yesterday and have comfortably been the best side all season. If they've dropped points it is at least partly because they have been able to - not every game has been a must win and that allows a certain complacency to creep in, plus the squad juggling issues of dealing with the CL.

Think they've actually played some of their best football for three seasons or so as well. We won't know how good they are until Barca I guess.

Last word, though, to wazaroon.

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As for Carlo, hope he stays. Be fucking furious if he doesn't.

Ah, link didn't work. it was to this, though.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3569681/Wayne-Rooney-New-V-sign-insult-storm.html

blackburn and birmingham are still in trouble. 'burn have to play man utd next, which they will probably lose, meaning that if wolves beat them on the last day they are guaranteed to finish above them (even if wolves lose to sunderland). in that case, one of wigan or blackpool would probably have to get 4 points to relegate blackburn (as blackburn would probably stay up if it went to goal difference, as theirs is considerably stronger) - but it's certainly possible that wigan could do this (blackpool, less so).

i'd put my house on blackpool and west ham to go down. i would like it if the third team was boring blackburn, but probably it will be one of wolves and wigan.

wolves win next weekend + west ham beat wigan next weekend = wolves are mathematically certain to stay ahead of wigan and ham. anything *other* than a wigan win would be decent for wolves, tbh.

every team in the premier league has already acquired a points tally that would have kept them up last season. it is excellent stuff.

It's not just a question of whether this team is as good as previous United teams but also how it stacks up against other teams in Europe at the moment and, Barca and possible Real and *maybe* Inter aside they evidently stack up pretty well. Maybe European club football in general just isn't that good at the moment?

Well, United thrashed Schalke who thrashed Inter who beat Barca while winning the European Cup last season, so United should beat Barcelona about 10-0 at Wembley.

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

his face is melting

we now know what he's going to look like in 30 years time.

I don't feel too bad about United being on 19 titles...I'd be more annoyed if they beat Barcelona.

Partly this is to do with Liverpool being quite good of late.

^^^^This.

A win tonight a draw tomorrow and a City collapse and that Champions League spot is ours! (Only about 95% kidding)

been a pretty good season for liverpool...

Yeah all in all, it has been p decent. Even a serial hater like myself is starting to come around to them.

anyone else kinda annoyed there are premiership games this weekend? or is everyone just 'lol fa cup' for now and forever?

in all seriousness it has easily exceeded all my expectations (such as the were)... by far.
xp

yeah it is weird, cos of the wembley champs lge final i take it. Despite their destruction of bolton I just can't get enthused to watch Stoke, FA Cup Final or not.

xxp no i thought the same thing when i looked at the fixtures earlier, bit crap imo

The FA Cup's been treated appallingly and I'm raging about it. Clubs fielding weakened teams, no cl place, clashes with sharp end of the premiership, not shown in Scotland for no good reason, letting itv have it at all, everything must be at Wembley, fucking up the replay schedules - it's a fantastic competition, the atmospheres are the best, and it's halfway dead already.

time was, the FA cup was a silver service item, a receptacle of greatness

now it lies forlornly in the open sewer that is the greed and dishonour of football; tarnished and covered with unidentified animal mucus

Absolutely, pisses me off that it's now seen as the route to Europa league mediocrity first and the pinnacle of the football season second.

are Stoke in the Europa League even if they lose but City stay in the top 4?

still not sure whether i am more annoyed by Hodgson's failure at Liverpool or their subsequent recovery under Dalglish.

Yep, the Cottagers currently sit second in the Premier League Fair Play table and, if they stay there, will qualify for Europe if England, who are also currently second, finish in the top three countries in Uefa's Fair Play League... Fair to say the Cottagers would love to be involved again?

A Mark Hughes team?

I'm biased, but i'd've thought Liverpool must be a really interesting proposition for neutrals right now - suddenly really fluid without aspiring to Arsenalism, improving by blooding youngsters, manager who's a bit old school, enigmatic ownership, pretty likeable group of players on the whole. Probably balanced against a bunch of other stuff.

well

wow

amazing

lol

when did maxi rodriguez of reality become the maxi rodriguez of hype?

oh man

oh my

great game for the neutrals in the neutrals' stand.

i very rarely watch a football game where i am really "neutral" tbh.

whoa what the hell

A horrible goal to concede, but Kuyt won't care - he has now scored in five consecutive games, becoming the first Liverpool player to do so for a decade.

lolverpool

xxp That's why the official neutral end at Craven Cottage is such a lolz idea!

are we gonna have to come up with a new EPL thread title for next season?

Kenny to sell Gerrard to Real this summer y/n?

oh i forgot this was on. rare to turn on a game 25 minutes late having missed 3 goals.

if Real made any sort of offer for Gerrard i'd be tempted to take it

would be quite happy with "arsenal won't win the etc" tbh

lol yeah "arsenal will lose half a dozen soft matches"

that will be funnier than a liverpool title but tradition, people!

Mostly I'm thinking: why was anyone else allowed to be permanent manager for the last twenty years?

Seriously: give Kenny the rest of 91/92 off, get him back for the new season, and maybe the Ferguson nightmare never happens?

xp it's true, we can't go weak at the knees and back out just as the thread title's trolling potential begins to flicker anew

still want "arsene knows" for the summer transfer thread though mind

Liverpool looking good to clinch that 30th league title tonight.

'Man Utd still won't win the Premiership 2011/12'

in Ismael's alternate universe I'm imagining Bryan Robson as the popular but inept manager of perma-bridesmaids United. and United being a lot less hated.

Gary Neville has to have Jamie Redknapp's glamorous wife and American tv career instead oh no wait