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

i feel i've had that reaction a couple of times and then forget it.

xps MLS fans have picked up on it now

went in the January window, we were after him as well but fuck that considering he put Guedioura out for most of the season. good old Mick, always thinking.

xpost. while its ubiquity is annoying me i think that's great! apparently the lads just sung it on buses to games, just as a laugh, not expecting to sing it at the games, and now it's ended up across the atlantic.

The Maxi Rodriguez song is so good.

http://shrani.si/f/2u/cm/13hcv7Fg/2uom26o.jpg

That's about right. Number 19 next season or else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbj9o0ER77U

Is it that he is not wearing his wedding ring or his flies are open?

wedding ring

I mean with that kind of legs akimbo sitting style he probably wouldn't be too bothered about his fly

Must be another one of those famously family-orientated footballers.

well that was a bit embarrassing last night for fulham but no shame in losing to a team playing so well. suarez is just... ga-ga-GOINGGGGG

i thought the point of the Gerrard vid was that he was suddenly realising that Liverpool could manage quite nicely without him ta?

That's what the wedding ring is a metaphor for.

Oh that's quite good. When I'm running through next year's XI in my head, Gerrard still has a role - but it's as a faster, stronger Maxi, rather than as Superman.

faster stronger more disruptive maxi who wont play on the left or score as many

Just sell him to arsenal, then we'll have a real title race

Arsenal more likely to swoop for an N'Gog-El Zhar dream ticket I'd've thought

dalglish might not be as good a manager as benitez, but he has brought the feelgood factor back to liverpool

is there one of those since-dalglish league tables for since-gerrard-was-injured?

I was thinking that, watching Stevie Me sat in the studio at half time

Gerrard's last game was the 3-1 v Man Utd. Since then:

Braga (A) - L 1-0
Braga (H) - D 0-0
S'land (A) - W 2-0
WBA (A) - L 2-1
Man City (H) - W 3-0
Arsenal (A) - D 1-1
B'ham (H) - W 5-0
N'castle (H) - W 3-0
Fulham (A) - W 5-2

Stevie G opining last night that danny murphy was let go far too soon by Liverpool. Quite right, especially as he was replaced by Xabi Alonso and what utter rubbish he turned out to be..poor mans gareth barry iirc.

d murphy was gonna be great for spurs but then he wasnt

If Stevie G carries on this run of form he could be the next generation's Ian Wright.

Yeah wtf re. Murphy? He was a 1 good game in 10 kind of player at best for us.

English though innit. Passion.

Murphy after signing for Charlton in 2004:

"If you are working at a club that has stability it gives you peace of mind, and that is the case here. Liverpool has lost some camaraderie with more English players leaving and different players coming in. How do you replace Fowler and (Neil) Ruddock? You can't. I wanted to come to a club that was not perhaps so cosmopolitan. I wanted to work under an English manager who I could have a crystal clear relationship with. Alan Curbishley has the things I look for in a manager."

"At Liverpool it was difficult because you had so many nationalities and cultures there, a lot of lads didn't play golf or didn't want to do go-karting.

Already hate him for the shit he's talked about Wolves this season, nice to know there's plenty of other reasons to hate the no-mark cunt.

Well, how do you replace Ruddock??

Was Big Daddy still alive at the time?

Well, how do you replace Ruddock??

There's a reality TV show in there somewhere

In 2006 Ruddock helped produce Football Saved My Life a reality sports TV show for Bravo turning around the lives of 15 guys.

There you go.

Golf and go-karting, two very English pasttimes.

Balotelli - yes to go-karts and safari parks, no to golf

"At first, being here wasn't easy, it was a little bit difficult," he acknowledges. The suspicion is that it is still hardly Nirvana. Asked how he fills spare time, Balotelli's reply seems instructive. "Doing nothing," he says. "I stay at home and play on the PlayStation and sometimes go shopping. I have to find some interests; in Italy I had lots of things to do like going to the shooting range or Go-Karting and friends to do them with."

Knowsley Safari Park has proved a saviour; Balotelli, a World Wildlife Fund aficionado who loves holidaying at nature reserves, has made frequent visits. Despite receiving numerous invitations to swing a five iron with team-mates, he balks at the idea. "I don't like golf," he says, frowning. "It's not for me, it's too quiet. But next year things will be easier; my friends will come over and I think my family will move here."

a lot of lads didn't play golf or didn't want to do go-karting

new ilf board description

Balotelli at the shooting range has possibilities.

Perhaps with Dalglish back in charge Liverpool can finally usher in the Gerrard-Carra-Murphy nu-Spice Boy golden era.

No, no, no, you people don't understand - "go-karting" is Scouse slang for pulling all the tyres off an Escort XR3i and razzing it up and down Queens Drive until it catches fire. You really don't want to know what "golf" is.

I once saw John Arne Riise driving a Ferrari down Queens Drive. True story.

Classy, but not as classy as my uncle doing the same thing in a Humber Pullman.

danny rose is a left back now?

palacios, would be nice to see a performance from him.

Four man midfield reads lennon palacios sandro modric

Vdv crouch up front, was effective once upon a time

heartbreaking to see you like this

Cudicini in goal. What's Harry done to Gomes?

God bless you Heurehlo, you were amazing when you weren't appallingly shit.

yeah sums it up tbh

End of season meh starts here

I'm sure there must be times 'arry knows his Dad will be turning in his grave for him joining Spurs.

The Guardian was assessing Harry in with the Chelsea runners & riders today. Not blimmin' likely was the verdict iirc, but interesting to see him mentioned at all.