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

defoe not happy with bench role as he's training better than ever

Stfu and score some goals you stupid fuckdog

those ♪♫ s cause me to read that as a jaunty jingle

I'm theoretically okay with the idea of selling Defoe until he goes to Everton or someone and scores 25 league goals.

perhaps he could fit in at newcastle

Wages too high for Everton I imagine?

i know matt but he's just not going to do it for us

I dont think he's 'that guy' anymore tbh

stop writing in verse you, my internal jukebox can't cope

thaaat guuuuuuy thank you, thank you

That's just the way it is
Some players will always be the same

transfers in the night, what were the chances
calls at 3am to trevor francis

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't Ronaldo, but hey you're alright

By the time I get to Bolton, he'll be risin'

packie bonner told me
There'd be players like this

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that Rio gives you
Don't do anything at all
Allegedly

'alledgedly'

he doesn't give you excitment any more i know
but i still remember that day when he scored five goals

stoke
sunderland
it's just a shot away

john terry is a cuuunt

Chris Hughton 5/4 Susp.
Neil Warnock 6/1 Susp.
Martin O'Neill 6/1 Susp.
Dave Jones 6/1 Susp.
Sam Allardyce 7/1 Susp.
Malky MacKay 8/1 Susp.
Alex McLeish 10/1 Susp.
Paul Lambert 10/1 Susp.
Gus Poyet 12/1 Susp.
Roberto Di Matteo 14/1 Susp.
Kevin Keen 14/1 Susp.
Steve McClaren 18/1 Susp.
Paulo Di Canio 20/1 Susp.
Slaven Bilic 20/1 Susp.
Iain Dowie 20/1 Susp.
Ian Holloway 20/1 Susp.
Billy Davies 20/1 Susp.
Ray Wilkins 25/1 Susp.
Alan Curbishley 25/1 Susp.
Peter Reid 25/1 Susp.
Stuart Pearce 33/1 Susp.
Nigel Pearson 33/1

Hughton price suggests he'll be the next WHU manager but Wilkins and Curbishley may be worth a shiny pound coin?

Is there a way to bet on it *not* being O'Neill?

bet on everyone else

15 Blackburn 37 7 7 5 22 16 3 3 12 21 41 -14 40
16 Wolverhampton 37 8 4 6 28 27 3 3 13 16 36 -19 40
17 Birmingham 37 6 8 5 19 22 2 7 9 17 34 -20 39
18 Blackpool 37 5 5 9 30 37 5 4 9 23 37 -21 39
19 Wigan 37 5 8 6 22 34 3 7 8 17 27 -22 39

Blackpool 2/7 Susp.
Birmingham 8/13 Susp.
Wigan 8/11 Susp.
Wolves 8/1 Susp.
Blackburn 8/1 Susp.

Man Utd v Blackpool, 16:00
Stoke v Wigan, 16:00
Tottenham v Birmingham, 16:00
Wolverhampton v Blackburn, 16:00

Blackburn as easy money?

sticking a grand on Mourinho as we speak, thanks!

Is there a way to bet on it *not* being O'Neill?

I know nothing about gambling but i believe you can do this kind of thing on betfair

Wait why is Warnock second-favourite? Are QPR about to do something insanely self-destructive like sacking him, failing to lure Sven and ending up with Glenn Roeder?

Blackburn aren't going down. I fear Sunday could be a big letdown, with Stoke and Man U powering their way to early leads and routine wins.

Everyone in the bottom three to lose, calling it.

Not sure why people think established Premiership manager Ian Holloway would want to manage a Championship club.

Wd have to be an insane set of circumstances for Blackburn to go down. I can picture Wigan getting something at Stoke, or Birmingham getting something at Spurs, but if Blackpool don't get beaten then Man U want throwing out of the league.

if Blackpool don't get beaten then Man U want throwing out of the league

^^ would take this scenario.

I am sure that the Premier League will enforce the full strength team rule just as assiduously as they've done with Blackpool and Wolves in the last couple of seasons.

they've let us away with playing crouch

Blackpool might be better off against and injury-shy and half-arsed United first XI than a team of likely subs frantically pushing for a CL starting place.

I was at OT for their last-day loss to West Ham in 2007. It was great. Man Utd tried hard enough, but when the pressure's off these things happen.

What's the fine for fielding an understrength team? What's the reward for keeping your players fit and winning the Champions League? How much of a fuck does Fergie give about Premier League rules?

xxp

I've thought the same thing myself tbh Matt.

Wolves got £25k fine, suspended. Winning the CL's worth about £20k.

:)

sorry, been in the Prem long enough to not expect stupid shit like justice by now

Utd will win. The weakened team rule is so stupid though

i think it's stupid now that there's a squad limit. it's not so stupid in terms of clubs depending for their league status on other teams being arsed to turn up.

It's harsh but thems the breaks. As you say, with a squad limit how can you really define what a weakened team is?

If Blackpool were serious about staying up they'd put Allardyce or Hughes in charge for the last game.

Or Steve Bruce or Roy Keane, doesn't really matter who.

i'm more bothered by the fact that Wolves and Blackpool got singled out for mid-season games when bigger clubs have been consistently allowed to play effectively "weakened" teams before European games. i got no beef with the clubs, this is why you have a squad.

I agree completely

OT but having 23-man squads for international tournaments is stupidly bloated when 25 is more than enough to get any club through a season

well it's not 25 is it? 25 over 21s or whatever...part of the point of the squad rule, which i think is good, was to encourage clubs to develop more of their own players

True. Picking an XI of just kids could be worthy of punishment in that case.

also thought international squad also takes into account that you play a little more frequently than in a league?