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

Surely if you had a midfield of Lucas + Gerrard + a creative playmaker you'd be fine? It's the two DMs thing that's scuppered you and Lucas's rep.

well we sort of do have that with meireles...

Gerrard's return is gonna ruin everything isn't it?

I think these days I would put Gerrard over on the right in place of Kuyt. Never going to happen, but this would be nice:

-----------Carrol
-------Suarez
Young--Lucas--Meireles--Gerrard
Enrique--Agger--Skrtl--Johnson
------Reina.

just read a Freidel to Tottenham rumor

oof no thanks

Too temp a measure

Judging solely from MOTD highlights think Friedel has dropped off significantly this season. Villa fans will know more tho.

he's turned 40 and declared bankruptcy this yeartoo

tim howard would be good

Paul robinson always struck me as a player could do well at a big no cant even finish

bankruptcy? Srsly?

he started a football academy in ohio that did not do too well...

How the fuck does someone playing in the Prem for over a decade become bankrupt> Crack, hookers, gambling, 8 ex wives? smh

xp
so just the business bankrupt, not him personally?

i'm not sure but it seems that he personally owes the academy about 5M pounds, and i read somewhere that his house had been taken.

jesus!

Rob Green will be looking for a new club.

fuckin hell

No wonder he's still playin

Judging solely from MOTD highlights think Friedel has dropped off significantly this season.

Last stat I promise but Friedel has gone from one of the top keepers in the league in save % (his last season with Blackburn was unreal) to third-worst, and it hasn't happened gradually. Fantastic career but any club should be wary of him at this point.

sunday, how do i watch? one laptop w/wolves&blackburn, the other laptop w/sky sports news? tips, tricks, hints?

I was wondering this myself - had been tempted to pop over to a relative with an actual telly but that looks like it's not going to happen. Problem is that streams have been pretty ropey of late, raising the spectre of an afternoon with Alan Green.

'spectre' indeed

Is ESPN3 available at all in the UK? They're showing six of the matches on Sunday and have good picture-in-picture capability.

kind of surprising the prem doesn't have its own streaming setup like mls matchday live

Think I'll watch Stoke-Wigan.

I really hope Blackburn go down and Wigan stay. At least Wigan try to play attractive football. Kudos to Martinez for doing so much with so little the past few weeks. Another epic performance from the Zombie this weekend I hope.

Love Martinez, not sure that "attractive football" isn't in the eye of the beholder. Wigan have slightly more chance than Blackpool or Birmingham on Sunday imo

Pool fans i know irl have serious love for Lucas, don't think he's the weakest link in that team at all

yeah friedel has become very error prone this season

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/SPORT/Pix/pictures/2011/5/19/1305801381314/You-are-Ref-Jamie-Carragh-003.jpg

1. Send off the keeper, award a penalty.
2. Dunno, don't think it's a problem.
3. Play on, the linesman is part of the fixtures and appurtenances or whatever the law calls them.

Relegated: Blackpool/West Ham/Birmingham

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this dude may've been onto something

Friedel still has that colossal wingspan one-on-one saving ability that makes him look like a match-winner, but yeah, his save % and decisiveness on crosses is failing him

last season he went the entire season without dropping any crosses, but he's been flapping and conceding daft headed goals lately

So who's CTB? Help a non-UK resident out please!

Cough #InjunctionSuper Cough

C'monnnn... You know you want to share!

We're all too scared Gerald (even though half of us aren't in England and aiui this is a Canadian website). I wonder if 'sources in the Spanish press' might be more willing to tell you?

Thanks man, that was very helpful! ;-)

This whole injunction business is rather new to me, but it's like you Britishes fear it more than death itself o_O

@Chewshabadoo, only just now got your hint! :-)

The Daily Mail's subtle Amanda Platell:

What a striker!

Ryan Giggs’ wife Stacey Cooke is normally an invisible WAG. But this week an ultra-slim Stacey turned up at the Manchester United player-of-the-year awards in a staggeringly sexy frock, showing that she’s every bit the equal of those stylish WAGs Abbey Clancy and Coleen Rooney.

Ryan’s a lucky chap indeed, so couldn’t he have tried a bit harder with that smile? I, for one, would love to read more about what a happy couple they make.

It's new to everyone and nobody knows what the consequences are xp, hence this fiasco. A handful of Judges have just made it all up. Stuff like this has managed to totally discredit the whole idea of human rights here, which is quite a feat.

A sad fiasco it is, indeed.

Good to know there's still 'room for improvement' in the human rights dept. of the country I'll be living in shortly, then...

my old grandad didn't fight the nazis for this

Idk if this has had any great influence on the popular misconception of human rights, usually prey to demagogically fecund nonissues such as votes for prisoners

Guy on Twitter reckons the Guardian's Secret Footballer is... oh, hang on, better not.

Giggs' wife does look remarkably good in that pic.

oh no way chris?

Is there genuinely a huge outcry about the right to privacy being given more emphasis than the right to publish private information or have the press been playing it up? There's curiosity, for sure, but i'm not sure how much anger directed at the players or judges.

i don't know anybody who's too incensed by the injunction, know. if the PCC had any interest in or ability to stop newspapers behaving like utter fucking dicks then this situation wouldn't have arisen.

injunction a+ would read again

This arsenal women's goalie has a kickout and a half

oh no way chris?

I'm genuinely scared of typing the name! Even though a local journalist has tweeted the name, and if you google the name a load of message boards come up with people who also think it's this guy.

oh right i thought it was family man ryan giggs from wales