Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Dunno if there is such a myth. Coyle just seems to be a shrewd negotiator.

wd've took that point before kick off and def after 60 mins so fair enough. title challenge still on.

see y'all in a week or so.

fuck it i forgot i came up with a refinement to my dn in the pub

i used to have Chris Herd on loan in a FM2010 team btw, swear he played midfield

attendance 30,076. Villa capacity must be 40,000+ right?

Wonder how much the tickets were. Even so, you'd think they'd be able to fill the stadium for a local derby?

£20-40. Wolves isn't a "big" game for Villa, they've had three home games in a week and Alex McLeish is their manager. A lot of people probably just didn't renew their season ticket.

I've always found lunchtime games anywhere the easiest to get tickets for fwiw. I've also seen a few biggish games at villa and never had particular problem getting a ticket, so I don't think this is a new thing.

Yeah, the attendances dropped off when we were still good, I guess money is a pretty big factor

when I still had a season ticket we stopped selling out derbies/ top 4 games in O'Neill's last couple of seasons

hilarios

fuuuuck, drogba just got knocked the fuck out

BBC min by min says he got punched in the head by the Norwich keeper. Is that not a penalty then?

he was offside before the punch

out cold before he hit the ground and fell hard

Guardian's MBM is funny, the only updates are from emailing readers b/c Rob Smyth is apparently watching a rugby match and nothing else. ""Ouch!" says Jonny Mac. "Don't know if you saw that but Drogba ..."

Swansea-Sunderland has been OK. Now Cattermole off, Wickham on, should get better.

That was a horrible landing for Drogba, we (Norwich) let off lightly by the offside call...

Norwich have just missed a great chance to talk the lead at Chelsea. It sounds like they have been the better side today.

Quality.

Park Chu-Young apparently having medical at Arsenal. Plays for Monaco, maybe Jibe can give us the low down. On the plus side he's not a teenager.

― pandemic, Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:05 PM (3 hours ago)

proved a solid backup and impact sub when i took him with me from rangers to man utd in football manager 2006, good signing imo.

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/873689-park-chu-young-on-verge-of-arsenal-transfer-after-going-awol-from-lille

The Monaco striker had agreed terms to join the French champions and the deal had progressed as far as him travelling to Lille on Friday, with a view to completing the move on Saturday.

However, when club officials went to collect the South Korea international from the hotel for his medical, they found the room empty.

if he can bring a few lols like this then that would be appreciated by all too, i'm sure.

Slightly biased, but I think Norwich have been the better side. Would be happy to take a point, but there's definitely a possibility of 3. Of course, Chelsea being Chelsea could probably stick one in any moment.

fuck Chelsea penalty, more Ruddy dodginess

Keeper had to get there

Ruddy sending off harsh

Fair enough imo

It wouldn't have been so bad if Ruddy hadn't been sent off - I have confidence in him as a keeper. Definitely sunk now, reckon it'll be 3 or 4-1, with all those extra minutes from Drogba getting hobbled.

Torres should have been sent off before that.

Blackburn lol

xpost - agreed!

What did Torres do? I glanced away but i heard the commentators saying something about it

cynical challenge that should have been a second yellow.

Miss of the season so far

jesus morrison is so slow

11mins of stoppage time is going to drag...

Blackburn lol

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In other news, QPR really not taking to the premier league, eh? Expected more from them tbh.

Mata scores, he's looked good

yeah mata looked good; lukaku is huge

lukaku looked pissed mata didn't pass there

lukaku is probably the largest player in the league or thereabouts

will make a great big if he ever gets slow and inept

Here's the Drogba incident. Pretty brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdM-X8NW9JU

jesus

ouch

original impact doesn't even look that much

no it's more the fall really

could have been worse if he had fallen differently

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/4/6/2b91be81-2add-4252-92ee-7e4df6d50c5b.jpg

the way he bounces listlessly off the ground is disquieting

lukaku is probably the largest player in the league or thereabouts
On FM10 he was the heaviest player in Serie A when I had him at Juve.

rip christian vieri

ha!

live it looked like drogba was out before he hit the ground, so obv hit hard

Was going to mention Stefan Maierhofer but I guess he's never coming back.

@BluesChronicle Dan Levene
Word on Drogba is that he has only just come around in the medical room after being out cold for almost half an hour. More when I get it.

yeesh

wow