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

surely ireland in say the semi's of a euro or the quarters of a WC should be in there somewhere

Beidh a fhios ag baile atha cliath go cluiche deachair ata ann.

Ireland in a major tournament...

one mis-step at a time

Leon Britton, of Swansea: do my eyes deceive me, or is he actually quite good?

And if the latter, why has he spent an entire career in the Championship with some time even below that?

specsavers imo

jesus why wasn't i told abotu bosingwa's goal

surprised if grant holt isn't described as HE'S BIG, HE'S STRONG poss w/ ref to running the channels in the postgame montge

can't blame ivanovic for that tbh, stopped the ball getting to holt prob didn't expect hilario to clean him out of it on the edge of the box

lol at 'drogba has stayed down for a long time' when he is visibly unconscious

That was STEAMING bitchiness from Villas-Boas in the interview there.

yeah, but too sulky to be stylish imo

what he say

It wasn't so much what he said ("Paul Lambert said he didn't think it was a penalty-" "Paul Lambert has a good imagination"), more his entire demeanour suggesting that he pisses Paul Lambert. This is not a man who will have any trouble being passive-agressive to Tony Pulis on a wet Wednesday night in Stoke.

yeah

"Paul Lambert doesn't think that was a penalty"

"Pffffffffffffft" *flicks hair*

yah he's got great hair

Did I hear wrong, or were the Everton fans doing "U! S! A!" chants after that penalty save?

This is not a man who will have any trouble being passive-agressive to Tony Pulis on a wet Wednesday night in Stoke.

― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:02 (16 minutes ago)

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it's not the passive aggression you want to be minding at stoke iirc

There's something very "opening act on the NME tour" about Joey and his friend, there, isn't there?

"Join Manish and the gang... you might even see a goalkeeper score, I am told."

all penos in the everton game are bullshit

aw franco di santo's motd interview was lovely. lucas leivapool was immense today btw. love love love him.

lucas was great today

disanto's goals eh

watchin on delay tbh

di santo looks a bit like hoos imo

was never a penalty tbf to lambert. (im a norwich fan btw, so obviously biased).

always

Read somewhere that only 3 of 9 penalties have been scored so far this season, that's remarkable if true.

it is i tink

Actually, it's kind of what AVB said too:

AVB: "Paul Lambert has a good imagination. Fantastic. But we have 3 penalties in 2 games. Maybe he wants to show some imagination on the other three."

Legard: "You haven't seen the replay, or maybe you have, but Ramires seemed to be going down almost as he made contact with John Ruddy..."

(AVB curls his lip)

AVB: "Well, all our players go down. The others don't go down. All our players seem to go down, so it's good to be aware of this difference of opinion."

also, tbf, prob the clearest penalty out of all given today.

Butthurt sarcasm is the worst possible look for a football manager, have we learnt nothing from Rafa?

Chelsea have shades of Liverpool 08-09 about them, visibly unconvincing but can't lose, loads of late goals. They need an Ngog though.

AVB excellent on MOTD y'day. Fuck Paul Lambert's trolling. Clear penalty.

Liked Dixon's break down on Downing's wingplay y'day.

Rafa would've attempted to seem indifferent but come off flustered, I thought Villas-Boas pulled it off better.

Fulham look awful in gold.

Villas-Boas can pull off whatever he wants when he's so ~dreamy~.

Tottenham: Friedel, Corluka, Dawson, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Modric, Kranjcar, Bale, Van der Vaart, Crouch. Subs: Cudicini, Huddlestone, Pavlyuchenko, Defoe, Bassong, Walker, Livermore.
Man City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Toure Yaya, Barry, Silva, Nasri, Aguero, Dzeko. Subs: Pantilimon, Richards, Milner, Johnson, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli.

Spurs not bothering with having a remotely defensive midfielder against that front four? Fair enough.

Kaboul in midfield would make sense but that might mean having to play Bassong in defence against Aguero so...

crouch is the real problem tbh

Nice music behind clips of modric- 'i need you but you don't need me'

we're gonne be kilt

incredibly inept crouch headers: 1

ref having a nice little awayer for himself, this is bullshit

Is this not on the radio? Five seems to have some sort of motor racing if I'm not mistaken.

Who's going to take penalties for City this season, I wonder.

slowly coming around to the idea that dawson is a v good CB

ok harry needs to admit this no dm shit is not working, they're just picking shots and passes from 25 yards with impunity

dawson has his moments, still, but he's turned out to be a strength surrounded by dross a lot of the time

Lotta cards already.

ref starting to even it up

bale is just ridiculously targetable for cheapshot tackles, nice to see zabaleta booked for the first sally

ridiculously inept crouch tackles/touches 1 each