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

I am a bit worried about Suarez running out of puff though - a few chances have fallen his way in the games so far where he's been less than lethal. He's probably at 99%, like, it's just a boggle that the missing touch is a sign of incipient fatigue.

how long a contract did we give give carragher when he re-upped? 3 years? Surely not 4?

He signed a 2 year extension in October 2010, taking his contract to 2013.

ta chris. if he's the first choice CB for the start of next season then something's gone horribly wrong imo

Negotiated that deal when the club's future was up in the air, of course. Legend.

I do like him and I actually think he's got something to offer in a marshalling-type role - but it's at least a couple of years already since I started wondering out loud if he's totally shot.

We didn't miss him when he was injured last season. I didn't once think, "If only we had Carra to organise the defence."

liverpool's gargantuan shitfest and owner probs in the last two years have allowed carra to grow moss like some dignified statue in the centre of a depraved banana republic, solely valued due to familiarity in a time of flux.

oh, that's beautiful

He should do the decent thing and accept his destiny as Neville's sidekick on Sky Sports.

A Saint and Greavsie for the 2010's

This how you do it with dignity folks

The end came for me on New Year's Day, 2011 - and it came on a toilet at The Hawthorns. It wasn't the way I'd have chosen to finish, but I knew for certain that this was my last game.
After 18 years at Manchester United, after 602 first-team appearances, I was in the middle of playing for my team for the last time.

saint and greavsie/cunt and cuntier

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Maybe if I'd suggested a stewarding-type role for Carra, that would've received more favour?

a silent sentinel role

semi-sentient more like

Excited about tonight at Loftus Road. The lights. Half a new team. Beatable opposition.

gomes out

We had an offer of 10m for dos santos during the window!

Offering modric an improved contract makes no sense

Special guest star: Kolo Toure.

Why did Spurs leave VdV out of the European squad?

not bothered about euruefa cugue

He's not a happy camper though, if the Dutch media are to believed. Pissed off that no-one told him. Lol.

hey guys i p much missed this weekend, cleverly rip?

anything else going on?

i'm interested about a liverpool assessment - was it because stoke were really good or was their problems integrating their new midfield? did carroll play?

we got 3 points, fuck a performance at the moment. confidence and points are much more important to collect at the moment.

liverpool lost cos disrespectful refs are battering them with wrong decisions iirc

be sure to check local garda's autumnwatch cuntwatch series for all the details

Liverpool lost cos of an embarrassing mishap by Carragher, cos of a slight lack of guile up front though they played well enough, and cos Stoke are actually pretty good. Liverpool did swamp them a bit, but still. Carroll came on, you can imagine what the penalty area looked like from then on.

ref kinda screwed them tbh but also lol finishing

Vdv barely makes it through 90 mins as is i'd go with keeping him league-only tbh

bellamy gave the team a bit of pep when he came on i thought but yeah 'pool shouldnt have lost that game

I think i love Phil Jones

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otm

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yeah 4real, big jonesy has inherited carroll's big english mancrush mantle this season (still got love for andy though). think phil kinda has an endearing rugger bugger posho charging around the pitch 1940s/50s thing going.

i'm interested about a liverpool assessment - was it because stoke were really good or was their problems integrating their new midfield?

Come on dude surely nearly everyone expects things like this to happen when they go to Stoke?

Yeah I know, I just wanted to know how Liverpool were at dealing with it.

also now they have Crouch I do kinda expect Stoke to get worse.

btw the time's game podcasts have been doing extra episodes that are way more interesting than their normal ones, last week they covered italian strikers, the week before that was how footballers feel about journos, this week the decline of scottish football. the only really good one was the italian strikers one but i feel like it could be something to pay attention to over the season if put more interesting and obscure topics on the 'extra' ones.

crouch will tear stoke's game apart

Why would Crouch make Stoke worse? It's not like they were playing silky passing football beforehand, and it's not like any of their strikers were exactly goal machines either.

because their game is aerially inclined, and he's awful in the air?

^^^^^ding ding ding ding

wonder if pulis can change him at this stage? Can't do much about his back musculature.

so everyone sees it from the german thread, such a great punchline:

Ah, I love Felix Magath

€10k: Fines for Wolfsburg strikers Patrick Helmes and Mario Mandzukic for "failing to follow tactics" in a 4-1 defeat last month. Other routine fines at Wolfsburg: €1000 for an "unnecessary backpass", €500 for failing to control a high ball before it bounces, plus €250 for wearing headphones on the coach. Players' union: "This really isn't legal."

― pandemic, Sunday, 11 September 2011 12:34 (Yesterday)

fuckem, organisation rules can prob be bent for multimillionaire professionals. Magath otm.

€500 for failing to control a high ball before it bounces

too soft imo

"unnecessary backpass" fine would bankrupt mario ;_;

Cleverly has ligament damage. Out for a month.

phil jones is not a big, he is fast and reasonably skilful for a defender

He is a Rolls-Royce iirc

I like Phil Jones atm but he does have 'future member of the england team i dispise' written all over him (along with jack but i am more torn w/ arsenal players.)

i wasn't too fond of him when he tried to break bale

i despise the england team but kinda like individual players

jones could be one, rodwell too

still sort of like gerrard (nightclub incidents and all) and stewart downing

wilshere is a lil bastard already

have always hated stevie me. one thing that gives me hope w/ jones is i can't see him as either a merking rio type or a ebjt type.

not yet, sure

Like rio quite a bit tbh

rio and lampy fwamps are p much scum since that ayia napa video iirc

ashley cole is secretly alright

think joe hart might be a terrible person

joe hart imo has 'incredibly boring dude who somehow trumps the rest of the england team to become main pundit on motd' vibes.

Smalling seems inoffensive. Cleverly has an annoying face.