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

haha

Fave was always "Denil-" followed by "SON!!!".

Villa are painful to watch. Quite liking QPR though

The Celtic announcer occasionally attempts those callback team lists, usually for Big European Nights. It's funny listening to how the level of response corresponds to the popularity/bombscareicity of the player.

Richard Dunne has broken Carragher's og record by the way.

QPR deserved something out of the game but until Bent gets back and QPR can go shopping again, both teams look like they're going to struggle to get goals.

That og was really harsh on Dunne though. Just after Neville had given him man of the match too.

Villa - still undefeated, and falling down the table. The QPR comeback was inevitable and sadly, true to form for Villa for years and years now. So frustrating.

God, McLeish has turned Villa into Birmingham. Dirty, clumping sods. Shame.

Armand Traore, what a shit cunt:

"I just thought he was a disgrace," said Warnock. "I will fine him as much as I possibly can.

"I told him to his face 'you've let me down and you've let the team down'."

Traore dived into the challenge in an attempt to regain possession with QPR chasing the game, but Warnock was less than happy with his summer signing's actions.

The QPR boss added: "As an opposition player when you are winning 1-0 away from home, that is what you want. I just think he was a bit thick and naive.

"I said to him 'when we're playing at Fulham next week what are you going to be doing?' But he is learning. He is a good player and will be an even better one after that."

Like on Championship Manager when you were occasionally could either comment negatively,positively or neutrally on a player's sending off. It them would appear in the paper as "Upt0eleven blasts Traoré" to which the player would either respond that "the manager's comments were fair, promising to take them on board" or say that he "feels Upt0eleven's comments were unfair" and hand in a transfer request the next day.

Better off keeping schtum ime but blasting was always fun.

Tottenham Hotspur has overhauled its visual identity, one of a raft of measures the Premier League club is planning in a bid to exploit what it has identified as its core values - “flair, style and adventure”.

The North London side hopes the changes, which will see the colours, fonts and the tone of voice used in all its marketing materials updated, aim to differentiate the club from rivals and boost income from sponsors and fans.

The aim of the refresh, according to the club’s commercial director Charlie Wijeranta, is to get people to recognise the club’s communications without seeing its logo.

Don't know how they did it, but they've already took over the GIS results for Flair, style and identity

adventure i mean

Love it.

Should have gone with SLOGAN NAMING RIGHTS.

if warnock exaggerates traore's sin now and comes down on him like a ton of bricks then maybe just maybe the kid will learn not to do it again when it might matter. and that, dearest arsenal fans, is how you make players out of raw talent.

as for the game, villa were pathetic and the ref's a fucking cunt. we've still got some issues to iron out but on a normal day would still have been worth a two goal victory.

I was disappointed Dunne didn't actually come out to accept his MOTM award, there's every possibility he just told them to fuck off though

and yes, the ref had a shocker

no, that is how you get midtable guys at best out of raw talent. whatever the fuck wenger did w/ henry at monaco and wilshere the past ten years is how you get players from raw talent.

i don't see the comparison between Wilshere and Henry?

Wilshere is 19 and he's a first team regular

what, getting blatantly super talented players to play like themselves? yeah whatever.

as if so happens, qpr actually are a midtable side. but in the newcastle and wolves games i was still surprised with how good traore was; certainly better than i'd ever seen him for arsenal. once he gets a bit of discipline trained into him he'll be a very decent player indeed. v plausibly a cut above yr upson, muamba, larsson types potentially.

btw ahoyhoy if i search the archives am i gonna find you spouting off somewhere saying how traore is the future and is further evidence of arsene's masterplan?

umm

yeah that was after he got motm in the wolves game? do keep up.

xpost Don't think there's a single QPR fan who wouldn't accept mid-table as a great achievement out of a team made up of perennial underachievers, honest toilers and mental flair players.

bit like arsenal really

tbf i've always gone gibbs >> traore.

fergie says telly has too much power

"When you shake hands with the devil you have to pay the price," he said. "Television is God at the moment."

Great way with words there.

do you get some kind of alert every time Ferguson gives an interview?

ah come on it's a keegan-esque quote, i might not have posted if it wasn't fergie but still would have thought it was dumb.

plus it's been plastered all over the BBC today

Kieran Richardson is a fucking awful player.

Just a bit of joshing. You can't deny you have a weakness for an inflammatory Fergie quote

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haha no i know, of course! it's not that it was inflammatory, just calling tv god and the devil within the same quote.

actually sort of beautifully put except don't credit fergie with that

I avoid Fergie rants tbh. Cast a brief eye over the headline and move on is the best policy i find

and yes, Richardson is a fucking awful player. The hatred i had for him when he played for Utd was strong

Wes Brown looking awful tonight as well, Norwich up 2-0.

bruce in hot water

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is preparing to make a shock move for Manchester United striker Michael Owen, according to reports in Caughtoffside.com

that would be too perfect

When Fergie's complaining about the influence of TV, what he actually means is "we should be paid more money". He knows full well that if United could engineer an international rights deal similar to the one Barca or Real have then United would be sitting pretty.

that's a stretch

didn't he actually say that the distribution was fair?

actually, having just checked it he does sort of contradict himself on that issue.