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

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.

clubs shd be free to negotiate their own rights deals providing they don't belong to a league and are free to negotiate individual meaningless friendlies

Sunderland defender Titus Bramble has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and possession of a Class A drug.

Same incident as before?

Maybe he's missing his brother.

oh, bramblepaws

he does have a history of being caught in possession

Mancini is alleged to have told Tevez he could “f***off back to Argentina” after the former City skipper defied his boss by refusing to come off the bench in Tuesday's Champions League group game.

City boss Mancini is also understood to have directed a similar volley of abuse at Edin Dzeko, telling him to “f*** off back to Bosnia,” after he reacted angrily to being subbed in the 2-0 defeat.

Would be hilarious if Mancini got the sack for this.

it's an employment law nightmare

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2011/sep/29/england-alex-oxlade-chamberlain-call

maybe a worse crime than their 'omg we have this super exclusive check back at 7' thing earlier this year.

he's had 1 cl game, should we call him up??????

just kinda imagining bobby going through the squad one by one after the game, finally culminating in owen hargreaves being told to f*** off back to canada

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/350448/

YEP my thoughts exactly

This would never have happened under Garry Cook.

You might think ED jests but not once in Cook's reign as chief executive did a high-profile striker decide he didn't want to play in a showpiece Champions League match. It never happened.

because this is their first time in the cl?

what does the next sentence say

tbf to the graun everyone is already p much certain ox is better than theo so if the latter is expected to get a call up every time then why not

he was v good last night

i didnt watch last night but from what i have seen ox does seem one of those ready-packed v mature ones

like ross barkley by comparison is obv a raw yoof. even jones, smalling, welbeck, cleverly are come to think of it.

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Every time Tevez does something objectively indefensible something ends up making me feel sorry for him, like this picture.

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Good thing he has all that time off

mancini out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/29/robin-van-persie-carlos-tevez-manchester-city?CMP=twt_gu

de gea is shit... at stealing
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3845162/Man-United-goalie-David-de-Gea-caught-nicking-119-doughnut.htm

loooooool

Unbelievable:

Sir Alex is fully behind his star signing. He said of de Gea earlier this month: "He's 20 years of age and doesn't know the culture of the country.

"That's a lot to deal with but he has shown great composure about the whole thing.

"He's not got himself flapping about the goalmouth. I think he's absolutely outstanding. The boy is tremendous."

Oh, missed the "earlier this month" bit of that.

ffs

Former Aston Villa Manager David O'Leary: Jose Mourinho Rates Me

David O'Leary, the former Arsenal defender who went on to enjoy success as a manager with Leeds United and Aston Villa, has revealed that Inter boss Jose Mourinho is a significant ally in his search for a return to management.

O'Leary has stated that he is keen to make a return to top-level management as soon as possible, and Mourinho might be only to happy to provide him with a reference."I’ve had requests to go back into football and it’s not me bigging myself up or thinking I deserve a bigger job but I just felt that the jobs weren’t right in any way," the Irishman explained to The Daily Mail.

"I’ve had lots of offers mainly from abroad and I think that can only come from people remembering Leeds in the Champions League.

"Some with loads and loads of dollars. Jose Mourinho was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really. That was about six or seven months ago.

"We’re not friends but Jose has always kind of rated me if you know what I mean. He was asked a question to recommend somebody for something or put them up and I was very grateful that he did it.

"When I thanked him he said, 'David, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw (Fabio) Capello at the soccer writers’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

"It was nice getting that from Capello. A lot of them know that you’re too good to be out of it. That’s not me trying to big myself up. People in the game know how difficult Doug Ellis and Aston Villa was."

Some with loads and loads of dollars

Come on, who talks like this? You don't say "I'm going to the cashpoint to take out some pounds", do you?

Jose Mourinho was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really.

ha, would love to know where this was - Jan Mayen FC or Kerguelen national team boss, I'm thinking

"When I thanked him he said, 'David, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw (Fabio) Capello at the soccer writers’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

This genuinely reads like a quote from The Office

Terek Grozny, maybe.

Did he have any excuses for being shockingly poor as manager of Al-Ahli?

Get the feeling Jose wrote a letter recommending O'Leary for an assistant manager's job with Tony at Gabala, but Tony would only talk to his dog.

What's with The Guardian liveblogging Fridays now?!

that's hilarious

we have (temp) got rid of Almunia! wooooooooooooooooooo! drinks for all!

nb that O'Leary thing was two years ago

Shit, it was up as news on some site or other

Arsenal financial guff shows overall level of group net debt reduced by £40mn-odd despite less property revenue.

SELF-SUSTAINING MODEL, WHOOOOOAHHH
SELF-SUSTAINING MODEL, WHOOOOOAHHH
IT COMES FROM ARSENAL
NO ONE ELSE GIVES A FUCK

The Group's property business continues to be debt free and generating surplus cash for the Group. The overall level of Group net debt had been reduced to £97.8 million (2010 - £135.6 million) at the balance sheet date.

so we are only about 3 or 4 years away from paying off the debt? In which we'll be looking at 40m more than now a season to throw around the team? :D

oh wait, we still made money off the property stuff, just not as much.

Arsenal also don't smoke, drink, or take drugs, and believe in the value of having a good breakfast. Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today!

In a few years' time the club will probably have to spend that extra £40mn a season on bailing out the failed NAMING RIGHTS supermarket development up the road.