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

i know you don't like djourou and all, but jesus. you were even making comments about him during yesterdays game, when he wasn't even involved, as if he was the root of us losing.

That Wilkinson 'challenge' yesterday was deserving of a red. Also wtf at Jonathon Pierce claiming that Bolton's defending was worthy of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest?? What does that even mean?? Calling them mental patients seems a bit out of order, tho maybe the keeper was hearing voices or summit.

ha wait who was the other arsenal cb yesterday then?

alex song?

my bad! i was in and out to the bar at a christening tbh.

Djourou is pure shite tho

djourou is about the same level as koscielny and mertesacker, tho with different faults

arsenal linked with vertonghen today

bit young for management

Thought Song was pretty good vs Adebayor actually.

RIP Niall Quinn.

bury me in my disco pants, ma

First step towards beatification

cover story is he's not leaving, why lie?

Ancelotti also took the opportunity to tout himself for future roles at "top clubs" including Tottenham, Liverpool and Arsenal.

'I have a strong will to remain in England,' he added. 'For a coach, this is the ideal country.

'But I would only consider (coaching) top clubs, including Tottenham and Liverpool.

'It's evident that (Arsenal manager Arsene) Wenger's bench is wobbling and that in several months' time, an English coach will be appointed to replace (England manager Fabio) Capello in the national team, which will free up a place in a club.'

yes

JP said cuckoo's nest because he wanted to say
where Eagles dare
re Chris Eagles
because cuckoo and eagle are both birds
that's all

I'd fucking love him to replace Arsene. Tomorrow.

JP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQL3dQjqmw

Pub landlady wins case on using foreign TV feeds

Does this mean sky aren't gonna keep shutting my streams down now? If so, good work Euro-guys!

Promises a few laughs - http://www.falive.tv

ffs no footy this weekend again cos of shitty shitty england

and shitty shitty ireland tbf

we each have our cross to bear

if they just played round this bullshit i don't think it'd have much of an effect on the quality of the international teams or the domestic leagues

Fucking qualification football, I hate it so much. Play a qualification tournament in December or something and be done with it ffs.

Maybe we can talk about this instead? Fined £500 for missing a penalty! Fulham fury after Jol raps rookie Kasami

Jol raps rookie Kasami!

Oi! Take it to the Improve a tournament with a few simple innovations thread.

:-)

Rodwell's red card has been rescinded btw

They giving them to Fellaini and Hibbert instead?

I wouldn't complain if i were a Liverpool fan

bad call. Encouraging leaving the ground at that speed heading for an opponent? Not good imo.

Yes, just as releasing Foxy Knoxy is encouraging fucked up stabby sex games.

exactly

kinda feel we're seeing the opening stages of darragh's descent into conspiracy nut lunacy here.

'opening stages'

I'm with Darragh. So you're allowed to leave the ground with your studs showing as long as the other player either decides not to challenge for the ball for fear of having the other player's studs planted in his ankle, or doesn't go into the challenge at exactly the same time as the other player.

Lots of 'other player' there.

Just sat rewinding it and replaying it on SSN. The more I see it the more I can't believe how many people are saying that it wasn't a red. The "he won the ball" thing's pissing me off too.

But then Wilkinson only got a yellow for wrapping his legs around Nathan Dyer so why the fuck should I be surprised.

Of course it bloody matters that he won the ball. That is the aim of a good tackle.

not in terms of endangering another player it doesn't.

won the ball's got nothing to do with the dangerousness of the tackle, it's true, and there probably is still an unsafe level of aggression tolerated in the EPL on the grounds of "he took the ball"

whether you win the ball or not is irrelevant. we've done this before. it's kind of amazing that commentators and players are so ignorant about it. like i think most of them have an instinctive feeling for what is fair and what is not, but when you ask them to explain it, they prove that they know literally nothing about the rules of the game they've based their career on.

lol xxp

who was it who pointed this out as a pundit last year? sounness or someone? i wanted to give him an obe.

sounness? oh the ironing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF5F486C9743BE63D

winning the ball is not "irrelevant" when you execute a clean tackle and catch someone with your trailing leg. That's impossible to legislate for. You may as well outlaw all sliding tackles.

http://indobux.biz/gifs/Rodwell.gif