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

btw vdv controlled with his shoulder

Rodwell's knee makes contact with Suarez after the ball has gone and after he has landed - I think Suarez is so late to the party he can hardly he classed as fouled. At an absolute push I'd give him a free kick and tell him to stfu moaning and rolling around when he wasn't hurt. Then I'd bite him.

i'd not disagree with a yellow, tbh, but i can see a red.

i should be furious at vdv's latest comments but really i'm more in <3 than ever

"i don't wish to play regularly on the wing, i don't enjoy tracking back. I was amazed to have been substituted in the last game i scored and put teammates through three times"

Paraphrased

― always remember, there's no 'i zing' team (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 11:15 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

tbh his comments were way more nuanced in Dutch than the English press is making them out to be now. But I already knew yesterday that that would happen.

darraghphrased

heh

Rafael Van der Vaart is probably the only person in the world who was surprised to see Rafael Van Der Vaart subsituted after 60mins.

wen dee datch dey shpeak in english it alwaysh sounds dee mower forshful yesssh

vdv otm about creating all those chances and scoring

Arry otm for subbing him when trying to shut out the game.

Le Bateau Ivre always otm

vdv is a long time in professional football, let's be honest

Also he's fat and can't run for more than an hour.

well, hamstrings knacked != fat

Can someone point out to me how Suarez clearly being caught by Rodwell is a dive?

Rodwell's knee is already on the ground, Suarez puts his foot there, Rodwell's knee gently caresses the top of Suarez's foot, Suarez then does *that face* and throws himself up in the air before clutching somewhere that isn't sore and crumbing around in fake agony.

It's not a dive, it's still cheating to get an opponent punished.

He also does that "taking a break from the agony to see the colour of the card" thing.

crumbing around wtf am I on about "crumpling to the ground in fake agony" I think I meant.

So it's the reaction, ok.

Jose Enrique's biceps are incredible aren't they.

Xposts, rafa out

reaction to being fouled, imo, is a grey area that doesn't quite get to 'diving'. 'making the most of contact' is still cheating, but then so is hitting a man with your knee in a two-footed leapung challenge, isn't it?

lea pung, that famous martial artist

as in, if i were trying to score past a professional gk under high pressure and somebody drags, nicks, pulls or breathes on me, fucking right i'm gonna give the ref a decision to make.

What do you guys think of Norwich so far?

Manchester United star Tom Cleverley has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over a claim that he "badgered" a girl for sex.

The 22-year-old midfielder brought High Court proceedings against News Group Newspapers over a story in the Sun in August which left him "extremely upset and embarrassed", said his advocate, David Price QC.

He told Mr Justice Tugendhat in London that it alleged that the footballer had met a girl in a Blackpool nightclub and bombarded her with text messages offering her sex.

He was then alleged to have taken her to a B&B where he introduced her to his bodyguard and did a Google search on his name to demonstrate that he was a famous footballer. "Most seriously, the article then alleged that he repeatedly badgered her for sex despite her saying no."

Mr Price said the truth was that Cleverley had never met the girl involved and was at home with his girlfriend in Manchester at the time of the alleged incident.

"It transpires that, entirely unknown to the girl involved, an individual from Shipley, West Yorkshire, who resembles Mr Cleverley, was impersonating him, while another individual from the same town pretended to be his bodyguard.

"While these two individuals are from Mr Cleverley's local area, he does not know them and had no knowledge that they were practising such deception."

the fact too good to check

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/UEKoi.gif Three Germans on drugs in '66 final http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/UEKoi.gif

See how The Sun would have reported that 4-2 Wembley win on our fab new educational website Hold Ye Front Page

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00943/Eadline-066-095-18__943980a.jpg

A play on a Basil Fawlty quote that hadn't been made yet.

um that's the joke?

Oh man, that thing is a gold mine

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00943/Giant-Leaps_p019_28_943699a.jpg

Mr Justice Tugendhat

omg harry potter didn't exist in 800.

Stiliyan Petrov genuinely reckons that Gabriel Agbonlahor is as good as Cristiano Ronaldo: "People talk about Ronaldo but when you look at the assets of Gabby, you can put him in the same bracket."

I havent seen much of Norwich but they were wasteful on Saturday and that's a bad sign.

that's a ..... large ..... bracket. Think i saw one that size in harland and wolfe once, maybe

They were very solid at the back, and Morrison put himself about enough early on to give Evans and Jones a couple of scares, but they were really wasteful in front of goal.

any thoughts on Naughton? I still think he'll end up being a better right back than Walker for some reason.

walker has been ok but hasn't blown my mind tbh. Shouldn't be keepin corluka out of the team or anything. Nice to have him even pressing for first team at this stage though.

walker makes sense in the team as long as lennon's not playing. good to have some width. he's been pretty solid. i feel like it's very dangerous, but i am very excited about the kids spurs have coming up.

most impressed with livermore, tbh, but yeah there's at least signs of a couple of u-23 players like the kyles and townsend that could be good squad players until we sell them to wolves.

is bostock crap or just the latest redknapp vendetta case

he can't be on the europa league b squad because he has spent so much time on loan. scored a penalty in a friendly versus orient the other day, but i think he might be crap.

still only 19, though

he's kinda got no real position afaict, but i wouldn't be too quick to judge tbh, he's better than jenas, like

that's a pretty large bracket

has redknapp ever done shit for ver kids save for that brief period of shuffling juhmain and lamps w/ various slavic psychos at west ham back in the day

walker established his epl quality last season, bale was fucked around for ages til ekotto got injured

i had Bostock on loan in a FM game a couple of years ago, he was crap then

iirc there was a thread for hyperbolic quotes about villa players?

don't see how bale was fucked around, he lost his place cause he wasn't playing well and then earned it back with his performances. he wasn't quite a kid, but redknapp did a good job of slowly bringing sandro into the team.

sandro had already played for brazil

bale was constrained by redknapps inane insistence upon making him into a lb