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

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

he always was a lb, did he ever play in midfield before redknapp put him there?

Townsend looked very good indeed against Shamrock Rovers, but then that's against Shamrock Rovers. I wonder if he's ashamed at being called 'Andy Townsend'.

Norwich look alright actually, albeit in an escape-on-the-last-day-of-the-season way.

norwich look down down down tbh

Redknapp doesn't look bothered about the youff at spurs tbh, if they don't get in through injuries in the squad they won't get in. If they prove themselves that way they've got a chance. Otherwise it's interminable loans.

Bale was always considered a left back, but tbf this was always blatant stupidity.

Bolton look down down down too. Blackburn even more downs. Who else? Swansea look like a team you're sad when they get relegated with two games left.

swansea look like they'll be ok tbh.

Relegated this year look like:

Norwich
Blackburn
Utd (when rooney returns to form)

Wigan?

i don't think so, i feel the absence of rooney will stand to them throughout the season

arsenal to win the league
everton win fair play award

swansea look like they'll be ok tbh.

Relegated this year look like:

Norwich
Blackburn

Nah Swansea "actually play really good attacking football" which means "will get smashed a load of times and then go down", like Blackpool last year, like West Brom a few seasons back etc etc.

Norwich at least look like they can make things awkward for people, but yeah they may not be good enough at it to beat the drop. Wigan have to go down at some point.

I'm assuming Blackburn will sack Kean within the fortnight and it depends who they replace him with, but tbh when you're flying your relegation-threatened team to play a friendly in India in the middle of the season you deserve to go down.

I had QPR down early doors to finish bottom, but they literally look like a whole new team now, the 6-0 notwithstanding.

Swansea got thrashed by City and Chelsea when they tried to attack, lost to Arsenal on a freak goal, and have kept clean sheets in the other four matches. I think they'll stay up and could be closer to 10th than 20th if they find a goalscorer.

West Brom are looking like they could challenge for relegation, Sunderland clearly have issues, we'll be right there in the mix if McCarthy's still there come May.

qpr could come 7th or 17th, there's not really that much in it either way

same goes for everyone else

true tbh

Been keeping an eye on the West Brom message boards over the last few weeks to see what they think of Hodgson (obsessed? me?) and it's the exact same comments and complaints that we had with him last season. Should keep them up, what with his 36 years of experience, but wouldn't be surprised if his contract isn't renewed.

wonder if they're not all liverpool fans tbh