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

he did nothing save for the foul on andre santos before mata's goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMNn8gfPC8

god guy mowbray is such a fucking wanker

xp

nah he was lively and direct, not sure how much contact there was with Santos either, i thought he went over v. easily

uhm, more than enough to obstruct him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thuxrI7Pss

he's mostly looked lost for chelsea, tries to take on defenders and just loses the ball

he shouldn't be played on the wing anyway

Way to pass it directly to a blue shirt under no pressure, André.

http://i.imgur.com/Ux3xz.jpg

hope he was doing his 80k A WEEK 80K A WEEK shit just then

Hate him.

BTW do you think Gervinho's been poor generally, or was your post yesterday immediately after his open-goal miss?

i think he is alright but he does duplicate what walcott offers and i'd like to see more of arshavin in the big games

arshavin needed competition

Not sure that gervinho "80% pass completion including some assists' is a direct xerox of the boy walcott tbph

More to come from the flanks than what we've seen before today even if we can't rely on vdv scoring game.

more than two goals from bale and two assists from lennon (could have been three on that one adebayor channce)?

before, before

We'd been missing it lately imo

lennon's a different playing when he gets away from the white touchline, so dangerous.

Joey7Barton Joseph Barton
What a footballer Luka Modric is, hats off. Best in the league by a mile.

the lad barton will win me over yet

I don't want to see more of Arshavin in big games. Ok so he was good in a Carling Cup game. BFD.

Gervinho fucking runs at defenders. He gets into the box. It's soooooooooooooooooooooo refreshing. He may not have had the greatest form yet but 'foreigners first six months in a different league' is not a new thing.

Also our defending hasn't stopped us getting into the top 4 for the past couple years, and now Verm is back and Gibbs seems to actually understand positioning. Sucks that Sagna was killed but if it means we play a centre half like kos there who won't always be too high up the pitch like Clichy or Santos or Eboue always were, we could actually address one of our problems.

Basically, I think we should at least make the top 4. Like last season though, I say this in reference to the incompetence to others. An Arsenal that can't defend isn't a new thing; a Chelsea that concedes every game is and they are making up for it by not passing to their sulky forwards who are in terrible form between them (except Sturridge). That and the EBJT race row is small change for Chelsea, there is always a bigger crisis waiting around the corner. Ade and VDV tend to stop giving a fuck once winter comes. For all their greatness, we are pretending like City aren't about to implode any second now - if the Tevez thing is really as bad as it gets, I'll be bloody surprised considering they have the likes of Tevez, Balotelli and Nasri as potential all time dicks, as well as the general 'why the fuck aren't you playing me' bench. Suarez needs better service and partnership. (tbf Utd look alright, unless they end up having to play Evans all season.)

Which actually makes for a quite exciting season. You can presume that City will win the league but there are 30ish games left with potential bombs waiting to explode in every club, with great players v. their own teammates incompetence all over the shop.

lol gooners

i don't know who any of those arsenal players are, city won't implode, spurs are stronger and liverpool are comin back and i don't think blasé references to being the historical gimp fourth in a now more-than-four horse race are gonna cut it

city
utd
chelsea
spurs
arsenal
liverpool

Yeah. Picking 3-5 is tough but I'd put money now on Liverpool 6th or lower, if I was one for that.

i want liverpool and real madrid to do badly and don't care about a lot else this season

sam's right about it making for good watching though. Just don't see liverpool breaking down teams well enough to get top 4, and wenger iirc was out only a fortnight ago so i dunno has kieron gibbs solved that all by himself since and tbh i'm p confident spurs will be closer to chelsea than to either of those teams by end of may

liverpool team is pretty horrible

in what way

mix of players still not making sense to me

team full of thuggish fairground footballers with one endearing racist adding a morsel of flair

don't think suarez is racist tbh but i accept without a poll it's moot at best

Suarez has to tire eventually with the number of games he's played in 2011. Downing's been unimpressive, Henderson not going to get a proper shot unless Gerrard stays hurt. Vulnerable central defence.

downing as left henderson as right prongs in a carrolk trident, i still believe

Liverpool team is also particularly ugly

just has the look of a st0rmfr0nt convention in halifax, random imported dorks and twitchy psychos bonding uneasily

i must say this is all very spurious

lol

iirc our resident liverpool fans were annoyed when u were being spurious this afternoon

true

disregarding spuriousnes for a second, they play shitty football for such an expensive side, a high-functioning versh of o'neill's villa, seldom any subtlety or change of pace

pace is a problem for them, after suarez you're looking at the fullbacks to provide any speed, right?

I dunno, just think this year's too soon into the recovery project for top four.

think they need a better manager to go top 4

I guarantee that we will not finish in the top four this season.

(see what I did with the Rafa 'guarantee' quote thing, did ya, did ya?)

idk, i was laying into yall for hyping them six weeks ago, but they still have a reasonable chance of getting to the cl.....35/40% maybe

Gerrard's injured again btw.

how do you rate downing, henderson, adam?

adam is a shit cunt tbf, slower than metastasis and similarly dangerous

Downing impressed me early on, but he's gone quiet over the last few games. Adam started poorly with flashes of brilliance, but is getting better and more consistent. Been a few weeks since he shot from the halfway line anyway. I really like the look of Henderson - moves the ball quickly, can play one/two touch. Reckon he's been more effective on the few occasions he's played in the middle, rather than on the right.

Warmed to Adam since he baked a cake on Blue Peter.

henderson is definitely not a winger, he is a sort of energetic combination player who can do a bit of everything

cleverly, milner, ramsey, ramires are the closest likenesses in the other teams

Would substitute Song for Ramsey, who's starting to look like more just useful. Song clearly can't be expected to stay where he's stationed anyway.

more *than* just useful

ramsey is better than those players but at the moment but not categorically unlike them