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

Found it in the sandbox:

I can't? He got 40-odd goals the other season. How about 4-2-3-1:

Keane
Ince

Giggs
Cantona
Ronaldo

RVN

This means no Beckham, but maybe I can live with that better than leaving out Cantona.

― Death and Taxis (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 4 February 2011 11:41 (9 months ago)

A club-by-club best XI during the Premier League era

Can't live with no Cantona

rooney rvn cron
veron
scholes keane
irwin vidic stam parker
carroll

(xp) Cheers! So my first version was:

Schmeichel (there's not really any doubt about this one)

Evra (though a lot of people would go for Irwin)
Vidic
Ferdinand (this has probably been the best partnership, though probably one of them should be replaced by Stam)
G Neville

Giggs
Keane (again, I don't think anyone would question this one)
Scholes (ahead of Ince who might be too similar to Keane)
Beckham (for the crosses and combination with G Nev down the right)

Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy

Sorry Eric!

Best thing is you have Solskjaer on the bench of any Utd dream team

henry
bergkamp
pires fabregas vieira overmars
cole campbell adams sagna
seaman

vs

I miss proper Utd - Arsenal games

PICKING ON GARY NEVILLE? I'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE

rooney ffs

in that formation, fortune bellion and blomquist ahead of him

           Peter
Rooney Staam Pallister Irwin
         Fletcher
      Robson  Veron
Cronaldo          Konchelskis
         Cantona

imo.

Kanchelskis played on the right and Pallister wasn't that good

you seem to have put fletcher in there fyi.

Yeah the Fletcher inclusion is a maverick decision to say the least. There's this guy called Roy Keane...

And Veron may have been a fucking great player but he had about five good games for Utd

was gonna mention that. no Keane is world class challopery tbf

In the most recent batch of newspaper/celeb best-of-prems (can't remember what prompted them, 19th anniversary of the brave new era or somesuch) Keane was nowhere to be found. He'd be my top guy I think.

Keane or Schmeichel 1st and 2nd, Cron and possibly Cantona 3rd or 4th

right, think i've done this but

                 Schmeichel
Neville    Stam     Ferdinand     Irwin
Beckham      Keane     Scholes     Ronaldo
          Cantona         Van Nistelrooy

as individuals, like

if you were under onus to put the into a working team then i'd prob just go with the first choice xi in 99

looks about right, maybe push Cron forward into a 4-3-3ish shape

cron cantona would p much go where they wanted tbf- not sure they'd work together (or even rvn with cantona) irl

we've all done our 90's or prem-era teams tho, right

                     eh
Carr     King      Campbell     Bale shut up
                   Fuck knows
Anderton       Modric       Ginola
       
                       Van der Vaart
Sheringham       

Team would get through about two games before losing half its players

could throw in parker, sandro or even palacios for that one year, all streets ahead of any nominal holding midfielder we had going back to freund, who had the perfect mindset but was unfortunately shit.

No keane- harsh, tbf, no gazza- i'm not english, i'm not old, open to correction on that tbf, no chrissy armstrong and yeah bale at lb fu

it is a little injury prone hmmmm?

Anderton not so much injury-prone as doughnut-prone.

Yeah, that's why they nicknamed him doughnote iirc

anderton is a prince, a prince i tell you

carr-anderton was a thing of fuckin beauty for that five match span where one wasn't fucked and the other wasn't couldn't-be-fucked

saw Anderton for the Wolves at KC Stadium one time and for the first 5 minutes i thought a weather balloon had blown onto the pitch

look this won't be borne, i won't have it

Darren Anderton sans injury means Beckham never happens

Gascoigne's not an English thing I don't think, but he left in 91 iirc anyway. You want Sheringham-Berbatov up front imo, that'd be an exquisite frontline.

too exquisite, tbh.

Berba-keane partnership dislodges any individual pair, tho- that much is true

Make it a front three by adding in Klinsi and ooh la la. Carlos Kickaball a surprisingly strong shout for that DM role.

shit, jurgen's my fave put him in for vdv i'm hungover you'll forgive me

kickaball ref lost me entirely tbh

It was Sugar's way of dismissing pricey foreigners as not the way forward - it may actually have been prompted by Klinsmann's leaving, can't recall right now.

tbf at the time if it wasn't on teletext then it wasn't reaching me

"Old Trafford is ready for a silver anniversary party to celebrate Sir Alex Ferguson's reign at Manchester United. A giant banner is snaking its way along the Stretford End reading "Sir Alex 25 Years - The Impossible Dream Made Possible." Ferguson will want to focus on starting his 26th year with a Premier League victory. Sunderland manager Steve Bruce played his part in Ferguson's success story as a United captain, but he will be hoping to spoil the party today."

Not only an idiot but a liar, eh Nult?

lol at you guys looking at a xi that actually had rooney at rb, thought 'well sure' and then wondered why i wasn't 100% srs with my other choices

He's in midfield again btw.

Not only an idiot but a liar, eh Nult?

?

Steve Bruce played his part in Ferguson's success story as a United captain, but he will be hoping to spoil the party today

I assume

just the last bit

Are you still pissed?

nah this is righteous

you raise an interesting idea tho

isn't there a special mat at ot for bruce to roll over and get his belly tickled

sam- rooney at rb is a popular meme, fletcher > keane is an unpopular lie