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

the phrase "for fuck's sake" springs to mind

genuinely don't see how that was possible Ismael. Kudos if he managed it. Then again Stoke ARE in Europe tbf

once again i'm kind of ambivalent because if we scrape a win, no matter how badly we play, mccarthy's job will be safe for another fortnight.

He said 'reebok' a lot, which tbf is the closest to glamour-by-association as I think he could get

coming around to the idea that city, utd, spurs, chelsea, arsenal are varying degrees of good. Undecided on newcastle. The other 14 teams are rubbish.

i don't give a shit about whether you're under "pressure" or not, play fucking football and pass the ball to fucking feet for fuck's sake

we're really playing like a McCarthy team today, total expression of his footballing values

coming around to the idea that city, utd, spurs, chelsea, arsenal are varying degrees of good. Undecided on newcastle. The other 14 teams are rubbish.

Painful. I wonder what Suarez thinks.

Townsend and Curbishley must be the punditry team in Hell.

struggling to summon up the willpower to sit thru the second half

jesus fucking christ jarvis for guedioura. classic mick, play gued out of position and then when it doesn't work you can leave him out of the team for another couple of months. fucked.

you clueless clueless clueless clueless cunt

henry with the messi dribble

unbelievable ping pong goal after a surging run to the byline from...karl henry???

poor old al habsi

lol Wardy

stick a fork in them?

back heels in the build up to goals!! incredible barrage by the wolves

it's a big improvement when we pass the ball, yeah. thought the backheel was a tad unnecessary.

expect another angry, confrontational, last-days-of-Nixon speech from McCarthy if we win this

fabulous save that from al Habsi

kevin davies finally delivers for Ismael's fantasy team!

Bolton goal: People, check this one out on Match of the Day 2 later, it's got controversial written all over it. First Howard Webb rules that Glenn Whelan's wayward swipe back into the hands of Asmir Begovic in the Stoke goal is a back-pass, and the official then allows Ivan Klasnic to take it immediately, squaring to Kevin Davies to tap into an empty net before the Stoke defence have even trotted back into their own area.

Howard Webb? Well I never.

I'm all for more dubious backpass decisions being given though

i'm all for any decision being given that negatively effects stoke tbh

Aw jeez, it's come to this - pity cheers.

hey i've got tevez in my team!

At least you get satisfaction from permanently benching the prick.

true. 'sub 3' does have a nice ring to it

Wigan are fucked. We have serious issues.

Webb shd never be allowed to referee another match in his life.

yeah wigan, not good. They think they're swansea. They're not.

congrats to you noodle tho. even if it means more mick.

Doyle and O'Hara were great, a lot of the rest was worrying.

Dave Bassett on Redknapp's convalescence on SSN "no doubt Harry will be twitching at home"

Fulham are gonna beat us today, calling it.

Top forearm smash by Steve Sidwell there.

jesus how good was that

Fulham elbowing around the pitch wtf

Strange game, Fulham have controlled a lot more of the game but Spurs are 2-0 up. Terrific Lennon goal though. Chris Baird is shite.

grygera *sounds* fucked

Oof that sounds painful, you can hear him screaming.

This first half is gonna run to like 55mins!

Bolton 5-0 Stoke wtf

Europa Leage hangover accounts for Stoke being awful, not sure what accounts for Bolton being competent.

Because Bolton are a decent attacking with no spine who only play well when they're put under no pressure.

Spurs need to be better than this. A lot better.

Also can someone tell Friedel to stop just hoofing it to no one?

His eyesight's going, thinks he sees Crouch way off in the distance, it's actually Mark Schwarzer.

Never in doubt.

while only having 5live to tell me about this game so far I will venture that playing ropily and winning is at least as much an indicator of a potential CL spot as, say, spanking Liverpool 4-0