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

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

jesus that was poor, great points

Parker should never have been on the pitch second half, he's clearly dazed

My stream was a bit behind. Heroic keeping from Walker at the end

That and the Blackburn game have reassured me that we're capable of picking up points even when under the cosh against teams who throw the kitchen sink at us.

Way flattering scoreline but it was all about individual brilliance (Friedel, Lennon, Defoe, King) rather than any sort of coherent performance. Late header off the line aside, that was as poor a game as I've seen from Modric in a Spurs shirt, our midfield just couldn't get a grip on the game at all.

Still, we'd have lost that last season.

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

― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 6 November 2011 18:03 (2 minutes ago)

true enough, i think

at a certain level that contention probably doesn't hold, like they were saying newcastle played badly and won (pbaw? praw? wwpr?) yesterday, but then showed them avoiding an obvious penalty decision, like maybe it's just a sort of luck/ sense of purpose that holds out for a bit even when they stop really playing well

We avoided a really obvious penalty shout as well, Walker blatantly handballed it in the area but there was such a mad frantic scramble going on at the time that you can kinda forgive the ref for missing it.

you need some ref bias working for you too. The true mark of champions

That was some heroic defending from Spurs.

Also (and I know I'm more than a decade late to ask this) what the hell is Brad Friedel's accent?

ismael you must be happy, davies just tripled your points for the week...

I've stopped looking, am relying on you 'well-wishers' for updates now.

Liverpool after 11 games last season: 18 points
Liverpool after 11 games this season: 19 points

That's progress.

It was 15 points from 11 games last season, actually. Which was then followed by 7 from the next 7.

I'm still convinced Suarez won't be here next season.

Yeah, it did cross my mind when pandemic had his epiphany this afternoon. I wonder if they're lining up someone interesting for the january window?

Zamora?

Hm. There's no bigger fan of Bobby Z than me, but I'm not sure that'll do it.

Hoilett prob

Aw fuck it, he'd be great. Him and Dempsey in a swap deal for Carroll, everyone's a winner.

why do u think he will leave?

(suarez)

hoilett is out of contract in the summer

Adam seems incapable of functioning in a 4-4-2, Downing's faded, Henderson's best moments have come when he's played CM, Carroll ??? Poor Kuyt and Maxi can't get a look in. Maxi's unhappy and looking to leave in January, so I hear.

CL teams will surely come sniffing for Suarez?

He wasn't an unknown quantity before Liverpool came in for him, though, so no reason why they should be jumping for him now. That's what I'm telling myself. Pool do need to make a step up though before he gets the idea that he's carrying the team.

Some excellent finishing from Bolton today

is Bale actually getting credit for that goal??

it looked like it'd've hit the corner flag

I reckon Liverpool are more likely to try and make a couple more big signings than they are to sell Suarez, which would be like admitting defeat pretty early on. Don't see any reason why they should panicking just yet - there's loads of quality in that squad and Suarez, Kuyt and Bellamy should be good for enough goals even if Carroll never makes it.

I wonder whether Dalglish has just been away from the game for too long, he doesn't seem to have got them to gel at all yet. And he's been making some bizarre decisions - selling Mereiles, signing Bellamy and barely playing him, leaving Kuyt on the sidelines. I still think they'll have a reasonable season but I can see them slipping below Arsenal pretty soon and staying there.

God I don't need to hear Grygera screaming again...

Bellamy was obviously signed as a backup tho

Is he really so past-it? I know he's 32 now but he was pretty lethal before he fell out with Man City.