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

Deems while I really like both fullbacks we have now I was basically screaming at them to stop bombing forward for the last 10-15mins or so. There's a place for swashbuckling adventure and that's not when you're defending a 2-1 lead against a team that's had you on the rack for the last half hour.

well, looking at parker's discipline i think that width and speed on the counter can still add a lot to our play too. It'll gain us more than it costs as long as we use the ball well, and both fullbacks are good with delivery.

Feel that countering through the centre has been weak the past few games, otoh-qpr aside. Newcastle in particular saw parker and vdv waste a lot of opportunity before we conceded late.

Good to have the capacity to play it either way tho, i spose

Oh yeah totally, but when you're holding onto a lead that slender and seemingly fragile you don't really want them to start exploiting the space behind a fullback.

Seems a weird thing to say now Lennon's playing his way back into form but I wonder how Walker->Pienaar on the right would play out.

lennon on the left, bale out!

Looks like Levy will be joining 'arry in the slammer.

I like Suarez having the balls to at least say he said something cunty, if not racist to Evra. It shows a bit of backbone compared to EBJT's 'who me?'

I like Suarez having the balls to at least say he said something cunty

He hasn't done that, has he? "I didn't insult him, it was just my way of expressing myself. I called him something that his own Manchester United players call him."

Is it possible that Man U's other black players use n-with-an-a and Suarez is pulling that "they call each other n__ so why can't white people do it?" shite?

no, i really can't see that tbh.

Tevez lol

it's just a misunderstanding

he didn't refuse to turn up for training, only refused to be in the correct country

Stay classy, Ashley. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/10/newcastle-st-james-park-sports-direct

Ashley has also confirmed that the Newcastle forward will be renamed for the season as "sportsdirect.com@Demba Ba".

everytime demba ba scores he isn't allowed to pull the shirt over his head but first purchase an extra large sports direct carrier bag for 10p, and then put that over his head.

dude calls his building something film at eleven

britishers be half-xenophobe half-disgusted at other britishers film at eleven

What film is it? Hope it's The Great Escape

#trapout
#dalglishout
#justiceforwoy

meh, ashley has done a fucking awesome job and if he wants to rename a stadium every non-televised person in the land is still going to call st. james, who gives a fuck? many people talked about the etihad stadium recently?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Bum-Seok

hey guys this is an actual footballers name. Oh Bum-Seok (can also be spelt Oh Beom-Seok but thats less funny.)

O Bum Seok
O judge
O mom and dad

Why will television people call it that? I know they will, are they contractually obliged to or something? Also, I bet they don't keep saying 'as we have to call it these days', like you still get with linesmen fifteen years later.

It's the Sports Direct Arena stu, call it by it's real name.

Pretty certain they're required to call it that, Ismael.

http://www.runofplay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/naming-rights-park.jpg

Will always be NAMING RIGHTS to me.

meh, ashley has done a fucking awesome job and if he wants to rename a stadium every non-televised person in the land is still going to call st. james, who gives a fuck? many people talked about the etihad stadium recently?

people talk about the emirates a lot though. it depends on the name i think. or maybe that's because arsenal fans aren't real fans.

but the Emirates has always been called that

the emirates has always been the emirates tho, I think? Must admit that I thought when they first moved that people would just refer to it as 'ashburton grove' this doesn't seem to have happened.
xp

that's true enough. what do folks call etihad now? is it city of manchester stadium? eastlands?

iirc John Henry made the point that you can only do it with a new stadium - nobody would ever stop calling it Anfield

Most people seem to call the new Lansdowne Road stadium the Aviva although they did totally demolish the old one.

meh, ashley has done a fucking awesome job

If the whole of English football ends at this exact point in time then yes.

Yeah it is because it is a new stadium that Emirates works. 'Etihad' is only 10 years old or whatever but in conversation it is still just Eastlands.

tbf that's a sentiment I'm not entirely opposed to

Well, he learnt from his lessons. Hiring Shearer obv was stupid as shit, whereas getting £35m for overrated and bad tempered local boy and replacing him for free with one of the best strikers in the country = good.

In fairness everyone was saying at the time that sacking Houghton and replacing him with Pardew was completely cretinous. I'm still not convinced that everything that's happening at Newcastle isn't taking even Ashley and Pardew by surprise. This just doesn't have the feel of having happened by design, and might yet fuck up.

Getting £30m or whatever for Carroll does look like incredible business however.

Also you know that Ashley is dropping this particular bomb now because he thinks the fans will be so overjoyed at sitting third in the Premiership that they'll be less likely to tear of their shirts and stand outside St James's Park baying for his blood.

Also you know that Ashley is dropping this particular bomb every now and then because he thinks the fans will be so overjoyed at sitting third in the Premiership that they'll be less likely to tear of their shirts and stand outside St James's Park baying for his blood. then buy a new shirt each from sportsdirect.com

fixed

True Newcastle fans will never bow to the tyranny of the shirt-wearers
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/newcastle-hated.jpg

ashamed guy makes that photo work.

rafa is in toon army????!!

hiring shearer was amazing long-game strategy imo, that was a step to be o'erleapt or else forever failed

Also, I bet they don't keep saying 'as we have to call it these days', like you still get with linesmen fifteen years later.

Think you might have misunderstood - 'linesmen' were officially renamed 'referee's assistants as we have to call them these days'.

i wish there was a newcastle fan on ilx

all @ sportsdirect.com

Right, let's sign one. How can we go about this? Tap up someone from another board?

rename ILF to ILF @ sportsdirect.com

We have to wait for the transfer window to open again.

Come to this board, my children.

"sportsdirect.com@I Love Football" would be the proper syntax.

I bet Mike Ashley never gets any email.