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

Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard will not join Manchester United according to manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

Lampard has been linked with a surprise move to United but Ferguson is not expecting to sign any players in the January transfer window.

He said: "Do you really believe that? There is no foundation to it. We won't get the players that we would like.

"What can you get in January? What do you do? Do you take a second-rate player? No, of course you don't."

if i were organising the legals for my sock to be part of an epl kit, you're feckin right i'd have it that it was the only permitted sock allowed. No point else.

Now is Lampard a player he likes who he can't get? Or a second rate player he doesn't want? AVB knows.

i think the former

It's Fergie so he'll be thinking the former and implying the latter

haha

http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/images/dec_11/gun__1325282363_Henry9.jpg

lol at you guys actually treating a daily mail rumour about bloody fatty lamps going to utd

I know he makes you happy and all, but has anyone checked whether he can still do stuff?

Henry that is, we know Lampard can still take a penalty.

henry came back to sell shirts and slap theo around the side of the head, not to play.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/SPORT/Pix/pictures/2012/1/5/1325780596472/Offside-rule-explaining-5-007.jpg

New 50p coin aimed at explaining offside law 'gets offside law wrong'

Remiss to leave yourselves without Gervinho and Arshavin slappers, Arsene needs to get busy.

Yeah I saw that, how's it wrong? It indicates two passes, one's offside and the other isn't.

coin designer otm imo

what's wrong with that coin? if you pass to the left is offside, pass to the right it is not? clear as mud isn't it?

haha xpost!

Someone got paid for designing that?

I know right? In the article it's being argued that the player on the left isn't by default offside, only if he touches/accepts the pass, which is true. But you'd need one hell of a huge coin to get all that in. As it stands the coin's ok I think.

the guy stood offside isn't offside if he doesn't take the pass is the argument from some tedious pedant. clearly this is because the current interpretation of offside is really sensible and good.

£2 coin might be big enough, you could put the fine print round the edge

Tom D was 'tony hart land', it's just occurred to me

Maybe the other side of the coin says any player in an offside position when the ball is played is no longer automatically penalised. It states: "It is not an offence in itself to be in an offside position."

Instead, for the past 17 years assistant referees have been told to wait and see whether a player in an offside position becomes involved in active play, either by "interfering with play, or interfering with an opponent, or by gaining an advantage by being in that position". That means that if the midfielder on the coin passes to the striker on his left, but the striker chooses not to play the ball or interfere with an opponent, he is not offside and play continues.

y'know, in really tiny letters.

I bought a Lilt at lunch time, fwiw.

Tom D was 'tony hart land', it's just occurred to me

How'd you work that out?

I dunno, it was bugging me the whole time sandbox was up and it just came in a flash there - I'm not analysing it lest I'm miles out

put "If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be!" around the edge xpost

... in Latin

or in Nult!

new offside law is pish tbh

lol at you guys actually treating a daily mail rumour about bloody fatty lamps going to utd

Oh, it *is* real, btw - Ferguson is trying to get him. Whether it will actually happen is another matter.

problem with that coin is i didn't design it. if i did it would be a man getting the ball first and being given a straight red anyway.

photoshop your london 2012 50p coin design here

put it there caek

Fuck the Olympics, leave football out of it (not literally)

Will be sure to bear this diagram in mind if I ever go for a kickabout with the Mr Men.

'Arry hasn't heard of Ganso. Doesn't get to Brasil too often apparently (kind of odd that Spurs are being linked with him anyway)

not too many flight deals to brazil

kept Ronnie Biggs out of harm's way long enough though

Yeah I saw that, how's it wrong? It indicates two passes, one's offside and the other isn't.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:58 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are no defenders in front of either of them, making them both offside?

Remiss to leave yourselves without Gervinho and Arshavin slappers, Arsene needs to get busy.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

honestly, we can't be worse with aoc, miyaichi and benny noon getting some games. we could even be better. wilshere will be back soon too, and he started as a right winger.

yeah that coin makes no sense to me

the squares are defenders (one goalie, one alongside the onside guy), the pointy up arrows are attackers.

I've forgotten all I ever knew about Miyaichi. Also, what happened to Park?

ah

Also, what happened to Park?

He played and people realised he was teh rubbish

The FA Cup third round is almost upon us - turn your minds to a thread title please.

Andy Carroll wont score in dis ting - FA Cup thread.

(to tempt fate and he scores hat-tricks in every game)

'Every game' meaning the 4-3 home defeat to Oldham

liverpool fc <3 racists- the fa cup 2012