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

could be worse tbr

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the nineties right here, guys

ya 99 kilos

he was more like the really, really good defoe of the times

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:10 PM (10 minutes ago)

yeah i think so

i remember the kids at school repeating the stoichkov/romario/stoichkov/romario commentary (tyldesley?) after they'd sonned ynahtid

i dont think i watched though, i only really watched football italia and collected stickers

i was into that milan team in a big way, could recite stats and line-ups etc, lol 11 yr olds

the EPL is more interesting than a few yrs ago cuz there are five high-level teams who play good football (citeh, tottenham, arsenal), intermittently play good football (ynahtid) or provide some sort of intrigue (chelsea)

in 2k7 or so chelsea and liverpool were both relentlessly dull relentless attritional crap and none of the lower-mid table 'can play a bit' sides could actually play like swansea are right now

all true

still feel like mourinho brought the attrition with him, he made the central midfield three the vogue formation, then dropped the natural wingers that made it even vaguely watchable

an eclectic mix of contenders in every position you could wish for

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:05 PM (27 minutes ago)

there is still a fair array of talent in most positions (apart from central defence) compared to the mid-late 90s, it just gets overlooked beneath the rather too obvious messi/ronaldo top tier, which isn't actually a top tier so much as messi deciding when he wants to take his feet off c-ron's fingertips and watch him fall away

i dunno, you look around and fink oo's better than scotty and wo' ee gives you and i just kent see anyone out there

the EPL is more interesting than a few yrs ago cuz there are five high-level teams who play good football (citeh, tottenham, arsenal), intermittently play good football (ynahtid) or provide some sort of intrigue (chelsea)

in 2k7 or so chelsea and liverpool were both relentlessly dull relentless attritional crap and none of the lower-mid table 'can play a bit' sides could actually play INSIDE THEIR OWN HALF like swansea are right now

― hegel-lacan girl (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:28 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Tottenham centre-back William Gallas has declared that he would like play in either America or Qatar before he finally decides to hang up his boots.

homie MLS ain't no retirement league any more, gtfo

awww rlly tho dan

oops sorry forgot henry

& keane & beckham & marquez?

the epl was a retirement league in the mid 90s

srsly tho maybe if a player is an oldster goal scorer he'll have a good shot but a 34 year old center back will get smoked

marquez has been objectively awful here & was benched during the team's run at the playoffs

sorry to bring this up in a non MLS thread but past it oldsters thinking they can come here and get paid because of becks et al gets my hackles up

being decent doesn't mean its not still a retirement home

gallas is still alright, and he was just about the fastest centreback around not so long ago

but i can see why you resent him equating a fairly competitive league with a series of extended slow-motion training sessions in the desert

sorry to bring this up in a non MLS thread but past it oldsters thinking they can come here and get paid because of becks et al gets my hackles up

― bomb.gif (dan m), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hate to break it to you but the MLS is still seen like that, a retirement home for European has-beens tbh.
I think from Holland the MLS was 'enriched' with N'Kufo (Seatlle) and Koevermans the last two years. I think Aron Winter is manager somewhere?

I should have added that I hate the idea of any league lending itself to be a retirement home like that, and do not wish it on the MLS either

torsten frings is playing for toronto huh

but i can see why you resent him equating a fairly competitive league with a series of extended slow-motion training sessions in the desert

this basically

also former ynahtid also-ran richard eckersley

2009–2012 	Burnley 	0 	(0)
....
2011–2012 	→ Toronto (loan) 	23 	(0)
2012– 	Toronto 	0 	(0)
2012– 	→ Burnley (loan) 	0 	(0)

winter coaches at toronto, that team is beyond basket-case status and has been for years

n'kufo was waived by seattle hours before their opening day match last season, iirc he didn't contribute very much there

How's John Rooney getting on?

gone

Noooooo! Still he got a trip to New York out of it, that's a success of sorts.

is freddie still there

japan

huh

hasn't been in the MLS in ages though has he?

anyway sorry for the derail, just think that if Gallas wants a last payday he'd be better off in Qatar than flying coach 2000mi cross-country to play against hungry Colombian 20somethings who have been getting poached from the top clubs down there left and right

xp yeah he left after 2010 and went to celtic

oh wait i thought you were talking about Adu, who i see returned recently

just presumed he went there to play parttime/retire and never followed up on his career. (sorry dan)

celtic? well i'm less inclined to pay attention to scottish football than mls, which is saying something.

np, he played half a season in Chicago, scored a few goals and hit up the clubs with Nery Castillo, then said so long and thanks for all the $

nery castillo has scored five club goals since he joined shakhtar for €20m four and a half years ago

Claudio Caniggia turned 45 yesterday. If wikipedia is to be believed, he scored 122 goals in a 20-year club & international career. That's, um, not very impressive. Still, happy birthday Claudio!

probably still end up better value than Carroll etc

i can even remember ppl opining that was money well spent when castillo scored vs brazil in the copa america that year

i dont think there has ever been a fall as abrupt as that, even denilson had a couple of good years

Wrong thread, I suppose (is there a right one?), but tune into Sky Sports 1 for the poor man's El Classico right now.

Crystal Palace v Cardiff (in an all-white change strip)

the greek exchequer's el classico

today is making me sad only 4 people voted in my best playa ever poll. two of which were darragh.

You want to do the 90s one? The iron is hot.

mine was pretty much all 90s players anyway

there are probably like 20 ppl in the world who have seen a broad enough array of matches from 1955-present in order to make a thorough judgement