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

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

well yeah it was p much suggested at the time to be best players of our lifetimes

I've only just realised it's the Milk Cup semi-final, not a Championship game

Pretty sure I voted for Mathias Sindelaar

looking back i actually got 7 votes (2 by darragh). and you didnt ismael, but you did vote for a player who currently plays for newcastle.

iirc i used the methodology of 'sure enough about from what i've seen, no frontin'

can't remember votin 2x

I've been proved right about Newcastle so far this season

http://i.imgur.com/Ved7u.png

his ability hexagon is shaped like wayne rooney's head

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

ba to PSG

yeah???

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 share the general feeling that Messi and Ronaldo *shouldn't* be as clos as they appear to be - but in what areas do you expect Messi to improve?

(Thought the Swansea diss immediately following the above post was funny, and true enough as well.)

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

And Real Madrid are preparing a £30mn bid for Suarez. It's like Rafa never jacked it in to become a blogger.

make it so
http://football-talk.co.uk/55339/cristiano-ronaldo-set-sensational-return-man-utd/

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

wishful thinking

If the latter post qualifies as wishful thinking, how to describe the former?

Torres back to Liverpool for £10m and the circle is complete.

Torres to Atletico Madrid for €100,000

Carroll back to Newcastle would have to rely on Newcastle having not squandered the £35million, or that fat Ashley didn't nick it all. Definitely wishful thinking.

Also, Carroll is a scumbag - Newcastle are a much more likeable team now they got rid of all the idiots like Bramble, Woodgate, Carroll, Barton, etc, etc. They'd be better off without him.

They'd be better off with Ba

Barton went off at Matty Holland on twitter last night. For some reason.

let me guess, is it because Barton's a cunt?

Joey7Barton Joseph Barton
I have worked out that I probably love about 12 people in the world, I like about 35, I don't mind about 100, the rest of u, well can jog on

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

While this is all true I sort of think the overall quality of the top teams is lower than in previous years. City obviously can score at will but can't actually defend that well, in fact no one can defend that well, there isn't an obvious Champions League finalist among the top teams, etc etc. But this doesn't actually matter as it's making for a MUCH more exciting league.

The quality of positions 5-10 or so is probably better than in previous years. I don't even think the relegation threatened clubs are that bad in relation to previous years - Blackburn look like they could stay up with a better manager in place, even Wigan don't appear to be a completely lost cause.

There's no way Sam Allardyce's Bolton would get a sustained run in the top four or five nowadays.

arsenal can play good football now?

Carroll back to Newcastle would have to rely on Newcastle having not squandered the £35million, or that fat Ashley didn't nick it all. Definitely wishful thinking.

Given that Carroll wasn't worth £35m in the first place and has done next to fuck all since his move I feel it's wishful thinking to expect anyone to pay anywhere close to that to take him off Liverpool's hands.

he scored 33% more goals than Torres who is worth £50m so he is now worth £66.5m

Andy Carroll will end up being the Millennium Dome of football, a ridiculously expensive white elephant that it's owners can't decide what to do with. He will be sold off cheap to another team where his shell will remain intact whilst his insides are chiseled out and replaced by a proper footballer who will then go on to win at least 2 golden boots, or he will host concerts.

Prince, who could comfortably fit inside Andy Carroll, did about 30 nights at the Dome. Excellent analogy.

he's like an elephant but white, completely white

Not completely, lest we forget the Carroll cornrow era

http://molethewall.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/andy-carroll-cornrow.jpg

This'll be mental
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/11/ajax-alkmaar-dutch-replay-children

Cue Ultra's trying to round up 6 kids each

They initially wanted children and women to be able to attend. Then the fanclub got involved saying why not men too? Also the gay rights movement tried to get them to allow gays in attendance...

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/lfc-makes-new-friends-1

oh dear

"It's fantastic to see how LFC give the opportunity to play football to such many people of different social and ethnic estraction"

Ha. That's embarrassingly transparent

they have to extract them from their ethnicity first

http://www.noisetosignal.org/images/posts/ted/rightthere.jpeg