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

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

                    Friedel
Walker      Dawson           Kaboul          Ekotto
              Livermore     Modric
Lennon                                      Bale
                    Van Der Vaart
                    Adebayor

Ay, has Friedel basically been rock solid and great for Spurs since I said he might be losing it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jan/11/tottenham-brad-friedel-shrewdest-signing

a vast improvement on anyone since probably peak neil sullivan, i'd say

gomes had his spectaculars, but both ways

Yeah, the Wilson article prompted me to think about Brad, having not really watched much Spurs this season; he descends into gibberish a bit by the time he's talking about the USA but the stuff about the billions of consecutive appearances always stirs the heart a bit. to think it could've all gone south if his shit red card during the Liverpool-Villa rout of 09 hadn't been rescinded

sticking him behind a defence that doesn't allow shots to constantly rain down on him from 10 yards out made him concede fewer goals, who knew

jeez i dunno would i say we do that

or don't do that, rather

quite a bit of hype for this one in the US, in no small part b/c of Friedel talking shit on Donovan for choosing to play in MLS instead of making it abroad

looking forward to lando starting off vs friedel then

streamin to my tv from a russian feed feels like the 21st century has finally arrived

midfield lining up quite conservatively tbh, adebayor in a lonely place up front

did you get a new tv or something?

yeah just before christmas, no hdmi cables til last week tho, lol planning

yeah, you mentioned it

yah one tv for fitba and one for nick ray classic 'in a lonely place'

i'm just bitter cos my tv screen is actually smaller than my laptop's

if history has taught us anything it is that p neville will be congratulated all over england tomorrow for spending 90 mins trying to injure a better footballer

commentary lamenting lack of pav fwiw

Before Adebayor & Rafa get a brace each I should remind darragh that this match won't count in the alterna-fantasy league scoring, as it was supposed to be a Week 1 fixture and we got a late start to our season.

i'm pulling 'chief lobbyist' ilf rank on you on that one

don't forget bale btw

neckbreak-looking landing from a jump for walker, seems ok

adebayor misses one on one from lightning vdv-bale break