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

I dunno, they're intermittently spirited

they seemed to sag a bit in the middle when their fans started booing them for being 1-0 down to the team that steamrollers everybody

Wigan fans boo them?! Ffs, where do they get a sense of entitlement from?

I think that was what was happening, then Victor Moses did some industrious running and they camped on the edge of City's area almost creating chances for a couple of minutes and they seemed to be grudgingly satisfied at half time as a result

I dunno, I guess being 1-0 down and bottom and freezing and living in Wigan, y'know, something's gotta give

I can understand you lot pining for something more, but even this shambles is probably close to the all-time best Wigan XI that they're watching.

Steve Bruce is out of work though right, maybe they're pining for a return to a more simple existence

'You were flyin' out there buddy.'
'Yes. A little too close to the sun.'

oh come on, the years when bramble/palacios/valencia/heskey were rocking it was their best.

That was when the resentment at their existence was at its peak, now they've been critically rehabilitated but are dropping like a stone

aguero's balance ffs

Comparing Wigan eras, I like it.

lol dzeko. moment of the season for me

aguero wasn't ever goin to shoot there tbf

Why isn't Balotelli on the bench? Why always him?

injured

Just noticed they have a 17yo defender on the bench, City, surely they'll pick someone up in the next two weeks.

Should I be watching this? I've been catching up on holiday motds instead - Lordy at the goals (all three) from Newcastle v Man Utd.

ref wtf reddest card pls

mancini take your imaginary red card and shove it up your arse. You keep doing this. You should be setting a good example to your players.

Um, sounds like Mancini should've been getting the imaginary red out tbh. City could use getting in the ref's face more imo.

nonsense! Red cards exist for offences, if your team should be benefitting from one then calling it is no worse an offense than protesting an offside, penalty, any other call.

And kompany, there's been ten tackles worse since and no reds, so fuckin right mancini is calling for some reds

I find it distracting when players do it on the pitch, could care less what those on the sidelines get up to.

Moratti claims Inter have offered 25m EU for Tevez!

don't think players shd actively seek to influence referees. don't think every referee in the Premier league shd be a useless cunt. bit of an impasse.

ya

so i've converted to fifa12 xbox and i gotta admit it does most things a lot better than the last few PES efforts.

For some reason, my spurs team only gets to use 9 players

?

don't control the goalie, actively reflecting what vdv brings to the team

no i mean only nine players start each game

wtg microsoft

man, "they" will do anything to stop Spurs winning the league

otm

'two of your players have "food poisoning"' cuuuuuuuunts

Wigan's manager, Roberto Martínez, however, believes the Italian should know such actions will be condemned in the Premier League. "I've been here long enough to understand that trying to influence the referee is not accepted in the British game,"

oh bertypaws

Didn't see Mancini in this game but he criticised for gesturing for a card in another game when he was obv. just being Italian...

http://www.aspetto.com/Book-Italian_Without_Words-lg.jpg

... football pundits are so stupid

oh come on, the years when bramble/palacios/valencia/heskey were rocking it was their best

Preferred the earlier Paul Jewell-era Wigan really. Didn't they have an excellent talent scout who went with Bruce to Sunderland and then died? Leaving Bruce suddenly with nowhere to hide and no ideas?

Are there any other universally-recognised, unmitigable crimes in football besides waving an imaginary card? I can only think of spitting, and even that's alright so long as it's not on someone.

I don't think waving an imaginary card is considered a big crime everywhere

Fouling the goalkeeper always seems to get players' danders up no matter where you are though

Scoring a goal when there's an opposition player writhing on the floor in genuine agony tends to be frowned upon.

Not giving the ball back is okay if it's late on and you really, really need a goal.

competing for a drop ball even tho play was stopped because your opponent injured themself?

a good shawxing?

not engaging a "footballing team"

"parking the bus"

not killing yourself staying up after being fouled

Nani-esque fannydangle while winning, apparently?

At the Palace-Villa cup tie a couple of years ago, Stephen Warnock was sent to change his shirt twice because he got elbowed in the nose by a Palace player twice and kept bleeding everywhere. On one of them, Palace put the drop ball out for a throw opposite Villa's penalty area and contested it aggressively. Then when one of their players got injured towards the end, Milner did the same and their fans and players went nuts at him, resulting in entertaining 'I...what?' body language from the granite-hewn Yorkshireman

spurs playing on and ?scoring? after a gilberto silva dive/roll/foul against arsenal a couple years ago

nani's goal after the non-freekick for his handball

fucking right

spurs' pathetically baseless protests after roy carroll clearly saved the shot that never crossed the line.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/john-terry-gets-one-in-the-nuts-during-visit-to-the-abbey-school/

Nani-esque fannydangle while winning, apparently?

I found the outrage about this particularly puzzling.

is disrespectful to your fellow professionals who have been trying to shawx you for the previous 80 minutes