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

"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

Barcelona XI @ Athletic Bilbao, 20 May 2006: Jorquera, Belletti, Oleguer, Jesus Olmo, Orlandi, Thiago Motta, Sylvestre, Ezquerro, Maxi Lopez, Giuly, Eto'o

Swansea XI @ Aston Villa, 2 January 2012: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Agustien, Dyer, Orlandi, Routledge, Graham

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Orlandi

Is this bit of trivia widely known? I thought I was a Swansea bandwagon-hopper in good standing but it took me months to catch.

Sylvestre in that side played for Blackpool last season too! (Barca had already wrapped up La Liga by this match, obv.)

haha yeah that line up is terrible tbh

Still counts!

Ancelotti: '"I was keen on a year-long sabbatical, hoping that in the summer a job like Tottenham or Arsenal – a top London bench – would become available, but I was tired of not working," he said.'

Interesting imo.

there were lots of rumblings about him taking over from harry. and when i say rumblings, i mean my spud brother being sure it was going to happen and he reads spurs blogs and stuff.

it would have been ok, would that imo

It's him confirming his thinking that's the interesting thing to me. Timewise there's got to be a good prospect of him succeeding Wenger.

i dunno will he be out of psg that soon

He might find it respectable to walk in 18/30 months' time, with a title or two under his belt, is what I mean. Or they could just sack him.

which

'title or two' says carlo, 'just sack him' says wenger yknow

if wenger doesnt make the top 4, i think the position may be open come june

newcastle sign Cisse from Freiburg, not a great replacement for Ba, seeing as he will also be at the CAN, but I wonder if any other clubs were in for him.

spurs were trailing him for a while there- centre forward type?

His g/g record's as good as Ba's was before he arrived. pandemic likes him iirc.

What's new-era Newcastle's wage structure like? What caliber player can they attract before they begin to unsettle the current bunch?

when you're aiming to consolidate in the top 8 then you've no business paying over 50k so i guess they'll be ok

Also their biggest name star is probably Ben Arfa and he's not even a regular starter, so you've got to assume the XI are playing out of their skin for hunger rather than money. It's plain weird, the possibility that they might be pound-for-pound the best-run club in the country now.

He's delivering on the entertainment quotient at least: Hatem Ben Arfa to be sued by French rapper over religious cult claims

when you're aiming to consolidate in the top 8 then you've no business paying over 50k so i guess they'll be ok

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tbh any club in the country shouldn't be looking to pay more than straight 50k per player (before performance related bonuses), bar the captain and top two names. but you know

tbh spurs may be even better pound-for-pound. although i guess the carroll money skews the outcome a bit.

tbh need to stop saying tbh tbh

I wonder if any other clubs were in for him.

p sure there are no super quality strikers on the market atm

/wenger

"What's so special about Arsenal is the family atmosphere and the warmth," Van Persie said. "When you come in here, you're always welcomed like a brother. Mikel Arteta (the summer signing from Everton) played against us for years but he walks into the dressing-room and he's one of us.

"The kit men, Vic and Paul Akers, have worked at the club for years. They love the club and they do everything for us; outfits, shoes, balls but, also, when I want to go to Disney on Ice, they arrange it. They represent the true Arsenal feeling and we've got some more like these men."

We're fucked.

hahaha

hahaha

another MLS goalscorer from the past couple of years is trialing with a struggling prem side -- sebastien le toux to bolton?

I'll take whatever we can get tbh.

so not baller

Red Bulls defender (for now at least) Tim Ream was at Old Trafford on Saturday to take in Bolton’s Premier League match against Manchester United, a 3-0 victory for the Red Devils.

Reached by text message Saturday morning and asked if he was in the stands Ream responded, “No, in a box.”

When the U.S. national team defender was asked if he could handle a phone call later Saturday he wrote, “Yah, when I get a new international number so I’m not paying an arm and a leg.”

Ream, 23, probably will not have to worry about those expenses much longer. He is expected to be introduced by Bolton early this week in a deal that will substantially increase his modest M.L.S. salary from last season, which was listed as $62,625.

definitely talent to be had on the cheap here -- le toux had a so-so 2011 w/ 11 goals in 34 games, but in 2010 he had 14 in 28, plus 11 assists. his salary for last year is listed at $179k.

It's just nice to be able to aspire to footballer wages for once.

real value in ireland still imo

http://www.arshavin.eu/en/news.php?id=746

http://info.citroen.co.uk/assets/images/editorial/CitroenDS5ArsenalCinemagraphHeader.gif

http://info.citroen.co.uk/our-news/editorial/stylish-football-cinemagraphs-from-citroen/

lfc appear to have gotten a good kit deal, i don't understand there being a story here tbh

The adidas ones have been mostly rubbish. Too much going on. I hope the new guys revert to classic simplicity.

hmm.

Shanghai Shenhua claim they were in talks to sign striker Didier Drogba just a month after landing his Chelsea team-mate Nicolas Anelka. Shenhua owner Zhu Jun said: "It's like flirting with a girl. Perhaps she will resist you at first, but if you continue to ask her out, it always ends well. Never give up.

Zhu Jun sounds like a rapey character.

Yes he does. a bit too rapey for my liking

you can chase a girl w/out raping her fyi guys