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

dalglish wants one creative player on the pitch at any one time, it's like ultra-consolidation out there.

Downing is a real puzzle, i'll stan for that guy as an end product winger all day but no denying it's not happening for him.

Adams and Henderson just too stodgy when kuyt, lucas, gerrard et al are the other starters. That team today was basically a 150m bowl of porridge

Otm for once. I don't get it; it's the forcing out of Meireles that's the thing. He was great in Dalglish's golden run, and we looked terrific when flexible. But this season has been a continual rowing back from that.

hennessy's footwork is frequently reminiscent of paul robinson's mid-decade work

Lol henry, that keane lad looks decent

oy 'for once'

Meirelles was promised pay parity if he performed, lfc welshed, he left, dunno how much of it can be put down to dalglish but you assume at least some

Downing needs the team to be built around him having enough space to be good at crossing and enough space for Carroll to do something with it once he's crossed it into the box.

The whole set-up is obviously wrong for Carroll; I don't see how that's so for Downing though.

i don't see how they don't need the same setup tbh

don't think there as far off as some recent performances suggest. obvious thing is a striker. more creativity in midfield has been a prob for years..but even one genuinely great attacking midfielder, either on the wing or through the middle, would make a massive difference.

jesus, they're. when i get into ilx relaxed mode it's like my brain goes wild with basic text errors.

qpr wigan had some great goals

Crikey:

Kenny Dalglish tore into his under-performing Liverpool players after a lacklustre defeat at Bolton Wanderers, accusing them of thinking they only had to turn up to win and disrespecting both their opponents and the traditions of their own club.

"The most disappointing thing for me was that I don't think the approach was correct," the Liverpool manager said after Bolton's surprisingly comprehensive 3-1 win. "The foundations of this club have always been based on respect for other people. You can't come to places like this thinking all you need to do is turn up to get a result. That's what I think we did today, and that's why we were taught a lesson. It's not the right way to represent the club. I don't think we were even ready to play the game. That's probably why we lost a goal after four minutes. I don't think the way we went about our work was correct."

Think Kenny should take a lot of the blame for thinking Gerrard-Adam is a centre midfield partnership in 2012. The week after playing five at the back vs Stoke at Anfield.

The week after playing five at the back vs Stoke at Anfield.

― Stevie T, Saturday, 21 January 2012 21:42 (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL WUT

oh come on stevie, suuure on paper you might have seen a five man backline but the way they lined up was actually an eight man centre midfield

when are the scouse going to wake up and realise king kenny is shite?

hopefully not soon. because for a neutral i get inordinate pleasure in watching liverpool get done. almost as good as seeing arsenal beaten.

Loads of great goals tonight with hardly a big club in sight.

Custom table since weekend of 10/11th December shows Sunderland in second. Mad Martin can do no wrong so far, especially when you look at the shite they played under Bruce.

The weekend will only be saved by City and Arsenal winning today. At a push I'll accept only a Man City victory.

So glad the LFC game was on too late for me to watch.

Chelsea to act over alleged racist chants after Norwich match

Liverpool looked awful yesterday but their defence, which is very good generally, had an off-day. I get the feeling they miss Lucas badly, a team like Bolton should not be able to run through yr midfield like that.

For all the talk about Suarez he hasn't actually scored that many goals this season, but he's clearly their best creative spark by miles. Adam should really be playing better than he is as well.

Generally, they look like a badly-balanced, ill-assembled Damien Comolli squad. Plus ca change.

Meanwhile Fulham are playing like a proper Martin Jol team, alternately heroic and calamitous. <3

Mad psyched about today anyway. I was more confident before I'd remembered that Adebayor can't actually play today. Redknapp should really have given Defoe a run the team prior to this game, but he's manifestly unsuited to playing a lone striker. We need Bale through the middle at his best I reckon.

I should get on and get to the pub really.

That Chelsea story isn't surprising is it, isn't it Chelsea that hisses at Spurs games?

a less hungover guy than me might be calling for mick mccarthy's sacking today

spose it cd be worse, cd be a liverpool fan

Worst-case scenario today is Spurs beat City and get cocky, thereby derailing both their challenges, while Utd beat Arsenal and kick on from there. So I guess an Arsenal win is what I'm after.

The weekend will only be saved by City and Arsenal winning today

This is wrong on quite literally *several* levels. This is a great weekend which can only be marred by City and Arsenal winning today.

Worst-case scenario today is Spurs beat City and get cocky, thereby derailing both their challenges, while Utd beat Arsenal and kick on from there

No, no, no - what's wrong with you people?

don't know why people can't warm to united and their delightfully self-deprecating manager tbh :)

That's the spirit

Amazing from Clichy there

Worst corner ever

defoe on his own is ridic tbh, psv all day

gotta go with defoe for his goal scoring record this year and work rate, up to the players to stop expecting him to win headers. bae having one of his poor crossing days.

is this Hartson or Coleman thinking that David Silva is called da Silva?

richards running a sav

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/01/15/revealed-the-letter-that-exposes-the-history-of-blackburn-rovers-crisis-150102/

the savic defectives

what a pass. What a run.

That was a bit good

The weight on the pass and the perfect lead Silva gave Nasri was spectacular.

That one was just ugly.

Spurs had just started to look dangerous and then this happened

clinical finish from lescott

lescott scoring by dragging the ball over the line with his arse, nice one.

What an embarrassing way to score a goal ...

and boom.

YES! Come on Spurs

I can imagine an alternate reality in which B. Ivanovic is capocannoniere.

golazzo

fuck!

Great finish.