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

welp, utd/arsenal definitely gets the full fox tv treatment, just like watching nfl with all the graphics and sound effects bullshit

worryingly typically spurslike but no blame on defoe, if anything the cross was a poor effort from the position.

But tbrr we didn't deserve the win nor the loss there.

Terrible from king btw, really terrible position, initial move towards ball and miss, terrible decision to tackle. We'll allow him that after a near-flawless year or two

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Balotelli shouldn't have been on the pitch, he knew exactly what he was doing. Dodgy Lescott elbow earlier as well.

word for ref today, thought he was excellent, tho i only had half an eye on it due to lunch with inlaws

huh missed balotelli incident- lescott was a big hit but his eye was elsewhere imo

Piers Morgan in as a pundit.

That's Mario out for five or six games then right? Why always him?

webb saw it i thought and let it go so don't see how they can ban him

I'd be amazed if anything came of it, there normally needs to be a proepr shitstorm before the FA admit a ref is wrong (fwiw that looks like total intent to me but I don't think Webb is especially culpable for missing that)

don't think Defoe can really take stick for not being able to get near enough to the cross to change the path of the ball, commentators seem to always kinda overhype close-range misses as if they should never happen even though they're inevitable

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there's probably a case to be made for his positioning being less pinpoint than it should've been but that'll always be drowned out by LOL HE MISSED FROM A YARD LOLOL

Arse-Manu really really needs to be a draw now

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Yeah, think most of the work was done by Richards doing well to keep up with Bale and restrict the angle of the cross

That said though, you've got to score from there, you've got to, I mean you've literally got a moral imperative to stick that one away Jermain, you've got to, the money you earn, I mean

" huh missed balotelli incident"

Then you can't comment on the ref. He was looking right at him. Even Graham Souness thought it was a foul.

don't think Webb had that much else liable to put him in the spotlight - peno was a no brainer, imo Clichy should've been booked for taking out Lennon before he was actually booked but if he had been he probably wouldn't have handled the ball so... yeah

Think Balotelli will get banned for that, tbh. It would only have been a problem if the ref had given something other than a red (i.e. yellow or just free kick), but he didn't give anything.

if he's seen the incident and taken no action i don't think the FA are supposed to intervene. obviously nobody will lie about this in the wake of a media furore.

Jones crocked. The injury nightmare continues. Maybe we'll get David May back next.

Re: the super mario stamp - but who can say that the ref saw it?

they have the power to I think but rarely exercise it - iirc Ben Thatcher got booked for decapitating someone w/ his elbow, then got banned for 8 or 9 games after it blew up

walcott the worst player on the pitch so far by a fairly wide margin, which considering mertesacker and evans are playing is quite something.

good save

United have been completely dominant and yet have scarcely had a shot

man u this week, swansea last week, arsenal need to bring in some players who can keep the ball, they're being dominated every week.

valencia looking good last few weeks now that he's not playing rb.

rooney's shoulder makes his knees collapse, that's some fuckin tic is that

deserved

what a cross, what a shitty atmosphere, what an awful player djourou is

vermaelen ball watching

totally insipid performance from arsenal, man u walking it.

Can't believe how poor Arsenal have been

srsly?

who's this yennaris guy?

taxi for djourou

Could you stand behind a manager that considers the guy first team at a top four team? Think not.

tbf third choice right back isn't really 'first team'.

Depends what you mean by "stand behind"

tbf Arsenal aren't really a top four team

Ho ho ho!

how many games has he played the past two years?

I think, tbf, that in a team with arsenal's injuries the definition of 'first team' has to be 'the guy that's playing', not 'the guy we'd play were he fit'

Same with king at spurs, really- ignoring the reality of the teamsheet for two years and hiding behind the

Oh shit rvp

squad list

rvp's gonna score 1 goal in 2012. (unless i'm misremembering and he's scored more than that already).

tbf 'top four' is their stated aim- no, tbf, they still pretend to be a team with title aspirations- so if the manager won't deliver that calibre of player then there's something needs changing there

rosicky must have RVP in his FF

yeah rosicky needed to drive on there

This is some Piers Morgan-caliber insight you're offering, xps.

What the fuck was that from Valencia?

from the angle of his body it looked like he was aiming at the corner flag.

pfft argue me then boxall there's no point your emulating the on-pitch lack of fight i'm putting myself through

it's manu's turn to be shit this half apparently.

cor, the ox looks good

Yeah it's piss-poor but it's nothing new either. Though Piers Morgan providing studio commentary is a new low.

right

Is the gk tripping wellbeck there not a foul?

If not, why not?

it was a foul but refs tend not to give decisions like that if they deem the foul to have no effect on the ensuing action i think.

which isn't in the rules