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

ekotto with a rotten tackle on disanto should be red, no fk

bae just got away with a nasty over the ball challenge.
xp

lol walker picks up an injury hours after corluka shipped out.

Kuyt, 3-0. What the hell is going on?!

GIBBO!

Beautiful counterattack all the same.

it's a pretty sad indictment of, i guess Chelsea, and perhaps the league generally, that if things stay as they are tonight, despite fucking up ENDLESSLY, Liverpool are still right in with a shot at a CL place.

gibson lol

someone should call gibson up for ireland. i hear he has a great shot on him. curious to see what the rest of his game is like.

lancaster debut, nice to see

knew that transfer would pay off

freak wigan goal

liverpool are...actually trouncing a team.

Goal apart, Gibson has been fucking shite, endlessly kicking the ball to City / no one / off the pitch.

ref refuses to give Utd their third penalty

Red for AC

Ashley Cole

niiice

Chelsea are boiling over

spurs woeful 2nd half

Meireles & Luiz both having a kick within a minute

bale forces al habsi into cracking save after 60 yard run. Just the two so far then.

pish

Pogba is on and impressing

Swansea kind of deserve that for sitting back instead of going for the throat. I hate that, but thought Swansea were probably good enough to do it.

drenthe has to walk for that

It's bloody annoying though, they had a number of two-on-twos that they took backwards instead.

drenthe has to walk for that

Yeah, should have done. City not getting many decisions tonight. Not that I want them to.

hull/blackpool moment

saw the drenthe tackle from another angle

has to walk

it's a pretty sad indictment of, i guess Chelsea, and perhaps the league generally, that if things stay as they are tonight, despite fucking up ENDLESSLY, Liverpool are still right in with a shot at a CL place

While this is trextent big extent, Liverpool's fuck ups are mostly drawing-instead-of-winning. They've lost less than everyone bar the Manchester clubs and Spiders (but only by one). Spurs' position is the outlier really, it shows how much you gain by winning-instead-of-drawing.

chelsea's two points dropped tonight will be more significant that the point they gained

that was very encouraging stuff from Pogba. Valencia magnificent again.

it's a pretty sad indictment of, i guess Chelsea, and perhaps the league generally, that if things stay as they are tonight, despite fucking up ENDLESSLY, Liverpool are still right in with a shot at a CL place.

arsenal, chelsea, liverpool all struggling to deal with a much-improved overall quality of opposition in the league, imo. spurs and city have improved hugely over the past two years, only utd in the top six have stayed static, and fuck knows how.

get in

pleased we're getting a title race; horrified that Utd are in it

otm

God bless you Everton and your dour attritional shitkickers. Pretty much a perfect evening.

Except now we're back in the title race. And now I have to hope again.

That isn't liverpool's problem, though, it's the crap teams we've been struggling against. True for Arsenal & Chelsea though.

we're not in any title race

it's a pretty sad indictment of, i guess Chelsea, and perhaps the league generally, that if things stay as they are tonight, despite fucking up ENDLESSLY, Liverpool are still right in with a shot at a CL place.

You probably could have said that in other seasons as well, though. Going back about 5 years or so Liverpool and Arsenal both had a season or two when they were mostly rubbish yet still managed to climb up into the top four by the end of the season. Finishing fourth isn't necessarily that difficult - it would be more of an indictment if Liverpool looked like winning the league this season.

arsenal, chelsea, liverpool all struggling to deal with a much-improved overall quality of opposition in the league

this doesn't reflect their performances at all. these three clubs are all worse than they've been in recent years, the worst arguably apart from liverpool who are prob marginally better than the last two dire seasons.

no way do i agree it's about better opposition, have you watched liverpool?

just takin' a break from reading to say ronan otm
also darragh otm

football eh

they can't both be otm!

neither otm

everyone's otm!

well done all

oh i was referring specifically to this:

we're not in any title race

rather than the thing he said that ronan argued convincingly against. sorry for the confusion.

I'd've been curious to see Liverpool in the CL this year, by some miracle. It's the Rafa thing again of playing the big games well and having no idea what to do the rest of the time.

How many points have Swansea taken off the top six or seven so far this season?