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

£10,000 for that tiny snippet of info?! Blimey, I have to be friends with this guy. I think my record on ILX shows I always defended Terry, right?

cunt

Scotty Parker until Phil Jones or whoever is ready?

they should give it to Tevez and combine all interminable sagas into a single black hole of tedium

lol James

Is Parker definitely first choice now?

Just think, they could have got a tour of Stamford Bridge for the same money.

He has been since lolbarryatwc2010 right?

Appoint Brian Blessed ffs, he wouldn't even need to be on the pitch for all the role requires

seriously though, Theo could do it

You've got to admire EBRJT's ability to alienate half his teammates and get stripped of the captaincy ahead of every major tournament. It's quite an achievement.

He shouldn't be in the squad at all for the Euros, he'll be such a divisive and destructive presence it isn't worth it.

England should be allowed to field two teams. An evil one and a good one (might have difficulty getting eleven players for the latter though)

^ I like that

I kind of want BRJT to be reappointed now. Waiting for the shoe to drop is more fun than it actually dropping imo.

good one wld be better imo!

               Hart
Johnson Smalling  Cahill Baines
         THUDD     Parker
Lennon       Lampard*    Milner
             Zamora

*Hmmm, he is a tory but other than that, doesn't seem as cunty as he should be. Maybe replace with AOC or I guess Theo.

**Ok so most of these guys are most probably horrible people and they just happen to be the ones I haven't yet heard the stories about.

I reckon saintliness might be the criterion for Olympic selection, so we may actually get to see this brave new world fail in practice

I just made a physical resemblance brainlink between Jose Mourinho and Richard Dawkins, I think it might only work from a low angle, not sure what this means for anything but there it is.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/columnists/2012/1/24/1327421568201/Jose-Mourinho-003.jpg

Non-cunts England XI

Hart
Any of the RBs really, Jones, Smalling, Baines
Walcott, Parker, Okay I'm lost here, Young seems alright?
Dunno Welbeck and Bent or something?

Bit rubbish, really.

BECKS IN SENSATION RETURN AS ENGLAND CAPTAIN

affair with pig wanker is not so unsaintly?

she wasn't a pig wanker until afterwards tbf

Glen Johnson - steals toilets from Homebase
A Young - sends nekkid pics of himself over teh internet

Actually spending time thinking about whether this should bar them from the non tossers 11.

Baines' music blog is reason enough to bar him from the good guys XI

Is that still going?! What's he into these days?

Beady Eyes. Probably.

He hasn't updated since May, but names dropped then include Mercury Rev, Beastie Boys and Kate Bush, plus some things I'm too old to recognise.

he (Barton) always struck me more in the mould of comic book characters such as The Punisher – the type whose methods could be repulsive but possess a certain uncompromising allure.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/feb/01/joey-barton-craig-bellamy-bad-boys?CMP=twt_gu

Apparently Cleverley is in the squad for the weekend. Utd are going to walk this now.

Apparently JT's out though. Where's the fun in that?

Cole suspended as well. Nani (if he plays) and Valencia could have a good time against whatever's left

good to see the best midfielder in britain back for united.

well yeah, that was my point

oh you probably meant Scholes though

This could be one of those twice-a-season games in which they wheel out Paulo Ferreira to remind everyone he exists.

untried Cahill-Luiz partnership at CB too, this might not be pretty

Really what I'd like is a nice low-scoring draw that does neither side any favours but the way Chelsea have been playing lately I don't see it. United haven't been very good lately either although winning while being shit is basically what they do.

sometimes we lose while being shit

sometimes we win while being great

older posters may remember this

20 years is quite long enough for an era, I'm fed up with this now

sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is knowing man u will become shit eventually

It did kind of happen between the summer of 2001 and about 2006. I mean, United didn't get relegated or anything (and even won the league in 2003) but they were often out of the running during that period and certainly weren't the 'dominant' team.

that was a siesta

so we're 6 years into this era, well that's me cheered

see, you don't even know the true meaning of "shit"!

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In fairness, neither do Liverpool.

Oh, we were *proper shit* for most of 1986-1990 and I remember that all too well, but that's a looooooong time ago.

I don't remember :)

In fairness, neither do Liverpool.

sorry this is a conversation between fans of clubs who have won things

Mind you, I expect NV will be along to point out that United's 'proper shit' period of lurking around the relegation zone for most of the season then climbing up to a flattering 13th doesn't really compare with Wolves collapsing from 1st to 4th division and having most of their ground closed down.

yeah sorry, i started this.