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

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"!

xpost

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.

hey, i'm looking forward to the Wolves "proper shit" revival over the next few years. groundwork's been done.

anyway it's relative, but also historically coloured. i can remember United in division 2, and i can remember them being part of the background crowd during Liverpool's mid 70s-mid 80s peak. what i object to most about Sky pundit revisionism is that the era when United or Liverpool were not massive clubs with a glorious history is still within living memory (admittedly for old guys). the portrait of an inevitable permanent place at the top table is at least a lie looking backwards, and tho it is far more likely that the current big clubs will keep that status for the foreseeable future, it's still at least feasible that some kind of financial fuckery plus other factors cd finish any club's dominance.

who knows what Chelsea's post-Abramovich future looks like? who's to say Liverpool won't spend another 20 years not quite reaching their "natural" expectations?

united were not as effectively ugly as chelsea in the mourinho years, that's all. Ferguson just replaced the parts of the team that were <100% effectively ugly and hey presto

Who wants to be an MBM-er?

One of you guys has got to do this btw. C&P from the footcelsior thread and we're in.

That'd be brilliant. We should pick a game, all do it offline, then post up our attempts for the rest to read.

Didn't Local Garda have an interview for such a position at one point?

need to do it collectively, who wd be our luther blisset?

thinking darius henderson

that kind of stuff is clearly too clever

darius henderson - g

controversial bildungsroman about a mid level championship big and his difficult adolescence in the lincolnshire pig rustling scene

cposts never directly for a mbm position no, have had a sky sports interview. couldn't do a bbc sport one late last year actually cos it was a bit too soon after starting something else.

http://i44.tinypic.com/1j9rn.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/30mv1wz.jpg

Hm, those lines are rather unconvincing imo.

xp you've got to put in for the mbm thing ronan, you'd be great

i won't bother applying for the MbM, i don't think the Graun lets you use "cunt" that often

arsenal game not on telly?

we can only hope