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

How about a swap with England for Capello?

Ancelotti would've been perfect really.

I think Mou prefers London over Manchester, but could see him going to either Spurs, Arsenal or Chelsea tbh.

Is he still pals with Abramovich?

i think aspiring to mourinho is at least as realistic as dropping to lambert fwiw

Yeah surely Mourinho and Abramovich absolutely hate each other and getting Jose back after over four years would basically just be Roman admitting defeat?

Yes, I for one can't see it happening. Could see him go to Citeh if they fire Mancini, but honestly I think Mou wants to go back to London.

That he will leave Madrid after this season seems a given tbh, no matter what he wins or loses there.

feel like a more conservative manager, bit of steel about him type of thing, is what we'll go for if harry leaves us established top four.

― Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MO'N?

established top 4? when's harry going? in 3 or 4 years?

twice in three, with lfc and arsenal fucked

Is the assumption that the 'not guilty' verdict means everything's spotless and the FA will have no qualms about taking Harry on now? Because I think that's probably fair enough.

They'll have to do a lot more due diligence before they can safely say everything's spotless.

Due diligence? The guy loves his dog, what more do we need to know?

What, specifically, was it made Venables untouchable?

cps vs english fitba slebs is p much an away win every time

capello has resigned

Loves dog, makes juries laugh, what more does FA want?

capello feeling like a frumpy wife

How about a swap with England for Capello?

One step closer.

Fuck.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

See you in the Europa League dudes.

sherwood at sevens ffs

Been away tonight., Saw Guus Hiddink was trending topic on twitter. Hoped it would be about him going back to PSV. #disappointed

Presumably if Capello thought this group of players had the faintest chance of getting to the last 4 or better of the Euro's he would have swallowed his pride and stayed on.

Marcotti on the radio said that the whole "John Terry is still my captain" quote from Capello's RAI interview was completely fabricated by the English Press #surprised

Marcotti was on the BBC, being very damning of the FA in the immediate aftermath. Couldn't fault him tbh.

the era of Rafa Benitez, Spurs manager will be an amazing one for ILF.

would be amazing to be the first unblinkered rafa fan but it's early days yet and if that happens it happens i'm just focused on training my players on fm2011

What programme was Marcotti on? Would like to listen to that on the iplayer if possible.

He was on 5live tonight somewhere around 7.20-7.50 I think. Just a v short interview with him and also Ian McGarry. Apparantely he was also on Monday night as well but I missed that.

*apparently*

don't think capello's come out of it badly, tbh? Got to take a principled exit out of a job that he probably wasn't ever going to get right- not a slight on him, i might add, a swap would suit me nicely.

it's perhaps unfortunate that the principle could be taken as "i like racism" rather than the "i pick the team" it was probably intended as.

'i'm getting the fuck out of here' was the more obvious one, tbh, but yeah ok.

i've kind of missed the whole furore but i think Capello has been a bit of a dick tbh

obviously no one would like being taken to task by the FA but still

principle of getting the fuck out of there is admittedly a good one.

Just in case we'd forgotten his Arsenal tattoo:

Born in London's east end in 1947, he supported Arsenal as a boy, spending his weekends on the terraces at Highbury.

His whole weekends?

they was ard times son

shivering on the terrace at ighbury waiting for the all clear to sound

bat people was friendlier then too, you could leave your front door open and when you got ome somebody would've slipped a undred grand totally legal payment under the doormat

they only ever bunged their own

the dear old queen mam used to cam dahn the ighbury all the time shaking ands and anding out bags of sand to teary-eyed street urchins

it's perhaps unfortunate that the principle could be taken as "i like racism" rather than the "i pick the team" it was probably intended as.

Capello told Italian newspaper La Republica: "In Madrid I breathed a sparkling atmosphere, the air of a country in Europe making the greatest progress. When I returned to Italy it seemed I had taken two steps back.

"Spain in two words? Latin warmth and creativity regulated by a rigorous order. The order which comes from Franco."

When reminded that Franco was a dictator, Capello replied: "But he left a legacy of order. In Spain everything works well, there is education, cleanliness, respect. We should follow their example."

Big fan of Lega Nord as well iirc.

When he scored for Italy at Wembley in 1973, he dedicated it to Italian immigrants he said were treated like "waiters" by the British.

Interesting

Mourinho is a bit of right winger too, yes? (xp)

Mourinho is reportedly very right-wing but he never actually talks about it?

Mourinho's father was a goalkeeper in Portugal's national squad. More significantly, the family's fortunes depended on the stability of the fascist regime. Mourinho's great-uncle owned a factory for canning sardines which, in the days before burgers and pizza, were a patriotic staple of the national diet. After the revolution, the cannery workers expropriated the business; Setubal, the coastal town where Mourinho was born, acquired a communist mayor, and his parents - stigmatised as bourgeois - had to move out of their big house. This sudden, humiliating demotion left Mourinho with unregenerately right-wing views

Sardines? The monster!

(that autocorrected to 'The mister!' for some reason - phone crossing line to sentience imo)

"In Spain everything works well... We should follow their example."

Cap at the vanguard of lazy punditry imo, this was before they even won anything.