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

haven't watched the handshake vid again - somehow life gets in the way of the important stuff.

I've just rechecked the predictions thread, and nearly everyone had Chelsea first or second. A handful of brave souls went for third.

The vile red-nosed old Scottish drunk had some choice words about snood wearers, didn't he?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/0528/1224297950159.html

As far back as 1997 he signalled a growing animosity towards those who cover the game. “There are some excellent journalists, honest journalists, and respected journalists,” he observed, “but the media has become a monster. They know all the answers, right and wrong. They want exclusive stories and confidential background. They want their cards marked. They want gossip. And, believe me, if they don’t get it, you’re in trouble.”

He may have had something of a point then but five years later when somebody asked at the end of United’s season something as innocuous as whether he would be attending the World Cup in Japan and South Korea that summer, he replied, far more outrageously: “None of your business! Do I still ask you if you’re still going to those fucking gay clubs?”

not sure what Fergie's cuntishness has to do with the issue in hand but do carry on

Exactly. He might be a hypocrite and a homophobe but it doesn't mean he's wrong.

once we're clear.

for a guy who's all 'fuckin ilx fuckin this shit's not important fuckin media gossip fuckin who cares let's get on with the stuff that relates only to the ball' i gotta say, ronan - tryin to make evra/dalglish's current & ongoingbehaviour - which is in directlyconnected to, if not directly responsible for, much of the media frenzy nor the fan/messageboard frenzy that, again, you bemoan so much-somehow equal to one ferguson quote from i don't know when is NAGL.

I mean i know i'm just another lfc hater but

fuckin phone, sorry for garble

if people are going to slate dalglish then i think the fact it's a quote from "i don't know when" says a lot, obviously didn't cause a ripple and is worse than anything dalglish has done/said. doesn't exonerate dalglish but it does give some perspective on one of the most outspoken voices of the weekend, fergie.

I don't know if it's residual and naive nostalgia for the pre-Premiership era coupled with Liverpool's underdog status during said era, but I've always thought of Liverpool as kind of good guys of modern football.

You've got to be trolling us here, Matt!

Fucking Mail:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/11/article-0-0C7261C5000005DC-858_468x772.jpg

link to prediction thread?

Fergie's a bit camp anyway? Not as much as Brian Clough but even so...

let's predict the top four and bottom three now, then laugh when this thread's bumped at the end of the season

the bottom third obviously

ftr i like lfc the idea, i just have to filter out rafa and the more ludicrous conspiracy theory/ paranoid tendencies of many of the fans.

plenty of failure to recognise different viewpoints amongs the lfc fans in the last two days.

I don't know, pretty solid majority of them seem Suarez apologists

sometimes when they're all against you, you're just fuckin wrong, dunno what to say.

Spurs consolidating third is the story of the day, trap out

the more ludicrous conspiracy theory/ paranoid tendencies of many of the fans

Bit like this?

http://i.imgur.com/DES90.jpg

sometimes when they're all against you, you're just fuckin wrong, dunno what to say.

when who's against who???

agree on trapp out tho, not least when i saw that sunderland goal.

tbh when a woman beating dogger takes the moral high ground over you, it's probably best to give up.

cant see pic on phone but im gonna say yes

Hahaha. What is Collymore doing, some kind of customer feedback exercise?

"When did I last beat my wife?"

Did I last beat my wife to YOUR satisfaction? Yes or no?

"How's my beating?"

I think we can all agree that this handshaking stuff before every fucking game is bollocks

... like it's the Royal Engineers vs. Corinthian in 1892 or sumthin'

Suárez did shake the hands of (at least) 2 alleged adulterers and an alleged shoplifter and tried to shake the hand of a proven drugs cheat, who then refused to shake his hand! What principles the drugs cheat has.

Yes, it's a rule for me never to shake the hand of an adulterer too

Had forgotten the Wolves game was on as NV has not been on the thread complaining about McCarthy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2099929/Comment-Kenny-Dalglish-reduced-scowling-sneering-bar-room-bully.html

So Suarez has apologised then

Well, Liverpool have released an apology 'from him'.

yeah, but at least it's something. Makes the conspiracy theorists look even more idiotic

Refusing to shake hands is a mark of respect in Uruguay

This "well he may be a racist but look at the bad shit these other guys did" is inane.

Rampant homophobia at every level of the game is a serious issue (my guess is that if you polled every Premiership manager and got them to speak with absolute honesty you'd get more homophobes than not) but a lame rhetorical device to some how level the playing field with Suarez. Face it, they're all cunts, so unfair to pick on Suarez etc etc.

Assuming the released apology isn't actually "from" Suarez's massive repentent heart, then surely it's an indication of a significant fissure in management-player solidarity? It's publicly saying he better act in good grace -- as set out by this apology -- at all future times, or it will be an act of war against his own club

^^^possibly v naive of me here

McCarthy out? That was a bit of a doing. V enjoyable watch if, like me, you didn't care for either team.

Oof, that's a proper shoeing. Didn't nv say this was almost his ideal weekend yesterday?!

That statement's pretty strong btw. Good on the club.

Kenny: "When I went on TV after yesterday's game I hadn't seen what had happened, but I did not conduct myself in a way befitting of a Liverpool Manager during that interview and I'd like to apologise for that."

Shame it took 24 hours - and the intervention of the club's hierarchy - to come to the conclusion that he'd been an arsehole.

Great day for my beloved Baggies

fair play to lfc

davitts v milltown in gaa club finals, croke park corporate area v comfortable

Maybe Liverpool can sack Andy Carroll too.

welcome to the gary gardner show

'from this side of the atlantic everyone at lfc looks pedantic/rong/stoopid'

this is true but

'luckily for them it isn't a big story here'

this is prob much more important for Henry et al. Someone should get LeBron's take on matters.

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Big story in the ny times today headline is Another Ugly Incident Mars Liverpool's Good Name