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

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Fuck Nike. Might as well put a cock on it.

btw has anyone seen Zenit St Petersburg or Benifica this season? Trying to decide whether to catch the early 5.00 pm kick off or not.

Oh God, that checked shirt abomination really is real.

dalglish tenure has been pretty shit

To play devil's advocate: from narrowly missing out on the league in 2009* Liverpool were in steady decline, first under Benitez and then under Hodgson. While they're still mediocre, even by the standards of the past decade (never mind the 70s & 80s), Dalglish has arrested the decline. You could argue they'd been in a worse position now without him. I know he seems to have wasted a fortune on players who haven't made the grade, but it's not as if his predecessors didn't do the same thing.

*cue Darragh "they were never in the race"

they'd been = they'd be

otm

*cue Darragh "they were never in the race"

darragh otm

*

walks way from computer

Wayne Rooney has named his new race horse Switcharooney.

even the horse looks embarrassed
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thudd out for season

theyre a worse side than they were when rafa left even though their spending last summer was beyond the sort of sums rafa spent and dalglish/suarez has added a rly unpleasant feel to their traditional resentment politics

rafas last season they had 63 pts, at current rate they will finish with 59

four points ahead of norwich atm

rafas last season they had 63 pts, at current rate they will finish with 59

4 points different = playing man city twice?

p sure they played Man City under Rafa.

sorry i meant mansour city

even then, i suppose actually

whateves.

was rafa's last season good enough

btw has anyone seen Zenit St Petersburg or Benifica this season? Trying to decide whether to catch the early 5.00 pm kick off or not.

I don't think Benfica's very exciting to watch. Zenit were great earlier but without Danny (injured, missing Euros) probably not as much.

OTOH temperature will be -10 so that might make it an interesting tactical struggle.

thx boxall

*drudge siren*
Luis Suárez 'does stupid things', says Ajax manager Frank de Boer

lol

Some Ajax fans seem te believe Fergie left Evra at home because the crowd would give him a hard time, backing up their hero Suarez. The ego on them there, srsly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/feb/15/forgotten-story-17-november-1993
^ Worth a read

― Monkee Trial (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:32 PM (5 hours ago)

That was brilliant, thanks for linking.

love all this shit upthread, not least the ceremonial wheeling out of the most stupid minority theory in the history of ilx. it doesn't merit any more in-depth comment than that.

that rob smyth article is one of the best pieces about football i've ever read, and i normally don't like the guy.

most stupid minority theory in the history of ilx

Really hard to narrow that down from such a wide field but I'm guessing darragh's Ununified Theory Of Liverpool Not Challenging In 2009 Despite Taking The Title To The Final Week?

<3

i keep dismissing all the new manager stories as newspaper talk, but it seems like Morgan and Moxey really think it's worthwhile interviewing Bruce and Warnock. i can just about see the logic in "let's get somebody who'll keep us in the Prem" but i'm certain that if they appoint somebody who does that they'll be kept on for next season. so depressing, the prospect of anti-football under either of those. i'm really lukewarm on Curbishley but he looks like Mourinho compared to those other two. fuck "premier league experience" tbh and fuck a business model that excludes the playing of yr actual football.

bring back mick

think i might start following baseball

If you want to find a football manager just go to a colliery in Lanarkshire and shout down the pit-shaft - of course, it won't do you any good, they're all shut

Lee Clark? Huddersfield played decent football under him I think?

it seems our board has already decided that the next charlie must be big time enough

I think I said it upthread, but I'm not sure if an upcoming non-EPL manager would come to Wolves at present, no offence NV

Have you seen Pat Murphy's article at the BBC site? His sympathetic piece about the candidates for the Wolves job includes this detailed analysis of Steve Bruce's tenure at S'Land

Bruce brought players in during the summer and was not given enough time to see them bed in. Received wisdom is that he wasted a lot of money at the Stadium of Light, but he finished about evens on his transfer dealings. He ran out of luck last autumn and that scuppered him.

He ran out of luck last autumn and that scuppered him.

Stick to cricket, Pat

I'm not sure if he means Bruce was lucky for the previous 2 years or unlucky for 3 months.

It does include this ringing endorsement which I feel it is safe to say ticks all of NV's metaphorical boxes

Bruce knows about fire-fighting, raising morale in the dressing room and grinding out results.

Here comes the new boss same as the old boss.

tbf to Bruce, he brings exasperated Geordie whingeing to the table in place of bluff Yorkshire reasonablness

Bruce is better than McCarthy and Warnock - he's taken loser clubs like Birmingham and Wigan to comfortable midtable Prem positions. I'm not sure he's very good at fixing things when they start to go wrong though.

I think I said it upthread, but I'm not sure if an upcoming non-EPL manager would come to Wolves at present, no offence NV

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 11:57 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Board not prone to rash decisions, decent set of players if you can get them playing, a forward (fletcher) who can score... it's worse than a kick in the head.

I really hope Bruce gets it, just to see NV's spluttering reaction.

wow yr channelling five types of schadenfreude today huh

vg

why was Lee Clark fired? and what team will he manage next?

my Bruce reaction's ready to go tbh, it'll mainly be "fuck this i'm following Nick Barmby's Black and Amber Army"

The Barmby Armby

armber amber bamber

why was Lee Clark fired? and what team will he manage next?

― the pinefox, Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:52 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fell out with the owners? Leeds? At least he can't fall out with them as nobody knows who owns Leeds iirc