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

I inadvertently saw all of the game over my friend's shoulder while talking to her about family issues in a pub in Fitzrovia. Increasingly predisposed towards Pearce as manja except that won't upset any Spurs fans so nah.

loved that Robben goal

now Huntelaar's just scored - is he unconscious? he appears to have a chunk of turf in his mouth.

Smalling got the worst of it

I've no sympathy, he was never going to reach that cross and he still threw his skull at it.

probably learned that move from Terry

now I'm hearing KJH got concussed, nose broken, & lost multiple teeth, poor Smalling if he really came off worse!

Damn, Smalling seemed worse at the time but that's nasty. Anyway, today's important news - the European Court of Justice has ruled that fixture lists can no longer be copyrighted

*fires up the presses*

Tough break for the EPL, having to put up with being advertised for free from now on.

d/ling to kindle right now so awesome

Apparently the entire fixture list was £3,931. What a racket

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/feb/29/pepe-reina-race-row-tv-advert

FFS. Liverpool need to fire their entire PR department immediately.

Saw the article yesterday so I assume they'll all be wearing Pepe t-shirts this weekend

Surprised Spain's second choice keeper would get to appear in TV ads

Not sure that what he did is considered racist where he comes from.

I think Suarez tried that one. I'm sure it isn't btw.

tbf blacking up and making monkey chants doesn't appear to be considered racist where he comes from

I'm going there next weekend, when in Rome?

Agger's injured (broken ribs) So Carragher in line to start against Arsenal at the weekend. Great.

Where the hell is Coates?

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/197475_abc_redbacks/101_ralph_coates.jpg

still don't get that reina ad. oh look a bandwagon.

Liverpool player or otherwise, you really don't get why it might be seen as racist? Really?

Red tinted specs

englighten me

enlighten even

Because it's a lol-African tribe with a lol-African chief straight out of Tintin In The Congo who just happens to a raging homosexual (lolz!)

Or maybe it's just because people hate Liverpool and want them to suffer.

I mean it's stretching it a bit to blame Liverpool for the content of the advert but you'd hope that Reina's agent or someone at Liverpool able to veto this would have had the good sense to go "this is a really bad idea, don't do it".

would they have even been aware of it though?

Because it's a lol-African tribe with a lol-African chief straight out of Tintin In The Congo who just happens to a raging homosexual (lolz!)

I suppose, tbf to Spanish advertisers, that making him gay and not a cannibal represents some sort of softening in Spanish attitudes to face and sexuality

... that's race and sexuality of course

David Luiz tells Lampard to obey Villas-Boas

The actual story's a bit dull - footballer tells newspaper that manager picks team - but that tagline pleases me

still don't get that reina ad. oh look a bandwagon.

― Chris, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:47 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^same guy didn't get how repeatedly using the n word in an argument with a black man might be a bit off iirc
idk maybe you could tell us all how portraying black africans as a bunch of scary tribal savages is a term of affection in spain. either that or stop being an apologist for this shite

Enough of that, Football Weekly drops the bombshell that Rafa actually was offered the Chelsea job last week and turned it down.

thank you for that name btw omino. i forgot to use it but it still needed to go somewhere.

Enough of that, Football Weekly drops the bombshell that Rafa actually was offered the Chelsea job last week and turned it down.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:55 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woof.

my hole

Rafa's a true scouser. Like he would manage Chelsea

Heard his requirements included the money for just four or five new signings.

every window

it's usually a rolling requirement iirc

^same guy didn't get how repeatedly using the n word in an argument with a black man might be a bit off iirc

Think you'll find I said I can understand how Evra could have taken offence and that my beef was with how the FA decided this word was said 7 times. How fucking dare you suggest I'm an apologist for racism.

sorry, you're an apologist for a man who used racist language between 1 and 7 times, depending on whose testimony you believe, in an argument. better?

"negro" is not "the n word", as much as suarez was clearly having a go at evra for his race.

I'm just glad Patrice didn't riposte with, "You are guay!"

I dunno...the whole thing kind of depresses me. Let's not have a go at Chris. Valuable poster imo

I agree, just got a bee in my bonnet over this issue. Happy to drop it.

i think chris is wrong in the assumptions he's willing to take as a starting point, and i think this is largely because of loyalty to lfc.

Doesn't make him an apologist for racism, but time and again it's been pointed out that the club's contemt for the charges and evra during the process certainly should give pause to anyone even looking to argue their side, cos shit gets blurry.

Sure, you can pick your way through the dry bones of it and emerge with an argument fit for a hearing in suarez's defence, but unfortunately it's not really a very good one according to almost everybody not already pre-disposed towards him.

I ran into this over l'affaire keysey, when i was trying to get over-complex in picking apart the issues half in ilx argument mode, half in crank dmac mode. In the heat of it, it looked v much like i was representing the monolith ppl were railing against, because that's how nitpicking/devil's advocating looks when an emotive issue arises and one side is just plain wrong.

Hope everyone calms it, ilf is the best part of a great site and regular posters to it are worth their weight in gold.

Let's have that be the last word. I'm wiping away tears

My default position is 'Chris we cool and I see where you are coming from, but jesus Liverpool need to sort their shit out, this
is getting ridiculous. The line shouldn't even be blurry, especially after months of potential incidents.'