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

walker with a fine cross too. Quite a game from him.

tyler you cunt, fyi the scoreline absolutely does tell the whole story

Maybe, he's still our best finisher though.

Angry Rich the Spurs fan, on 81111: "When Modric had his head turned by Chelsea he was left out of the team. Harry has been dancing to the FA's tune since Capello went stating how flattered etc he is. Hypocrite?"

i'll give defoe this- he seems to realise that, in a two man frontline, it's occasionally fucking customary for at least one cunt to face fucking forward

I can't wait for Ferguson to retire

at least you support teams that have beaten him, tbf

Angry Rich makes a good point, I for one was fully expecting HR to literally shit on a George Cross flag during a live press conference

anyway, Spurs fifth by Apr 1 I'm calling it now

lol. Ashley Young may be the platonic ideal of the the current Utd Player. By and large he was terrible today but he still got an assist and two cracking goals.

and MotM

spurs have third wrapped up, we've had a very spursy week but let's not be stupid, third will be a done deal before the last day.

gnev - "when that spurs goal was disallowed, you felt 'something was happening'"

yes, yes that is very true indeed.

spurs have third wrapped up, we've had a very spursy week but let's not be stupid, third will be a done deal before the last day.

Who're you trying to convince?

good point, last word on it from me til i c&p that with the date on it in may

gnev wants to know why b rodgers isn't higher than p guardiola in bookie's odds for chelsea

while it's entirely plausible that Arsenal will go to shit again btwn now and May 13, I'll be amazed if they don't gain more than four points' ground on Spurs in their next four games

Chelsea don't have an esp good or bad next few fixtures but there's a p obv factor which I could see being a psychological turning point for ~certain players~

Why on earth would Guardiola take the Chelsea job?

when you see what jol has done at fulham in a short time you'd wonder how he'd handle expectations at spurs

the resulting creation of the first 1,000,000 post thread on ILX would make it a worthwhile venture imho

i'd be amazed if spurs continuing our poor form against other top 5/6 teams affected the rest of our season that much

I'd be amazed if arsenal's flakers put a run together that was down to anything but a fixture blip re us and themselves

Chelsea are more of a threat for third, and i think if we'd to lose to utd this weekend i'm happier that chelsea dropped points than arsenal, tho obv an lfc win would have been better

it would be a statistically incredible thread, 1,000,000 posts consisting of just 3,000,002 characters- one 'jol out', the rest 'lol'

xp I'll be surprised if it's you c&p'ing that come end of the season, matey

if we don't finish third i think arry will go

u_u

not getting any less enraged watching Modric for the second goal

Liam Brady looking withered when approached with The McClean Question

can't believe spurs aren't going to win the league.

fouls in newcastle v sunderland are amazing

countdown to st totteringham's day starts now

literally decomposing now that spurs aren't going to win the league

question for caek/ppl who know FIFA rules better than me/ppl who don't but can be bothered looking them up

in 'the letter of the law' is there any provision to book players for obvious simulation, even after they've been on the end of a red card offence?

referring, as you might expect, to Tiote being an utter prick and going down as if concussed after getting very mildly struck by Sessegnon's arm - don't hold out much hope but would like to see this shit being discouraged asap

^ if there's one innovation I crave, it's this

i can't see why the referee couldn't caution him for his behavior, but in reality a ref will never give a red card then caution the victim of the red card offense for faking the injury the red card was given for.

we haved called for this many times in ilfistory but fifa remain petulantly intransigent

xp red cards aren't given for injuries tho, is kind of my point

game is the business

o'neill scrappy as fuck!

i think that the referee would need to caution tiote for feigning the injury (which would be a difficult interpretation if he's actually been struck, which the referee clearly believes as he's given the red to sessegnon), otherwise i think the other interpretation of simulation is pretending to have been fouled which can't pertain as he has actually been fouled.

xxp

anyone watching that QPR programme? looks quality from this trailer. def. gonna watch this on catchup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5xAmAjZ1mY&feature=player_embedded

it's amazing. chelsea should get briatore in.

I'm all for more fly on the wall footage of rich dudes shouting "i want to sack this fucking idiot!"

Yeah, the main lesson here is that rich people who don't know what they're doing are really quite hilarious.

(it's sort of great. Some wobbly bits. Luigi De Canio fans will be disappointed that the film basically airbrushes his era out)

so fucked

Feel bad for Wolves. Should get AVB in and tell him to show the Premiership what he can really do.

Haven't seen it yet but it's got echoes of Norwich going down 6-0 there in 2005. I did think Wolves would be alright but it's hard to see anyone coming back from that.

we had nothing, and we've got maybe 4 Prem quality players tops

i can't see why the referee couldn't caution him for his behavior, but in reality a ref will never give a red card then caution the victim of the red card offense for faking the injury the red card was given for.

― wmlynch, Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically this. nothing to stop the ref doing it. but (1) definitively identifying simulation in a situation when there has in fact been contact is v tough (2) calling a player a liar is somehow more serious than calling him another kind of cheat, and if you get it wrong then you can lose control of the match (3) given the lack of support any ref who tries to systematically clamp down on simulation could expect from fifa, there is no upside.

said it a thousand times. monday morning, video panel, 3 match ban the blatant cases of simulation, see how many do it next weekend.

totes. just talking about what the ref can do on the pitch. the fa/fifa don't do so many things on monday morning, partly out of misguided loyalty to referees, mostly out of laziness and desire for a simple life.

also http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/mar/03/referees-winning-percentage-game-managers