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

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

Statistics compiled by the match delegates show referees get 92% of major decisions – goals, penalties, red cards etc – right. For assistant referees, the success rate is 99.3%.

somehow doubt that includes simulation

tv hypes up the split second decisions where mistakes are understandable "he definitely got a touch on the ball blah blah", when i'm sure what aggravates managers and fans more is inconsistent application of the laws - fouls denying clear goalscoring opportunities getting yellows, different standards on serious foul play etc

arseen wengah 'aving a go
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17261746

shocking reversal of his long-held anti-go-having principles, that.

Wenger: "we will kick it towards van Persie, hope he comes up with something"

More to follow.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Jo7lJoQhtjw/SJFtJu8xJ9I/AAAAAAAAA7U/t5r6RFoEU9Y/s1600-h/nail-biter+othellomaster.com

If 'arry starts going on about mental strength and an extra two per cent of fitness and players being like new signings and not seeing things we'll know some Freaky Friday-style accident has happened.

And if 'Arry gets very reluctant to throw cash around?

we can assume the swiss bank account in his dead racehorse's name is under investigation

'Church ruined my Man Utd chances'

Just as well for ILX that I'll never get it together to file papers myself

also england national team 1986 are suing the church of england for the hand of god goal

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

http://www.youtube.com/v/R5xAmAjZ1mY&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en

― kid steel (cajunsunday), Sunday, 4 March 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda disappointing: they had a lot of golden raw material -- sure most won't be able to agree on faves, but that fan pleading for Briatore not to leave while he complains how his ego isn't being further inflated by should-be-grateful fans that dare to protest because he input 35 million into 'the company' ws good.

Main problem was it wouldn't stop with trying to make 'killer' sequences cut from QPR goals/mobile convos/goals against QPR/more 5 sec clueless exec soundbites -- all accompained by yer disgusting indie sd/track. Should have left the camera on some of these meetings for a lot longer, no matter how 'mundane' it might seem -- especially one on savings they were trying to make, another where they were discussing season ticket prices. Should've had more interviews w/fans (tracking opinions as the takeover ws happening and then when it was unravelling with all the sackings), any zine writers, etc.

Badly put together and a missed opportunity to use this to talk about what is happening, which we all know but a documentation of this disaster is required. Switched off halfway through.

Still, great sense of timing -- Chelsea and QPR are 1x Mourinho apart from one another.

kind of enjoy them showing how Falvio enforcing a substitution leading to a winning goal (to his mind) justified all the fucking around with managers and team selections