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

xpost me too actually IK. it's seldom I'd say it but I think Liverpool could make a "genuine shove" for the title next year.

told ya. first time andy carroll's looked like a footballer for 90 minutes, and a very good one at that.

A size 10 Adidas Predator X boot stamping on a human face - forever.

In other news, I see Jermaine Beckford scored twice tonight. Ha. Ha.

damn missed this. suarez and gerrard linked up beautifully for two of those goals. think henderson has been better than adam tbh this season. downing's got 0 assists this season. although maybe you can blame carroll for that.

blame kelly tonight for it

it'll be awesome if Downing makes it through the whole season with 0 goals and 0 assists. I'm rooting for him

got one against oldham in the cup if that counts

henderson's shown glimpses of real quality and is worth perservering with. adam has been exactly what i expected he'd be when we signed him. billy big bollocks shots from the halfway line, decent tackler but a generally shite defensive game, the odd sexy pass, daft 40 yard passes that the receiver can't do anything with, and an unreliable short passing game.

ironically this has freed up Stevie Me from his traditional role

no masch in club

Relegation would hit QPR hard financially because most of this season's big-name arrivals signed lucrative deals which do not include relegation clauses.

Full story: the Mirror

how are there teams still stupid enough not to put relegation clauses in contracts?

Roberto Carlos hopes to sign both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala.

Full story: Marca (in Spanish)

Do we have a lol venkysanzhi thread yet?

DON'T DO IT LIONEL

cron you can do what the fuck you like

just tried to make a joke about which of the spurs first xi i'd like anzhi to show unlikely interest in, and tbh i struggled....

Bale, maybe?

Can see them going for Bale and then maybe Walcott.

They're currently outside the Europea League placings but i'd expect them to get the points to finish in the top six. Still a long way from challenging for the league next year though.

Their biggest problem is that, as was seen with Hulk and Pav, even vast amounts of money aren't enough to persuade the best players that commuting 1500km to home games is a good idea.

I get the feeling that the vast amounts of money at Anzhi are going to blow up the ridiculousness pay scale. They seem like a club that will make Roberto Soldado the first million pound p/w player or something.

it's time for downing to shine in russia

so Ferguson has supposedly been watching Hazard then. Of course it'll probably turn out he was actually there to see some Obertan type.

I can totally see Anzhi being Adebayor's next club

Survey on EPL managers - a bit rubbish but there are one or two interesting things in there. Bit harsh on Pardew, Bergkamp and De Gea; not harsh enough on Terry. I didn't realise Kompany was held in quite so much esteem.

Which Premier League manager has impressed you the most this season?
1 Brendan Rodgers 47%, 2 Paul Lambert 40%, 3 Roberto Mancini 6%, 4 Steve Kean 6%

Who has been the signing of the season so far in the Premier League?
1 Demba Ba 56%, 2 Phil Jones 13%, 3 Scott Parker 13%, 4 Sebastian Larsson 6%, 5 Juan Mata 6%, 6 Craig Bellamy 6%

Which current Premier League players do you rate as the best in each position?

Goalkeeper
1 Joe Hart 69%, 2 Pepe Reina 13%, 3 Brad Friedel 6%, 4 Shay Given 6%, 5 Tim Krul 6%

Defender
1 Vincent Kompany 88%, 2 John Terry 6%, 3 Thomas Vermaelen 6%

Midfielder
1 David Silva 31%, 2 Yaya Touré 25%, 3 Leon Britton 13%, 4 Scott Parker 6%, 5 Gareth Bale 6%, 6 Moussa Dembélé 6%, 7 Ramires 6%, 8 Luka Modric 6%

Forward/striker
1 Robin van Persie 25%, 2 Sergio Agüero 19%, 3 Demba Ba 19%, 4 Luis Suárez 13%, 5 Wayne Rooney 13%, 6 David Silva 6%, 7 Gareth Bale 6%

Who has been the best young player in the Premier League this season?
1 Phil Jones 31%, 2 Daniel Sturridge 25%, 3 Kyle Walker 25%, 4 Oriel Romeu 6%, 5 Scott Sinclair 6%, 6 Chris Smalling 6%

Who will win the Premier League?
1 Manchester City 67%, 2 Manchester United 33%

Which player do you think has been most influential in the Premier Leagues's 20 years?
1 Ryan Giggs 50%, 2 Eric Cantona 13%, 3 Paul Scholes 13%, 4 Alan Shearer 13%, 5 Thierry Henry 6%, 6 Cristiano Ronaldo 6%

Other than your own ground, which stadium/fans create the best atmosphere?
1 Liverpool (Anfield) 50%, 2 Stoke City (Britannia Stadium), 3 Newcastle United (St James' Park) 4 Everton (Goodison Park) 7%, 5 Tottenham Hotspur (White Hart Lane) 7%

Phil Jones eh? He hasn't been good at all since before Christmas

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/hazzard.jpg

you don't just turn someone into the new John O'Shea over night though tbf

Which player do you think has been most influential in the Premier Leagues's 20 years?

And this means... what?

it means "how can we shoehorn a question that ryan giggs would be the answer to?

Giggs has played the most games for the most successful team in PL history. It's simple maths really.

imo it's a bit of an indictment of Giggs that he scores less than 100%. It's the sort of leading question where they might as well pre-print his name on the reply form.

Oriel Romeu 6%

huh?

bale robbed in young player category tbh

full backs robbed in defender category

who is the most influential player in the premiership who has allegedly cheated on his wife with a former miss wales and then took out a superinjunction about it?

Alberto Aquilani. Almost no-one saw him play, but everyone who did went on to form a Premiership club.

giggs was shit for a lot of those years, tbf & h

Zola robbed there as well as bergkamp

who, in the opinion, is the best player in the premiership who has a very hairy chest that was once displayed during a goal celebration after skinning 5 arsenal players?

Taking it as a serious question for a moment: what is Giggs' influence? I can think of Beckham, Cantona, Ronaldo, Bergkamp or Makelele as having changed facets of the game; Keane, Rooney or Shearer as having influenced titles. I can't think how the game would be significantly different today for the want of Giggs. Maybe because he was the post-Gazza wunderkind.

this was a very good game
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrIY6ST3gBFFywo0CcG3VzeIer97R1MLZMqlygjP9W8hy2MhU7Dg

longevity, first marketable star in british football for a while, kept fairly cleancut til lately, i dunno

skinning 5 arsenal players

or was it 4

that was in the FA Cup though. Doesn't count

He did the first footy celeb-vehicle TV show that I can remember, so maybe props for that. But it was terrible. And Bryan Robson had already guested in Jossy's Giants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_q-C9g8x3w

how quickly we forget

does everyone agree with joe hart as the best keeper then? maybe it is because lol england #1 but i just cant see him being all that great

compared to who

dont say scezczenzcy

Friedal, Vorm, fuck yeah Chesney, even De Gea

Surprised Vorm did not place.

vorm maybe

Hart, Reina, de Gea are three standout keepers imo. I'd have Reina. He makes fewest mistakes, apart from anything else.

not lately re reina

not likely re de gea