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

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

tim krul surely?

flaky imo, can be got at by taunts

also al-habsi despite obv bottom of the league

It's true, whenever I hear about the guy it's because of another wonder-display. I guess he might be shipping goals every other week, for all I watch Wigan.

pepe reina error About 308,000 results (but note reina error: About 14,700,000 results)
silly stats:
al habsi error About 403,000 results
friedel error About 434,000 results
joe hart error About 458,000 results
vorm error About 1,070,000 results
szczesny error About 1,130,000 results
cech error About 1,260,000 results
de gea error About 2,240,000 results
tim krul error About 4,000,000 results

given error About 1,080,000,000 results

gomes lite imo, highlights reel gk

given that given's name has also a given meaning, i believe yr stats need to be given a given level of scepticism

szczesny, otoh

bear in mind that nobody being able to spell his name has to add another 500% minimum

50s American light entertainer 'Uncle' Al Habsie skewing those stats badly imo

and elliot smith with his song needle in de gea.

that song about the goalkeeper with a heroin addiction

.... was all lies

Sir Dave Richards, the Premier League chairman, has accused Fifa and Uefa of stealing football from the English, while at a sports and security conference in Qatar. He also stated that organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar must tackle the availability of alcohol, saying: "If you don't do something about it you're starting to bury your head in the sand a bit."

Richards, who is also a Football Association board member, also criticised the process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids, saying that Fifa should have made clear that they favoured taking the tournament to new parts of the world.

With the Fifa vice-president Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan and the International Cricket Council's chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, looking on in Doha, Richards repeatedly reminded his audience that the world had England to thank for football.

"England gave the world football. It gave the best legacy anyone could give. We gave them the game," Richards said. "For 50 years, we owned the game … We were the governance of the game. We wrote the rules, designed the pitches and everything else.

"Then, 50 years later, some guy came along and said: 'You're liars,' and they actually stole it. It was called Fifa. Fifty years later, another gang came along called Uefa and stole a bit more."

Hussein then reminded Richards that there was still a debate over whether the Chinese or the English invented the game, but Richards leapt to the defence of his country.

"It started in Sheffield 150 years ago," Richards said, his voice rising. "We started the game and wrote the rules and took it the world. The Chinese may say they own it but the British own it and we gave it to the rest of the world."

smh

sounds like somebody tackled the availability of alcohol