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

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

ah, thegood old days
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Emperor_Taizu_play_Cuju.jpg

Any word yet on whether this'll make FIFA more likely to vote for England in future?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/12/14/1292362364732/Fifa-president--Sepp-Blat-007.jpg

I can't believe you didn't quote this para:

On his way to dinner at the same function in Doha, Richards slipped and tumbled knee-deep into a hotel swimming pool from where he was rescued by Bolton's chairman, the FA board member Phil Gartside.

oh shit, i didn't even read to the end

"You might be better off saying don't come. But a World Cup without England, Germany, the Dutch, Danes and Scandinavians. It's unthinkable."

sounds like the best world cup ever imo

Teams at the 1930 World Cup: Argentina, Chile, France, Mexico, Bolivia, Belgium, Yugoslavia, USA, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Romania and Paraguay.

haha wow
can't believe china is not even in it having invented the goddam sport

arsenal fan supposedly racially abused tiote on monday.

fucking cunts stop making being a football fan look like something only racist dicks do.

No reports of Spurs or Man City fans getting up to similar afaik - it appears to be a lagging indicator of big club status.