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

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.

Wenger will wear a long puffa coat with the fan's photo on it.

twitter lolz from a friend of mine:

Just named my truck Harry Redknapp. I kick a soccer ball against it at lunch, it's bright red, and it's got a bottle of gin in it right now.

Surprised at this
The Reds' 3-0 victory over Everton was the first time in more than a year that Liverpool had won a Premier League game in which Gerrard started. The game in question was Liverpool's 3-1 win against Manchester United at Anfield on 6 March 2011 when Dirk Kuyt scored a hat-trick.

Only 4 games tbf

I'm guessing.

South Korea have allowed the Arsenal striker, Park Chu-young, to delay his compulsory military service for 10 years.

Gareth Bale is an ambassador for Topps Match Attax 2012, the official
Barclays Premier League trading card game. Gareth is supporting the
launch of this season's Match Attax Extra, featuring new cards for
players who have joined and transferred clubs. Visit toppsfootball.co.uk
or follow @ToppsMatchAttax on Twitter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/16/gareth-bale-tottenham-champions-league

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2012/Mar/Week3/16190671.jpg

Kinda silly for 'arry to try shopping for Hazard now before sewing up third place.

Watching Fulham-Swansea ... what *is* Moussa Dembele exactly? He never seems to score or assist but I gather ppl rate him, and here he's playing deeper than most of the midfield.

I've felt that way watching him. He is like current Torres without the expectation imo. "Oh he did well running the channels and linking play and stuff. Didn't score though. Oh well, they've got the Pog for that." With Torres its not "they've got the Pog for that" it is "they spent how much and he doesn't score?"

was called away from my stream but Swansea are up by two now, a second goal for Sigurdsson, very smart fantasy buy pandemic made.

0-3 now, entirely down to Senderos' ineptitude, that was a worse sequence than I've seen even Djourou have in some time.

Dembele has been converted into a midfielder no?