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

does yr elliot also support the family team?

tragically yes

Yeah, more than anyone else in recent years, even Portsmouth ffs, Wolves' plight has the air of you-ain't-coming-back about it.

ironically we'll be a going concern in the bottom flight too.

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WULFGAR
March 18, 2012 at 3:38 pm

EVEN BOBBY CHARLTON AND GEORGE BEST WOULD HAVE SCORED FOR MAN UTD TODAY AGAINST OUR POOR TEAM AND ONE IS 75 AND THE OTHER HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 7 YEARS.

WOLVES MANAGEMENT ARE CLUELESS

xpost But Wolves have been careful with wages, haven't they? One of the rare clubs that is in the black every year. On that basis, they'll be back.

we have been careful with wages, to the point where we don't seem able to afford premier league quality players

That's the size of it, isn't it? If you're run within your means and competing, you're overachieving.

All this said, I still thought you'd stay up 'til the WBA game. Even keeping Mick you'd've'd a chance. Bolton are now the shouldn't-go-down club though who knows how their season will pan out now. NB assumption that Blackburn's 2-point cushion (and tbf better players) makes them pretty much safe already.

i thought bolton wd go down before Muamba took ill, think what happened on saturday makes it more likely but you never know how players will react. still: us 20th, wigan 19th, bolton 18th

qpr have got to find a win or two somewhere

just realised i'm worried in case we do hold onto players when we go down

No point jettisoning them just as they find their level. The better ones.

i look thru the squad and they're either lacking ability or guts or both. one or two exceptions probly but jesus. and fuck knows what clown they'll put in charge.

weird to say this cos he's a cunt who goes missing for half an hour at a time but Jarvis is playing as well as anybody at the moment

QPR, Wigan and Wolves to go down. But Wolves at the moment look like a team beyond normal concepts of badness.

Yeah it's pretty fucking difficult to predict anything that will happen with Bolton at the moment. Could be galvanised, could fall apart.

I think Davies is strong enough a character to try for a 'lets do this for Muamba!' dressing room atmosphere. But then I also read a rumour that they might volunteer to drop out the cup because going back to WHL would be too depressing.

Surely though a 'oh fuck, football doesn't mean shit' attitude would be the death knell to the club. And also a p big kick in the balls to Muamba and his p extraordinary story leaving the Congo and becoming a star etc.

'football isn't important' is ok, short-term, as a general nod t'ward an incident like this, but yeah it's not really something an organisation with however many employees, fans, whatever turnover and whatever targets should ever really *believe* longer than a few days after the shock clears

bbc says slight improvements made with muamba :D

why was city-chelsea postponed?

Because Chelsea played an FA cup tie yesterday

Has it been? To when?

Also, what's this about Celtic being refused consideration for Championship/League One? Are they trying?

lol i forgot that. dunno why it is still on the bbc website as postponed then and not just eradicated until future-date.

they're playing on wednesday i think?

maybe they technically have to refer to it as a postponement

yeah it's wednesday

you really oughta look for an alternative to the bbc website man

i should. and i know they exist. i am just too lazy to sort my bookmarks out.

aw fuck it. boom. done. espn has replaced bbc football as my 1 click top of firefox easy news website thingy.

This thread's traffic already down 10%

Also, what's this about Celtic being refused consideration for Championship/League One? Are they trying?

I think it was reported in the Sunday Mirror. Celtic denied having talks. The English Football League Chairman denied having talks.

I think Celtic would jump at it if there was a chance, but there probably isn't. If Portsmouth and Rangers both completely disappeared from each league it might be more feasible but even then I think there's too much resistance.

Today we are being linked to... Del Piero

I refuse to click these links to see why the hell anyone would write such nonsense. Sure we had Suker for his last season but transfer story lunacy needs to die

Is there no footy tonight? I thought there was a spread of games this midweek.

Meaningless midtable clash between Roma and Genoa appears to be the standout.

An illustration of low grade English football profligacy.
At 5.45 this evening, walking down York Way, I passed the Middlesbrough official team coach - from a Teesside firm, with the MFC badge on the side. A few yards further on, I passed the entire Middlesbrough first team squad, who duly boarded the coach. So, the club bought rail tickets for the team, then paid for the driver to come all the way down from Teesside ... to take them to their hotel. Just a thought, lads: why not just hire a London coach firm for that bit of the journey? It'll save you some money.

Outstanding work. We need more of these personal anecdotes.

I thank you. Excitingly, this was the second team this season I've seen an "off duty" football team. Earlier in the season I thrilled to the sight of the PAOK Salonika squad window shopping in Westfield Shepherds Bush.

I've seen guys in team tracksuits wandering shopping centres on the eve of european ties, and it hadn't until now triggered that I was looking at the actual players. I always thought they were just youth teamers along for the ride. I think I saw Borussia Dortmund once.

I got stuck in a lift for half an hour with six members of the Krylia Sovetov first team once.

I've seen guys in tracksuits in shopping centres before. And I've been down York Road.

Outstanding work. We need more of these personal anecdotes.

Need to revive that thread you started!

I've seen squads of foreign footballers in tracksuits getting on or off coaches outside the Radisson in Glasgow City Centre.

Usually in July/August.

shoresoforion.jpg

slept through the spurs tour bus passing us out en route to london on my school tour in 97

this explains a lot

A hoy's mention of davor suker reminds me that Maradona listed him amongst his 100 notable footballers, however the only thing he said about him was that he had the knack of making people think he had played much better than he actually had!!

Beckham was listed but in Maradona's opinion he "ate the hen that Simeone sold him at France '98". Whatever that means.

seems fairly self-explanatory

hard to argue with that

Barcelona seal Neymar move for 2014: report

Madrid: Barcelona have sealed a deal which would see talented young Brazilian striker Neymar join the Spanish club in 2014, Cadena SER radio reported.

The report claimed the Catalan giants have already paid 14.5 million euros ($19 million) of the total 58-million-euro transfer fee to the 20-year-old's Brazilian club Santos.

"According to several reliable sources Barca have already paid a quarter of the 58 million euros to Santos to guarantee the transfer of the player," Cadena SER claimed, adding that the date for his transfer was after the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.

The report added that the decision to seal the deal was taken by the player and his father against the wishes of his agent Wagner Ribeiro.

Neymar is considered the future star of Brazilian football and has been targeted by several European clubs, including Barcelona's rivals Real Madrid.

neymarque un club

does his agent hate fun or something?

Intriguing. I didn't think he'd go to Barca, not that they're rigid 4-4-2 or anything but they're a definite 'system' club and Neymar seems a bit free-spirited for that. I'd assumed he'd make another rampaging Real type first, or maybe hook up with Spearing at Liverpool.

           Valdes
           Pique
Alves
          Busquets
     Xavi       Iniesta
Neymar Alexis Messi Villa Pedro