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

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

Wait, 2014? Why would they do a deal like that?

Neymar seems to have an odd attachment to his home country. He's said before he wants to stay there til the World Cup

Pique out, Mascherano can cover defensive duties on his own.

messi's going to russia though?

o i c - it's barcelona that hates fun, maybe his agent thinks his flair will become endampened?

I imagine his agent would like a massive bidding war

Can't wait for Real to weasle their way into the deal, making Barca wonder why the fuck they'd already paid £15m out for nothing.

henderson joke

Neymar seems to have an odd attachment to his home country. He's said before he wants to stay there til the World Cup

what's odd about liking where you live?

i believe there was archness at work in the sentence onimo

tho SA superstars do, on the whole, tend to move to europe at least long enough to sign a contract with man city

ah right, I read everything with a naive innocence.

Chelsea have sacked budding Balotelli Jacob Mellis for setting off a smoke grenade in the dressing room.

where's he from? please say persia

close, Nottingham

^ thinly veiled swipe at multicultural britain imo, scottish littlejohn (weejock?)

they come to our country, stealing our pranksters' jobs

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yr0q_vdInhc/TB9VAU6sKII/AAAAAAAACOY/qe4QLh4dAkk/s1600/gazza1.jpg

literally took me a minute to work out that wasn't Stephen Berkoff

looks a bit like rosicky

looks a bit like the unfunniest thing in the world

ah so barca signed neymar cool. i wonder how he'll do in europe.

http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/4324/38150/Rufio%205.jpg

just looking at some transfer figures, in paticular chelsea. didn't realise lukaku's fee could rise to ~18m (according to wiki). and ramires 17m?

Blackburn now closer to Villa than they are to QPR, albeit having played an extra game. Still have to play United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs, though. A win at Bolton would be huge.