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

Caldwell actually being the Scottish Gerard Pique for a moment even more so

papa cisse's two have been nice, and ashley young's scored a few peaches too iirc

"They entered three cup competitions this season, Liverpool: the league, the carling cup and..."

"and I think it did hit his hand"

Huh? Did Shearer say that? I'd listen to him if I knew I'd hear gems like that.

ach given

(xp) Shearer was the one who thinks the league is a cup competition. Can't remember which pundit was eagle-eyed enough to notice the contact of Suarez's hand with the ball (when he blatantly punched it in).

walcott might make a striker someday y'know

Nice little finish from Theo

"The last time two English players scored for Arsenal was 1997" - wtf?

fine control & finish - young Theo making a push for the plane

Has Arteta taken citizenship yet? Because today might be a record that'll never be beaten.

as i've just posted to the comedy poll thread

oooh arteta

Wenger's being a lot more humble than I'd be with that 'favourites for third' question. I think I'd keep a big file of press cuttings from September that I'd produce and disdainfully flick through at times like that.

uhhhhhh

i mean, no? he doesn't want to say something now he'll regret in may

ah cisse wtf

Yeah, I guess he'd look pretty stupid if City do go and collapse xp

taiwo

should spurs be looking at him as bae challenge?

i dunno if that's meant to be funny IK or

I dunno - I guess I actually still am expecting Arsenal to go to pieces, so maybe it's more he should get his gloating in now.

taiwo is way better than qpr

sweet from holt

ref done well imo

still always a cunt for what he did to pedro obv

hmm hard to say why hotl or johnson were booked to begin with but no arguing the second yellow for holt

"The last time two English players scored for Arsenal was 1997" - wtf?

― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:07 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This doesn't seem right but 1998 would be the last real year we had any true English attacking threat. After that we just had Parlour and English defenders/ Wenger shipped out everyone else. So unless Wilshere and Walcott got on the same scoresheet last season... yeah this could be right. Wenger for England.

Anyone who's seriously pondering Taiwo should go down to Loftus Road and see him play. He can't defend. Not in the sense of: he's a left back who's best attacking, but in the sense of: how the fuck did this fat bloke ever get to be a left-back when he can't tackle and has no positional sense? Still, nice free kick.

From elation on Wednesday to misery today. This Rangers team is a fucking disgrace, because they should be so much better than they're showing on the pitch. Clearly a lot of that has to do with with coaching: Hughes's system just looks berserk - narrow midfield diamond against teams with wingers. As my daughter would say: like, duh. Even Wednesday's win was down to Liverpool imploding, not anything particularly good from QPR.

how the fuck did this fat bloke ever get to be a left-back when he can't tackle and has no positional sense? Still, nice free kick.

gareth bale, 2 years ago. just sayin'

PS I got thoroughly pissed off with Mark Bowen trying to rouse the West Paddock at LR to make some noise when we were 2-0 down on Wednesday night. Listen, pal, we pay over the odds to watch these arseholes; we've been cheering all season and it's made no fucking difference whatsoever. You're getting paid for coaching them into playing this badly. You fucking gee them up, eh?

xpost Yeah, but Bale is fast. Taiwo isn't. Honestly, Taiwo is not very good.

taiwo was fast

Was trying to find out who Jeffers' goal was against, just in case Ashley Cole or someone scored that day too. I couldn't find it, but I did discover he'd been Shawcrossed too, after he'd gone to Wednesday.

lol i forgot jeffers. that was a fun time.

lol Chelsea-Spurs is action-packed

we looked good in those highlights, but sadly no

Oh right yeah I saw Che-Spurs at the pub and forgot about it happening until now. DULL DI DULL DULL DULL, DULL.

how do u rate arsenals season so far

i am in the mood to answer that with something long winded, so do you still want me to answer yr question

ya fuckit

feel free, always

http://i.imgur.com/56s6t.jpg

tt;fuiud

"The last time two English players scored for Arsenal was 1997" - wtf?

English FA Cup Sat 16 Feb 2002

Arsenal 5 - 2 Gillingham

HT 1 - 0 FT 5 - 2

Sylvain Wiltord (38, 81)Nwankwo Kanu (50)Tony Adams (67)Ray Parlour (88)

Marlon King (47)Ty Gooden (54)

personally, i feel it has been inept.

firstly, there is 1 massive elephant in the quiet stadium. if we had wilshere at any point this season, you have to presume we'd be in a lot better shape. not only because he improves our team, but it means our midfield 3 would have someone to swap with when they are fatigued, we would have been less likely to play 1 more rookie in the 8-2, would have started the season with some stability etc. He may be a cunt but he is an increbile footballer at a club where such things are in short supply.

theo has been shit. arshavin has been worse. gervinho has had a shocking season. chamakh, park, what is the fucking point? if rvp had a typical season (i.e. injury) - we'd be in the bottom half of the table. we have had to rely on a guy who regularly doesn't play for 6 months at a time. our frontline is a mess, held together with sellotape.

until sagna and vermaelan came back, our defence was even worse. selling eboue and clichy and replacing them with jenkinson and gibbs was negligant behaviour. santos, for the 4 games he was alive, was a lw played out of position. sq is still at the club and djourou is still played regularly.

tbf i like our middle. song (/frimpong), arteta (/ wilshere?) ramsey (/ rosicky) is the third best midfield in the country behind city and spurs.

we have sucked though. 8-2. whatever the blackburn result was, i can't remember. the first milan game. sure, the embarrassing loses stick out but it is just as much the loss of style and charisma. we may be on a winning run now but there isn't anything memorable happening in these games. theo will make a couple nice runs. rvi has a nice touch. woo, fucking, hoo. where has the inventive passing gone?

we shouldn't be 3rd. chelsea are a team many of us said should be top at the start of the season, they shouldn't be 5th. spurs are better than us. newcastle could even be pushing us.

i feel wenger should be treated like kkingkenny and be moved 'up' and more importantly 'away' at the end of the season. i dont even know what he adds anymore. but at least pat rice will be replaced this summer and our new '#2 could hopefully be someone more inventive, willing to actually work on our issues. someone hopefully willing to push wenger instead of some shitty total football sychophant.

my head is already with next season. wilshere will be back. podolski and vertonghen are upgrades, miyiachi bartley and aoc should hopefully push out deadwood. the current streak should build up their confidence for an opposite effect to the end of last season. this win run really came way too late for me to give a fuck though for this season.

i think of 3rd as an act of other teams incompetence, not as something we earned.

omino - i think he said in the league. if not it would be different, we have been p englishy for a while in the carling cup and i presume the likes of randall, wilshere, simpson, walcott, gibbs as a winger etc. scored together.

theo has been shit. arshavin has been worse. gervinho has had a shocking season. chamakh, park, what is the fucking point? if rvp had a typical season (i.e. injury) - we'd be in the bottom half of the table. we have had to rely on a guy who regularly doesn't play for 6 months at a time. our frontline is a mess, held together with sellotape.

if i had said this

actually, when i say this......

my head is already with next season. wilshere will be back. podolski and vertonghen are upgrades, miyiachi bartley and aoc should hopefully push out deadwood. the current streak should build up their confidence for an opposite effect to the end of last season. this win run really came way too late for me to give a fuck though for this season.

ah cmon now you were doing so well....

i think of 3rd as an act of other teams incompetence, not as something we earned.

yeah, can dig this, relate especially to this feeling when we finished 5th under jol the year of the lasagne- it was a year of serious underachievement for arsenal and we shoulda been outta sight weeks before. you have to revise what defines a good season in relation to the opportunities that arise, call it league inflation or something.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/24/arrest-arsenal-game

does it say was it in the crowd or is it rvp

it is the guy from the newcastle game a fortnight ago, actually been arrested.

Missed the madness but his was great. nakhchivan shut up.

jesus christ

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jesus christ i mean jesus christ

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peter crouch has jesus christ

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thats the goal of the season

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Even RAWK has to tone it down a this point but this tickled me

My son was physically sick when I told him the result today.

This is no exaggeration he actually vomited. He feels ill at the thought of losing to Wigan.