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

i have lost my shit before at how much i hate 'EPL'.

whether Liverpool fans would trade a European Cup for a PL title

No chance, if for no other reason than that the five big cups is where the glory really comes from. Anyone can win 18 or so titles these days.

I was wondering about trophy exchange rates at the weekend, actually, when I spotted Rangers' five stars above the badge, as opposed to Celtic's one. That doesn't seem like proper convertibility to me.

that's how much they paid in millions for each goal

i honestly would rather win the league than the European Cup every single time. Probably a bit parochial of me but there you go

nah i think the league is a bigger deal. European Cup devalued since they let non-champions play

for one thing the league is the hardest title to win

atm i'd pick arsenal winning the european cup over the league. but thats more because of having to go through lots of european final heartbreak with v. little payoff in my life. i've already seen us win the league a handful of times.

a thing that people do say, in interviews: THE BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

funny thing is that Barclays were the first D1 sponsors, I think, back in 1987, so in my mind there is something relatively traditional and OK-ish about this compared to some possibilities

See, I think the devaluing's gone the other way. Top four's become almost as big a thing as a title.

well yeah, it's different for Arsenal. It'd be a pretty big deal for Liverpool to put a dent in that 100 year gap (give or take) since they last won the title

everybody wants what they can have

I was wondering about trophy exchange rates at the weekend, actually, when I spotted Rangers' five stars above the badge, as opposed to Celtic's one. That doesn't seem like proper convertibility to me.

I would not trade our one star for ten of theirs.

Looking forward to a star free "nuRangers 2012" shirt in the Scottish 3rd division next season.

Brazil wear five stars too, same as Rangers.

In many ways they're the South American Rangers.

i can't even think of one

Would not trade a European Cup for a Prem title. Actually I wouldn't even trade our 2001 ridiculously inept 5-4 win over Alves in the UEFA Cup Final for a Prem title
xxxxp

you're kidding yourself man

no i'm actually not.

pandemic comin in low for that eplbay auction, you know fergie's gonna wait til last day of the season and bid a penny more tho

I'd probably relinquish that year's Charity Shield for the title tbf

The only European Cup LFC have won in the Prem era is 2005 and you would have to take that from my cold dead hands before I'd give it up. For anything.

ya i mean when it kept rafa employed long enough to do the damage he did......

oh it doesn't have to be that one specifically, I understand that was a pretty special occasion. You can pick one of the more boring '70s/80s ones

i mean like, you would count carling cup/worthington cup/coca cola cup etc to be the same thing but then you would only be "kind of" correct to count them all under "league cup"?

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wait what

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ugh. i fucked up my sentence! the last bit was going to say "you would only be correct to count them under "league cup" then i got scared that maybe the format has changed or something that i didn't know about so added "kind of" to try and cover myself without editing the sentence so it made any sense.

i forgot what my point even was.. i think it was that you would be correct to use the "generic" name without the branding when counting. but if you add the branding then you would be specifically talking about the brand? I brought it up because the name changed several times and people do often call it with the sponsor name.. whereas people seldom call the FA cup "The FA cup with Budweiser"?

going back to only talk in sarcasm from now on.

sure you are

no seriously

oh i see what you did now

I feel like I'm watching a man fall apart before my eyes

John Terry?

fall apart, not fall over..

^^ken showing his bouncebackability right there

needless to say, i had the last laugh

I like Ken!

Ken, we should have a picnic one day.

Re: Barclays sponsoring division one back in the 80s, I don't think they were the first. Wasn't it Canon? There was also Today (the newspaper).

as well to be canon, as utd escape a cert pen at ot again

Onion headline:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/28/stuart-pearce-making-plans-england

he's taking his eye off the Olympics iyam

I reckon there'll be a quango somewhere picking the Olympics squad on basis of various small-p political factors. If Beckham and/or a Scottish or Northern Irish player make the team you'll know what I mean.

Don't see why Jonny Evans shouldn't be in it on merit

that's fair, i'm sure there's one or two more but.....

Has he turned good? Can't say I've noticed him being conspicuously terrible since the 6-1, in fairness.

Think most Utd fans will tell you he's been one of our players of the season

just thought of a wild card - Paddy McCourt

it's that time of the season folks...

michael owen
‏@themichaelowen

"I was buzzing with the Gaffers words about me yesterday. I'm of the same mindset. There could be an important goal needed to be scored at some point and I will be prepared should it fall to me! Hope I'm fit before but I wouldn't mind making the bench for the City game!!!!"

kinda lol, mostly sad

evans and koscielny have matured and become much less error-prone over the course of this season- the latter is very nearly the player he's been claimed as by sam since day 1 (he was p shite for most of the interim)

I thought I was the one who (over)rated Koscielny. Think he ought to start for France this summer tbh.

yeah i dont remember being that crazy about us buying some no-name with 1 year in a top division in his mid twenties. i also don't think he's been much better lately, it is more to do w/ the opposition being shit. he is a middling-to-good player who could one day become a very good player.

Michael Cox has said that Koscielny is already better than Vermaelen, for whatever that's worth.

i dont know who that is, for whatever that's worth.