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

ynahtid will play dong fangzhou vs citeh away

RIP big man

apart from individual players in bad pacthes, the lack of possession players in mf is a systemic weakness

vs stoke citeh had like 52% possession which is TERRIBLE

I presume the demise of Silva has a bit to do with it

OptaJoe on Twitter: "53.3% - For the first time ever in the PL (116 games) Stoke have recorded more than 50% possession in a single match. Patience."

from this august...

silva plays too high tho...they need a deep lying playmaker like oh idk david pizzaro maybe

in the autumn silva played all over the shop, he was great but u can see hes exhausted now

~YESS

Sunderland look like world beaters! City looks like crap.

Kights has picked a hell of a time to decide he wants to play in the Prem. gonna feel weird rooting for Stoke now.

like oh idk david pizzaro maybe

smh at Mancini for buying and *again* refusing to play Pizarro.

WELCOME BACK ROGER FUCKING JOHNSON

sounds like Petrov dived, fancy us getting fuck all from the referee for a change

sunderland fannying about now

I was trying to figure out what Stilian Petrov's cancer has to do with anti-Wolves referees.

sorry it was Mark Davies who dived, Petrov scored the penalty

blimey villa comeback

hello Championship

hope my dad is okay, he shouldn't be paying to put up with this bullshit

3-2 at city

OMFG

3-3!

2 goals in a minute

What the hell?

Huh?

Balotelli scored, City instantly got possession back from the restart and Kolarov scored again.

silva plays too high tho...they need a deep lying playmaker like oh idk david pizzaro maybe

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan)

prescient

lol at balotelli kicking off about wanting to take that freekick btw

He probably takes credit for both goals, having challenged Kolarov to step his shooting game up.

wigan 2-0

only one team a lock for relegation by the looks of it

ffs Sunderland, pass the fucking ball sometimes

Bolton win, QPR win, Wigan win. blimey

ironically there will be bell-ends in the Express and Star calling for McCarthy to return tonight

the manner of the draw doesn't really do much to distract from the fact that City've dropped their first home points of the season and made it that much easier for Utd

Yep. I'll take that. Very, very happily.

That City fightback keeps Liverpool in a respectable eighth

Wenger out.

Seems like you guys enjoyed the City game.

QPR deserved to win today. At last, we had both the correct tactics and players managing to carry them out. Taiwo finally looked like a defender; Diakite remembered not to get sent off; Zamora worked immensely hard in a thankless lone-striker role; Taarabt was pretty near his best … Arsenal never really looked comfortable. Shame the other results didn't really go our way, but can't complain.

Keeps it interesting at least. Blackburn were looking safe a fortnight ago. And beating Arsenal is a bonus, third-fourth-fifth is tightening up. I expect Arsenal to kill City off next week, in another game I've passed on the chance of going to.

On 71 points with seven games to go, it's now fairly likely that City are going to miss the 86 point total of that 2009 non-title-challenging Liverpool side.

From watching MOTD I see that Roger Johnson put in a performance of stunning ineptitude. Surpassed only by THE WORST defending I have ever seen for Wigan's 2nd goal against Stoke. A square pass on the halfway line that the receiving player just waited..and waited..and waited for the ball to reach him at no time did the thought appear to enter his brain that he might want to, I dunno, MOVE TOWARDS the fucking ball before a Wigan player intercepted it. Horrendous.

Johnson played 3 good games for Wolves at the start of the season and has been fucking terrible ever since.

i like the fact that Karl Henry didn't automatically walk back into the side now he's fit, McCarthy wd've had him playing on crutches. and the 1st half was as good as we've performed under Connor, albeit that we are shit and going down and probably dropping thru the Championship while the cheap cunt of an owner employs Charlie Cairoli to manage the unmotivated talentless shitshower of cunts we call a squad to continue playing gormless antifootball

Yah, from the highlights Wolves looked v good in the first half. I hope Johnson wasn't playing 'cos his wife tweeted that him being on the bench was #ridiculous.

Bloody hell - Carroll looking like a world beater for 95% of that. Wtf was he doing?!

What a dick

that was pretty stupid, unless he lost his footing. still.

Krul has completely mugged him there. Well played

Brilliant save by Krul there, then off the line - didn't think that was handball.

Ah no, it was. Was all but behind the line too.

And there's the inevitable sucker punch.