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

Stoke: Begovic, Shotton, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Pennant, Whelan, Whitehead, Etherington, Crouch, Walters. Subs: Sorensen, Jones, Fuller, Upson, Delap, Jerome, Palacios.
Wolverhampton: Hennessey, Stearman, Zubar, Bassong, Ward, Kightly, Henry, Edwards, Jarvis, Ebanks-Blake, Fletcher. Subs: De Vries, Johnson, Berra, Milijas, Davis, Doyle, Forde.

this is p fucking real tbh

ah fuck Henry's back. don't see what can go wrong for him in this relegation battle at his former club.

Kights again :)

3 Tottenham 32 20 59
4 Arsenal 31 21 58
5 Chelsea 32 18 56
6 Newcastle 32 6 56

if we could get arse>newcastle>spurs>chelsea then life would be sweet

and so with comic inevitability the equaliser arrives

My priority is for Arse-Che to be high-stakes, hence a City win tomorrow.

How are the relative run-ins? Bookies still heavily favour a Spurs-Arsenal top four.

"no one argues Terry Connor's credentials as a coach"

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didn't say they were credentials as a good coach tbf

Ah right he has his coaching badges so it's all good. Has there ever been another top flight manager who has never won a game?

sets up a champion tyre run, and you wanna see him throwing out those cones

Lombardo won two games, and even Shearer managed one.

Crouch has a good head for a big man with good feet. Sometimes.

1908 Samtusify on Twitter: "So, Pearce chooses Danny Welbeck against Holland although Crouch has been more dangerous in front of goal. England Logic. *slow clap*"

looooooool

I got a crackin' photo of Alex McLeish. I'll share it later.

Was it worth it?

did you not see his post. he got a crackin' photo of Alex McLeish - of course it was worth it!

Indeed! Got a couple of pics of our very own Stephen Warnock too. The photo of Lucas is what really made the trip worthwhile though ;) Started badly didn't we, but responded well in the second half and deserved the equaliser. Wasn't pretty, but better than recent weeks. Thought Henderson was really good, and Skrtel was back to his best after a couple of dodgy games. Some lovely footwork by Doni btw.

i can deal with the despair, etc.

refereeeeeeeee sort it out

al habsi killing it

fucking torres. just that movement of 'holy fuck that post, im gonna kill myself tonight, oh its cool we still scored'.

mata is on for solskjaer levels of 'player i <3 in teams i hate'

Clint Dempsey should be at Utd imo

Jelavic should be in our end of season Best Non-Newcastle Signing of the Season poll

how the shit did kuyt miss that?

oooh former Arsenal youth Samir Carruthers making his Premiership debut today for Villa.

im on iphone now cuz obv im watching the very real stoke vs irreal wolves but id like to recommend an observer article from 2k12 called the real pub landlord or sthing in which timmeh says englishness is a mix of tolerance and incompetence, which is a very real england notion of englishness

that was supposed to be for the other thread but yeah

lol u gotta rewatch the cisse goal for ba's glum reaction on the bench

Think from a Spurs pov we've got to hope that:

- City beat Arsenal today
- Arsenal beat Chelsea, or at least draw
- Chelsea and Newcastle draw
- Tottenham don't completely go to shit

Reckon Newcastle will continue to win until May, but they've then got Chelsea, City and Everton away one after the other.

Liverpool deciding to stop being shit and beating Chelsea at Anfield would be nice as well.

ARGH.

This isn't going to be fun.

srsly third is delivered stop stressin

I'd be more hopeful of Liverpool doing that than anything else this season tbh

Most one-sided possession stat I've ever seen: United 92% QPR 8%

that is harsh

It's gonna get worse. Cheers ref. May as well turn off now.

oh great. unwatchable now.

what a joke

Thought Derry got him with a kick before the push, he went down easy though, red is superharsh.

annoyed at that tbh. Offside and not a foul

Yup, a trifle harsh

absolute cunting joke

cunts better well rescind the ban after this or im going postal

What does Rafael have to do before he's booked?

he's on two strikes

the refereeing team looking a bit shook there

Leaving aside the specifics of this incident, if a player is running onto a through ball but hasn't reached the ball yet and is then tripped/shoved over in the box, is that a penalty irrespective of whether he was in an offside position when the ball was played?

well surely the flag should have gone up for offside before the foul happens, no?

Indirect free kick for offside as that's the first offence. The challenge could still draw a yellow or red for danger, but not for denying a goalscoring opportunity.

Looks even less of a pen with each viewing.

Lineo was perfectly in line with the offside player as well. Gutted.

the lino deserves the most blame i think. Such an obvious offside. Young is one of the worst divers in the league but I actually did think it looked like a penalty in real time

What if the fouled player was nowhere near the ball and not interfering with play?