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

i quite like fulham's chances to beat chelsea today.
harry said he needed five more victories to wrap up fourth. he has five games left.

This is just about the grimmest fixture possible

to think I was saying this in advance of Stoke-Wolves on Saturday; little did I realise what was coming up next

cozen otm

Chelsea have it in them to shift up a gear if they want, I think Newcastle are basically operating at their peak now and, good as they are, I doubt they'll come through games against Chelsea, City and Everton away with nine points.

*Really* need Arsenal to beat Chelsea now.

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/beer-bottle-thrown-at-arsenal-s-wojciech-szczesny-from-crowd-who-

Potential for future lols:

Nasri said on Twitter: “I'm aware what I said about titles. I'm sure I will lift a trophy with Man City before AFC [win anything]

“And [to] all the Arsenal fans, move on. [City are] 10points ahead of you. Just support your team and forget about me.”

has potential to be one of the best lols in the country by 2014

oh shit, I can watch fulham v chelsea since it's not on at 7 in the g-d morning this time

wow, didn't realize dempsey was 5th overall in goals

I had no idea. That is impressive.

add one more!

Beautiful header.

h8 lamps, <3 deuce

I hope they let Dempsey keep that, but Cahill's butt push was incredibly well timed.

I'll take that. Good performances from Frei and Dembele (who I thought was rubbish on sat. despite the result).

Dempsey is having an incredible season.

The prospect of it being Martin Jol who denies Spurs a CL place on the last day of the season is now ver y real. But I'll take that Chelsea result.

It's nice to have at least one race where teams can drop points and keep you guessing

we could wish for a virus to decimate the man utd first team, but even then we know that some 16-year-old striker would inexplicably do a sterling job filling in at centre back.

It's true. They have broken football, like Barcelona only not in a good way.

Let it go, IK, you're one of us now

yow at ben arfa's goal, even if it was 80% surprising people by just running fast in a straight line.

Brilliant from Ben Arthur.

To answer my own question from earlier, form table since mid-Feb has Liverpool second-bottom (P7 Pts 4) and Spurs third-bottom (P8 Pts 6).

A game in hand, eh?

I could see us getting within a point of them.

Ben Arfa stepping up at this stage of the season is a big surprise; I thought he was supposed to a bottler?

supposed to be a bottler

The touch before the finish was really nice. Spurs and Chelsea finishing behind Arsenal and Newcastle (looks quite possible if Chelsea are as fatigued as they're suggesting) really would make my season.

Looks like I'm back to lolling at and feeling sorry for Spurs again. Loathing didn't last long.

Chelsea still have to play Barca twice. Losing 14-0 on agg won't be good for morale.

yeah their schedule is a doozy, it's practically 3 games a week

Newcastle still have Man City (H), Everton, Chelsea (both A) in their final 3 games. I don't think they'll finish top 4. Chelsea having Arsenal (A) in between their Barca fixtures is good for Spurs. Spurs' run-in is not horrendous if they recover a bit of form.

I keep getting the terrors whenever I sense 10 minutes into a match that Ledley's having a forgotten-how-to-defend game again. Gallas-Kaboul protected by Sandro & Parker if possible, asap, please God.

wouldn't trust Sandro to protect a damn thing going on his performance v Sunderland

I was at WHL today - it was my mate's birthday and he somehow blagged a box - so while I enjoyed free cheesecake and Peroni that was about it. way too much trying to walk it in or just plain not wanting to shoot, way too many high balls towards Defoe where his challenger(s) were five or six inches taller than him, Saha and Adebayor p much didn't turn up

Norwich are not an impressive or threatening side at all in the main and were happy to just hoof it upfield to, effectively, gain yards a lot of the time - they play to their strengths and with organisation and thus deserved to win against a side which did neither of those things

not that impressed with the ben arfa goal myself. nice finish but the defending was laughable, ran half the length of the pitch unchallenged. goal of the season my arse.

ok, not completely unchallenged, but still. i mean he's no charlie adam for goodness sake.

Jonathan Wilson on Gerrard contains this gem:

the injury to Lucas Leiva who, remarkably, has still made more tackles than anybody else in the Liverpool squad this season despite having been injured since November

obviously not counting fouls cf adam

Fouls committed per match: Holt 2.5, Fellaini / Tiote 2.4, Song 2.2, Tim Cahill / Adam 2.1, Cattermole / Ngog 2.0, Balotelli 1.9, Kevin Davies 1.8

yet he hasn't fuckin time to update the ffl

Ha yeah that takes some actual calculation, this site does all the stats for you.

that was...quite good

they should play this Maxi guy more

D'ohni

this is hilarious stuff. Yakubu with one of the worst penalties you'll ever see

Wilson's Gerrard theory looking solider by the second

Flanagan (he should be off as well btw) manages to play even more gormlessly than he looks

Eh what? I couldn't imagine this'd be worth watching, serves me right.

this is hilarious stuff. Yakubu with one of the worst penalties you'll ever see

Graham Taylor (on five live) said Yakubu might as well have just picked up the ball and given it to the keeper

oh yes, this has potential

I mean Kenny could resign tonight

Doni's out of the semi too now. We're one professional foul away from putting Enrique in goal at Wembley.

What a half. How silly of me to think that at 2-0 we'd actually manage to see the game out without a fuss. Maxi though, what a guy.

Brad Friedel has a pleasant hybrid accent