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

sandro so much more talented than brave h'english water carrying retard parker

they're both quite good

Blackburn are getting every bit as battered as QPR were earlier, except in this case it's going to result in them scoring from a hopeful hoof over a sleeping Gallas

lol steve kean cribbing off martinez

really glad Bale and Lennon have swapped sides, that's a fresh and zingy approach sure to fox these simple Lancastrians

is dann even worse than roger johnson

Why do they do that? What is even the point?

I'm not watching the game, I can't bear it.

VDV 1-0

amazed, Tottenham have scored a goal

from a cross from Lennon back on the right again, don't try and learn from that or anything tho

ok haha at first i thought that ball hadn't gone anywhere near in the net and wasn't given, but the guy just ran off celebrating anyway.

what I like about this on radio is it sounds like Spurs are knocking the ball around between them for minutes on end

not too far off tbh, doubt Blackburn have put more than five or six passes together thus far

im no longer watching it but blackburn looked waste, tottenham in that agitated mode full of 40m crossfield passes but blackburn still failing to pick up runners

if tottenham fail to win it then they will have, literally, exceeded themselves

today's liveblogger 'Phil Dawkes, BBC Sport' is like the harry hill to jonathan 'stevo' stevenson's paul whitehouse

Just back from pub. Fucking hell Rangers.

spurs playing v well tbh, lennon should just run round his man more tho, 'beating' him is for players of lesser pace.

Parker's good, sandro's good, not quite the same role .

I want to like Danny Rose more than I do but he seems a bit of a weak link in his role today

Come on Spurs.* My dad always liked you.

*Applies in Bolton match, too.

wtf at Yakubu being subbed

rose is no left back, decent third choice lw tho

Nice

oh wow

fuck yeah

first goal from a FK this season yes?

BOOOM

was there a deflection?

nope

how will u feel if tottenham finish fourth and chelsea win the cl thereby consigning u to the europa league?

how'd you think

stoical imo

roberto di matteo looks vaguely like a harlequin foetus

Attempts on goal TH 16 Blackburn 0.

p staggered at how shit Blackburn were, I can't think of one player who did anything to elevate himself above adequacy

if Chelsea had had them instead of QPR today it'd've been about 15-0

OptaJoe on Twitter: "0 - Blackburn have become the first team not to manage a single shot (inc blocks) in a PL game since WBA v Man City in Dec 2004. Blunt."

It was deflected. Rubbish goal tbf

somehow despite our terrible form, our earlier form was good enough that we can still be 4th

West Bromwich Albion have given the FA leave to speak to Roy Hodgson about the vacant England manager job, the FA says

haha

i was going to do a roy hodgson appreciation thread last week

i am convinced he is a mensch, possibly the only one in (english) football, and despite what chris was saying the other day

the reason i didn't do the thread was that i couldn't find a good clip of him speaking italian on youtube, he has the best accent for italian

xp Does he? and Swedish also?

Nakchivan, I am glad to agree with you.
I love Roy Hodgson.
He is my favourite manager currently working in the UK game.
He has dignity, intelligence, eloquence, decency that few others show.

I don't, of course, claim that he would be a success as England manager.

this IS kind of fun

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/29/roy-hodgson-england-fa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqkF3O7qrUM

here he is speaking german (after the obese guy stops speaking german)

i have an a* gcse in german which means i can undertstand the words 'fussball' and 'ich'

hodgson's a good manager, never said he isn't, but it's hilarious how he's portrayed as this erudite, wise figure. he's a bullshitter of the highest order, he plays 'don't get beat' football, and if his time at liverpool's anything to go by then fuck knows how he'll handle the pressure of managing england. bring it on.

HA HA HA HA HA HA

I don't think he'll succeed at England at all - if it happens (maybe it's a flash in the pan story)
I don't have that much of a view of him 'as a manager' - ie I don't think he'll 'bring success'
I agree that he thrives on organizing lower-table players, not top ones

but, I also think he is an unmistakably decent, dignified man and his intelligence and, yes, erudition happen to be far higher than most people's in football. (He has read about 20 x as much Saul Bellow and Philip Roth as I have.) This would be true even if he was a disaster as a coach.

"It doesn’t bother me because I can’t do more than I am doing, I can’t work harder, I can’t work better."

For the national game development side of the job, he's the best candidate imo. For the national team manager side of the job he could well be a disaster imo.

This should be fun.

He's been given permission to go in for an interview, as will the other candidates. He won't get the job.