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

tasty

stfu mongs imaginary yellow cards are great

Heh heh, love it

waheyyyy

imaginary cards were always a staple of our fives games, I don't see the problem

game needs a red card or three

my money's still on twp, can p much see the steam coming out his ears

has barry really been on the pitch this whole time

my money's still on twp, can p much see the steam coming out his ears

i think he's one bad touch away from kicking fuck out of himself

argh

citeh still won't shoot cept yaya

what the hell was nasri doing

got stuck under his feet but he was still close enough to stab it in

wtf is there 5 minutes for?

oh yeah utd are losing.

Barry's knock earlier did take a while to clear the pitch.

ugh smell this comin

okay good

oh my

Utd will still win the league though.

no way city will lose these next two games.

They won't win at Newcastle.

Well, that looked inevitable from the moment the teams were announced. I can't remember a United shot all night.

Sight of a Gallagher celebrating in the crowd has spoiled this for me a little.

If Wigan could get 4 past Newcastle, I don't see why City couldn't get one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

really engrossing second half

yeah was much better fare in the second

there was a moment about an hour in when city lost composure and balance of possession

i thought the subs of tevez and then silva were made too soon but twp et al were pretty useless

NV and Louis OTM

wait what louis is back?

i'm predicting city to throw away title needing draw against qpr.

@DanM: Louis Armstrong and NV iirc

haha mancini is the worst at mind games. "their games r easy nanananana"

My (completely neutral) pal was all 'hopefully Utd can win & stop City buying the title' beforehand. Get it right up ye, if you're reading.

United had to make do with demonstrating good order while the ball spent much of the occasion at City feet in those first 45 minutes. There was a theory that the burden here was greater on City. They were attempting after all to imperil a regime of League title mastery established by Ferguson.

Hansen says 'I've backed the two of them, I'll get one of them right'

curious how pundits can be so wrong and get away with it and never be called to account

The two of what?

the english defence league and hizb ut tahir

utterly gutless selection. Jones, Giggs and Park. Nightmare stuff

what xi would you have selected?

Hansen says 'I've backed the two of them, I'll get one of them right'

curious how pundits can be so wrong and get away with it and never be called to account

― the pinefox

even football writers who seem to actually know a little about tactics and don't just chat shite all the time invariably get predictions wrong a lot of the time. how would you like them to be called to account? community service order?

has football punditry always had that Match of the Day thing where you can't have modest conclusions to your discussion, we always need the bold and decisive predictions?

I would've gone for it nakh. Yes, we contained them for most of the game but it's utterly useless when you barely muster a shot of any kind. Utd have gotten results this season through their wingers. Park had a decent 15 minutes but that's all he's good for these days. Valencia, Nani and Welbeck from the start might have given Rooney something to feed off

park, giggs and jones weren't great but really they are make up the numbers players

twp, nani and carrick are probably their most important players this season and they did very little, valencia added nothing when he came on

i think maybe the lesson for ferguson, and for everyone else, was that they gained little possession with a 4-3-3 over a 4-4-2, and lost a lot in counterattacking threat

yeah not really like the floodgates opened once welbeck came on, if anything he helped the ball stick in the city half

why smalling for evans as well? would also have been a sounder bet than jones if he was that worried about rafael

jones is learning so little he might as well be at spurs

Performance as subs is irrelevant. Bottom line is Park and Jones shouldn't have been anywhere near that team. Giggs i can understand cos he does still have the ability to pick a pass despite being horrible for most of the game but in general it was a cowardly selection and performance. This is not Barcelona. I feel like we could have matched them if we played to our strengths

i might have played jones as a sort of gattusoish runner in midfield, he doesn't have a lot of nous but he has power and aggression where park was just overrun, he can even do a plausible imitation of touré charging forwards a winning free kicks 20 yards upfield to give the dm/cbs respite

id have started valencia cuz he has some of the same attributes

they still probably would have lost of course

nope, this season had been a "learning experience" for Jones. He shouldn't have even been in contention

in an ideal world yeah, but who else would you play there? you can't plays giggs and scholes in cm together, park is 31 years old and about nine stone vs yaya gd touré

which is the best case for playing a narrow 442 with valencia and giggs tucked in during defensive phases

First i would've played Rafael at right back. I don't care how reckless he is, at least he would have offered something going forward. Then i would have gone for a midfield two of Carrick and Scholes with Valencia and Nani on the wings. Rooney and Welbeck up front with the TWP dropping deep to support the midfield. Like i said, we feared them too much tonight and completely negated our own strengths