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

^ That was Ferguson responding to the song, rather than creating the expression. I think Everton might have started the song when he still played for them.

At Goodison, TWP was Colin Harvey.

Evertonian friend of mine used to call him Roonaldo back in the day.

referencing Fat Ronaldo not Cron iirc

I called him the Golden Child. Or just Remember The Name. Now he's just some thug from Crocky.

TFC would only get him confused with terry tho

Remember The Roon! Name Wayney!

that was his catchphrase.

Was Harvey considered a White Pele or was there another reason for his claiming those initials?

When I was about 8 or 10 years old I read a book on PLAY BETTER SOCCER (football was called soccer in those days) and it kept showing tactical drawings of a player called Pele, who I thouht must be pronounced 'Peel'.

ag imirt peile

all in colour

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UfZhIf8HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

ah so tahts what it means

Just terrace hyperbole; there was a banner in the Park End proclaiming Harvey as such. He was an immensely gifted player, going by what I've read, but obviously NOT remotely comparable to Pele in any department other than a local "best we've ever seen".

Terry Darracott was The Balding Beckenbauer, and Ronnie Goodlass was The One-Handed Coen Moulijn. Mick Lyons was just Mick Lyons.

andy hinchcliffe?

I can't invent anything as good as this:
Like his Everton team-mate, Duncan Ferguson, Hinchcliffe has inspired a composition by the Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä, who wrote an orchestral work titled Hinchcliffe Thumper - Tha' Bloody Intermezzo in 1993.

(He played for England! I don't remember that. Truly, his Wiki is full of delights. Well, just those two.)

He received his first football shirt on his 6th Birthday. It was a Nigeria shirt with Tolu and the number 4 on the back.

hmmn

the intermezzo bit is true tho

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/04/osmo_tapio_raih.php

I'd heard about the Ferguson piece, but I didn't realise Hinchy (as someone probably called him) had his own.

right....and i can see the thematic allure of dunc's bigness, stoicism and pigeon-fancying

not sure what andy hinchcliffe has to recommend himself in the same fashion

is TLP no longer any good? wondered why he didn't come on last night for a bit.

which means little pele

i figured the light pele, was trying to identify the benched player of latte skin tone you were describing

the little pea?

Can't believe Hansen put the blame for City's goal last night on De Gea.

Eh? How's that supposed to work?

hansen just gets lazier and more boorish by the year

should be commanding the area, i guess. I can see it, tbh, when a goal's scored from a couple of yards out from a set play delivery. But from a corner you'd be leaving yrself vulnerable to a front post flick so rly..

Said if he was in the correct position in the centre of his goal he would have saved it "i know it was quite fast but". Insane.

I thought Neville was very good on the goal, actually - and that's without the acting-out of Smalling's body position, and indeed emotions as he realised Kompany was getting there first.

if smalling had been mediuming he would have headed that away

(He played for England! I don't remember that. Truly, his Wiki is full of delights. Well, just those two.)

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:47 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

wasnt it during that pre-cole post-le saux endless england left flank question era with loads of mediocre randoms auditioning

michael gray, michael ball, shall we play two full backs and have one as winger, lee hendrie, the clamour for alan thompson, steve guppy and jason wilcox, hmm maybe barmby or dyer can play there

it was the best of times

he said, proudly sporting his young/downing/eh maybe j cole/gerrard? jersey

"The 1990s - what was all that about?"

It's my lost decade in football terms. I didn't attend a professional game at any level in the '90s and there are great swathes of international-class players from that era that I wouldn't recognise if they ran their trolley down my shin in Waitrose.

stuart ripley was gonna solve that lw problem but iirc he suffered pretty much a career-ending injury on his england debut, or some such mini-tragedy

Didn't warm up properly and did his hamstring within about ninety seconds of coming on iirc.

unlikely to have solved lw if he was rw to wilcox for most of his career

I thought Neville was very good on the goal, actually - and that's without the acting-out of Smalling's body position, and indeed emotions as he realised Kompany was getting there first.

Yeah, this was good. "As soon as you start leaning back like that you know you've lost..."

"The 1990s - what was all that about?" - lost decades, reasons & regrets

Skrtel!

this is fun! thanks for putting out the reserves kenny.

um...

Ben Lewis on Twitter: "I hope Woy's watching Leon Osman. Been brilliant in the last few months and deserving of a place in what could be a weak squad."

could be a weak squad

lfc look decent since imo

carroll looking good, nice ball to shelvey there

yeah carroll looks good, i'd back him to score.

shelvey had a nice effort there, quite unenglish in design.

i don't want to sound ungrateful for my free stream but setanta would really want to splash out on better replays- theirs are so quick you can't actually see much better than in real time

BBC surpassing itself with its choice of photos tonight
http://static.bbci.co.uk/h4discoveryzone/ic/newsimg/media/images/473/210/59949000/jpg/_59949849_tuesday-football_310412_el.jpg

aside from that effort shelvey doesn't look like he could ever be a professional footballer

ESPN:

http://a.espncdn.com/espn360/images/so/english_premier_league/474318.jpg

That game was pish.

that'll do!