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

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!

First half was great fun

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7850531/espn-magazine-sportingintelligence-global-salary-survey-espn-magazine

in soviet barca cult pays you

"Roy's a good man and a good manager," Gerrard said. "It's important he's given a chance and I'm looking forward to working with him again."

still picking the team i see

heh.

Imbued in City's moment of glory was inescapable sadness, too: because this club is the last. For as long as UEFA remain in charge of the purse strings of English football, we will never tread this path again. The door is shut now.

This is the last group of fans who can be lifted from mediocrity by the fairytale: the one where a very rich man flies in bearing gifts and transports a club to the heavens. And surveying the sheer pleasure that it brought one half of Manchester on Monday, we have to ask: how did football allow this to happen? How did the sport permit a single man's idea of what is right and preferable to erase one of the most potent forces for good in the game? Money from outside, coming in, to make dreams come true. What on earth was wrong with that? Forget Portsmouth, forget Leeds United, forget the financial disaster stories that are trotted out to make fans think like accountants and turn their fun, their weekend release, into an extension of mundane, recession-blighted existence.

This is not about spending money a club does not have, or ruinous owner loans that are given and then just as unthinkingly recalled. The focus here, specifically, is on the Abu Dhabi project and others like it, when a very rich man gives - without expectation of return - money to a football club to have a right old go. Take City away and what would this season have brought? A 13th Premier League title for Manchester United. Unlucky for some; mainly those who seek variety. Here comes another one, just like the other one.

There are competitions throughout Europe that will become wholly one-dimensional after this. It is why we need City to finish this job now, to win at Newcastle United on Sunday, then against Queens Park Rangers and form a powerful rivalry across town. We cannot rely on the old ways, football's natural rhythms, the ebbs and flows caused by successful investment or unfortunate mismanagement.

UEFA will protect the worst from themselves and the best from the others, so City are the last of it. The era of austerity is upon us and there won't be too many singsongs from here.

no fucking way

I'm guessing..... John Cleese?

erase one of the most potent forces for good in the game?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01382/Thaksin-Shinawatra_1382583c.jpg

I dunno. I mean I know why I disagree with almost all of that; yet I'm not entirely sure that "Take City away and what would this season have brought? A 13th Premier League title for Manchester United ... Here comes another one, just like the other ones" isn't the clincher.

bollocks, ismael

if we'd gotten dzeko and citeh'd not beaten us twice when they did, we'd have won the league.

Terry and Ferdinand remain the best defensive partnership available to Hodgson

Woy Out

and city've not won it yet

might as well enjoy this last couple of weeks of moaning in this thread

Long-serving Connor has support in the boardroom and in the dressing room and the club are anxious to continue some sort of continuity.

The players today vowed Connor will improve results if he keeps the job. Midfielder Dave Edwards said: “He’ll turn results around because if you look how he’s developed over the 11 games, he’s learned so much.

“Whether it’s with us or someone else next season, he’ll be a great manager one day.

“You can see we’re moving in the right direction, but he hasn’t had enough games to turn it around.”

Edwards feels no-one would care about the club as much as Connor.

He said: “Look how he’s carried himself in interviews – he has great dignity and you can tell this club means the world to him. The boys are completely behind him.”

Left-back Stephen Ward believes Connor will turn results around, in the long run, given the chance.

He said: “Look at some of the performances – we have been unlucky not to get more positive results.

“We have shown real togetherness and ability to battle.

“Being relegated is disappointing but he’s kept us smiling.

“We could have lost by six or seven goals on Saturday, but we had a go. He just needs time.”

Ward added: “I don’t think anyone would have any qualms if TC got the job.

“If you ask the players, he’s done great things and he already knows the Championship.”

i'd be crying but, y'know, i'm pilled up

I'm guessing Martin samuel for the article upthread. He hates Platini and FFP.

it was Martin Samuel that fucking choad

if we'd gotten dzeko and citeh'd not beaten us twice when they did, we'd have won the league.

didn't realise two wins against city would be worth 22 points

“We have shown real togetherness and ability to battle.

“Being relegated is disappointing but he’s kept us smiling.

“We could have lost by six or seven goals on Saturday, but we had a go. He just needs time.”

This section in particular is in no way an endorsement surely?

there is a collective insanity coming from the dressing room that surely requires the appointment of Pol Pot come May

altho notable quotes from Ward and Edwards there who must realise they'll be first out the door if anybody but their best pal gets the job

twas the second loss to city set us up for the bad run, we'd be ten clear by now

I understand everything wrong with that article but I can't help thinking there's something wrong with preventing someone from investing hugely in football in certain circumstances.

I'f I suddenly found myself unable to think of a better way to waste £500m of my own money why would UEFA want to stop me from building a new football stadium for e.g. Partick Thistle, creating jobs, breaking the Old Firm duopoly, and playing Champions League football for the first time ever while not giving one shit about my wages to turnover ratio?

I'f

that will eventually become accepted shorthand for "I would of"