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

tom spuddlestone
chippy vela
david 'maris' piper

what did Shearer say that riled people?

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shearer said something improbably glib and stupid along the lines of mcleish only being unpopular with villa fans because he came from their city rivals.

apparently his granny father is ill

lol, wrong thread

Crouch has won 141 aerial duels this season, the most in the Premier League – helped by Stoke's insistence on hitting long balls towards him. Yet just behind is Carroll on 140

Amazed by everything in this quote tbh, except the bit about Stoke playing long balls.

Carroll hasn't really been on the field that much this year - it's the route one equivalent of Lucas still leading the tackling stats.

a lot of them just skim off his head to nowhere anyway

absolutely fuckin exact-ly, NN- if you beat a defender to a ball to flick it nowhere, you've 'won' nothing

Rome wasn't built in a day, lads. Ten shrewd signings this summer and who knows?

Venky's chicken on the field at Ewood.

This is so poor from Rovers. The chicken is the only one who's shown a bit of spark.

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All over, late winner for Wigan

Aston Villa 37 7 17 13 -14 38
QPR 37 10 7 20 -22 37
Bolton 37 10 5 22 -31 35

who have bolton got at the weekend and can they throw the game 18-0?

sadly, it's Stoke

In order for Bolton to stay up, they have to be beat Stoke and Man City have to beat QPR. Villa safe.

While I wouldn't really miss Wigan if they went down, I'm pleased that they're staying up this time: the results they've got over the last few weeks have been incredible. I won't miss Blackburn.

QPR beat Man City, Utd beat Sunderland, Bolton win 5-0 at Stoke, Villa lose 13-0 at Norwich, everybody's happy, no?

Sunderland fans might be mildly annoyed I suppose

really pleased for the james gang that Wigan stayed up, but i feel really sorry for steve kean. He has not deserved the vile abuse he has had all season.

hes a cunt

got fat sam sacked (i know but still its bad form) and got £1m a year for being maybe the worst full season manager in epl history

v pleased for wigan tho

kean has had the option of leaving his post any time he chooses. he's not qualified to fill it, and the fans of the club- who will be there long after kean is second in command at preston or wherever- know that he's not qualified to fill it. he's being well paid to do nothing more than serve as a buffer between the fans and the running joke that is the venky's consortium. he's certainly not earning a penny honestly under any other heading.

let him fuck off.

want villa to stay up and mcleish to get sacked. wigan meh tbh but martinez at villa would be interesting- he, dimatteo or hughton, maybe

Martinez was interviewed for the Villa post before Eck... and turned it down to stay at Wigan. Who might now finish above Villa. Which just seems weird.

yeah id guess lerner isnt the type to let pride fuck with him, and martinez has a clear remit to throw a lot of shit out of the window and maybe buy some more

Robbie Savage Former Blackburn midfielder

"Why would you want to stay if you were Steve Kean? Yes, it is a fantastic club, but why with the owners in charge and with the hatred towards you would you want to stay? I don't know what could be going through his mind."

the price of discount vodka

yeah looks like he must get thru 4 or 5 bottles of spirits a week, hopefully his wage affords better than asda value vodka but u wouldnt trust him to tell the difference between paintstripper and ardbeg 25

he thought he had it sussed but then he saw mark hughes walking past ewood with a bottle of tesco own-brand scotch. the easy confidence of the welsh swayze's gait & his obvious delight with the purchase caused kean to immediately question everything he ever thought he'd known about football, life and getting fucked to the eyeballs for under a tenner.

hughes threw the vodka in the nearest bin, rang kia joorabchian and said two words into the phone- it worked

it was either vodka or scotch- at that price you can't tell the difference, at that price you're very unlikely to care

especially not if hes been reading the daily mail and heard how to increase the high by absorbing grain alcohol thru his scarified corneas

when did the BBC's narrative turn into "nasty fans being mean to poor ineffectual managers who can't help being shite"? can we trace it back directly to Shearer's comedy holiday at Newcastle?

Yeah, if he was just shite and they went down that's all the beeb would be saying. But because he's shite and every fan hates him, there's a weird vibe to all their articles where we should feel sorry for him, rather than the thousands of fans who just watched their team get dumped out of the premier league.

Also, many xposts: I'd be pretty happy with the hypothetical scenario of Norwich humping Villa 13-0, irrespective of who it helps get safety.

I'm not really into kicking the guy because he's plainly not at the root of this fiasco and it's got too personal at times, but Blackburn are at least to be applauded for bringing some panto this year. They might've turned on their feckless players as well though, sometimes this whole back-the-team-regardless thing just isn't justified.

I would love it if it's true they didn't know about relegation when they bought the club.

I wonder how they found out? I'm assuming they'll know by now.

it's not about kicking anybody or threatening their families or whatever but in the end managers have to take responsibility for the way their teams perform and all of this continuity bollocks that the Beeb in particular have been spouting this year is a TV story that pays no attention to the poor bastards who are paying 40 or 50 quid a fortnight to watch mediocre shite

and maybe the financial rewards compensate a little bit for the bad people booing you because you're a clueless cunt

"I didn't really care about Blackburn. For me they were just another football club. I felt no special affinity towards them. I viewed them as another club my team (Arsenal) had to beat to reach the top four," Swaroop Swaminathan, a student at Newcastle University, in England, told Reuters.

Abhishek Iyer, a third year student at a premier engineering institute in Rajasthan was equally dismissive. "I don't care about them - didn't like them as a team much and (having) Indian owners don't change that. Reasonably satisfied they're gone," he said.

All India Football Federation (AIFF) Vice President Subrata Dutta echoed a similar sentiment. "Venky's has not invested in Indian football... Apart from one exhibition match between Pune FC and the club, Blackburn Rovers has in no way contributed for Indian football. So we are not bothered about their relegation," Dutta told Reuters by phone.

he forgot that chicken advert

it's impossible to forget that chicken advert

think that narrative's always been there hasnt it? insofar as the "football person" old boys club has free reign to close ranks, and even if the beeb did have editorial control to exert it's easier pissing off the faceless taxpayer than the twats they have to fawningly interview every week

often wonder if fergie's very worst legacy is his one fluke example of rome not being built in a day being inanely parroted in defence of the clueless forevermore

generally speaking it just irks me rotten that the media and most punters and going to be like "there goes everton's pipe dream for another year" when they had a great - maybe never better - shot of winning it

it's the same condescending bullshit that sneers whenever blackburn or wolves fans want rid of the clowns in charge cos they should all just be happy existing in the league playing dogshit football, who do these fans think they are with their lofty pretensions

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yes i remember that post it is OTM

kind of brings me back to something i was thinking watching that qpr documentary the other month where the emphasis of derision was always placed on briatore firing rather than for his hiring

at some point he says "we've hired every idiot in the world" and he was right, each and every one of those clowns wouldnt have gotten success with us if they were left in charge for a thousand years and - maybe magilton apart - the fans knew that within three games if not sooner

the main thing kean defenders seem to wilfully overlook (or just not care enough to have ever thought about) is blackburn's squad was fairly capable, certainly good enough to have stayed up in this year's donkey derby

it's literally probably as simple as "beat man u once and get a years free media love no questions asked"