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

Was it Gary Lineker xp?

Lineker's burn on Piers Morgan is one of my favourite tweets ever.

Ooooh:

@GaryLineker do u wanna go there publicly "Mr Squeaky Clean" ? Think u should have a look in that vast closet of skeltons before u respond.

@GaryLineker I know a lot about THAT side to u the people don't and won't bat an eye lid at exposing u. So mind ur manners Squeaky...

this could be fun

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00421/75_skelton_280x390_421512a.jpg

it would need to be vast tbf

Lineker spotted with a giant bag of sour cream and chive kettle crisps.

McLeish has gone, by the way.

Good riddance. Useless cunt.

very strange how Twitter seems to have opened up such public aggression among famous people
surely not a good idea for either of them, as employees of big organizations

He has ??? Last night he was saying he'd be there next season!

how apt that the news should break with a 'by the way'

Pinefox - I doubt that's McLeish's call to make after the season Villa have had.

hardly even lerner's call tbh

that'll lernim

doesn't everyone know lineker's a shagger

http://fuckoffandscore.tumblr.com/

no I agree it shouldn't be McLeish's call
just think it's funny it should happen so soon

no I don't know that about GL, thought he was married to a young beauty

news reports about Twitter seem to consist mainly of cutting and pasting from Twitter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/14/joey-barton-twitter-alan-shearer

doesn't everyone know lineker's a shagger

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 14 May 2012 11:48 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I suspect that Barton's insider knowledge here is also available to anyone with access to Google or the ability to figure out heavy hints in tabloid news items

http://papercutsrekindled.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/we-all-agree-manchester-city-are.html

i believe downing was 15th in the 'chances created' table for midfielders, 20th overall.

Can somebody confirm that both City-QPR and Man U-Sunderland games this season ended 3-2 and 1-0, respectively?

that is correct

2011/2012
PREMIER LEAGUE Su 13May 2012 Man City 3 - 2 QPR
PREMIER LEAGUE Sa 05Nov 2011 QPR 2 - 3 Man City

PREMIER LEAGUE Su 13May 2012 Sunderland 0 - 1 Man Utd
PREMIER LEAGUE Sa 05Nov 2011 Man Utd 1 - 0 Sunderland

15th at Liverpool, or in the whole league?

whole league. maybe i'd feel differently about him if we hadn't paid so much. no idea. this season's been a complete headfuck.

some of the flack that Downing's taken seems pretty harsh considering that failure to create chances hasn't been Liverpool's problem this season

I reserve my bile for Charlie Adam. Oh, and Enrique's post Christmas output.

lfc first team, no injuries?

Reina, johnson, enrique, skrtl, agger, lucas, downing, gerrard, ?henderson?, carroll, suarez.

Is that right?

You're forgetting Aquilani of course ;)

play Aquilani for Gerrard since it's now been proved by science he makes the team worse

If you're really talking no injuries, Bellamy in for Downing. Agree that Henderson doesn't seem right, but he's definitely first pick over Maxi or Kuyt.

i'd have henderson in the middle with lucas. didn't suarez play on the right of a 3 at ajax?

I actually think Henderson will be really v good within the next 2 years. Not as a RWinger tho.

i love henderson. great finish against chelsea. he's so easy on the eye, good first touch, can move the ball under pressure. him and johnson are two of my favourite players to watch. coates and suarez up there for goal of the season of course, but johnson's goal at chelsea is just as good for me.

anyway, sounds like kenny's gone to boston to meet the bosses. i reckon he's staying, which i'd be happy about. even happier if we promote borrell or get someone in with the type of defensive game and flexibility that will allow kenny's attacking philosophy to flourish even more. i'd like to see us move the defensive line up and press again, which should help pepe get back to his best as a sweeper keeper. otherwise there's an argument for selling him and sticking with a 'shot stopper' like doni. bringing back rafa's goalkeeping coach would be nice too.

don't really get how steve clarke is somehow the fall guy for a shit season

I was going to post an excerpt from the Wiki page on "2011-12 Liverpool FC season", specifically the May entry, where a single sentence is devoted to each of the three defeats this month (17 words on the Cup final) but we get 181 words on the league win vs Chelsea. Aw, bless. Breathless, semi-literate, fan-maintained Wiki pages, you gotta love 'em.

But I didn't because it would seem like I was crowing or something.

(i) not dalglish

not saying kenny's blameless, but clarke seems to responsible for the tactical minutiae and how we set up defensively. the deep line also seems to be reminiscent of his time at chelsea with mourinho. kenny's more of a macro manager. i think he has the right ideas, but it's implementing them fully which has been part of the problem. i think someone like borrell would be more suited to how i think kenny wants us to play.

i do change my mind a million times a day wrt whether or not kenny should stay btw. at the moment i think i'm ok with it.

idk what a macro manager gets paid for

'i'd like us to attack more, do kind of better things with the white round thing, the ball, what? those fan chappies like that sorta stuff, eh?' *saunters off to the lounge,making vaguely tally-ho type motions*

plus there's a director of football to sort out and the implications that will have for kenny etc etc etc. in short, no idea.

moving on... been meaning to say for ages, i love ramires.

personally think another year of kenny will be a disaster. but prove me wrong kenny, prove me wrong.

i agree, but who to go in there? and under what kind of system?

i can see both sides. i mean right now i genuinely don't know what i want to happen. this is only an hour after i said "i reckon he's staying, which i'd be happy about". eurgh. don't wanna think about it anymore. good luck fsg. right now i wanna buy panini stickers and predict scores for the euro 2012 the guy down the road's organised.

*the euro 2012 predictor game. the guy down the road did not organise euro 2012 itself.

yeah don't know who would go in, i feel like a bit of a gamble on somebody who will shake things up a bit, eg villas-boas, though he prob wouldn't want it, is the way to go.

idk what a macro manager gets paid for

'i'd like us to attack more, do kind of better things with the white round thing, the ball, what? those fan chappies like that sorta stuff, eh?' *saunters off to the lounge,making vaguely tally-ho type motions*

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac)

clough was a macro manager. sometimes it can work.

sometimes = 1980

@alxmclsh: I am Alex Mcleish the girl, not the football manager. RANDOM GUYS STOP TWEETING ME TELLING ME I JUST GOT FIRED!

Getting in Villas Boas would essentially involve having to ship out two years' worth of signings, pretty much everyone except Suarez and Enrique. If the owners are prepared for that level of investment, and possibly writing off a load of Carroll/Henderson money, then fair play to them, but I can't see them doing it for a guy who's just failed at Chelsea.

It would probably improve Liverpool in the medium term but it would be a very expensive way of going about it.