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

I haven't watched motd yet. No spoilers please.

a joke indeed, if clint hill hadnt have been robbed of his goal bolton would already have been down by then

not that that shameless bitch owen "decisions have cost us" coyle could remember that far back of course

kicking a man when he's down, I like it

ay i gave it a week's grace, lets have some credit

swygart give us the lowdown on saints' to-do list this summer please

xpoat Sadly, Clint's "goal" came from a corner that should never have been given. I find it hard to get worked up about that one.

Ooh, lessee... well, we released Bialkowski today so we need another keeper to give Kelvin competition at the very least (we'd still have needed that even if we'd kept Bialkowski, tho). Not convinced about our full-backs. Another centre-back would be good. Possibly one more striker, though our current options are probably about as good as Norwich's were last season. In fact, yeah, we're probably looking about as good as Norwich did last year. And Adkins has been very solid in the transfer market thus far. We'll probably be in the relegation scrap, but I think a few decent purchases should see us safe.

Oh, and Solskjaer's officially not interested in the Villa job anymore.

Tony Mowbray's fifth favourite for the West Brom job. Suspect that's not a value bet, that.

all these motherfuckers itt moaning as if the refereeing scandal of the year wasn't stoke/spurs

stoke are a continuing refereeing scandal

tbh referees are half congenital authoritarians half pussyholes who respond to the nuremberg ambience of the crowd, the spartan ethic of the team and the sergeant major exhortations of pulis by just ambling around in awe and doing nothing

Andy Carroll, cup final

saints badly need some pace in the squad imo. i guess de ridder's quick but that's all he is, and apart from him i think tadanari lee is our only player who can actually, you know, run past people. also think next season might be tougher for the promoted teams cos some real dross has left the prem this year, but yeah a couple of good signings and i think we'll do ok.

There'll be new dross in the Prem though, don't like the chances of survival for West Brom without Hodgson and Wigan with or without Martinez. Then there's Villa...

and whoever wins today

1523: Yep, West Ham are starting to get the ball into the Blackpool box, this time another cross from the left finding Carlton Cole about eight yards out. He gets his head on it, but cannot keep his effort down and it loops high over the bar.

villa wont be as bad agaib, norwich swansea wba might struggle to be as good again, don't fancy fulham under jol tbph

dont fancy fulhams best ever side with their best ever manager?

The good thing about Chelsea making the final is that the playoff final has been totally eclipsed. The 'richest prize in sport' hype that that game usually gets is possibly my #1 hate in all sport (not including various things to do with rugby)

otm increased expectation will lead to a bottleneck imo

stoke's time will come next season, i'm calling it

Yes, with Bolton and Blackburn gone there's plenty room for a midtable perennial to have a 'mare (insert Tottenham joke here. Tottenham.)

Sunderland sack MON in Jan, new manager makes an ever bigger hash of it, get relegated last day of the season.

Stoke and Villa were both bottom three for the second half of the season.

Wigan were seventh!

the stoke demise is going to be nasty, a lot forcible sodomy and phil collins in the dressing room, possibly even an attempt to roid up the goons for a final survival push followed by a fullscale pogrom in stoke with lots of ppl with no teeth attacking foreigns and fifth columnists

a table for the last ten games has wigan one point off the top.

the tactics of a stoke in decline will be something to behold.

sentences Tony Pulis will never say

"this reliance on Biggery isn't working out, let's get the ball down and pass it and stop killing our fellow professionals."

Man City have hunted down the kid who nabbed the ball during the pitch invasion last week, and made him give it back. Seems wrong somehow, my understanding was that everything down to the players' underpants was fair booty in such circumstances.

baby guvnor pegs big sam back with a beaut

hammers fans screwing

Ajax captain Jan Vertonghen has now revealed that he is still entertaining thoughts of joining Milan, having been lavished with praise by Rossoneri CEO Adriano Galliani during the group stages of the 2010-11 Champions League.

"I was struck by his words of appreciation after the game," the 25-year-old center back is quoted as saying by MilanNews.it. "His words made me blush.

"I like the Premier League, but if Milan call you, you cannot say no."

sissyjanwhore

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MODULE DELIVERED

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lol, module delivered on both threads

xost Stoke get away with things because referees look at the first minute of a game and think: "Jesus. If I blow for everything we're not going to get any football between the free kicks." So they don't blow. They allow Stoke to dictate what the rules of the game are to be. Wimbledon did the same thing. And it's not just at the Britannia - it's on the road too.

aye you see that a lot with early fouls. Today in the Scottish Cup Final there was a blatant elbow by a Hearts player that was 70/30 yellow/red imo and it went unpunished - pundits were saying the ref didn't want to book anyone too early because he wanted to keep a lid on the game o_O

idk, if stoke players were already getting booked for persistent tactical fouling by about 15 mins, you might actually see some football

The decapitation-at-the-thighs by Vinnie Jones on Steve McMahon in the first minute or two of the 1988 FA Cup Final is an astounding example of the genre

Didn't work so well for Gazza in 91, but then Spurs did win the cup so who's to say tbh

aye you see that a lot with early fouls. Today in the Scottish Cup Final there was a blatant elbow by a Hearts player that was 70/30 yellow/red imo and it went unpunished - pundits were saying the ref didn't want to book anyone too early because he wanted to keep a lid on the game o_O

Then booked a Hibs player a few mins later (not to mention the dodgy penalty)

Stoke 9/2
Everton 11/2
anywhere in the MLS 10
QPR 12
to be officially retired on the first day of next season 12

owen?

Owen?

xp :)

who else? the man loves a flutter

how about?
West Ham 4
Blackpool 9
West Brom 9
Southampton 12
Reading 16
Wolves 16
Bolton 20
Blackburn 25

not Owen

Grant holt

Holt is even money to join Sunderland.

Those odds are for Joseph Anthony "Joey" Barton.

If QPR are really paying him 90k a week, he'll be going nowhere