NAMING RIGHTS THREAD: Liverpool really won't win the Premiership 2010-2011

And Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince according to Wikipedia!

Ben plays the role of a father of four children in the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes shop. He is noticeable (behind a beard and moustache) just before Ron acknowledges his new love interest.

=-o. he certainly has all the credentials for this job.

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...great way to start the season here.

Ha, just realised that the Sky team today is Ben, Glenn and Sven.

who's the ben?

Ben Shephard of Xtra Factor, GMTV and Harry Potter fame!

quite glad i am too lazy to do a lil b-en shephard.jpg

Why do I look forward to this day then feel like I'm gonna be sick.

West Brom are so going down btw, and I don't say that out of malice.

Jesus we seem to be playing 5-3-2. Nice to be injury riddled at the start of a season. Fucking Keogh on the bench oh god

lol Kenwyne Jones limps off

stewart downing = first goal of the season?

Fletcher looking lively. Stoke looking kicky.

Wolves 6 inches from a penalty.

BUT SCORE FROM THE AWESOME FREE KICK INSTEAD

Karl Henry taps it to Jones, who flicks it up on his foot and rifles it over the wall into the top corner.

2-0 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGH

black motherfucking pool

OMG Blackpool best opening day ever

Our second goal was Fletcher's first of the season, apparently. Was too busy running round the dining room screaming to check the replay.

lolz. I now feel that Blackpool are going to finish the season with 6 points, Wigan with 0.

Well, that was a pretty fantastic first half. Fletcher's been tremendous, and the two Spanish lads on the commentary seem to agree.

Fucking hell Blackpool!

Keogh on for Fletcher, think I could hear my old man throw himself off the roof in the background.

Kenwyne Jones just came out to the bench on crutches.

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The BBC's 'as it stands' table really comes into its own on opening day.

Watching Mick McCarthy start a neat, exciting 11 and then gradually fucking ruin it with insane substitutions over the course of 90 minutes is one of the most mysterious spectacles in football.

Fuck's sake we bought another couple of centre halfs can we drop Berra now?

So having come on as a sub at 50 minutes, Keogh gets subbed off at 90.

Jesus this season might kill me.

Delap winds up one last long throw and it slips out of the back of his hands and goes about 5 yards

Phew.

Reservations aside we played 45 great minutes and beating Stoke is almost as satisfying as feeding Tony Pulis feet first into a wood chipper would be.

Afternoon only kinda spoiled by jammy fucking Birmingham. Bruce Out.

Also spoiled by Fletcher's foot apparently being in a cast following delightful Stoke-esque stud high challenge from some twat I couldn't make out on the stream.

i fall asleep during the middle of the day and the world turns upside down huh?

oh wait a team with tits bramble loses a 2-0 lead, world is on its right axis.

I crawled jetlagged out of bed in northern Illinois, only to find my father-in-law putting on the (mostly a bit dull) last third of Spurs - Man City on the telly. Alexei Lalas, I was prepared for. Robbie Mustoe I was not.

325-1 for Blackpool to win 4-0

I'd offer twice that against anyone having took that bet

this game has the look of the epic thrashings Chelsea were dishing out at the end of last season.

Forgot there was another match on. Am a bit spent. Poor Baggies.

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love holloway

now that's what I call a bad wall.

Have to say the ball magically going through the ball-shaped hole that formed in the West Brom wall was kind of magic, tho.

Has Ian Holloway made a quip about getting a nose in front in the title race yet?

Also managerless Aston Villa putting three past them = West Ham look fucked.

^^^this.

5 minutes w/ Holloway, cannot be fucked to listen atm but will later as I'll miss motd

Schwarzer has handed in an official transfer request, hopefully we can get it sorted before... tomorrow's game.

'Chelsea firing out a title warning to Blackpool here', and other assorted quarter-lols.

Y'all need to follow carlycole10 on Twitter.

I looked it up the other day, and Young Boys failed to secure one of Switzerland's CL places for next season - Basel and Zurich got them. So yeah, enjoy it while you can.

On the other hand, it' so hard to load that whole thread by late May.

you could just use bookmarks like the rest of us.

glad that thread title still makes ppl other than myself lol, possibly my finest thread title

what the fuck is this absolute shit

what in the fuck is this absolute shit

here, defoe- fuck off. just fuck off mate, alright? take your mum and your 30 minute special on sky sports news and your agent and fuck off.

"i don't want to leave spurs, i just want games"

"do you wanna leave spurs tho"

"nah i dont wanna leave spurs i love th eclub just need games"

"ya but do you wanna leave the club isn't it"

"no seriously love the club and the fans just need more time man"

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someone pulls this shit in FM i tell them to sit down and stfu then i sell them first window that opens

puts michael owen's fuckin brochure into perspective

Owen's angling for another season of bench-warming excitement in the Theatre of Dreams. Dimi shd get himself the hell out of there, he's wasted on them.

Surely to God they won't keep Owen?

i wdn't've thought so but if he's pay to play then it's possible. you've got enough young 'uns not to worry about the squad cap too much yes?

hell if we're keeping woodgate on pay per play ffs

some really first rate insight from shearer in his bbc column

QPR did very well in the transfer market but the club which impressed me most on deadline day was Stoke.

They spent more than £20m on Peter Crouch, Wilson Palacios and Cameron Jerome and their manager Tony Pulis just keeps adding quality to his squad.

I don't know much about the two players the Toffees have brought in, Dutch midfielder Royston Drenthe and Argentine striker Denis Stracqualursi, but what I do know is that in David Moyes they have a fantastic manager.

fuck

lol

aye, that unknown quantity royston drenthe. played for that wee team for a few years, what are they called again, oh aye, real madrid.

I don't know much about the pundits on Match of the Day but what I do know is that in Phil Bigwood they have a fantastic Executive Producer.

Waves of sweet nostalgia warmed my heart seeing this thread re-appear <3

Shearer's uselessness took care of the cooling down though tbh. How is he still allowed to be on telly?

emil cioran, petre inspirescu, sorin cartu, cristian chivu, dan petrescu

triffic bunch of lads

― calpolaris (nakhchivan),

under the radar