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

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.

The MOTD credits feature Lawrie Cunningham. Bit geeked.

Holy heck, Wigan are fucking awful. Their defending for all Blackpool's goals was disastrous.

ha, tannoy announcement asking that someone go home to his in-labour wife.

I was ANGRY at Zamora for only getting me 1 FF point today, but that bold attempt to chip the keeper gets him back in my good books.

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I headed out after the highlights of the Blackpool game - Blackpool are interesting. The 4-3-3 clearly works for them; Taylor-Fletcher is not a man overburdened with pace but looks capable of putting a fair few full-backs in difficulty; Ormerod's persistence coupled with Harewood's physicality will give lots of people trouble; and Grandin, about whom no-one seems to know anything, was making plenty of probing surges from midfield. On paper, they should be DOA, but on paper they shouldn't have been anywhere near the play-off picture last season, and here we are...

we were good today, midfield lost their way in the 2nd half though. crouch is still a 2nd string target man.

no mention of the peno we should have had anywhere. i guess we're not a big club yet.

Didn't Kirkland used to be a half decent keeper? How did he end up worse than Blackburn's 3rd choice?

I think the general problem with Kirkland (forgetting yesterday) is that he's one of those cripples who can't actually train properly. And he's presumably, unlike King, not considered good enough to be worth the bother.

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