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

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.

I think if Spurs can continue playing like that and sharpen up their finishing then they'll be a pretty terrifying prospect for a lot of teams this season. Obviously we should have started with Pavlyuchenko instead of Crouch but then I always say that. There aren't many teams who will line up as defensively as Man City did yesterday. Oh shit, it's Stoke away next.

The MOTD opening sequence this year is kind of fantastic but doesn't indicate a great deal of enthusiasm about the current Premiership crop.

I won a competition to watch Liverpool train at the club's Academy in 2003. Chris Kirkland was by himself working with a couple of doctors/physios, having photos taken of him in various positions (presumably to analyse body shape/movement?). I was also lucky enough to be shown around Melwood a couple of years later. Went into the gym, and Chris Kirkland's there, on his own, on a treadmill, recovering from another injury.

Also yeah Chelsea clearly going to win their first four or five games 5-0 and then suffer an inexplicable collapse in form.

By at least 5-0 I mean.

Even with that piffling 2-0 v Liverpool queering the pitch, 23 goals in four games (with none conceded) has to be a Prem record right?

Wigan must be closing in fast on the opposite record.

What was the competition, Chris?

The training at the Academy thing was just a "What number does Michael Owen wear?" kind of question on the official site. There were about 10 winners and we could all take someone with us, so I went with my Dad. At the end all the players gathered around and Phil Thompson had a word with them, "Great session", etc. Funny that when Gerard Houllier started talking all the players had to move closer towards him; very softly spoken. Had our photo taken with the squad, met a few of the players. I remember John Arne Riise being particularly sound. Carra was hilarious, taking the training games deadly seriously, screaming his head off. For some reason they all called Bernard Diomede (remember him!) 'JoJo'. No idea why. Maybe he was a fan of the singer.

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),

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