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

he was looking for the fancy hat-trick

eh?gk should save, no crouch tbh

Ruddy doesn't exactly kill himself but the technique is sublime

Seamanesque

they've never heard of Rivaldo either

ugh what will it take to get stoke banned from football

^

30,000 fans with the genetic diversity of abt 17 ppl

was benayoun's leg caught there or not?

liam ridgwell still irresistibly hateful

was it yourself that drew the 'i am legend' goons

Is that truman capote

comparison before nakh?

hutton a better gk than rb or human

better door than a window

heh villa don't even *want* to score, bringing mcleish philosophy to brave new depths

"I'm not going to curl up and die"

eck refusing to 'curl up and die', presumably he's not willing to consider any fan request at all at this stage

unusually provocative question from the interviewer....

esprit d'iphonier

oh, gary

new depths from botoxed fuckface lineker

disanto's goal better than suarez's imo, but great hat-trick

taxi!

the internet tells me napalm death were on motd?

cockshrivelling stuff from the depthless ghoul

Lineker said that Stoke fans were abusing the player Aaron Ramsey
cos he once had his leg broken by a Stoke player?

GL says something like 'no need for that'

if I am understanding all this correctly then the lack of outrage at this is offensive
given the outrage that people in football are always announcing.

yes, but you need to balance it against the fact that arsenal don't like it up em and stoke are best of british, so any strong criticism might be construed as suspect in the mccarthyist uk footballing fraternity

cf lineker's mocking of wenger's frustrations at whitehead's flop being worthy of a free while stoke butchered their way to another premier league point to add to the other accumulated booty of their several-year voyage

cockshrivelling stuff from the depthless ghoul

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark

missed the motd 2nd half but i award this a gold star whatever it's about

I didn't watch the game closely D-Mac, but I suppose I agree with your sarcasm insofar as it agrees with me

I have never liked Arsenal but please, attacking a player BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN VERY SERIOUSLY INJURED BY SOMEONE ON YOUR TEAM is barbaric. It's not a joke or 'ooh I don't think we need that'. I don't know why this acceptable when a lot of other crap notoriously is not.

http://i.imgur.com/ZcPo6.jpg

have we forgotten so soon?

i agree fully with you PF!

i do think that the faint condemnation of stoke's thuggish crowd/tactics/existence can be contrasted very sharply with the fullblooded damnation consistently offered for 'foreign' offences such as diving, wenger complaining against roughhouse tactics, etc

holy crap di santo goty fuck a crouch

told ya during the match that stoke fans are fucking neanderthals, much like their team.

so martinez has wigan playing an italian 3-4-2-1 and is beating all comers? feel like we need to look further into this, 3 at the back seems like the future.

orlandi header was flyyyyy. wolves just don't understand why its called a backLINE huh they are all over the shop

this game is not showing vintage defending.

this has been p much the best week of football evah

wtf is with the hype for the manchester derby? gary just called it probably the biggest game in premiership history, the papers i looked at at work last night said in 1 that it will LOL be watched by more people than the world cup final like wtf where did you pull that bullshit out from and that the tuesday when you can talk about it at work will be 'the best day of yr life'. like srs, they said TUESDAY WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF THE READERS LIFE in the Sun because we can talk to coworkers about City-Utd.

its just gonna be a shitty 1-1.

anyone get a rooney-at-everton vibe from mcclean?

xp yeah, I was going to query that last night. I'm quite interested in it and will no doubt watch, but biggest game ever? It'll be a dour affair I reckon, and I'm not really looking forward to it as such. The deadening hand of a Monday night kickoff isn't helping either.

I don't even feel like it's as big as the first game between them. It feels like there's not actually that much at stake, y'know? Utd will still win the league even if City do manage to beat them.

I know Utd have the easier run-in, but if City win the derby, they just need to win the two games (unless Utd go nuts in a game) because of goal difference.

It's not out of the question anymore, I just can't see it happening. Happy to be proved wrong obviously.

Wish I'd bought a ticket for today. But I was convinced - instead of just being pretty sure - the Rangers were going down when they went on sale. Still, I'm not putting £60 in Abramovitch's pocket, and I'm off to W12 to the Crown and Sceptre to drink and watch.

xpost New trend in football appears to be to abuse someone who has suffered at your team's hands. Fully expecting Anton Ferdinand to get a ton of shit today - AF a) Didn't hear the original Terry incident b) Never complained to the police about it c) Has kept his mouth shut about it. But the Stamford Bridge "Murderers!" moron contingent doubtless blame him for being provocatively black within 30 yards of their idiot hero.

Ramsey broke his leg in a game at Stoke following a tackle by Potters defender Ryan Shawcross in February 2010, and the centre-back has since been the subject of abuse from some Arsenal fans.

"I don't think you can be especially proud to boo Aaron Ramsey, I don't see what he has done wrong," said Wenger.

"It's an old story where the fans of Stoke stand behind their player but it shouldn't go as far as booing Ramsey."

Stoke manager Pulis refused to criticise his club's supporters but accepted there is a problem regarding abuse from the stands.

"It is very difficult for us all," he said. "I go to grounds and get abused.

"It's not just Arsene. If you speak to Sir Alex [Ferguson], he gets absolutely slaughtered at some grounds. Is it acceptable? The powers-that-be have got to decide that."

On the boos aimed at Ramsey, he added: "I was more concerned about the Arsenal supporters booing Shawcross so I didn't hear the ones on Ramsey."

yes tony, that is the exact same thing.

It is barbaric - and so is the CFC abuse of Ferdinand. It should be treated as seriously as the other kinds of abuse that are taken seriously.

It is a literalization of the phrase 'adding insult to injury'.
But that familiar phrase does not convey how shameful and wrong it is.

Jelavic's first touch for the chance he put onto the post y'day was quite something.

those pulis quotes are dreadful

he is just such a fucking remedial mouthbreathing lumpen

like even one of those rare occasions so completely indefensible that no serious person would ignore it, for him it's another springboard for TEAM STOKE

Utd will still win the league even if City do manage to beat them

Foolish talk. If City win the match, they'll win the league. If United win the match, they'll win the league. If it's a draw, United will *probably* win the league.

enough with the mind games

i dont remember a single league game this close to the end of the season where things were quite so delicately poised betwen the contenders

some of the ynahtid-arsenal/chelsea game got a similar buildup but they werent the antepenultimate game of the season, and the outcome in any case wouldn't have been so definitive

i like that no matter how much the hack contingent go on about MIND GAMES, mancini still does his glowering impassive faux-mongface and answers MAYBE or IS FOOTBALL IS STRANGE to most questions, while ferguson's periodic snipes are flinty and half-hearted