itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

Handball on the line wouldn't've gone in? What direction was it coming from?!

lol, more likely.
xp

Shit footage but it does appear to be going wide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_codHKYvmVc&

Heh, none more blatant (except by John Terry maybe)

Both hands!!
Loathe as I am to agree with a BBC m-b-m contributor, but Everton really could do with Anelka in January.

could do with yakubu back tbh

1714: Kieran Richardson was booked there by the way for whipping off his shirt to reveal a "I belong to Jesus" vest.

rmde

he's no kaka that's for sure

Chief football writer Phil McNulty at Molineux: "Barely a flicker from Martin O'Neill high in the Molineux stand but he will have been delighted by the sweeping counter attack at pace and goal from Kieran Richardson. Just how he likes it. Growing unease among the Wolves fans."

has o'neill got a reputation for liking sweeping counter attack football? Thought most top managers hated it.

will he have liked that phil?

Ferguson used to like it :(

ah the days of ronaldo/rooney Euro semi finals against Arsenal.

nobody remembers poor old ji sung

Kieran Gibbs does

my favourite utd player in the post cantona era!
xp park

Park has been awful this season unfortunately. Still love him though

Cmon wolves!

a Brucian performance by Sunderland here today. A proper tribute to the man.

lol

ya dancer!

wtf wolves stop lumping it u mugs

wolves in CL-place form again

i was gonna nominate Park for the universally loved team

bet Arsenal fans don't love him

that one thing is sure

i dislike the fact of him, the defensive winger.

He really performs better in a central role

mccarthy will surely have been pleased to get the points today

for nv's sake a pre-xmas slide and mccarthy firing would probably be better

this 'play shit for ten games then well for two' is no good

eh that depends on the results, i mean utd are second

McCarthy Out

:( Socrates

Jarvis = waste
Edwards = not good enough
McCarthy = yeah, take off Doyle and Hunt, that'll shake things up

other than that, decent but unincisive football again, notably better without Henry in the team so i look forward to him being first pick for the Man U game

Late comeback again is something though. What is that, are you just fitter than other teams?

just want it more iirc

sunderland played Brown and O'Shea at CB iirc

Anonymous on text via 81111: "In terms of trophies won is there any more successful central defensive partnership in the premier league at Sunderland? Wes Brown and John O'Shea? Or even in the history of the league?"

by the same lights Solskjaer and Cronaldo wd be a top pairing

http://i.imgur.com/KtS0J.jpg

could be manager of likeable xi maybe? would be good if he could play some less rudimentary football at sunderland tho

I'm assuming Van Persie in that likeable lineup is a joke. Who doesn't love Aguero right now though? Amazing goal yesterday.

Spurs looked fantastic yesterday, unfortunately so did Jussi. Should have got 8 or 9. Struggling to think of a Spurs player who isn't on top form right now. Only really Gallas and he can hardly be blamed for that.

i'd like adebayor to be sticking them away a little more ruthlessly but yeah everyone looking the business right now.

Would like to see the squad used more, though. We ran out of steam last year and it's not like kranjcar, pienaar, sandro, corluka et al couldn't do a job here and there

Also wrt United and creative midfielders, don't think it's a coincidence that United have gone from awesome to workmanlike since Cleverly got injured, he looked an excellent player. Rooney's barren spell is going weirdly uncommented on in the media as well.

Kranjcar injured I think and it's looking like Pienaar is just not destined to happen for Spurs through no fault of his own, unless there's an injury.

a great manager has to find ways to keep squad players fresh and interested i think, it's alright picking yr best XI week in week out but sooner or later you're gonna need to bring other guys in who can hit the ground running

i've never liked mo'n. the guy is an above average guy who leaves before the shit hits the fan and everyone notices he spent way too much money to be above average.

xp

also did no-one else watch/have any problems w/ close-hd lawro and his tongue? or have you guys just got used to it by now?

you've described villa o'neill, but no other o'neill afaict

And villa sold a lot of o'neill buys for a lot of money, he was unlucky not to make cl with that group imo

also did no-one else watch/have any problems w/ close-hd lawro and his tongue? or have you guys just got used to it by now?

What's the deal with his tongue?

xposts. Reckon Martinez could manage this Likeable XI? Seriously, I can't remember ever seeing an interview with him that didn't make me go "AWW!"

Half-time in Brazil and it's:

Corinthians 0-0 Palmeiras
Vasco da Gama 1-0 Flamengo

Makes it Vasco's title by a single goal if I've got my sums right. Ismaelinho's getting his bottle then I'll be settling down with that lot for the denouement.