itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

But Barcelona are not a one man team, unlike some

why whatever d'you mean

It's a voting award though iirc, which means tokenism is out

(James - am I right that the Emirates is ticket-free? How does it work? Do you swipe your card to gain entry?)

you whisper 'arsene knows' to the gatekeeper

RVP lets you in personally

then Gervinho shows you five yards wide of your seat

if Tony Adams tries to talk to you, you've gone too far and need to run back to the start

The France striker and Brazil defender have been banned from using first-team facilities at the club’s training ground, with Anelka set to sign a £6.4million-a-year deal with Shanghai Shenhua in China.

Didn't Pandev and some other dudes in Italy sue the shit out of their clubs for doing something similar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6DsNAJPlR-U

how much fog does it take to call off a game? because this carried on for 90 minutes.

yeah i think it was some other lazio players too

it does seem really fucking classless and typical of that shower

obv in a country where every attacking move isn't a 60 yard lump forward to the big man/quick man it's possible to manage better in fog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OogmN23oIxc

chippy vela proves he is not always shit with a beaut of an overhead (i.e. he is the mexican rooney).

u wd think that Abramovich, with his boyish Tim Roth-esque good looks and enormous stolen fortune, wd realise that it's more fun to play the loveable, generous gangster and despot rather than just being a fucking cunt all the time

(James - am I right that the Emirates is ticket-free? How does it work? Do you swipe your card to gain entry?)

You use your membership card, which you wave under a scanner thing in the turnstile. Unless you've got tickets off General Sale, in which case they send you paper tickets in the post.

Unless you've got tickets off General Sale, in which case they send you paper tickets in the post.

They send a man round and he presents thenm to you on a silver salver.

Thanks.

anelka & alex- yes pls

That fog's great. I particularly like the parallel universe results scrolling along the bottom: Stoccarda v Colonia, Amburgo v Norimberga, etc.

That reminds me, not only did Monaco get relegated last year, but they're now three points adrift at the foot of Ligue 2

i watched the first half of that parma game, wasn't actually that bad, iain dowie on the co-commentating duties seemed to particularly enjoy it. The game itself wasn't all that tho.

Alex not getting into the Chelsea team is unfathomable to me right now.

not convinced that luiz will ever be even as good as alex tbh
ha xp

I presume it must be personal

rip monaco, you once gave us henry, petit and thuram

i've never understood chelsea shitting on alex. he has always seemed their best centre half whenever i watched them; even when cavalho was there. does he have a stereotypical shitty brazilian footballer attitude/eating disorder?

Also on offer in the Chelsea's January sales - Paulo Ferreira. I'd forgotten he existed.

does he have a stereotypical shitty brazilian footballer attitude/eating disorder?

RIP Socrates.

if vela is the mexican rooney, then who is the english chicharito?

not gonna be able to catch the game until tomorrow but if the line up isn't
-----------------reina------------------
johnson-----skrtel---agger------enrique
------------henderson--adam-------------
kuyt-------------bellamy---------maxi
-----------------suarez-----------------

i'm gonna need a written explanation from king kenny. Perhaps downing for kuyt is the only acceptable difference. Cue Carroll starting and bagging a hat trick.

michael owen xp

if vela is the mexican rooney, then who is the english chicharito?

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Hmmmm, needs somebody more boyish, the young Owen might have sufficed if he hadn't been such a boring joyless git

you'd be joyless too if you were REDACTED

Reina, Johnson, Enrique, Skrtel, Agger, Henderson, Adam, Spearing, Bellamy, Carroll, Suarez

lol?

Feel like this is a huge test tonight. Win and there's a huge top/bottom split that likely won't be bridged again this season; lose and there we are in the middle ground, could go either way, season of transition type-of-thing.

nah that gap won't be bridged this year nor next regardless of tonight

wild conjecture

It shouldn't be but bear in mind this has been a longish undefeated run. If it ends with us in middle ground, then there's a slump, the season could feel pretty dispiriting come new year. Spurs doing the good run thing the right way imo.

So who is Tony Hart then?!

Beloved creator of Morph?

HI RONAN

Good start here both teams with good chances

Actually now that i say that, it occurs to me that Tony Hart didn't create Morph he just hung out with him

yeah good game so far. liverpool have had some disappointing results this year and they won't finish fourth but they are definitely playing better football under the current regime than they have for many moons.

carroll btwn two pacy tricksters- kenny gets it

dembele on fire

RIISE BELLAMY

Carroll's looking a bit more assured. When he does get it under control he could take his time a bit more, have a look round, because he does tend to bounce his man off a yard - he gets rid immediately, like he's always worried about being caught out.

Lovely from Suarez, he didn't even drag it back but sold his man totally.

just thinking that about riise bellamy yeah...golf clubs ahoy

Swallez