Chief football writer Phil McNulty at Anfield: “Anfield is now wide awake after the post-Christmas slumber following Maxi’s equaliser. Blackburn manager Steve Kean not so happy and has been in deep discussion with the fourth official Martin Atkinson.”
ah yeah tomorrow night norwich sright
Steve Kean not so happy and has been in deep discussion with the fourth official Martin Atkinson.“
asking if there’s a quiet exit
there have been LFC home performances this season that have been frustratingly wasteful, but this is just shit.
here comes Stevie to save the day.
5 secs—first mention of ‘talisman’
this is probably the worst citeh have played in the epl this season
oy vey
Should’ve scored that.
What was Yakubu doing?!
What was Carroll doing?!
yeah. lucky.
As far as Carroll goes i don’t think i’ve been so depressed to have a player in the team since salif diao.
konchesky made me angry rather than depressed
Berb pen hat
they shd have brought edin on earlier
silver lining for you there Ismael
xp
Why is Carroll playing DM?
who is dm?
oh deems right
Has Carroll not got the brain of a footballer, is that it? Like a Walcott with less potential? So often you see him taking an option that obviously isn’t on, or ignoring options that are, and switching off was so the wrong thing to be doing there.
Just need another six to write off City’s goal difference
Carroll’s gonna score the winner here.
Text from anon: “Great to see Berbatov back and scoring. Last season’s joint top scorer and he can’t get a game this season.”
Just a point for City, United go level
This is turning into a re-run of the Blackburn game I saw at Sunderland. Retreat, retreat—and then lost late on.Person Name@philmcnulty2 mins ago
Nearly right Chris
There’s the heroic save I was waiting for.
Liverpool-dreck.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Dalglish out
Just needed us to hit the woodwork for the complete 11/12 Liverpool performance!
It hasn’t remotely occurred to me that City might not win the league.
Utd are gonna walk it now
City will win with 2 games to spare rather than 4 games.
utd have no right to be in the top half, this shit is getting ridic
Been playing pretty well the last few games. With half a team
yeah, you’re over-performing table-wise for a squad that amounts to half a team tbf
Bare bones, bare bones
youth products like giggs helping fill out the squad tbf
Some of the most talented utility men in the world
if i’d a no-limits wish it’d prob be for sunderland’s utd rejects xi to finish above ye
If they break the bank to get Macheda and Gibson in January then maybe
still-playing ex-utd-youth xi’s been done, right
That was bloody awful.
most epl teams hate football, it is tolerated by them at best as a means to an end
While Beckenbauer played in a defensive role, McLeish still believes that Heskey is showing skills with the ball that mimic the former superstar.
“We now know what Emile can do, he can play in any position,’’ McLeish said.
“I could even play him at the back without any fears. We played him at centre-back last week and he was spraying the ball about the whole pitch as if I was watching Franz Beckenbauer.
“Emile is a brilliant, all-round player, he understands the game and we need him in the squad. It’s not just about 11 players.’’
Does it reflect badly on us that we couldn’t muster even one in-time post on the boxing day live match, which just happens to feature none of the big clubs? I think in this case it probably doesn’t.
whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
“hard fought match at the britannia”
6 results (0.24 seconds)
“tough encounter at the britannia”
9 results (0.21 seconds)
“fortress britannia”
about 29,700 results (0.14 seconds)
They’re not all about Stoke but most are. Inevitably the #1 hit is Nult.
i watched it whenever my fm game was loading
it was enough, quite enough
I’m a Villa supporter and couldn’t even bring myself to watch it. Reading reports I was right to stay the hell away.
well tbh it was par for the course for a stoke fan, but a long way from the heady days of MON
you’d never see a martin o’neill team kick it long to heskey
what did MON use Heskey for?
what does it take for a man to change?
do we have a book on how often gimlet eyed mouthbreather shearer says ‘and that’s what they done all day’
wd rather watch Steven Seagal than Stoke all year long
idk
steven seagal vs stoke, def
Everybody should look for the first goal in the Dunfermline match yesterday to see the spectacle of a keeper punching the ball into his own net from a corner.
tsk, perpetuating stereotypes
two up top watch: motson dismayed at lack of chances despite both teams playing 4–4–2.
‘there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the way liverpool are playing’
imagine if dembele could shoot. he’d be some player.
^^^^^ it’s one of those things that needs saying but i mean everyone knows it like
tidy finish from gervinho but i was all ready to yell at him for squandering it. glad, in a way, that they don’t look too concerned with rvi breaking that stupid record.
He didn’t score but that move from RVP where he suddenly doesn’t go around the defender, but overtakes him on the inside and shoots was brilliant.
there was a hennessy bottle full of piss on the street earlier today
try telling that to the wolverhampton goalkeeper—he has been ‘VS’ today
I don’t think you could say the ref is having a great game.
oh god i suppose mccarthy’s safe for another month now
that was an AND THATS WHAT THEY DONE ALL DAY game
ALBEIT THEY HAD A MAN SENT OFF, HARSHLY IN MY VIEW
didn’t see the game, was moving in to new place and buying homeware in Asda :(
what a result brian
nv :(
sandbox needs a blue saturday/tuesday/etc thread
Fletcher starting to look like he deserves a better team behind him, but he’s just as likely to pick up some niggly injury that sidelines him for 2 months
the fletcher goal was rly well taken, inzaghi-ish
really been looking forward to Swansea-QPR, good match thus far as well
i keep waiting for proper ilx to come back but once i have internet set up in my new place i might start a new “I Am Pooter” thread :D
also steven fucking hunt gets an assist for his badly skewed shot
Hunt’s been good for us tbf, Jarv gets all the plaudits when he has his 1 good game in 20 but Hunt has worked hard and tried to make things happen when most of the rest of them have been wondering around like bored shop assistants
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came pretty close to going to this match, sounded like a good one. girl with the dragon tattoo was good though.
she’s come on leaps and bounds
lol
I find it strange that A. Faurlín has played some 200 league matches in Argentina and England, almost all of them below the top flight, he looks excellent to me.
a lot of ppl seem to think faurlin is pretty good, could be the next charlie adam if some epl machers fancy throwing £7m or so to big tony f
if this whole round is just an excuse to give Utd two points
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same lineup as v chelsea by the look of it
does redknapp ever bother using all the squad players he wants so much
pienaar hasnt played a single epl game this season
defoe must be devastated that modric is the new LIW MAN in redknapps heart
and again Gio doesn’t even make the bench :(
that is pretty ridiculous with lennon out
He doesn’t make the bench because he isn’t actually any good.
Nearly every other result has gone our way over Christmas. Don’t fuck this up Spurs.
He is good though. For Mexico
wow he has played 53 times for mexico at 22
Apps Goals Assists
Racing Santander 2010–11 16 5 2
that is pretty impressive for a 22 yr old in a primera liga team with fairly little attacking quality
I’ve only ever seen him be ineffectual for Spurs.
since most of his scant playing time for spurs consists of sub appearances as a teenager under a manager who doesnt trust him, yeah
im not saying he is amazing, it’s more that redknapp doesn’t use his squad properly