Premier League 2011/12 Season

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I'm deadly serious..................I'm outta here ::

 

We're Queens Park Rangers, we're ninth in the league!!!

Juan Mata going chelshit.

 

Predictions table updated and upcoming fixtures.

 

Some of the tackles in the sunderland - newcastle game were disgusting

 

Interesting read on the ongoing malaise at Goodison:

http://www.toffeeweb.com//season/11-12/comment/editorial/18626.html

 

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There's nobody to be angry at. That's the thing. Swansea city 96m in TV money, Celtic 1.5m. 5 first team players out with injuries including our 3 very best. Woodwork hit twice, penalties missed. If anything i was just delighted again by Lennon's response which always hits exactly the right note and often expresses what I"m already thinking. He's done a beautiful job given the limitations and thats part of why I'm so relaxed - i know he'll turn it round quickly. Probably thursday (which is admittedly shaping up to be a pivot point game).

 

Nobody in world football I'd rather have managing Celtic than Neil Lennon.

 

Hut, do you think QPR could win the SPL?

 

Celtic were playing Swansea??? ::

Lennon said he was "raging".

I'm not too angry over it, but my-oh-my, don't the English press love to love a hun?

 

I haven't seen enough to make a judgement but you would definitely be part of a 3 horse race, at worst. But Celtic are not a bad side right now (relative to our artificially low financial level, anyway), and I'd have NO problem admitting if we were. Kayal, Izziguire, Hooper, Stokes and a couple others are bona fide premiership quality players and Ki & Forrest will certainly develop likewise over the next 18 months. Mulgrew, Wilson, Majstorovic, Forster are upper Championship level players, IMO and the two lads Lennon picked up on frees over the summer already proved to be that or better last season at a very young age. And on our day, style wise we're really beautiful to watch - Barcelona on a budget.

We're better than our throwing away of the league last year indicated and definitely better than the Sion game indicated if only because we had our best players injured (though I think thursday will show we under performed, even then - I expect us to win).

We're scrimping in the bargain bin but Lennon has picked out some listenable albums from it.

 

I read some load of bollox in the Newspapers after the Hearts vs Spurs game about how that game proved that the English clubs were light years ahead of the Scottish clubs.

Everyone knows there are essentially two clubs in Scotland, and that the rest are pure detritus thereafter.

I'm not sure Spurs could get a result in the UEFA Cup or the CL at Celtic Park.

 

fucking hell wenger

 

Well in a sense we're playing the likes of Swansea every time we try to sign a player against the fact that diddy clubs like that can offer them twice as much as we can. In a properly aligned universe this wouldn't be happening. If I were to get angry about something, you've found the right track to nudge me down::

 

I'm pretty sure Spurs would have no problems with Celtic over 2 legs these days. It ain't 2004 any more I'm afraid.

 

Wenger looked like he was having fits during the 'pool game.

I think it's taking a toll on him.

 

It's his own damn bed

 

In part, but the net spending he's made makes falling behind almost an inevitability. Football = money now.

 

Interesting to see how spurs get on tonight vs united

 

Joemul/Caligula, do you like my sig?? LOL

 

what is getting frustrating about it for me is yet again wenger is making excuses. that own goal to go down 1-0 to Liverpool wasn't anything to do with inexperience or sloppy play it was really a blown call by the linesman and should have been an offside call on Pool. just like last year we didn't really get dominated by United it was really the poor quality of the pitch. i could go on....

great seeing Jose Enrique out there, too bad he was on the other team. problem is we needed to strengthen the squad BEFORE we lost our captain, BEFORE we had key players injured and BEFORE we had 2-3 players suspended.

 

I cant see it, bud. Can you link it as a pic?

 

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.fanhouse.co.uk/media/2011/08/everton-qpr-tommy-smith-307x215-200811.jpg

 

United will beat them for one simple reason: Redknapp, and therefore his team, do not believe they can go to Old Trafford and get a win. Redknapp is symptomatic of his generation of British managers- they'd prefer to get fucked in the ass by Alex rather than inconvenience him by getting their side to play well against United.

 

haha. it was a good finish to be fair.

What infuriated me was (i) the sloppy pass by Jagielka, and (ii) Heitinga's half-assed attempts to track back which meant Jagielka was pulled over away from Smith. You can bet your arse Derry would've pelted back to get a tackle in had it been the other way around.

I LOATHE Heitinga.

 

Me too.

Remember his great game against Huddersfield? Then right after that he had the balls to say he wanted to sign with a Spanish club. (either Real or Barca-as if they would take his punk ass.)

 

When Heitinga signed, Irish radio thought it was the greatest thing ever, and went so far as to mock Kyrgiakos by contrast. Kyrigiakos, who was sold today to Wolfsburg, did OK, was liked by the fans, and scored more than his fair share of goals.

 

Heitenga's career in a nutshell:

<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TA16FVt2Nos" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

Glad to see Derry getting the plaudits. Taarabt was the star of last season but Derry was the man doing all the donkeys work, breaking up play, and allowing Tarbs to shine.

 

Oh My God...its the "Man Uniteds First Home Game Of The Season" wank-fest.

I seriously think that Fergusons death will result in mass-suicide amongst old, fat sports-writers.