Premier League 2011/12 Season

THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS.

If you tackle like that, then you have no real attacking technique. This is the type of challenge forwards used to clumsily make, but these days defenders and midfielders are doing it too. It's pathetic. See also, any tackle requiring your legs to wrap around the legs of the person you're tackling - again, piss poor technique and positioning.

 

Haha - nailed! LFC are a behemoth of world football, there's no denying that.

BUT, here' the sting in the tail, for all their fans sing 'you ain't got no history' etc., and complain about nu-fans, sky fans, and the premierleague er wannabes, ask them this question (face to face):

"Who was your manager before Bill Shankly?"

I have never had an answer, never mind an incorrect one. Shankly is their Year Dot.

The above is humorous to me, but there's no denying the magnitude of LFC's accomplishments post-Shankly.

 

x3. Technical ability has fallen big time in recent years

 

I think some players do it on purpose.

 

Yet, when Spearing went in on Dembele, one footed, right through the ball, Dembele jumped into the air and Spearing caught him with his "rear" leg.

Straight red.

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He leads and tackles only with one foot. The only reason the trailing leg catches Dembele is because Dembele is airborne at that point.

 

^^^ Tough one to call, actually.

 

Yes and no. First off, 1960 is Dinosaur stuff by modern standards. I mean we all follow boxing but who was the featherweight champ in 1960? Its a half-century ago.

Agreed on Shankly being "year dot", but as I say, 1960 is a while ago. Plus he was looking for the job in 1955.

Also, most fans are well versed on Billy Lidell, who was very much a 1950's player.

 

Replace 'United' with 'City' & that'd make sense. United are just authentically huge, always have been always will be.

 

I genuinely would not argue against that being a red tbh. Had Dembele's foot been on the floor, it could've been a legbreaker. Spearing* was going for maximum distance on his clearing tackle and to hell with the followthrough. I think he could have approached that tackle more sensibly.


*i've always thought he looked a cracking little player, and could make a decent RB if played there.

 

These guys are being asked to make decisions in the blink of an eye. For the average person, thats a tall order. For footballers who are non-thinkers in the first place, that's a massive order ::

As for Agent Spearing, he was the one academy player who Benitez felt was worth keeping. He was getting his game as early as 2008. Phact. Guys like Mellor, Partridge, Guthrie, all fell by the wayside. Only one he possibly got wrong was Worncock, and he's pretty gash now anyways.

He's injured now, so the last academy player Benitez signed, former Auschwitz-Detainee JonJo Shelvey, will probably play at the weekend.

 

Fuck off Everton. Fuck off Moyes. Fuck off Darron Gibson.

 

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I was going to bring that up earlier.

Gibson is OK but £1m is out of order.

 

If this deal goes through I'm gonna do a dirty protest on Moyes's crazy paving.

 

What's wrong with Gibson?

 

Shite, slow, overweight, plodding, and we're skint and are desperate for an attacking threat.

Plus, Gibson covers the one position we are relatively well stocked for: Fellaini, Roswell, Barkley, Cahill, Osman etc.

 

Gibson is an average player. He'll probably score against Liverpool now :doh:

One thing I know will be fucking you off is the fact that all these shite mongering pundits will be online, giving it loads about how Gibson can be this animal if he can only "Get a run of games", etc. All the usual cliches about a United reject.

"Oh, great bit of business by Moyesy..." etc. Its always the same. Anytime some skint bastard scrapes the shite off "Sir" Alex's boots, its a "great bit of business, he'll be good for them, he'll do well, top player, "Sir" Alex spoke highly of him...." :shit:

 

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Bobby Joe Mul.

 

Exactly, at the end of the day Fergie preferred to effectively exhume Scholes rather than play Gibson.

 

I wonder if Gibson wouldn't improve just a bit with a run of games. Worryingly, I heard that it was Gibson who was out on the rip with Wayne during the Christmas period. Gibson does look like a thick fat Irish bastard but then again so does Rooney. In fact Rooney IS a thick fat Irish bastard. Fat fat bastard. Fat thick bald, angry, fat fuck. FAKE HAIR FAT.

 

£500k apparently*. Can't really argue with that. Got to be better than Neville in midfield I suppose.


*i bet they have first dibs on Rodwell or Barkley.

 

Now that is fucking rape. That's simply not on. In otherwords, take our shite, pay us for our shite, and if Rodwell and Barkley continue to proceed at the same rate of knots, then we'll take them off you, if we feel like it.

Fuck off.

 

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Mark Hughes, if you sign Roque Santa Cruz, I will walk down to Loftus Road and punch you in the face.

 

Joemul will be pleased, Everton have Gibson on a 4 and a half year deal.

 

You lot have bid £4 million for Pienaar. Great little player he is, combining intelligence, touch, vision and a great work rate.

You jammy bastards.

 

They've just rejected our bid for him. We won't get him.

 

I hate Sours. They buy him for £2.5m, he barely plays, yet they want at least double what they paid. They'll get it too, the arseholes.

Anyway, i'm off to buy a Darron Gibson shirt. Ta ra.

 

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You think if we up our bid we'll get him?

 

So Harry is in for Samba too ::

I swear, you could put a £30m bid in for Eric Djemba Ali Dia and Harry would be right up your arse with a bid for £40m.