*Official* English Football Season 2011-12

[GIMH]

Oh yeah there is no excusing that, although the thing with Andy Carroll was that we all knew he wasn't worth that money but probably expected him to do a little bit better than he has. Same for Downing I guess.

 

[Furball]

It's strange that Dalglish has opted to revert to kick-and-rush and packed the side with unsubtle young English players at exactly the moment when highly technical football is starting to dominate. Also, the team can't defend set pieces, which strongly suggests he's not doing his job properly. But I don't think there's much point in sacking him unless someone notably better becomes immediately available.

It makes perfect sense, the diddies he's spunked £100m on aren't good enough to play any other brand of football.

 

[Furball]

Which is why the way we've done our business under Mancini has been so impressive. It's been about patience, taking a step further every season, and building infrastructure as well. If you want a plan on how to spend a billionaire's money to improve a **** football club, the way we've operated since Hughes was booted and Mancini was brought in has been almost perfect. He's rarely bought badly in the market as well, which has helped him immensely.

Was it 08/09 or 09/10 when Hughes got the bullet?

 

[sledger]

Think Kenny is also somewhat transfixed with the "every team needs a strong British spine" philosophy as well. Or maybe he just doesn't have a clue about players from abroad. I suspect a combination of the two.

 

[GIMH]

Think Kenny is also somewhat transfixed with the "every team needs a strong British spine" philosophy as well. Or maybe he just doesn't have a clue about players from abroad. I suspect a combination of the two.

Dalglish and his buddy Rush are subscribers to the British jobs for British people philosophy and believe it should apply to football teams too.

 

[sledger]

Would do well to adopt the "every team needs good players" philosophy tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

Dalglish and his buddy Rush are subscribers to the British jobs for British people philosophy and believe it should apply to football teams too.

Haha really? That puts them at such a competitive disadvantage. Long may it continue.

 

[Eds]

The days of Liverpool buying Europe's top talent are gone and delusions aren't going to help you. Whether or not I think it's a good thing or not isn't really the point, but saying "if we bought Mata and Aguero we'd be title challenging" is a ridiculous point to make. Any team could say that, doesn't mean you had any chance of paying matching wages to what they're getting at their current clubs and you can't even promise better results than Chelsea and City.

Lol, 'sif Aguero/Mata would have even seriously considered Liverpool though.

My point was the quality of player that went for similar prices in comparison to the dross we've bought.

 

[GIMH]

Haha really? That puts them at such a competitive disadvantage. Long may it continue.

I don't think Dalglish lives exclusively by it (well we know he doesn't) but he'd rather by domestic than foreign if he can help it.

 

[Furball]

I don't think Dalglish lives exclusively by it (well we know he doesn't) but he'd rather by domestic than foreign if he can help it.

So does Ferguson. For the last 10 years most of his big money signings have either been top English players (Ferdinand, Rooney, Jones etc), promising youngsters (Ronaldo, Nani etc) or foreigners who have proven they can adapt to the Premier League (van der Saar, Tevez, Berbatov).

 

[grecian]

****, I knew it, United are going to win the title with a ****e side again.

 

[sledger]

City guilty of not taking their chances today. Should have had this one sewn up. Merde.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Can't believe how long Mancini waited to bring on Adam Johnson. He should have started anyway, but if he was going to be a sub he should have come on earlier so he can actually get into the game.

 

[Uppercut]

Yessss Swansea

 

[nick-o]

I'm assuming there aren't all that many lifelong Swansea supporters around here, but, believe me, that was a nice feeling. By my reckoning, it also pretty much ensures survival in the top flight as well. Sweet.

 

[Nate]

Epic from Swansea!

 

[grecian]

****ing woman linesman, I've decided Keys and Gray were right, get 'em back on Sky and get rid of citizen neville.

 

[Uppercut]

City guilty of not taking their chances today. Should have had this one sewn up. Merde.

Really? I don't remember any chances at all but then I was trying to watch both matches at once. Swansea dominated early on but I thought they'd tire at the end of the match and Citeh would pick them off, but it never really happened.

 

[Furball]

I'm assuming there aren't all that many lifelong Swansea supporters around here, but, believe me, that was a nice feeling. By my reckoning, it also pretty much ensures survival in the top flight as well. Sweet.

You were guaranteed survival anyway, the 40 point mark is more like 30 this season.

 

[wpdavid]

****, I knew it, United are going to win the title with a ****e side again.

It used to bother me. Nowadays I simply find myself contemptuous of the other sides at the top who seem incapable of stringing enough results together to take the title instead. City have no bottle away from home, Spurs habitually lose the big games, etc, etc. Man Utd, love 'em or loathe 'em, do what needs to be done.