Keepy Ups

The Premier League went ahead and approved a 7 deep subs bench, which is something Rafa Benetiz and his overpriced rotation system was asking for ages ago. It was brought to vote by Spurs' Chairman (according to last nights 5 Live Football Daily).

Anyway, the reasoning seems to be "giving young people a shot". Old cynics like us here think it's because naming more overpaid supersubs to the bench might attract more people to a particular club and help the rich ones play "buy all the players so no one else could get them" ala CSKA Chelski.

Posted by Chrissy at 11:21 AM 0 comments    

Labels: CSKA Chelski, England, English Premiership, Ideas to Blow up in one's Face

There's a fantastically lollerific piece from Who Ate All the Pies on the 20 cities for Premiership Matches. A Definite must read.

A few examples of the ones that made us chuckle.

Manchester United - Calais
Closer than Old Trafford for most United fans.
Sunderland - Dublin
Everything else about the club is Irish, including the chairman and manger, so the home ground might as well be.
Wigan - Las Vegas
Titus Bramble's Travelling Slapstick Show would be the hottest ticket in town.

Posted by Chrissy at 10:12 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, lulz

Manchester United have confirmed the minute's silence will go ahead at the Manchester derby despite the jeers that were heard at Wembley. The news comes after Wednesday night's minute silence at England's friendly clash with Switzerland was cut short by 20 seconds after disrespectful fans whistled and jeered towards the end of the tribute

Posted by Chrissy at 10:00 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Manchester Derby, Munich Air Disaster

*moment of silence*

Olaf Melberg is the only one left, and he's going to Juve this summer.

I vote for Crouch to grow one next.

Posted by Chrissy at 9:24 AM 1 comments    

Labels: beards, England, English Premiership, nonsense

Posted by Chrissy at 7:14 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Manchester City

Posted by Chrissy at 7:53 PM 2 comments    

Labels: Benjani, England, English Premiership, Manchester City, Transfer Window

Posted by Chrissy at 6:30 AM 1 comments    

Labels: Betting odds, England, English Premiership, Kevin Keegan, Newcastle

Posted by Chrissy at 7:30 PM 0 comments    

Labels: Aston Villa, Derby County, England, English Premiership, Everton, Liverpool FC, Manchester City

Posted by Chrissy at 6:22 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Juande Ramos, Spurs

Posted by Chrissy at 7:13 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Spurs

A lot of talk has been made the past couple of days about how if Sir Alex the Asshole and Arsene Wenger were newly hired today, they'd never have stayed at their respective teams because people don't give managers chances anymore. It's a cliche argument but it looks true doesn't it?

Big Sam is class. Big Scary Class. The kind of guy who isn't afraid to wear a pink scarf because he'll swallow your head whole if you say anything about it. Obviously there is a motivation problem in the locker room and a lack of confidence. How much of that can be laid at the Large one's feet and not at the feet of the yeoman (and Mickey Owen) gun-shy players he's got? His signings haven't been shit (Joey the jailbird notwithstanding) as much as the existing players in the locker room not accepting him and his signings.

It might not be the best fit, and it's very hard to rebuild in an open league worth the shit ton of money that the Premiership is worth, but it seems like if you don't give the managers the time they need to do what they need to do, you'll never know if it's a good fit or just adjustment / rebuilding. I suspect that if the players aren't behind you it might not be the best fit and it probably is a bit more than just rebuilding, but you can't know because he's not been given any real amount of time. And seriously, how many managers are Newcastle going to go through in a 3 year period? Big Sam's the best that lot and deserves at least until the end of the season before he's done.

Can tell you know one unrelated thing: England would have qualified for Euro if England went the way of the Big one.

Posted by Chrissy at 5:23 AM 0 comments    

Labels: Big Sam, England, English Premiership, Newcastle

Stole this picture from Pies. The best football picture of the year. srsly

Posted by Chrissy at 8:20 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Liverpool FC, things that scare children at night

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Labels: England, English Premiership, Liverpool FC

Posted by Chrissy at 6:50 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Insane Rumours, Manchester City

Keane targets top four finish

Robbie Keane believes it would be 'daft' to write off Tottenham's chances of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League this season.



Spurs have made a less than impressive start to the season and are currently languishing in 14th position in the Premier League after winning only two of their opening 13 games.

Posted by Chrissy at 12:59 PM 1 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Ideas to Blow up in one's Face, Spurs

Posted by Chrissy at 7:12 AM 0 comments    

Labels: Chelsea, Divers, Dogdy Tackles, England, English Premiership, Everton

Now, let me explain that this is the stupidest fantasy league among the 3 I pay attention to (I have a premierleague.com team that's middling and a yahoo team that's like 90th percentile--don't hate). It is also the highest stakes because it's the one that my local does and you win shit--I mean stuff.



Anyway, you get 55 million pounds and only 20 transfers a year (which is why I'm riding out the RVP injury). You get 3 points for an goal 2 points for an assist and a complicated system with defenders (1 point for 60 minutes on and 2 points for a clean sheet and minus 1 point for the second goal conceded and every goal thereafter). Pick a captain and their points are doubled.

There are no points for tackles or balls won or anything else, so it's really hard to get a good team because obviously the goal scorers are expensive. You hope for some dark horses like Petrov (MC) or Elano. Of course they've done SFA since I put them on.

I had a really good week this week because of fucking Cristiano Ronaldo my captain--from three people. THAT IS NOT HOW YOU WIN. I mean I'm still doing really well locally and I'm also winning the Philly Scouse Contingent mini league, but I'm really ashamed of my team. If I could get more than 20 transfers I'd put Almunia in goal and get rid of Owen and Geremi. I think I put them in after a bad injury week and Newcastle must have had a decent week--but I'm not sure when that is.

I'm sorry I subjected you to my shitty team.

Posted by Chrissy at 3:57 PM 4 comments    

Labels: English Premiership, fantasy team, shame

So I was watching Liverpool at home instead of at the pub with the Philadelphia Scouse Contingent (of which Footie Geeza is a proud member / leader in debauchery) and holy shit I was bored. First half there was one real gasping chance that Crouchinho had bouncing off the crossbar. Then we were bored for another 35 minutes further until Fernando Torres (El Nino, la) scored. It was a nice goal (not on youtube yet) then 4 minutes later. There was a WELL dodgy penalty that shouldn't have been awarded but Steven Gerrard proved his worth by converting. So there you go a 2-0 win that probably should have been 1-0 but even that isn't a fair enough scoreline for how well Fulham were defending all match (until the last 10 minutes which is pretty much their "thing" now).

Ok now onto the important things. The glasses really do make Lawrie Sanchez not look like an idiot.

Before

After


hmm...

Actually in that last picture he looks a bit... hr I dunno.



What do you reckon?

Posted by Chrissy at 6:34 PM 1 comments    

Labels: Elvis Costello, England, English Premiership, Fulham, Lawrie Sanchez, Liverpool FC

Posted by Chrissy at 7:22 PM 1 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Graeme Souness, Paul Jewell, Wigan

Boring match last night save for this strange goal celebration:



I've got the match on tape and Setanta kept showing it from all angles, but I have no way to get the tape onto youtube, because I'm old school like that.

At least the FA isn't going to fine him.

Posted by Chrissy at 6:36 AM 2 comments    

Labels: English Premiership, Manchester City, Oh those Oirish, Steven Ireland, Superman Pants?