Sport Football Thread 2011/2012

[Charliemouse]

That was the sort of goal you get in Fifa all the time, a lovely finesse shot from outside the area.

Just hope we defend like we did in the first half for the rest of the game now.

[a big boy]

Didn't someone say in here Walker was the best right back in the league?

I think you'll find I said in the world

[the_debaser]

Isn't that Comolli's fault though? It is his job to make sure the manager has a squad with enough talent and depth. Dalglish is the coach, not the director of football.

lol

[Liamness]

@ Dude Ranch

Comolli is the one that is ultimately responsible for the club's transfer policy, and you assume he was much more directly involved with the negotiations than Dalglish. £35m for Carroll was always a joke. A good director of football would recognise that was not good value for money, and that the money could be better invested elsewhere to help the long term health of the squad. I don't know what pressure he was under, maybe Dalglish insisted upon it, but if that is the case then what is he at the club for? He should've walked away from it.

What? 2-2? Bloody hell.

[Charliemouse]

@ Dude Ranch

Comolli is the one that is ultimately responsible for the club's transfer policy, and you assume he was much more directly involved with the negotiations than Dalglish. £35m for Carroll was always a joke. A good director of football would recognise that was not good value for money, and that the money could be better invested elsewhere to help the long term health of the squad. I don't know what pressure he was under, maybe Dalglish insisted upon it, but if that is the case then what is he at the club for? He should've walked away from it.

What? 2-2? Bloody hell.

Don't forget it was Comolli who wasted £16 million on Bentley while at Spurs and just about the same on Darren Bent when Spurs already had 3 decent strikers at the club.

[a big boy]

I don't think any of us really know the inner workings of Liverpool. But I'll just say that given his record at Spurs, the huge sums laid out for Downing, Henderson and Carroll don't really make them smell like Comolli signings.

[the_debaser]

Defoe

[Charliemouse]

Defoe

Bale's cross was a little too hard which didn't help.

[the_debaser]

King

[a big boy]

He was at fall stretch - it's not his fault he's short. Savic, though, is such a liability for City.

[exwhyzed]

LedLOLey

[Shimmyhill]

Thats the Spurs of old, snatching a defeat from the jaws of victory

[The Fox]

Great end to the game there. Savic is awful though.

[SaintM]

One of the games of the season for me. Great entertainment.

[Charliemouse]

Fuck em let them buy the title.

[Shevchenko]

Balotelli was lucky. Should have been sent off for his foul on Parker.

[Guest]

Wow. Football is brilliant.

[The Fox]

Balotelli was lucky. Should have been sent off for his foul on Parker.

The motion looked like a stamp, but I don't see how he could have known where Parker was. He didn't look at him at any point.

[Sportello]

Balotelli was lucky. Should have been sent off for his foul on Parker.

I initially thought he was bringing his leg down in order to keep his balance. They may not have seen enough of the incident, but none of the Spurs players seemed to upset with Balotelli either.

[SaintM]

Fuck em let them buy the title.

If it's not Stoke, it's Man City.

You're starting to sound like me at FIFA. Every win deserved, every defeat a travesty.

[redbloodcell]

The motion looked like a stamp, but I don't see how he could have known where Parker was. He didn't look at him at any point.

Aye, he only saw him after and looked a bit scared.

Ledley's not made a mistake in years, don't know what he was thinking there he was never getting the ball.

[Jamin]

It looked to me like he was just off balance and in the process of falling over to be honest. We'll never know if he tried to stamp on him but it didn't look it to me. Nowhere near the realm of indefensible stamps such as Karl Henry's yesterday.

[the_debaser]

Balotelli was lucky. Should have been sent off for his foul on Parker.

What foul? The one where he tried to regain his balance not knowing where Parker was?

[Marlowe]

To me it looks too forceful to just be a case of him trying to regain his balance.

[Shevchenko]

[exwhyzed]

You wouldn't move your leg backwards to regain your balance there anyway

[Liamness]

You wouldn't move your leg backwards to regain your balance there anyway

It doesn't really make much sense either way. I doubt anything will come of it.

[Guest]

I thought it was a certain stamp; although I felt Lescott's elbow was more blatent and no one seems to have mentioned it.

[Dude Ranch]

What foul? The one where he tried to regain his balance not knowing where Parker was?

lol

[Shimmyhill]

Tell you what, as gutted as i am with that - what a game of footy it was!

Roll on Man Utd and Arsenal now.