Official 2011/12 Barclays Premier League Thread

[Lucas]

Great recovery by Man Utd., I'm glad I catched the game since David Luiz' goal.

EDIT: Two penalties for Man Utd., one that apparently shouldn't have been one, along with a header by Chicharito after a great center by Giggs.

 

[Akmuq]

Good result for Liverpool today. Just hope we can manage to sort Spurs out tomorrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14869938

 

[Liquid]

wooooow how does Chelsea give up a 3 goal lead at home?!!?

Giving away two penalties didn't help. Clumsy, they were.

United should have had one in the first half. Cahill's tackle was straight out of Tekken 3.

 

[bradford]

Does anyone really know the true financial situation at Arsenal though?

I've heard that all the surplus money is spent on reducing the debt they've been in because of moving to Emirates. They've got rid of most of it, if I remember correctly.

What a game at Stamford Bridge today. I thought that is the best opportunity to beat Chelsea away in Premier League for years. Thought we played all right in the first half, unlucky to concede and lacked the killer final ball. Not focused enough after the restart, credit to Chelsea for capitalising on it (Mata - phenomenal strike). Evra was shocking today, surely Fabio or maybe Fryers are due a start.
Penalties awarded to United by Howard Webb will always be scrutinised, I think first was a correct decision - in the second, Welbeck did what Johnson did yesterday so City fans cannot complain about that (and Cahill's challenge on Welbeck at 0-0 looked like free kick outside area + red to me). Then, typical Hernandez, anonymous but popping up with crucial goal out of nothing. And that save by De Gea was magnificent, absolutely superb.

 

[Alex.]

Ever since I put up my Suarez avatar I've noticed 3 or 4 Liverpool avatars or signatures. Cmon redmen where have you been hiding?

 

[Sach]

Suarez is back. Curious to see how the team responds now with Stevie G and Luis together running the show.

 

[vrajdeber]

Good result for Arsenal, hopefully Poor and the Sp*ds can perform another draw.

 

[astrosdude91]

Ever since I put up my Suarez avatar I've noticed 3 or 4 Liverpool avatars or signatures. Cmon redmen where have you been hiding?

Hey I've had mine up for a while. I'm alternating around my teams. Had Bayern Munich for a while, and I'll be repping the Dynamo in a few weeks.

Glad to see Suarez back. We'll need him for Tottenham.

 

[Bram Turismo]

That goal by Mata through Torres surely has to be one of the finest goals I've seen this year. Such a phenomenal cross and Mata's finish was beautiful.

Oh, and I'm getting fed up of seeing Lukaku not getting any playing done. He's young, but for crying out loud start using his talent!

 

[astrosdude91]

The game stopped due to the Anfield cat.

 

[Ross]

The game stopped due to the Anfield cat

I saw that, it was so funny. The cat just sat there for a few seconds

 

[Liquid]

Highlights of the Liverpool-Spurs game so far is this superficial commentary;

"For those of you wondering what happened to the cat, it now has it's own Twitter account. @CatAnfield. ...I'm not joking! It's real! This is the Premier League in 2012"

Then Steve McManaman nails it on the head;

"There's always money to be made somewhere"

 

[ranhammerR34]

Highlights of the Liverpool-Spurs game so far is this superficial commentary;

"For those of you wondering what happened to the cat, it now has it's own Twitter account. @CatAnfield. ...I'm not joking! It's real! This is the Premier League in 2012"

Then Steve McManaman nails it on the head;

"There's always money to be made somewhere"

Actually I'm following that cat. I actually enjoy those two commentators, Ian and Macca keep me entertained. --- Randy

 

[Alex.]

Bugger.

 

[Emptyone]

Who cane out top tonight ... Arsenal and Newcastle, that's who. Suarez should provide some impetus for Liverpool again, they need someone to score for them, and Carroll is not a natural at the moment

 

[Hatcha]

Didn't see game but just seen the highlights(all 30 seconds of them) on SSN. What on earth was Suarez playing at with that kick on Parker? Like seriously, the ball was nowhere near Parkers stomach. Neville speaking sense today, he was probably lucky not to see red and the fact he's just got back from a 8 game ban probably saved him.

 

[marchi]

God I love Suarez, he's the idiotic gift that keeps giving and giving.

Racist slurs, blatantly kicking players in the stomach, eye gouging, diving etc. Not long before he starts his horrendous 2 foot tackles into players again.

Pepe and Terry are the only player that comes close to his level of scum. He makes Rooney and Joey Barton look like bloody saints, and that halfwit Daglish keeps defending him with another pathetic interview response for the BBC.

 

[Sach]

Liverpool have hardly any creativity on attack. And Suarez is shocking. The guy's outbursts today were pretty surprising considering he is just back from being in trouble. I guess he's competitive, but he can't keep his head.

 

[marchi]

Liverpool have hardly any creativity on attack. And Suarez is shocking. The guy's outbursts today were pretty surprising considering he is just back from being in trouble. I guess he's competitive, but he can't keep his head.

He's never been able too. He's akin to Pepe. A good player, but massively erratic and suspect to some absolutely atrocious decision making. There's a gif floating around of him when playing for Ajax, pretty much diving into the back of another players legs studs first at full pace.

Daglish has spent over 100 million. For that you'd expect to be scoring alot more goals than Everton who have brought sweet FA and shipped out one of their strikers. They've score one goal more which is an absolute joke.

 

[Danze1984]

You'd imagine after an 8 game ban you'd keep your head down, get on with the game, stay out of trouble. Dalglish defending him saying he didn't see him, he was looking directly at him after barging into him! Hope he gets ripped to shreds on Saturday.

 

[Bram Turismo]

So Liverpool fans, ready to open a can of whoop-ass on Saturday?

 

[marchi]

Suarez is going to be absolutely 'and rightly' hammered by 73,000 United fans on saturday. Given his disgraceful comments on monday night and through this whole debacle, Kenny probably will too.

 

[astrosdude91]

So Liverpool fans, ready to open a can of whoop-ass on Saturday?

I think it'll be the other way around.

 

[bradford]

Suarez is going to be absolutely 'and rightly' hammered by 73,000 United fans on saturday. Given his disgraceful comments on monday night and through this whole debacle, Kenny probably will too.

Absolutely. It's absolutely bewildering how Dalglish can say Fulham fans calling Suarez a 'cheat' (he is one) should be looked at by the FA while Evra was booed for being racially abused and Dalglish calls it 'banter'.
Going to Old Trafford tomorrow and I expect 'cheat' to be the friendliest way of addressing Suarez by the crowd.
Also having a sneaky feeling he will either score or get sent off.
2-1 United is my prediction.

 

[Liquid]

It's a chorus of boos from United fans, drowing out the gargle of boos from Liverpool fans.

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

I hope Suarez gets sent off in the 2nd half, would make my day. Idiot.

 

[astrosdude91]

This is getting tough to watch.

At least Bayern Munich play today. I'm sure they'll win that one.

 

[Liquid]

We all knew that was coming...

 

[mattythedog]

Damn! I was hoping for a day where all the Man U fanboys didn't strut their stuff on Facebook.

 

[astrosdude91]

Suarez goal. And the crowd goes angry!