The English Football Thread

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

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As we all know, Liverpool Football Club is special. Different. Classy. Unique. Special. Unique. Classy. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Unique. Clubby. Clubbish. Clubesque. Special. Unique. Increasingly irrelevant. Over the hill. Past-it. Yesterday’s news. Special. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Special. Special. Unique. Liverpool Football Club are special. And unique. And special. And classy. They’re special and specially unique and uniquely specially and specially special and uniquely classy and they have a different way of doing things, you wouldn’t understand, you just wouldn’t, because you’re not special, or classy, or unique, you’re not Liverpool Football Club, and you wouldn’t understand, so don’t even bother, just accept it, they’re the best football team in the tra-la-la-la land.

Liverpool Football Club’s specialness and uniqueness and classiness naturally places them in a position to pat lesser clubs on the head and let them know of their place in the food chain. Clubs, say, like Southampton, who were browbeaten into selling Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren to mighty Liverpool last summer. “They have a choice as a club,” Liverpool’s head guru, Brendan Rodgers, roared last August. “They don’t have to sell. You have a choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were looking to be a [big Cup] club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change. There might be one or two others who leave. It’s just the way it works.” It’s. Just. The. Way. It. Works.

Words to live by. Poetry in motion that comes to mind now that Raheem Sterling is busy letting Liverpool know that the way it works is that he would like to leave in the summer, maybe join a bigger club, play for a team who actually have a chance of winning something in the near future, that there’s only so many times he can hear about the Miraculous Miracle of Istanbul before he’s forced to go all Van Gogh on his ears.

Treason! Naturally Sterling’s desire to play for a good team has been met with fury and The Fiver assumes he has spent the day locked in Melwood’s Re-education Chamber, a crack team of Phil Thompson, John Bishop and John Aldridge taking it in turns to hammer home the uniqueness and specialness and classiness of Liverpool Football Club, making sure Sterling knows that he will forever walk alone if he joins Manchester City, a terrifying prospect indeed. It’s just the way it works

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[KevinAshburner 1,270]

The Football Gods of Football.

I Command and Demand that you make Sunderland AFC to not Lose to Arsenal Tonight.

[stroey 2,525]

https://youtu.be/hZ42bGsoHL0

Drunk Louis van Gaal speech at the Manchester United Player of the Year Awards

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Crazy dutch man still talks about that game with his 80% possession.

Hope we win the league next year and shut him up again.

[Fulham Broadway 16,392]

https://youtu.be/hZ42bGsoHL0

Drunk Louis van Gaal speech at the Manchester United Player of the Year Awards

That speech in full.

Shur Alex Ferguson cunt....david moyes poison chalice....total football.... neeskens...cruyff....manchester alwaysh fookin raining....di maria piece of shit...glazers parasites......FC United.....Who shpilt my Grolsch ??

[Spike 12,049]

I like Louis van Gaal. He'd be as much of a dickhead if he were Chelsea manager. This applies to any manager.

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Arsenal :clown:

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Lmaooo the Arsenal meltdown is real!

And to think at one point they looked set at finishing 2nd, better yet, winning all their games! ???

Hope they never change..

[Jase 43,479]

So, only 2 league games matter this weekend - Newcastle v West Ham and Hull v Man United...

[DYC. 7,542]

Lmaooo the Arsenal meltdown is real!

And to think at one point they looked set at finishing 2nd, better yet, winning all their games!

Hope they never change..

But I thought the only reason Chelsea won the league because of Utd's and Arsenal's poor start? Arsenal and Utd are just as good as the champions, just a bit unlucky... right?

Do anti-delusion pills exist?

[Kezza 1,965]

Sunderland will be happy to have Dick next season!

[We Hate Scouse 10,260]

So, only 2 league games matter this weekend - Newcastle v West Ham and Hull v Man United...

There's the fight for 5th as well and potentially 6th if Arsenal win the FA cup. Europa League won't mean much for Liverpool and Tottenham, but would be good for Southampton to get a place.

[Jase 43,479]

There's the fight for 5th as well and potentially 6th if Arsenal win the FA cup. Europa League won't mean much for Liverpool and Tottenham, but would be good for Southampton to get a place.

5th and 6th are the Europa League spots. If Arsenal win the FA Cup, then the 7th placed team will qualify for the Europa League as well. Liverpool, Spurs and Southampton are currently occupying 5th, 6th and 7th respectively. Given how English teams have moaned about the Europa League, doubt they'll care too much if they miss out TBH.

[zolayes 14,489]

sounds as if it will be an EXCITING SUNDAY.... I might go outside and watch the grass grow ........If it doesn't rain

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

HAHAHAHAHA

enjoy your 3rd place Arsenal. Wenger will think that was a massive progression from last season though.

[Special Juan 27,099]

Poor Arsenal....Anyway, I didn't watch it I watched Juve v Lazio instead.

[Jase 43,479]

Arsenal played their first midweek game since early March and Wenger moaned about tiredness after last night's draw?!

Forever with the excuses.

His talk about Arsenal making progression is also somewhat funny when they can't even beat last season's points tally of 79. Currently only have 72.

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