Official Premier League 2010/11 thread

[METALMAN]

I've never really thought Harry Redknapp is up to that level. Decent mid-table manager, but I've always thought that even at Spurs he's punching above his weight a bit.

[Pesci]

Oh come on. Chelsea >>>>>>>> Spurs.

[Hobo]

I'm sticking by 'arry to Chelsea, Carlo to Villa and Rafa Benitez to Spurs.

[stokeriño]

I'm sure Harry wouldn't mind the job. He'd be thinking "Brilliant, Roman would sack me just in time for me to walk into the England job next summer".

[9 to 5]

I did say...

[Gazz]

'Arry might be exactly what Abramovich is looking for though, plays attacking football, good motivator, now has Champions League experience and you have to admit, he exceeded all expectation with Spurs' CL run, that's got to have impressed him too.

[METALMAN]

the Chelsea manager's job must be the best job in football. Work for a season or two, then you're sacked and set for life.

[therockbox]

'Arry might be exactly what Abramovich is looking for though, plays attacking football, good motivator, now has Champions League experience and you have to admit, he exceeded all expectation with Spurs' CL run, that's got to have impressed him too.

An awful lot of that, except the Champions League bit, was said about Hodgson last season as well.

[Thrilla]

Hopefully 'Arry pulls a Hodgson and runs himself out of the race for the England job.

[Matt]

To be fair, it'd kinda work: Harry loves spending money, Chelsea need to spend money.

[Lineker]

Kolo Toure has been given a six-month ban - dating back from March so he'll be available again in September.

[Summers]

The off-season counting is bullshit. :\

[brenchill]

Personally I think that would be a brilliant appointment for Villa should they pull it off. Houllier won't last past Christmas.

I didn't realise his health was that bad.

[stokeriño]

The Chelsea manager odds get quite weird once you get past the first few favourites.

William Hill have Arsene Wenger at 40-1. This is apparently more likely than Roberto di Matteo, for example.

[Colly]

'Arry might be exactly what Abramovich is looking for though, plays attacking football, good motivator, now has Champions League experience and you have to admit, he exceeded all expectation with Spurs' CL run, that's got to have impressed him too.

Kevin Keegans got all that, more Champions League experience, and he's not a wheeler dealer (sorry 'arry). Sign him up Roman!

[Sam]

The Kolo Toure thing is a total farce. Rio misses a drugs test and got a 9 month man, Toure fails a drugs test and gets a 6 month ban which counts from March and includes two months when no football is played?! baffled!

Edited May 26, 2011 by Sam

[METALMAN]

Yes, but Rio Ferdinand had his previous conviction as well, which probably explains the extended sentence.

[Matt]

The Kolo Toure thing is a total farce. Rio misses a drugs test and got a 9 month man, Toure fails a drugs test and gets a 6 month ban which counts from March and includes two months when no football is played?! baffled!

Didn't Rio miss 2 tests? And he was judged to have purposefully missed the test, IIRC, plus it was 8 months not 9. Toure took slimming pills. And 2 months of Rio's ban included the summer as well.

[therockbox]

And, you know, if the ban for not turning up wasn't more severe than the ban for failing then people who knew they were going to be caught out just wouldn't bother going.

[Noah]

Now I can easily see Abramovich making this a very palatable move for the Chelsea fans, simply by adding Franco Zola to the team as Harry`s assistant, whilst it wouldn`t take too many glowing words from John Terry and his nephew Frank to get the fans totally convinced that he is the man to take over from Ancelotti, so is it becoming a realistic option and as Spurs fans should we start to worry or for some rejoice?

That person really doesn't have a high opinion of the intelligence of the average chelsea fan.