The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[IAceI]

Yay football is back. I fully expect us to not beat Fulham today but it's just nice to get back into the match day routine.

[Lineker]

Norwich: Ruddy, Naughton, Russell Martin, Barnett, Tierney, Crofts, Johnson, Fox, Pilkington, Hoolahan, Morison.

Subs: Rudd, Drury, Holt, Jackson, Surman, Bennett, Wilbraham.

Arsenal: Szczesny, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Andre Santos, Ramsey, Arteta, Song, Walcott, van Persie, Gervinho.

Subs: Fabianski, Rosicky, Djourou, Arshavin, Chamakh, Benayoun, Coquelin.

Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)

Come on you inbred fucks!!

[Kaney]

Fuck you Liniker, Van Persie is gonna win this match, easy.

[Noah]

Red dot game.

Fox has given us Aussies the choice of Arsenal v Norwich or Burnley v Leeds.

[stokeriño]

I've said it before, but it's amazing what just playing a few months of FM with a team you previously knew nothing about can do to your sympathies. Hopefully Pilkington has one of his tearing-shit-up days rather than one of his I'm-sorry-I-nodded-off-there days.

[Lineker]

Oh really Kaney?

MORISON!!!

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Oh dear Arsenal

[Colly]

Arf. To think Lawro thought this would be Norwichs first real test (despite them having played Man U, Chelsea and drawn at Anfield). Not over obviously, but watching Arsene moan never gets old.

[DavidMarrio]

Good news: Arsenalol

Bad news: FFS Arsenal don't fuck up my bet already

[stokeriño]

Heh, was fun while it lasted.

[Summers]

Fuck you Liniker, Van Persie is gonna win this match, easy.

[Colly]

So glad I dropped Gervinho from my Dream Team. Just kick the ball...

[Kaney]

See, this is why you don't mock people until the match is over

[Colly]

Have Arsenal employed a specialist 'hospital pass' coach?

[MDK]

How did Gervinho miss that?!

[Lineker]

See, this is why you don't mock people until the match is over

I wasn't mocking any one person. If anyone it was people from Norwich! Haven't watched the last hour anyway, went out on my lunch break.

Wigan vs. Blackburn may be a delayed kick-off.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Heitinga, Jagielka, Baines, Coleman, Fellaini, Osman, Drenthe, Cahill, Saha.

Subs: Mucha, Bilyaletdinov, Stracqualursi, Gueye, Barkley, Vellios, Mustafi.

Wolverhampton: Hennessey, Stearman, Johnson, Berra, Ward, Edwards, Henry, Milijas, Hunt, O'Hara, Doyle.

Subs: de Vries, Elokobi, Craddock, Ebanks-Blake, Fletcher, Jarvis, Guedioura.

Referee: Jon Moss (W Yorkshire)

[Colly]

No clever Lineker quoting, but Newcastle are playing against Man City with no Tiote or Obertan (honestly, that actually is a bad thing) with Danny Guthrie and Sammy Ameobi starting. I'm terrified.

[Gazz]

No clever Lineker quoting, but Newcastle are playing against Man City with no Tiote or Obertan (honestly, that actually is a bad thing) with Danny Guthrie and Sammy Ameobi starting. I'm terrified.

Look on the brightside, no David Silva.

[Colly]

No Silva, but Nasri's in and its De Jong instead of Barry to scare Hatem, with no Tiote to break him in two. If we're getting done I'd recommend bringing Alan Smith on second half just to destroy him.

[Lineker]

Wigan: al-Habsi, Stam, Gohouri, Caldwell, Figueroa, Moses, McCarthy, Gomez, Jones, Diame, Sammon.

Subs: Pollitt, Crusat, Watson, Maloney, McArthur, Rodallega, Lopez.

Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado, Hanley, Dann, Givet, Rochina, N'Zonzi, Dunn, Pedersen, Hoilett, Yakubu.

Subs: Forimca, Petrovic, Blackman, Roberts, Goodwillie, Henley, Bunn.

Referee: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)

West Brom: Foster, Reid, Olsson, McAuley, Shorey, Morrison, Mulumbu, Brunt, Thomas, Gera, Long.

Subs: Fulop, Dorrans, Fortune, Tchoyi, Dawson, Jones, Cox.

Bolton: Jaaskelainen, Riley, Wheater, Cahill, Robinson, Eagles, Reo-Coker, Muamba, Mark Davies, Kevin Davies, Klasnic.

Subs: Bogdan, Tuncay, Petrov, Knight, Pratley, N'Gog, Kakuta.

Referee: Neil Swarbrick (Preston)

Stoke City: Sorensen; Wilkinson, Shawcross ©, Huth, Higginbotham; Pennant, Whitehead, Delap, Etherington; Walters, Crouch.

Subs: Begovic, Whelan, Jones, Fuller, Wilson, Upson, Palacios.

QPR: Kenny, Hill, Gabbidon, Faurlin, Mackie, Traore, Barton, Young, Helguson, Wright-Phillips, Ferdinand.

Subs: Murphy, Orr, Derry, Buzsaky, Smith, Hewitt.

Referee: Mike Jones (Cheshire)

Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, de Jong, Toure Yaya, Milner, Balotelli, Aguero.

Subs: Pantilimon, Dzeko, Kolarov, Adam Johnson, Barry, Silva, Kolo Toure.

Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Ryan Taylor, Ben Arfa, Guthrie, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Ba, Sammy Ameobi.

Subs: Elliot, Santon, Lovenkrands, Perch, Gosling, Smith, Shola Ameobi.

Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)

Sunderland: Westwood, O'Shea, Turner, Brown, Bardsley, Elmohamady, Colback, Cattermole, Richardson, Bendtner, Sessegnon.

Subs: Carson, Gardner, Vaughan, Ji, Meyler, Noble, Egan.

Fulham: Schwarzer, Hughes, Hangeland, Baird, Senderos, Dempsey, Murphy, Etuhu, Duff, Zamora, Dembele.

Subs: Etheridge, Johnson, Kasami, Ruiz, Gecov, Briggs, Kacaniklic.

Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)

Taarabt not even in the QPR squad despite them only naming six subs. He isn't injured either.

Blackburn beating Wigan already.