The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[Adam]

It's all a misunderstanding, over in Uruguay that gesture means "You are all lovely people"

Or can you only get away with that excuse once?

No, he's fine. It wasn't him who used that excuse last time, it was Gus Poyet on his behalf.

[The Future]

I miss Olof Mellberg.

[Lineker]

If you look hard enough, there's a little bit of Olof Mellberg in all of us.

[Colly]

Someone called me Olof Mellburg at five a side the other week when I had my exam beard. I nearly jizzed.

[Baddar]

I'm hearing de Gea got United's player of the month for November? Yaaaay.

[Summers]

Someone called me Olof Mellburg at five a side the other week when I had my exam beard. I nearly jizzed.

Play a bit better and they may call you Mellberg.

[Colly]

Someone called me Olof Mellburg at five a side the other week when I had my exam beard. I nearly jizzed.

Play a bit better and they may call you Mellberg.

I was concentrating so hard on spelling Olof correctly I forgot about the Mellberg...

[HailtotheYo]

Santos out .... For a while ...... Is it really impossible for us to have a season without half the first squad missing significant time ?

[DavidMarrio]

Is Gibbs still injured or?

[HailtotheYo]

Hernia surgery is usually 4-6 weeks .... So he's not quite ready yet

[Lineker]

Liverpool have been charged with failing to control their players after Spearing's red card. Suarez has been charged with improper conduct for his alleged gesture to Fulham fans.

[Liam]

Liverpool have been charged with failing to control their players after Spearing's red card. Suarez has been charged with improper conduct for his alleged gesture to Fulham fans.

As they should be.

[hugobomb]

Liverpool have been charged with failing to control their players after Spearing's red card. Suarez has been charged with improper conduct for his alleged gesture to Fulham fans.

As they should be.

Look at this picture, it will prove that there were no Liverpool players anywhere near the referee:

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[therockbox]

You missed one.

[hugobomb]

You missed one.

And I've left the impression that it was Murphy being sent off

[Lineker]

Jenas has had surgery on his achilles and will miss the next six months.

[stokeriño]

That piece of news seemed a lot more significant when I initially misread it as 'Jesus'.

[Lineker]

Villa still have to pay his wages though. That's something at least.

[Summers]

Villa still have to pay his wages though. That's something at least fucked up.

[Lineker]

Stoke have taken Enoch Balotelli - younger brother of Manchester City striker Mario - on trial.

The 19-year-old forward played 82 minutes for the Potters' reserves on Wednesday night at Burton Albion.

Stoke academy coach Dave Kevan told the Sentinel: "He's been with training with us for a while and it was good to give him a run out.

"He's a good boy but a little bit raw at the moment. We will just have to see how things go."

Enoch has been training with Stoke for the last three weeks and was linked with a move to Napoli earlier in the summer.

He showed some neat touches and some showboating Mario would have been proud of before coming off with cramp with eight minutes left of the goalless draw.

Enoch was born in Ghana before moving to Italy with Mario where the duo were adopted.

If the younger Balotelli does sign for Stoke, the Balotellis will become the latest in a line of brothers to play in the Premier League.

Some of the more notable families include Gary and Phil Neville, Rio and Anton Ferdinand, Shaun and Bradley Wright-Phillips and Manchester United twins Fabio and Rafael da Silva.