The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[Lineker]

Stoke: Begovic, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Jerome, Whelan, Whitehead, Etherington, Walters, Crouch.

Subs: Sorensen, Jones, Pennant, Upson, Delap, Shotton, Palacios.

Man City: Hart, Zabaleta, Richards, Toure, Clichy, Toure Yaya, Barry, Silva, Balotelli, Nasri, Dzeko.

Subs: Pantilimon, Milner, Johnson, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, de Jong.

Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)

[Hobo]

Liverpool can't really blame injuries to be honest. Arsenal, Spurs and Man Utd have all had chronic injury problems throughout the season.

It's not the number of injures it's the players injured that is the issue. Johnson, Agger, Lucas, Bellamy and Adam are five of what would be a first choice starting XI most of the time. If not constant members of a match day squad.

I'm pretty sure that missing half of a first choice team is going to cause your team to performances to dip a little. Especially when it includes some of the most important first team players.

[MJB]

Come on Howard, do it for the team

[Lineker]

QPR captain Joey Barton, who was an unused substitute this afternoon, tweets: "Not selected. Nothing I can do sitting on the bench. Obviously disappointed. Going to take a little Twitter sabbatical before I say something I'll end up regretting."

fuck off Joey.

[MJB]

If the season started on January 1st, Liverpool would be bottom of the league

[Summers]

If the season started on January 1st, Liverpool would be bottom of the league

Is there a table of that floating around somewhere? Would be interesting.

[Gazz]

If the season started on January 1st, Liverpool would be bottom of the league

KK's the Messiah.

[MJB]

If the season started on January 1st, Liverpool would be bottom of the league

Is there a table of that floating around somewhere? Would be interesting.

No idea I'm afraid, just something that was on the BBC Sport page.

I think whoever posted it meant joint bottom because I'm guessing QPR and Wolves are just as bad

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

CROUCH WITH A FUCKING BEAUTY!

Unbelievable goal, wow!

[Cheeky Hughes]

Goal of the season. Next year is our year!

[Summers]

Goal of the season.

Easily.

[Baddar]

lol @ Ryan saying the title race is over because of that goal.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Looks better every single time.

Great to see Crouch score it too, always felt he never really gets the praise he deserves. A much better player than some give him credit for.

[MJB]

CROUCH!

[Cheeky Hughes]

Fight fire with fire, I guess.

[MJB]

Nuts.

[Summers]

Shit keeping.

[The Future]

Looks better every single time.

Great to see Crouch score it too, always felt he never really gets the praise he deserves. A much better player than some give him credit for.

I don't think Carrol will turn into a player that's significantly better than Crouch but still loads of time for him to prove me wrong.

Hold on Stokies!

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Did look like a right shocker from the keeper, though it did take a deflection, but you'd still expect him to deal with that one.

Fantastic result for Stoke and obviously for us. If we can do the business on Monday against Fulham then it'll be a great boost.

[MJB]

Cheers Stoke