The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[The Future]

Incredibly important we don't fuck up ala Blackburn against Fulham.

[Hobo]

To follow with more pointless factoids: Raheem Sterling is the first player to play in the Premier League that was born after the Channel Tunnel opened.

[HailtotheYo]

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.

See: Arsenal's last 6 years

However, great results today. Distance from Chelsea and a full game up on Tottenham. Awesome.

[The Lusophone]

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.

See: Arsenal's last 6 years

Solution: Don't buy sicknotes.

[Lineker]

You never had Darren Anderton!

[Dan]

Holy shit that goal by Peter Crouch was outstanding.

[Cheeky Hughes]

...

[Lineker]

Holy shit.

Why didn't who do that for us :/

[Gazz]

Pfft. I've scored better on a Saturday morning.

[HailtotheYo]

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.

See: Arsenal's last 6 years

Solution: Don't buy sicknotes.

Because horrid leg breaks are chronic

Also, I refuse to believe that is Peter Crouch scoring that. Absolutely refuse to believe it. Holy fucking hell is that bad ass.

[Cheeky Hughes]

This'll be the second season that the standout goal of the season will have been scored against City, it seems.

[Jimmy]

That is fucking incredible. Goal of the season.

[Plubby]

There was something distinctly Le Tissier about that strike, save that Le Tissier did it from a dead ball situation.

[Jimmy]

As I wasn't really around at the time, can someone explain to me how Le Tissier didn't get more caps for England?

[Lineker]

Just never got picked, different sorts of midfielders were always selected ahead of him.

[The Lusophone]

Because he played for Southampton.

[METALMAN]

He had the misfortune of playing at the same time as the great Nick Barmby and Steve Stone.

[EddieG]

This is a story my stepdad always loved to tell, 'cause he played for Southampton, and his family lived there, he never wanted to move, which led to England managers saying he didn't have enough ambition to play for England.

[9 to 5]

Because Le Tiss wasn't fast and didn't fit into the team and no manager was prepared to form a team around him. Plus you had Gazza who was a better Le Tissier around at the time. Still a crime he didn't get much of a chance.

[METALMAN]

it's not actually a crime, is it? :/