Premier League Round Up (Apr 2-3 2016)

[tlw content]

So for weeks I’d been assuming that it was Villa and Norwich down with one of the two North East teams joining them. Norwich are showing real signs of life though and it’s looking like Sunderland AND Newcastle could go. The Canaries have taken seven points from their last nine and have opened up a four point gap over Sunderland. 
 
Their latest win was a double whammy because they beat Newcastle. A six pointer as they say. Whatsmore, it came via a stoppage time winner, which not only gives Norwich a massive boost, but it’s the type of kick in the pills that it’s difficult to recover from if you’re Newcastle. It’s looking increasingly likely that they’re screwed.
 
They really had to win this one, yet Rafa dropped crowd favourite Mitrovic despite him rescuing a point for them in the derby last week. If he’d left him out for Ayoze Perez it might have been more understandable, but he went with Papiss Cisse instead. Hey Rafa, 2012 called, it wants it’s “flash in the pan striker” back. 
 
That was vintage Rafa that was though, he’s a complete law unto himself isn't he? When it works he's a genius, but when it doesn't... He’ll have had his reasons for doing it, but it’ll have been something completely random like he’d noticed a Norwich defender was not comfortable passing to his left and that Cisse is better at pressing from his right side than Mitrovic. Sometimes he out thinks himself, and this was one of those times.
 
Mitrovic eventually came off the bench and scored twice to almost snatch a point for them until Norwich won it in the last minute through Olsen. If Rafa saves this bunch of losers from here it might be as big an achievement as Istanbul.
 
Newcastle fans might be thinking they’ve jumped the gun a little bit after once again crowning a messiah when he's barely through the door. Remember the Ruud Gullit wigs? They lasted a few weeks until he dropped Shearer for the derby and they decided they didn’t like him anymore.
 
They’ve gone all in on Rafa very quickly too. They’ve nicked the La Bamba song, they’re wearing Rafa masks and thousands of them have even grown Rafa bellies in tribute. The thing is, Rafa hasn’t won a game for them yet and they're so bad he might not ever win one, yet they’ve canonised him already. At least we waited until he got us to a cup final before we walked around the streets hailing him as the “Rafatolah”.
 
If he’d been there at the start of the season there’s no way in hell they’d be going down, but he’s got his hands full trying to turn that hot mess he’s inherited into a cohesive defensive unit in such a short space of time. It’s mad really, he started the season with Ronaldo, Bale, Modric & co at Real, and he looks like he’s ending it by getting relegated with Steven Taylor and Andros Townsend. I doubt that any manager has ever had two more contrasting jobs in the same season.

 

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[Trumo]

The Cleveland stuff reminds me of a great gag by Canadian improv legend Colin Mochrie on the US version of  Whose Line...? where he was doing a skit playing a newsreader. His opening gambit in the skit is "This just in...Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3."

[buster69]

Dave, you do know Dwight Gayle is related to Howard Gayle who used to play for us? Doesn't make you feel a twinge more affection for him?

 

Also, this reminds me of Wilshere 

https://www.google.it/search?q=clean+shirt+peep+show&biw=1366&bih=677&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjQjans7PzLAhWHchQKHaioDbIQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=kAIg0M0a5UaZjM%3A

[Trumo]

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php?/topic/100541-definitely-true-things-youve-heard-about-footballers/?p=4221507

 

Jack Wilshere has got a tattoo of himself getting a tattoo.

[William_Ulsterman]

for a minute there i thought you had gone soft on villa. thank god i was wrong.

[KMD7]

'The miserable, old woman haired, manc fuck'

 

Brilliant

[Tony Moanero]

So for weeks I’d been assuming that it was Villa and Norwich down with one of the two North East teams joining them. Norwich are showing real signs of life though and it’s looking like Sunderland AND Newcastle could go. The Canaries have taken seven points from their last nine and have opened up a four point gap over Sunderland.

 

Their latest win was a double whammy because they beat Newcastle. A six pointer as they say. Whatsmore, it came via a stoppage time winner, which not only gives Norwich a massive boost, but it’s the type of kick in the pills that it’s difficult to recover from if you’re Newcastle. It’s looking increasingly likely that they’re screwed.

 

They really had to win this one, yet Rafa dropped crowd favourite Mitrovic despite him rescuing a point for them in the derby last week. If he’d left him out for Ayoze Perez it might have been more understandable, but he went with Papiss Cisse instead. Hey Rafa, 2012 called, it wants it’s “flash in the pan striker” back.

 

That was vintage Rafa that was though, he’s a complete law unto himself isn't he? When it works he's a genius, but when it doesn't... He’ll have had his reasons for doing it, but it’ll have been something completely random like he’d noticed a Norwich defender was not comfortable passing to his left and that Cisse is better at pressing from his right side than Mitrovic. Sometimes he out thinks himself, and this was one of those times.

 

Mitrovic eventually came off the bench and scored twice to almost snatch a point for them until Norwich won it in the last minute through Olsen. If Rafa saves this bunch of losers from here it might be as big an achievement as Istanbul.

 

Newcastle fans might be thinking they’ve jumped the gun a little bit after once again crowning a messiah when he's barely through the door. Remember the Ruud Gullit wigs? They lasted a few weeks until he dropped Shearer for the derby and they decided they didn’t like him anymore.

 

They’ve gone all in on Rafa very quickly too. They’ve nicked the La Bamba song, they’re wearing Rafa masks and thousands of them have even grown Rafa bellies in tribute. The thing is, Rafa hasn’t won a game for them yet and they're so bad he might not ever win one, yet they’ve canonised him already. At least we waited until he got us to a cup final before we walked around the streets hailing him as the “Rafatolah”.

 

If he’d been there at the start of the season there’s no way in hell they’d be going down, but he’s got his hands full trying to turn that hot mess he’s inherited into a cohesive defensive unit in such a short space of time. It’s mad really, he started the season with Ronaldo, Bale, Modric & co at Real, and he looks like he’s ending it by getting relegated with Steven Taylor and Andros Townsend. I doubt that any manager has ever had two more contrasting jobs in the same season.

 

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Load of shite.

[dylstar]

Now the drugs dont work

They just make you worse

Not true of Leicester then boys is it ? Champions elect having nearly been relegated last season.

[Dr Nowt]

Now the drugs dont work They just make you worse Not true of Leicester then boys is it ? Champions elect having nearly been relegated last season.

Bet Dave wishes he said that.