Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

swansea are just basically competent btw, with michu an outstanding handful

result is purely testament to the hughes' assemblage of complete fannies

Hughes is 10/1 to be the first London manager to leave his post. Seems enormously generous.

Commentators orgasmic about WBA attacking options, but tbh if you're counterattacking ...

0-3

This couldn't be going worse

would be particularly rude of spurs not to get gubbed too now

0-5

0-5!

hey if you're gonna lose then lets go all out

Should be 0-4 here. Actually, make that 0-7.

you know i have watched a ton of these arsenal games before, we all have. and many of them have involved rvp as one of the xi not scoring and looking frustrating. but the coverage is going to be unbearable of 'well rvp would have scored 12' if we dont score.

such a queens park rangers day

ur only saying that cuz rvp would've totally taken that giroud chance. xp

fulham 5-0!

goodbye norwich

Arshavin's back?! It's weird seeing dudes return from disgrace.

yo sunderland players you are professional athletes not little old ladies you dont have to fall down in the wind

I guess Steve Kean's job is safe.

And somehow people will still think the big story of the day is something other than Big Sam putting his critics in their place. Tss.

terms agreed with Barcelona for Song

Oh dear, what a day

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61844000/jpg/_61844451_adkins.jpg

Arsenal need to send Sahin a DVD of the 2nd half at The Hawthorns

Well, at least another team got beat 5-0, and one after us in the alphabet, to keep us off the bottom. What a depressing start. Makes me slightly happier that Liverpool got humbled though

Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Perch, Santon, Ben Arfa, Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Cisse, Ba. Subs: Harper, Williamson, Anita, Gosling, Ryan Taylor, Shola Ameobi, Obertan.

Tottenham: Friedel, Walker, Kaboul, Gallas, Assou-Ekotto, Livermore, Sandro, Lennon, Sigurdsson, Bale, Defoe. Subs: Cudicini, Vertonghen, Van der Vaart, Naughton, Jenas, Townsend, Kane.

thudd and dawson not in avb's plans i guess. strange that gallas starts over vert

Yeah, Gallas was really struggling towards the end of last season. I didn't expect him to still be around.

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Raging. Optimism gone

ouch

Liverpool v Man City Sun 26 Aug 16:00

Liverpool v Arsenal Sun 2 Sep 13:30

Sunderland v Liverpool Sat 15 Sep 17:30

Liverpool v Man Utd Sun 23 Sep 13:30

it's alright, they usually up their game against Utd

They've had a fucker of a fixture list at the start of recent seasons, at least in my biased mind.

Was it right at the start of one season when they went to Newcastle and put six past them? Long time ago now.

just said on espn that all pitches have to be 105 x 68 metres this season. hadn't heard that before today, anyone know if it's a premier league rule or is it every pitch?

hope not, I get a warm glow when I think about the stat* that you can have a pitch 100m long and a pitch 100m wide ~but you can't have a square pitch~

*might be outdated by now anyway idk

Has there ever been a 100m-wide pitch? Imagine the space.

fucksake Walker

amazed Ba hasn't scored for six months!

I think the Maracana is the biggest in the world. It's 110 × 75 m

Woo! Equaliser from Defoe.

2-1 NUFC, more idiot defending to concede a pen. not impressed

AvB's excitement short-lived.

in Harry Kane Spurs have not only a fresh pair of legs but also the Prem player whose name sounds most like an early 00s nu-skool breaks producer

haw just changed dn before i saw that post

At least spurs lost. Welcome to hell.

Right then. Are we ready for some football (highlights)?

Oh my. Individual chairs? Oh my.

I do like Agger's 'Who? Me?!', as if the identity of the culprit was at issue there

Despite everything Liverpool were a little bit unlucky with finishing & decisions today. But fuck another season blaming luck, frankly.

That second Michu goal's a bit special.

Also, QPR being rent asunder by Wayne Routledge, de Guzman pinging in quality set pieces... This Laudrup at Swansea thing might just work.

going on the basis I'll never get to say this again - ingenious stuff from Steven Taylor there.

we. are. top of the league. say we are top of the league.