Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

what the shit are they paying 18 year olds that will never play anywhere other than league 2 that he's driving a killer merc

oh sotonpaws

rapey van lolsie

Maigheo abu obv

An Arsenal and England youth star was yesterday arrested at the wheel of his new £100,000 sports car.

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas allegedly failed to stop for police in the early hours.

The 19-year-old was driving a Mercedes McLaren in Wanstead, East London.

Officers smashed his windscreen during the incident and allegedly found he was unaccompanied and had only a provisional licence.

inexplicable rooney-esque shinning of a penalty.

lol at callous dmac. for callous me the thing that struck me most was that some random man city youth player can seemingly afford a mercedes. xp

I am sitting with someone who has Rickie Lambert first goal, draw ht soton win, soton win, Lambert first score at 2-1 and Soton 2-1. I can't begin to tell you what he's like atm.

What odds!

lol i forgot the jet thing. either way, premiership clubs are fucking crazy.

Lambert first goal was 19/1 him and correct score is 95/1. Not sure about the rest.

what does he have on each bet?

I was at Anfield today, and am frankly terrified as to how Liverpool's season is going to play out. There is nobody to score goals - Shelvey(!) looked lethal in comparison when he came on and had a couple of shots. They keep possession well enough but have few options once they reach the final third, it's either down the wing then nobody to cross to in the box, or else trying to pick their way through and failing.

Allen was really excellent and tidy; Sterling very promising but raw; Gerrard, Suarez, Reina, Enrique all poor, in increasing order of stinkiness. They were fine for twenty minutes when Arsenal looked feeble, but struggled when Arsenal found their feet.

As for Arsenal, not particularly impressed either tbh. Diaby was magnificent though, it was weird, like he had a ten-yard forcefield round him. He won everything. I think Liverpool really missed Lucas, they had nobody but Allen challenging in the middle and that's only part of his job.

Podolski fine, Arteta and Vermaelen played well; but they seemed still a bit flimsy. Giroud looked laboured.

enrique clearly worse than johnson when both goals developed down liverpool's right wing

well, Podolski was better than AOC ...

£2 on each, so first scorer has already covered the whole thing.

:''(

Oh well

The legend strikes again

gonna eat my tea really furiously if United win this effing thing now

well that was easy

can teams just bloody defend and mark players

There's a reason why they say bookies always win.

between this and the dortmund game i watched yesterday, it like all defences are set to 'amateur' on pro evo

Rvp settling far too quickly for my liking, all my mates have him as captain in their ff teams. Causing me all sorts of bother.

Ohhhhhhh ffs

YES! A fairy tale ending

fucking rvi ey

a team of his stature

"NOW CAN ANYONE DOUBT THE SIGNING OF ROBIN VAN PERSIE?" Dude calm down, its not been a month yet. Plus if he gets an injury it is usually around November time.

Sky Sports and Man Utd : Fox News and the Republican Party

RVP could have scored 5 in that half alone, he is great. The other ten looked p useless though and the saints were another unlucky team who should have got points against Utd and ended up losing.

quality guzan save on a cabaye fk and villa get a pt, 1-1

God, this is gonna be a bloody long season.

berbatov looks good value at 6.9 in the fantasy football

wait, why the hell did jose let sahin go if he was to get the 2012 model essien in?

(yes it took me two days to notice this.)

because he wants Sahin to play regularly and he just needs Essien for the occasional cup game?

I guess

someone for carvalho to play cards with in a basement room somewhere in the bernabeu full of turps cans and broken lawnmowers

robot wars just called the panenka, which rvp has scored a couple of 'the pirlo'

yeah i was just about express my irritation

about to

ugh

brendan just said that we 'hid' the ball well. i don't think i've ever heard that before but i like it, it explains a lot in defensive possession football.

^^^^

they only hid it for 53% of the time tho

i've never really cared for glen johnson, hansen's piece for once has perfectly explained why. lol at how many clips they found of him being the furthest forward. he may have talent but he just doesn't seem to ~understand~ why he should do things

guzan

OOOOF

best french player in the league

how is stephen ireland still in a premiership starting xi

Villa's POTY last season (allegedly because he told McLeish to fuck off that time)

"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"
"managers are often based on decisions"

johnson was p clearly playing exactly where he was told to y'day hence rodgers praising him along with sterling and allen.

Yup. Arsenal were playing extremely narrow, so that Johnson was always available and willing out on the touchline. The problem is that letting Liverpool attack down the flanks is a really good idea from Arsenal's point of view because there's nobody to cross to. So Johnson, Sterling, Borini and later Downing kept having to check back - Arsenal were deep enough after the first twenty minutes that there was no mileage in trying to find space behind them, and Liverpool don't have the finesse (yet) to pick their way through. Long shots might have brought joy on another day, but nobody really had their eye in for most of the game.

Roy Hodgon's 'disastrous' time at Anfield started Arsenal (draw), Man City (loss) and West Brom (win), along with comfortable home and away wins against supposed European minnows from a poor quality league. Funny how history repeats itself.