Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

yup

altho he's probably done himself a relative favour compared to if newcastle had gone up and scored tbf

Mirallas really does not look at his teammates ever, does he.

yeah, he may have had a suspicion it was over

Justice prevails?

nice

must be some sort of strange gust of cosmic wind if it's anichebe doing that

good game

Wow!

oh my word

That was a brilliant finish, knowing he had to bounce it under the leaping Howard.

lolwut

You don't think he meant to do that?

THIS FUCKING GAME

BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD

although i know it should have been 4-1 by that stage, i feel disgusted that everton couldnt even hold on to a 2-1 lead for 2 minutes

also ive got Fellaini on my FF team

Some wise words re:Hillsborough/Munich chanting: http://forums.lfconline.com/showthread.php?t=161719
Sadly I suspect Sunday will be a nightmare.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19626921

fucking bizarre comments, well done high level official for giving journalists the freakiest and most incendiary headline possible for a hot potato story.

Brian Woolnough, the chief sports writer of the Daily Star, has died after a long struggle against bowel cancer.

The 63-year-old was also a well-known face on television, hosting Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement from 2007 after previously being the presenter of Hold the Back Page from 1994.

Woolnough began his career on The Esher News in Surrey, moved to the Evening Post in Hemel Hempstead before joining The Sun, where he worked for 27 years, ending up as chief football writer. He moved to the Daily Star in 2001.

I mostly disagreed with him about football but he seemed like a good guy, from what one can tell from a 1 1/2 hour TV programme each week. RIP.

Poor fella. I was hooked on Hold The Back Page for a while, had no idea it stretched back so far (or indeed was still going), but it could make for pretty great telly.

Saints have a Japanese-language Twitter account now. Which does not in any way make me worried about why we signed Maya Toshida.

is that a typo or

Yoshida, obv. Phone keyboards etc.

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4957197631

I wish nothing but the best for that lad

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Love it! What does their Borini do?

insufficient data

cannae wait for this

swansea getting completely out footballed by everton here. 1-0 to everton. fellaini bullying all and sundry.

replay of the goal suggests hand ball, cue david moyes "it evens out over the course of the season, or week".

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/22/article-2206741-1520962F000005DC-773_636x403.jpg

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/espnfcunited/id/657?cc=5739

much to savour

so many chances for both teams in this half.

omg r/t/c

big sam re team photos You spend hours on it normally, trying to get players in the right areas and do the right things."

Hours? 'do the right things'???? What, smile?

insert thebig_sam joke about the difficulty of finding giant boomboxes in east london

"It's about points for me. Points-per-game is more important than position in the league."

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west ham in 2003 had a reasonable points per game but, you know, 17 teams were better still

i'd like to say that the 'best side ever relegated' is probably not true

in england, maybe, but the zaragoza side of aimar milito etc a few years back and last year's villareal were bette

Have there really been 45 attempts at goal in this match? Two-thirds of them from EFC?

All very gratifying but, y'know, three points on Monday night and we'd be top now. I used to like to take a photo of Ceefax when we did that. (Of course, we can still do it if we score two more right now...)

yah been no defending except efc have headed away some corners effectively. Both Victor A. and Fellaini have missed tap-ins, both from L Baines crosses which is killing my fantasy team (great signing ol Leighton btw) Could do with a Pineear goal and a Howard clean sheet also for fantasy purposes.

efc v impressive especially considering no jelavic, if Arsenal hadn't started so well I'd have given them a shot at top 4.

from reading the guardian minute by minute in the first half, you'd think anichebe had turned into ronaldo all of a sudden

Chelsea, Stoke, Southampton, Villa, West Brom, Reading, West Ham, Sunderland, Wigan and Fulham fans wanted, please apply

Oscar is so stylish

I'm watching Villa but am still trying to get a handle on this year's team. The game's been pretty entertaining, though the Villa kids are as crap in defense as the old man squad we trundled out the last few years.

we've got 2 saints fans haven't we? Nice comeback going on atm.