Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Looking again at the Shelvey sending off seems like Evans went in two footed and arguably made the more reckless challenge
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Imran_MUFC on Twitter: "This is what champions are made of, grinding out results while not playing at their best."

Well, there you go then.

I'm going out to clear my head. City v Arsenal was the best game in the epl last season and I don't fancy ruining my mood by stewing through a postmortem.

it was?

trying to remember it

city vs tottenham was good

1-0, really top quality, Arsenal pushed them hard.

looking forward to watching this. might even have a beer. there's a strange humming noise coming from the flat above mine #noelgallagher

^^

You'd think he could afford a house

"hemorrhoid treatment free e-book download", sez Sopcast

That QPR away kit is disgusting. They look like a bunch of holiday reps.

can we get a petition to oust niall quinn, he fucking ruins a game

can we get a petition to oust niall quinn, gervinho he fucking ruins a game

Shite from Spurs so far, our left side isn't functioning at all right now.

oh god I am sick of Sloop John B

makes you want to go home

oof

koscielny has been boss (as cozen we say) these last 20m or so

big merte has been boss too

gervinho otoh

Gervinhohhhhh.

if that falls to giroud

spurs very lucky to win. vertonghen is amazing

We weren't lucky, we were better for the second half. Fair play to AVB for changing the formation.

When Vertonghen and Kaboul are both playing we will be fantastic at playing it out of defence. Think Dempsey deserves a run in the team over Sigurdsson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19695430

OFF Gylfi Sigurdsson ON Steven Caulker 45'

What happened here, did Vertonghen move into midfield? I think he'd be excellent there.

The Lance Armstrong defense from Terry. Fitting.

Thinking about Utd's midfield and Spurs' midfield, there's no way Utd should be doing the usual to them this year.

Terry, meh

It does make Roy look bad though

Vertonghen moved to left back so we could play Bale further forward and Dempsey behind the striker. We immediately improved hugely.

i would love to have 3 vertonghens: left back, center back, center mid

saints up to 16th! ramirez looked v classy against villa, can't wait to see more of him. good to see ppl are taking notice of lambert for more than just his goalscoring too.

xpost re QPR'a horrible away kit. It's fucking Lotto. Their away kits are all off the peg - there'll be half a dozen teams around Europe with that away kit. Pretty sure it's Deportivo la Coruna's from last season, too.

i am too butthurt to speak about the result tbph

hardly as if spurs new kits arent vile either btw

Our grey and black away kit is grim, yes.

silver bits on the home are lotto-level naff and all

bale's turning into quite the knobhead isnt he, yes no one performed 1st half but he was giving the distinct impression leftback was beneath him

also why is everyone spunking off about vertonghen's tackle on hoilett, the guy took 10 minutes to get round to pulling the trigger ffs

grumble grumble

strong urge to have a little go at hughes but i know there's still too much to mitigate. probably

think i'm just gonna do a chris and spend my day gazing adoringly at pictures of lovely granero, maybe pen some faurlin fanfic too

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tintanegrafotos/sets/72157630953983114/

ahhh that's better

it's nice to finally have a player in the hoops with a body of talktobastianbitch style morbid tumblr gif fixation to sift through

http://i.imgur.com/WAETO.jpg

i mean

It is impossible not to love Esteban Granero. I look forward to gazing upon him once more on Wednesday evening.

xpost Spurs' home kit is a horror too (so's QPR's, I accept). The shorts are too near black. In fact, this is a horror season for kits all round. The following all fail:
Arsenal (the tricolor sleeves)
Man U (the tartan)
Fulham (the pinstripe)
Saints (the lack of stripes)
QPR (too many hoops)
Spurs (shorts too dark)
Swansea (gold trim only works if you're winning stuff. It looks good, but it's presumptuous. Chelsea at least won the CL before putting on gold trim)
Everton (ridiculous huge white cuffs)
Reading (they're not even hoops, are they?)
Wigan (like Newcastle last season, it's two white stripes on the front of a solid-coloured shirt, not a striped shirt)

Newcastle's is an improvement on last season's monstrosity, but this time it's too white rather than too black.

Kelly out 'til new year, Lucas still out 'til new year, Agger maybe out for the season, Shelvey suspended, Borini out for a bit. 20 points from 24 games this year. It's always darkest just before dawn.

yikes. I feel a bit bad about yesterday's result tbh

incredibly unlucky with the injuries adding on to everything else. still, they played very well yesterday.

plus there's always the kit deal

great to see suso get on. him and sterling have looked so composed and have slotted in really well, great credit to them and the academy staff. shitty refereeing really pissing me off.

plus there's always the kit deal

must try harder