Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

i guess u could say it is unfortunate that vidic or ferdinand never seem to be available at the same time any more, or maybe that it's fortunate they alternate their injuries so evans/jones/smalling have someone to hold their hand

Jones and Smalling both out. So they're relying on Rio Ferdinand to stay fit otherwise it's Michael Carrick at CB.

JT has/had lost Umbro deal, containing gobbet that said deal believed to be worth £4m a year to the former England man. I know footballers insulate their houses with unwanted banknotes, but surely not, surely he hasn't been pulling in £80,000 a week for wearing a pair of shoes.

wd explain some high profile kickings of opposition players

Are you looking for a racist to promote your brand?

Maybe he could rep Scheuer?

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/399151_4684221109274_998568163_n.jpg

that joke was done a couple of seasons back iirc. still great.

it did seem familiar, don't think it was in graffiti form though

i heard the story that somebody had written it on the airport sign the last time they had a terrible start to a season but i don't think i saw a pic. easily shopped tho.

re: bad kits this season
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/sep/27/premier-league-kits

I like both the Everton & Arsenal cuffs. The only issue I see is where do they put them on the longsleeve versions?

fellaini was wearing a long sleeve tues night, had normal cuffs iirc

http://imageshack.us/a/img803/570/picture1tw.png

I was wondering whether they'd start in the same place and extend all the way down, or what

arsenal kit's really grown on me, nicest for years imo

lfc still looks cheap and and a bit nasty somehow despite just being red. reiterate spurs with the silver bits is naff

notwithstanding the abiding atrocity it commemorates, chelsea's muddy gold on blue still looks shit anyway

sunderland have the dopest sponsor by far, shame the home is too 00s adidas techfitt-y. the away is probably my fave out of everyone's all told come to think of it...

http://4.soccer-reviews.com/wp-content/uploads/jpeg2.jpg

would be nice if these sort of pieces didnt always have to descend into nostalgic mojo man whining... you can have a good non-historical kit you know. loads of the supposedly canonically horrible 90s kits were really fun and awesome and i will never tire of saying so

oh and whisper it but i've kinda got used to thin hoops for qpr now... it's the collar and all the other tacky lotto shite that brings it down. and the unspeakable template aways

Make the hoops thinner & thinner imo, 'til they're a tribute to the actual Queen's Park

The FA's disciplinary hearing has found John Terry guilty of a charge that he directed abusive language with racial connotations at QPR's Anton Ferdinand last October.

The independent regulatory commission delivered its verdict on Thursday after a four-day hearing, banning Terry for four games and fining him £220,000.

also andre dos santos gets a years ban for driving at 145mph oy

that's gotta be a custodial most of the time no? 9 am so not like it was the wee small hours

sunderland have the dopest sponsor by far
actually sounds pretty shady
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/concerns-over-suitability-of-sunderlands-new-sponsor-7893651.html

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2012/9/27/1348750394343/Jack-Wilshere-008.jpg

I like that they only have a picture of him in the-last-kit-but-one. They ought to have rendered it in sepia imo.

i liked the top the officials were wearing for spurs-lazio. had a fun goal net design on the front.

wtf is up with newcastle doling out 8 year contracts?

EIGHT!!

contracts are max 5 yrs, 3 wd be as an option

contract is just a way of maximising possible transfer value anyway, it shdn't be that much of a gamble if you do your homework right

managers don't get transferred tho. So if R Madrid swoop for Pardew next Summer do they have to pay out 7 yrs compensation?

oh! yes that is odd

Oh man I hope Pardew chooses this moment to revert the cretinous clown he was at every previous club because he'll be mad expensive to sack now.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/people3/jan2012/7/4/pics-image-4-135036102.jpg

Dude in the background is so creepy.

Was Pardew ever a cretinous clown though? I've just had a happy five minutes trailing the archives for him (so weird seeing long ago football posts by our ancestors) and it's pretty much all positive - other than some incomprehensible beef with Wenger circa 2006. Some kind of dance-off? No memory of this at all.

His star only wanes with his bad run from West Ham into Charlton, then he resurfaces pulling up trees at Southampton.

he looks like satan, xpost

Ashley's motivation revealed

Henry Winter ‏@henrywinter
I honour my bets. I promised to swim the Tyne if Ashley showed long-term loyalty to Pardew #nufc. He has, fair play, so time for dip in Tyne.

In March 2006, Pardew had a dispute with Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, after he criticised Arsenal for failing to field an English player in their UEFA Champions League win against Real Madrid.[42] Wenger suggested that Pardew was being xenophobic,[43] a claim Pardew denied, citing his marriage to a Swedish wife.[44]
In November 2006, Pardew had another dispute with Wenger after celebrating West Ham's win over Arsenal.[45] Wenger claimed he was provoked into pushing Pardew after Pardew's celebrations at West Ham's late win.[46] Wenger was later fined by the Football Association,[47] whilst Pardew was cleared of the charges in January 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4aQSphwits

he looks like satan, xpost
More like Antony Worrall Thompson.

...some incomprehensible beef with Wenger circa 2006. Some kind of dance-off?
I like Pardew precisely because of that incident.

can we get confirmation as to whether his Swedish wife is curvy or not?

if he had to betray british womanhood then it better have been for a big bottomed swede

"Rutabaga? I barely kissed her"

Jose Mourinho, Terry's former manager at Chelsea , insisted the defender is "not a racist".
The Real Madrid coach said: "He's not racist, that's 100 per cent. Probably he had a racist comment or attitude against an opponent. Sometimes in football we do things the wrong way."

let's not go nuts, doing racist things doesn't make you a racist.

Mourinho is slightly to the right of Hitler though.

Hitler was a terrible man-manager tho

but his version of the hair dryer treatment was something else

please don't say he's a racist. Drogba, Makélélé ... all of them will say he's not a racist.

all of them!

sydney poitier, tiger woods, all of them!

Eazy-E, Papa Doc Duvalier

Also I thought Drogba was one of the players who wouldn't sign a statement supporting Terry along with Mikel, Anelka, and malouda?

so says Daniel Taylor in the Guardian

I thought so too. Maybe JT pp'ed them?