Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

given has apparently been struggling with injuries since marlon harewood perforated his bowel

how long's steve harper been at newcastle

perforated bowel injuries marlon harewood has inflicted

19 years!

not having much luck finding an image of Harewood like shrugging or doing a "eh what are you gonna do" face or something

tell you what given's got a good strong bowel but marlon has absolutely perforaked it there

This does not look like last week's Villa team. It's like they're learning from their mistakes! Can't say that about Villa in several years. The finishing is horrendous, but they keep creating chances and playing well together. Cautiously optimistic about the second half.

oh bugger. Shoulda kept my mouth shut.

deserved that equalizer.

What happened to Mark Halsey that motd decided we didn't need to look too closely at the Riise penalty?

Gosh that Ba goal! It'll not get the acclaim of rvp against Everton last year because:
- he took it with his leading foot
- he struck it at an oblique angle so it looks more like he was helping it in
- it wasn't right in the corner
but not sure that makes it a worse goal tbh

okay, they gave it all of ten seconds, and a replay

what kind of fucking defending is that

(ah okay, I see the Halsey story now. They could've blamed Riise instead, I dunno)

saw the first half of this which was pretty shit

benteke looked awful

vlaar a bit dopy in the highlights

gary neville's laugh is great. i'm laughing just thinking about it.

ah just remembered chris waddle yelling "shoot!" when friedel had the ball and lindegaard was still up for the corner.

so are nani and ferguson officially at war now or what

there is no sweeter victory than at old trafford, especially when surrounded by all my united supporting friends. felt like the sickness & doom I get during these games had lifted & I felt gently elated, perhaps I'll be less vitriolic in my bitterness re united in future. we really bossed it first half. vertonghen is great! not sure what the first choice 11 should be now. i've wanted to like avb so i'm very pleased to see him come good.

100 otm

vertonghen is looking more and more like the perfect signing, the cb that can surge forward, the epl-level cover at lb. gallas was good yesterday but i've still got huge reservations about him his being in the first XI- i feel he's letting kyle walker down again and again in leaving him marking opposition centre forwards under crosses and long balls. hope to see caulker cement his position in the coming months

hopefully 2 from caulker, kaboul, and vertonghen will be the cb pair for years and years. vertonghen should be given an improved contract and made captain, imo

woooooooooooooooo

who says Arsenal can't win trophies?

champions!

breeding a winning culture here, amirite?

don't they win it every season

yuh thats what im saying

I was away yesterday and only managed to catch the last half an hour of the game so as far as i'm concerned Utd were utterly dominant. Insane team selection though. My heart sinks any time i see Giggs in the starting lineup now and playing both of the old men was just madness, especially with Anderson and Cleverley performing well in mid-week. At least Rooney looked decent although he and RVP don't seem to like passing to each other much

It was, number none, "a game of two halves"

man u defensive crisis solved! Mikael Silvestre is back!

allllllrighty thennnnnnnnnnnn

i am feeling the vibe tonite, who's with me

QPR: Julio Cesar, Hill, Nelsen, Mbia, Onuoha, Wright-Phillips, Granero, Faurlin, Park, Zamora, Cisse. Subs: Green, Diakite, Taarabt, Mackie, Ephraim, Hoilett, Ehmer.

West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Reid, Collins, O'Brien, Noble, Diame, Vaz Te, Nolan, Jarvis, Cole. Subs: Henderson, McCartney, Tomkins, Carroll, Maiga, Benayoun, O'Neil.

tsk fukkk u sparky too shook to play tarbs and junior against these clods

parky is "a dream of a lad" says gnev

i like how on the sky gladitorial line-up thing west ham's players are all grrr and our mercenaries are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It must be genuinely shit to be a talented player like Yossi Benayoun and end up plonked on the bench no matter how shit a club you end up going to.

Not going to be watching tonight but every time a commentator uses the word 'rumbustious' have a shot for me.

oh for fucks sake

WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT

That was bad. QPR backline looked like Villa on that one.

what the fuck kind of demented total shitball involves a long crossfield ball into the channel for an overlapping clint hill

a thing such as even dante could not have conceived iirc

sparky scratching his great granite head

how about working the wings with all the tricky lads on the bench motherfucker, it's only joey o'brien and guy demel ffs

look forward to you figuring it out around the 70 min mark

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63229000/jpg/_63229221_carroll.jpg

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one of my absolute favourite sights in football is the fullback running out with no pass on making this gesture

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptussowexperts/bl6.jpg

allardyce clapping delightedly like a big happy baby as granero loses his rag with the ref

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Are QPR allowed to practice together? Or talk to each other? If so it sure doesn't show in their play.

lol xp. Some quiet week we'll need to list a hundred of these, then make up a bingo card to enliven Reading v Stoke

sigh

hello darkness my old friend

How much longer does Hughesie have?

hard to say. fernandes has swallowed the hughes schtick hook line & sinker, the remit is to build the whole club from scratch p much and he's already brought in like 30 of his guys to do it

it's not really clear whose pockets are involved let alone how deep they are so i couldnt even how big the shadow of relegation would have to loom to make hughes a certain goner tbph

and all the while underneath the floorboards, the twitching of a familiar hideous eye

oh is this shit back on, i was already downloading homeland

RIGHT THEN keets and adel on, if we're going down let's do it with a stepover and a maiming

You are the club everyone was hoping PSG would be