Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Cazorla looks at home wearing yellow.

so the Shearer to venkys thing, is it just a rumour or have my dreams come true?

another game theo's not starting, he's going in jan to sit on city's reserve team bench or something.

Ramsey's in good form and West Ham are sitting deep, I think Walcott might not have started anyway.

Wenger was in the paper saying something about expecting Theo to chip in to make up for rvp's goals, so I don't think he's out entirely (yet)

News to me. I think he's been one of our best signings in recent years and looks more than capable of playing at EPL level. Our business model is to find young promising guys like this before anyone spots them and get them on telly and get some money for them from the cash-rich south but I'd rather they stayed a wee bit longer. His agent's been making noises about moving as he signed on relatively low wages given his profile at the time - these rumours might be true or might be part of a Get Victor More Money strategy. We're fairly flush with central midfielders atm but he would be missed.

xxxp

Upton Park looks like a very pretty stadium, aside from the ugliness of the football played there.

It's a slightly odd ground in that the west and south stands are absolutely enormous, while the east stand (the one facing the cameras) is tiny.

Hmm, I wrote that comment about Ramsey above because I thought it was Arteta Coquelin - Ramsey Cazorla Podolski - Giroud. Had no iea til just now Gervinho was on the pitch. A bad sign.

nice finish

Yeah that was very nice.

fanny defending but yeah

that was amazing. also fuck.

xps to self: I was down low behind the goal once, facing towards those big stands - it was like swimming in the sea, looking up at massive cliffs. Very odd.

I'm not a connoisseur of stadia, but I do like when you can catch a glimpse of the surrounding neighborhood in the corners between stands, Highbury (the only one I've been to) was nice that way.

carroll v efficiently murdering four arsenal players with one leap.

zonal merking

There it is, great move. lol at the steward on the far sideline celebrating.

finish

Well now i've taken him out of my ff team, of course Giroud starts scoring.

andre santos has the footballing nous of someone who learned what football was five minutes before coming onto the pitch.

He's a bit impulsive, yeah. I wouldn't want to be near him operating a car at 45mph much less 145.

andre santosphil dowd has the footballing refereeing nous of someone who learned what football was five minutes before coming onto the pitch.

yes fuck you big sam

Theo! I think far post would've been smarter but he couldn't have placed that any better.

far post goal is every goal he scores though, gotta show some ~variety~.

He's got a knack for the very narrow-angle near post finishes too, as I think has been observed elsewhere on this board, but whenever he scores them you just feel he's had a blind crack and gotten lucky.

Nearly a brilliant center forward's goal from Big Per just now.

Santi <3

WOOF.

santi!

christ, Carroll doesn't have to do much to convince the commentators he's had a brilliant game

That pass! more Cazorla <3

beautiful

christ, Carroll doesn't have to do much to convince the commentators he's had a brilliant game

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I did laugh at "He's finally looking tired now... he's had to do so much jumping."

"In order to achieve it ... you have to believe it" - Bren on my stream, a moment ago

Theo in an 80s tea-bag vest!

Thoughts on Giroud? I thought he was going to come good, he seems to have the presence and mentality so obviously missing from your Chamakhs

xposts. Rodgers? Commentating on West Ham-Arsenal? Or have television stations starting randomly inserting Rodgers sound bites into their coverage? You'll be reciting them in your sleep before you know it.

It was a clip from next week's Being: Liverpool. Didn't appreciate the spoiler quite frankly, I haven't seen Friday's yet.

Ray Stubbs sounds like he's marvelling at a Gianfranco Zola montage whenever he tries to say Santi's name. Cor, Zola.

I haven't made my mind up on Giroud yet. Chamakh was a hard working type who just couldn't get his shots off when he started with us too.

the Hazard-Oscar-Mata trio is hella exciting.

Oscar is going to be ridiculously good

there's something horrifyingly uncanny about alan shearer's head.

"foul mouthed twitter rant"

BAN HIM

Giroud is I think a much better footballer than Chamakh, better touch, passing/team play, making the right runs. He seems genuinely surprised he hasn't scored more, not dully resigned to underperforming which is a vibe I get off players some time.

better looking too

chamakh was dropped fairly hastily iirc, surely he could have been more useful than how it's turned out

the interior life of Mark Scholes