Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

Kone appears to be the proverbial handful

eh OK but "useful" strikers are for midtable clubs, Bendtner was useful but not good enough for a side that's supposed to want to finish top-2 or make CL semis. It's very strange to me how many generally fine members of the commentariat think that what Arsenal lack are unshowy because mediocre players like Kevin Nolan or Joey Barton.

Looks count imo - tbh I'm not confident that my positivity isn't solely down to him having a little of the air of Davor Suker

mark noble tbh

Giroud, I served with Davor Suker, I knew Davor Suker, Davor Suker was a friend of mine. Giroud, you're no Davor Suker

The candidates mentioned to give Arsenal "spine" are usually worse players than the ones that are roundly seen as not good enough for Liverpool - you'd take Jordan Henderson and Joe Allen ahead of those others without question. I know their transfer fees are part of it but if a player's not good enough buying him for 2m is as bad as 12m.

fuvk's sake what doe this arsehole of a ref call a penalty in the everton game

Utd should have broken the bank for Baines :(

giroud looks nothing like sean penn ergo no suker

h8 u Patrice

oh hey shall i watch this again

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