Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

motson still heroically turns his nose up at cosmopolitan pronounciation

girood, dem'l, cazzorla

D.D.A. Drog-bar is still my favourite

kinda favour cazzorla over cathorla tbqh

funniest thing about cazorla imo is the amount of times you hear he's "a find", when he has 40-odd caps for the best international team ever.

dude's 28 in december, gettin' on is our santi.

newcastle as favourites today? newcastle are better than spurs in the same way as spurs are better than man u eg mfield and in this tiki-taka world he who controls the mfield controls the game.

I'd thought the same before last week, but even though Spurs did win the manner of that second half means I can't see Utd losing that way twice in a row. Unless maybe Cisse and Ba are totally clinical, which isn't unknown.

The Observer's leader going in hard today, calling for Chelsea to sack Terry (and implicitly Cole and Bertrand). It's hard to argue for Terry and Bertrand at least - I remember one of Peter W's last posts saying the same thing.

Thought that leader was incredibly sanctimonious.

it is a bit. eg calling someone a fucking knobhead would indeed get you fired at work, but so would sliding at them along the ground to win a football from their feet.

not condoning the racism just questioning the analogy, and the decision to lump in the non-racist insult with the slur.

Lloris in Friedel out. streak comes to an end.

Screen at White Hart Lane is showing highlights of the QPR line with the caption 'Friedel justifies his position as number 1'. Oh dear.

Huth just stamped on Suarez. Got away with it

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8454/8062824317_c85bab7e63_o.gif

Huth gets away with a lot of shit

he rugby tackled Suarez a few minutes ago as well. All part of the plan i'd imagine

finally gets his yellow for a cynical foul...on Suarez

i like big huthy

hope he grows back that ace pencil tache for movemeber

Looks a fair challenge to me.

I like the way he puts his hands up in a "I didn't touch him ref, honest" kind of way shortly BEFORE jumping on him with one foot

Is this wingless 4-3-3 again?

yup. Nani hasn't even made the bench but Valencia is back. Should be good though, as long as we get Kagawa involved

might i just add can we have some proper usage wrt "stamp" plz, that is merely a friendly trodding

The front three definitely looks good

i thought stoke were gonna try to play football this season.

Is it possible to have an entertaining game when Stoke are involved? I guess intermittent violence is entertainment of sorts.

letting him know he's there early doors rtc

football's a contact sport tbh, the way the modern game's going we'll all be playing netball in future

To be fair if there were any footballer least likely to get up and go "THAT'S OKAY IT'S A MAN'S GAME" it's probably Suarez.

Will somebody please stop Paul Whitehouse from making any more of those Aviva adverts

Suarez has been conspicuously not going down these past few weeks, actually

United's crap defence in goal scoring blitz

was thinking caulker was due for a goal, but that was not what i had in mind

Fonte x 2, Caulker, Evra and Evans, with a Hooiveld og. Only player not a defender to score today has been Richardson.

nice finish aaron lennon

Evans crocked? Why do all of our defenders get injured at the same time?

still waiting for gnev to point out the disadvantages of man marking.

How many yellows is that in the last ten mins?

toon looking soft on set pieces, smh, the student at my school who wears man u jersey will have a field day w me

I don't think Southampton have moved out of reach of Liverpool by any means - the two of you will probably swap places repeatedly as the season goes on.
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:03 (2 weeks ago)

See? Liverpool now a point ahead of Southampton with a game in hand. Let's have no more of this crisis talk.

poor.

Unbelievable

Newcastle couldn't really have come any closer to scoring than that

That was superb.

What a goal

mishit of the season

fuuuuck first the Obama debate now this
what is the point of life

happy with the result but disappointed to see Kagawa neutered again. We're wasting him at the moment

btw
http://ballsdot.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/suarezgif.gif

clear penalty imv

Ugh, though - nil-nil at home to Stoke is the most depressing scoreline imaginable