Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

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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
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clear penalty imv

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

Sky indulging in some lipreading now. During the celebrations Cleverley either said "No way i meant that" or No way! I meant that." It's like a crap football-based sequel to The Conversation

add that to the compilation of all those other suarez dives. oh, wait.

ffs hope avb fines bale for that. embarrassing

suarez dive was a shocker. any sympathy he did have wrt him not getting anything has evaporated. although as daft as it was, still incredible that he's made the headlines when bale's was equally as laughable, and huth stayed on the pitch for that stamp. it's a fucking pantomime.

actually, having looked at it very closely, there actually is contact, and i'll happily upload a pic to prove it. fancy that. it was the indecision that did for him. he should've stayed down when he first felt contact. instead, he's realised a split second too late and gone down afterwards, which is what makes it look so ridiculous.

i think you're missing the point Chris

that's ridiculous chris. there's an initial touch, he sets himself, thinks about it, two seconds later he decides to jump and pull his own legs out from under himself. Any contact couldn't be less relevant.

Bale's was all the more infuriating because of the position he'd have been in if he'd not flopped. 'anticipating contact' is no excuse, take the hit if you want your foul, otherwise continue footballing pls.

oi take this 'flopped' nonsense to the mls thread.

suarez incident looked like an actual penalty and maybe would have been given if he hadn't added some impromptu planking to the routine.

uh flopping is not exclusive to mls, yall kidding yourselves

he meant the word "flopped" as opposed to "dived"

I maintain that 'flopped' is the better word