Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

****s

John Redwood's gone to Chelsea?

AARRGGHHH offside too

lol offside

Fuck's sake, luckiest fuckers in the world, always have been

you make your own luck in tblitw

Why can't the rest of the world see it? I'm done with football. The Premier League is rigged.

^

Challops and abitrary decisions make tblitw an even better litw!

nandez finish was sweet

who cares, fuck chelsea

so sick of every game hinging on a fuckup by the ref

You and me both

nbs is the grant holt of sarcasm

I fear this could still go embarrassingly wrong

so sick of every game hinging on a fuckup by the ref

indeed....torres getting sent off there was ridiculous

not the only one getting sick of it. was that a steward that just had a heart attack? :-(

37th PL game in a row for Van Inury btw. Might need a new nickname?

How bad was that shot?

the steward was hit by something thrown from the crowd after the goal

i wish they'd also written in the bible that Valencia is a shit player.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:08 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks IK

booking valencia there is the sign of a guilty mind

neville all kinds of otm

yeah, justice was done all in all

no! else every ref who apportions his failings two each team equally is forgiven

and i don't think torres should have been sent off for the cleverley foul, which was more of a bad booking imo

two 50 yr old tottenham fans fighting over friedels shirt

tbf the baby at yesterday's Wigan game is the only younger epl attendee

the average is like 43 or 44 iirc

still, nice of friedel to show generosity to the kids

Chelsea have made a formal complaint against referee Mark Clattenburg after accusing him of using 'inappropriate language' to two of their players in the controversial defeat to Manchester United.
The European champions confirmed they have reported Clattenburg to the Premier League match delegate after the fiery 3-2 loss at Stamford Bridge.
A club spokesman said: 'We have lodged a complaint to the Premier League match delegate with regards to inappropriate language used by the referee and directed at two of our players in two separate incidents in today's match.

I was going to make a joke that normally the blindness taunts go the other way; but it turns out that actually is the allegation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/28/mark-clattenburg-accused-racial-slur-chelsea

holy fuck

Clattenburg was miked up throughout the game and he could be heard by his assistants and the fourth official. Their conversations would not have been recorded but they could, in theory, be in a position to assist any inquiry.

this answers my first thought

good to know mikel's regained his hearing

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-2-3-manchester-united-referee-1405484

Clattenburg is alleged to have verbally abused Blues midfielder Jon Obi Mikel and called another star a “Spanish t***”.

poor mata eh

Mata seems a decent bloke altho that might just be in contrast to the company he keeps

oh lol it actually was at mata! i was joking

that's not what we're paying him for etc

holy fuck, the "subdued" version of Bale's celebration. I thought it couldn't get any worse

Thoughts before I turn in:
1) Mata is good
2) I have no idea why Suarez's last-ditch winner at Goodison was disallowed, but it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
3) I don't know what to make of the Clattenburg allegations. On the one hand, it seems absurd to suggest that a (miked-up, in front of 40,000 and broadcast live all around the world) referee would racially abuse a player. It looks like a case of deflection by Chelsea (away from Terry's punishment for racist abuse and the ripped up seat and pound coins thrown when Hernandez scored) mixed in with desire for vengeance against perceived poor decisions. And yet. Surely they wouldn't be stupid enough to just fabricate the allegations as that would be soon be found out and they would have just dug themselves into an even deeper hole?
4) Two of the three big decisions were fairly clear cut: Ivanovic was a straight red and Hernandez was offside (though in the scramble of running out of the net this would have been difficult to see). The Torres one is more debatable. He was touched and I wouldn't have complained if he'd won a free kick and Evans had got booked. But the slight contact he received didn't cause the dive to the ground that he made and the laws say that you can be booked for feigning injury. And he should have already had a red by then anyway.
5) The cameras showed a crowd of concerned-looking stewards etc. standing around somebody on the ground at the Chelsea end of the pitch shortly after the winner - it was unclear what had happened to him or how serious it was. There were rumours of a heart attack and then rumours that he'd been hit by either the seat or coins thrown. Then (apparently) Chelsea released a statement saying he had fallen and hurt his knee. This photo shows him sprawling backwards over the hoardings.

just seems like a pretty weird day of fitba altogether

the best super sunday ever according to [motd2 irish man who i won't give the dignity of having his name googled now i forget]

suarez disallowed for coates climbing all over the defender for the knockdown. seen em given but draw was the fair result so meh

failing an fa bodge either clattenburg or cfc will be guilty of the most spectacular idiocy, not sure really what else to say. if it turns out he didnt say anything then two "misunderstandings" on cfc's part would be somewhat total bullshit

torres indisputably guilty of simulation, guess it's more the question of a ref's game intelligence in choosing when to be the picky lawman and whether he has a responsibility to maintain the contest to some extent idk

tbf i'd had my eye off the game for a while so i dunno if torres had already been guilty of persistent spanish twattery up to that point or what

shay given should really call a kid seenem

that would amuse me

other than this? no more than usual

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/28/article-0-15BBA2B6000005DC-946_468x398.jpg

oh yeah i did hear about that. look whatever i was trying to be all scientifical dispassionate, obv my tru thoughts on the matter are right there upthread

i'm pretty sure Clattenburg forgot he'd already booked Torres but who knows what was going on his mind at that point