Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

BBC mbm making a thing of the two-goal comeback - Utd's seventh in epl history, more than any other club. I'm amazed it's so few tbqh, I feel like we get sledgehammered with these a couple of times a year at least.

made it to my first game of the season at st mary's today. we were good enough for 3 points but the clusterfuck that gifted swansea their equaliser was just embarrassing. ramirez looked class for the most part, barring the occasional moment of le tissian lackadasicality. luke shaw was pretty good at LB, or at least no worse than anyone else who's played there for us this year.

not quite prepared to give up on this season just yet, and i def don't want adkins to go, but it's going to be a long winter.

bacary sagna has been playing for his former club for five years but martin keown still pronounces it sag-ner

just checked and nobody on ilx has never said anything about jack colback

probably winner of the epl's young jandek lookalike contest.

Woo!

fuckin ref at southampton was a shambles

(I am pissed; met my Villa-supporting mate in a Highbury pub; foolishly overlooked the fact it would be rammed with Arsenal fans immediately post-their match v Fulham)

"fuck off you fucking cockney manc" was among the responses to my celebration of the first goal

lol

xp to dmac, that last shout was stonewall but lallana gets v little joy from refs. our suarez, you might say. btw, gf's reaction to the swansea goal: "why are they so stupid?" i wish i knew.

fair, v fair. I had similar from mine midweek.

chicharito is the only man yoo player i like (or have ever liked for that matter)

kind of agree, saw an interview with him once and he seemed like a really sound guy.

a thoroughly nice young man

can't get past the man u element

Feels like Utd have regressed/reverted to the pre Carlos Queiroz era where they played too open in Europe or something. P good to watch if you can overlook the fact that they're Utd, which I can't.

Clownish penalty call by Dowd in Arsenal match.

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spurs ko is two?

goooooooaaal

is that good news

Spurs one up due to City's continual inability to defend set pieces

Spurs are getting away with murder here

zabaleta's not getting the decisions.

defending or foulwise

ok i'm in

jesus christ avb out, how can you keep asking a prospect like caulker to play alongside this cunt gallas

Handball in the box, foul in the box, Adebayaor getting Zabaleta booked with a dive. That said, Spurs probably should have had a pen shortly before they scored

12 citeh fouls to our 3

crowd goin mental but i've seen three stupid city fouls in five mins

sky not mentioning spurs peno, gallas handball clear enough, thudd block looked giveable too

nice to get a few calls in manchester tbh

Aguero should have had kept playing after the handball anyway

feel like i've seen aguero score that goal a hundred times

dempsey is fuckin useless out there. he's doing nothing.

bale also, but especially dempsey.

you'd like to think we could play counter attack against a 352, with bale, lennon, walker in the team, but the movement and passing is just so bad out there

oof yaya sandro collide, sumatra vanishes

gettin killed down the left now, vertonghen not making great decisions either in positioning or in the tackle. bale might as well cover, he's not helping the attack at all

i'mma say it- thudd's passing magic has disappeared. not seen one killer ball or perfect weighted crossfield pass since his return

i's postulate a weightloss cause-and-effect but it's not changed the fucker's workrate

Wasn't it thudd's assist?

ah fuck sake lads that is so fuckin soft

how does a premier league defence get beaten by a dzeko run, that's not a good goal

linesman on the right making up for any failings of the ref to award soft home calls

a lob over the top from thirty yards out beats our centre halves all ends up. shite.

that'll be it. nothing on-the-ball today, set up really badly to make anything happen. off-the-ball was well organised, but vertonghen's lack of tracking and the cb's inability to deal with even rudimentary movement left city far too much joy.

could have been more.

On the one hand LFC could have used any extra goal threat we could get this season, on the other going by this season's performances alone I'm quite relieved we missed out on Gylfi and Clint.

Not sure what will be more laughable, Carra dealing with the movement of Mata et al or Terry coping with Suarez.

Chelsea may have hoped the meeting with Liverpool at Stamford Bridge could have given them the chance to regain top spot in the Premier League when Manchester United trailed 2-0 at Aston Villa - but their dramatic win leaves Roberto di Matteo's side with the task of closing a four-point gap.

I'm looking forward to this, I reckon we'll do them.

Eh what, Carra's playing? Also, this is the one game where I really wish we had Carroll.

He looked ready for the knacker's yard at half time in the West Ham Newcastle game

Big game player though, you can't expect him to perform against last year's fifth-placed outfit.

no you've read that wrong, he's a big, game, player

jt! you ledge!