Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Good to see Ferguson starting his riling of Rafa immediately, saying he's always been lucky with jobs, and has twice won World Club Cups with teams he inherited and had nothing to do with.

and the cl

yeah, how dare he claim the glory of two world club cups?

and the cl

shut up

I thought it was odd he didn't mention the CL in the clip I saw on SSN.

fergie's sour as he's only won one club world cup (is it sponsored by BA?)

It's true that Rafa had nothing to do with signing such Champions League winning titans as Harry Kewell and Djimi Traore.

I thought it was odd he didn't mention the CL in the clip I saw on SSN.

yeah, i mean houllier left rafa with such a strong team there. the likes of traore, kewell, smicer, biscan are probably some of the best cl winners of all time. plus houllier's cl record had left them battle-hardened and at the cusp of victory itself.

The Pastels actually played a gig in the Bush Hall last Saturday night, within sight of Loftus Road - possibly hastily arranged to allow Steven to have a crafty look at his new charges lose to Southampton.

Skilled at getting a performance out of underachievers as I understand it.

dunno if i've bumped my head lately but the possibility of Rafa's Chelsea and Arry's QPR is making the Prem seem all fun again all of a sudden

xpost Write to Fergie, not me.

oh wait they have appointed Arry omg

Deja-Vu for Harry - "This team had 4 points and was bottom of the table...."

he's already bought his bottle of heinz ketchup.

official?

Benitez was left a team of cl-winning potential, fact

1203: Matthew Kophamel on Twitter: "Two days ago RDM was sacked as Chelsea manager and today Mark Hughes is sacked. Coincidence ... I think not!"

of course he was, he won it. by definition that's a fact, one that doesn't prove anything. don't even bother trying to raise some shanty town of jerry built theories on this xpost

i want to talk about facts.

i thought you hated that book

Benitez was left a team of cl-winning potential, fact

― bill paxman (darraghmac), Friday, November 23, 2012 1:56 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No Garcia, No Alonso, no CLwin. So you're wrong.

not theories or opinions, only facts.

when rafa took over the position he had a team of players who had qualufied for the champions league and won it that year.

When he left the job, he left a team in seventh that could not even win the UEFA cup.

These are facts.

and won it that year

no other manager in the league goes unpunished for these things

you guys are fuckin hilarious, i think i might learn to love rafa being back

well done man

srsly, i feel like Rafa at Chelsea is some kind of test case now

like Andy Carroll in a Big Sam team

andy carroll is a big strong boy but big sam has absolutely raked him there

idk btw, if rafa's fachts rant can't be used as standard recognition meme material then i just dk, accusations of trolling just cos y'all still bristle seems to me to be missing the point. city fans don't feel the need to purge their colons at every 'this is normal' dropped, nor utd fans at every bribing cheating bullying alco thug scotsman jibe. Big sam, arry, hughes, pick em, we'll knock em down on a standard set of personalised criteria that gain momentum with use and acceptance.

Benitez doesn't deserve any special recognition from around the place, not then, not now.

you're the only one bristling

you cant know that, you've not seen my twitter

chilling claim from Sir Alex "... I'm outliving death. "

I can well believe it.

the grim reaper came for him one night and he sat on him until the manchester police arrived

well we fuckin know with a while he holds uncanny influence over authority figures in black

keep the hubris coming

Fergie actually had a grand on Death to come in last of the four horsemen and get put down after failing to clear the final jump.

Trophy famine's devouring Arsenal as we speak. Pestilence did for Spurs' CL hopes a few years back.

wonder as ferguson ages does he think of his remaining years as "squeaky-bum time".

if you add up all the stoppages in his life it's hard to account for the 20 years which the man in black has given here.

http://mit.zenfs.com/210/2011/05/Mark-Clattenburg-hair-loss-solutions-advert-cropped.jpg

Fighting the passage of time here.

"As an Englishman, my hair has a rich vitality which distinguishes it from a 'diverse' range of other hair types."

"I'm as hairy as a monkey"

'stoppage time' refers to fergusons arterial timebomb, he's been checking that particular watch for the last metaphorical five mins.

I wasn't sold at first, but when I saw what they'd done with 'OFFICIAL' I ordered a dozen crates

it is quite a simian haircut he has

xposts, one of reminded of beckenbauer's classic rumination: "when the man in black whistles, the referee can no longer change anything"

that statue's um... not a very fergie pose is it

looks more like he's just finished a hot routine in an 80s b-boy contest

it's like that

and that's the way it is

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64344000/jpg/_64344821_sir_alex_ferguson_statue_getty.jpg

HUUAAGH

yorke and cole did like the odd huuagh tbf

That double collar thing is ill advised.