Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Africa's a pretty well-known brand already, you've got wonder how much value this deal adds

Could say the same about Asia I guess. And indeed Air.

Go Villa!

how many times will martin o'neill make eye contact in the postgame interview

Alright Ray?

'nother Honduran heading to England: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/11/26/sportings-espinoza-seems-set-winter-switch-wigan

Good player, though a tad card-prone.

Also, is Wigan just the default club for Hondurans these days? Seems like they've had several.

wigan seems to be the only club in england who bothers to do much scouting in south/ central america. tottenham had a honduran striker on trial a couple of years ago but he ended up somewhere in spain.

tough to get work permits though isn't it?

idk those tarts love an 'exceptional talent' plea

http://ballsdot.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/laceywenger.jpg

Arsene needs a proofreader

'arsenal contact centre'

going to guess that they don't solicit mail from creditors at that address

All Ireland In Ireland.

Isn't that Sinn Fein slogan?

not as bearla that i recognise

Theo out - of the official Arsenal 2013 calendar. As is Sagna°. Same happened to van Persie last year, and Fabregas the year before.

° Wenger still hopes to keep both players and Arsenal can point out that they have appeared on some other club merchandise for 2013 including, it is understood, a desk calendar and diary.

jesus, looks serious

But he's not on the mouse mat and they've withdrawn all the pens where the tiny Theo Walcott moves up and down when you turn it upside down.

are we in a position to confirm whether he's on any pencilcases at this time?

Also, is Wigan just the default club for Hondurans these days? Seems like they've had several.

Celtic has Izaguirre. I can see him ending up at Wigan mind you.

There's also Honduran "pitbull" Jorge Claros is at Hibs.

Claros was shot in the head on 16 June 2011 after car thieves failed to steal his vehicle.

Shot in the fucking head. Didn't even take a knee.

Puts Derek Riordan's antics into some perspective

Would put Stuart Pearce to shame: "Claros was able to drive himself to a hospital after the attack."

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57913000/jpg/_57913480_claros.jpg

Dembele back tonight then?

For the love of god please.

dempsey proper good v west ham

That punch in the face clearly did its job.

I've mostly stopped looking forward to this fixture, but I reckon tonight could make for a cracking watch.

spurs by two, comfortably

I hate it when Darragh's confident. We always fuck up when he's confident.

Liverpool 1-0 by an early Suarez peach, then strangling Spurs for most of the game, before hanging on grimly because there's nobody to score the second.

matt sadly otm

confidently predicting a 3-2 to someone

Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Gallas, Vertonghen, Sandro, Dembele, Lennon, Dempsey, Bale & Defoe

Reina, Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Downing, Allen, Gerrard, Hendersn, Sterling, Enrique, Suarez

Caulker must have picked up an injury. Gallas and Dawson v Suarez is potenitally a mess.

couldn't dembele have delayed his return to the weekend? Inconsiderate ass.
lennon vs downing could be fun, as could sterling vs vertonghen

*shakes hands with matt and mizzell, snubs darragh*

did he sleep with your ex-girlfriend?

walcott scores in the first minute

Bunn looks as nervous in the Norwich sticks as I do any time the ball goes near him. Going to be a long 3 months.

Darragh's praise not the curse it was made out to be, so far. And at least we're not looking like having as fucking mundane a night of tblitw as last night/Sunday

dissed Rafa xps

I only caught a minute of this so far but it looks like AVB has got our number

yes i couldnt help noticing spurs were two up

Haven't seen the goals but assume they were bad luck/shocking refereeing. The swamping of Joe Allen that I did see was callous though.

bale's freekick: brilliant or deflected?

Gah. Calamitous defending and Norwich are the worst out of two pretty poor teams. Probably switch to another game soon (though don't think I fancy the Man City game that's actually on Sky)

ffs