Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

fuck it gonna have me a rant about the villa now

had another couple of villain dickwads i know blowing up my pager telling me about oh villa they were totes in the game apart from our little spell. BOLL. OCKS. OUT. PLAYED. (even tho we were still p shit). villa boys always have these fucking stuck-up vestigial delusions of being english footer royalty and it's even more insufferable now that cunt lambo is playing the kids p much for the sake of it, like no matter that it's all kindergarten mcleish long ball shitemerchantry they can solemnly and snootily intone about the bleeding kids even though it's just chris herd and matt lowton burping and falling over. like farmers market but the crap midlands version of a dude selling indeterminate slabs of meat out the back of his astra in the pub car park

piss off villa ur shit fuiud

― r|t|c, Sunday, 2 December 2012 11:26 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a thing of beauty

yes

and i caught the highlights since and it was all qpr

swp might turn out ok for ye. very arry player otm

Villa played well for about 20 minutes total, and by well I mean they weren't embarrassing themselves. Couldn't put together 5 solid minutes in a row though which is going to be their downfall.

Unfortunately for them, as dominant as QPR were they couldn't crack Villa's last ditch defense to get a game winner. That pleased me immensely.

best mate's a villa fan and he just doesn't care anymore, it's sad.

channeled his energy elsewhere, got a big promotion, a wife, nice car, tragic

wait

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/02/chelsea-avram-grant-rafael-benitez

Maybe Roman is just trolling the Chelsea support for a laugh?

Penalty! Last man, he's got to go! He does go! Ba steps up ... goal! Right, that's that settled, no need to keep watching.

jesus christ, holland

crazy

I can hardly believe that

Harry bringing in Tal Ben Haim; I can't work out if I should've expected that or not.

what happened in holland?

Linesman kicked to death by kids in an u17 match.

His son was playing in the match, as if it wasn't horrifying enough.

and yet still we don't have goal line technology

wtf this is disgusting

i disapprove of this man's death

The incident in which Joey Barton stubbed out a cigar on a youth player's eye occured at Manchester City's 2004 Christmas Party. The midfielder, currently on loan in Marseille, was dressed as Jimmy Savile at the time.

like it had totally never occurred to me why he had a cigar in the first place

the costume took on a life of its own and compelled him to hurt a kid

Could just one footballer please come out and be gay, so everybody can be really cool about it and the sport can get on with its life? Just one, it’s not much to ask surely? Football is beginning to sound a little desperate with its pleading. Rugby, cricket, they’ve all had their gay watershed moment. And until football does, too, it will continue to be presumed that the sport has not evolved enough to handle male homosexuality. (Hope Powell, the manager of England’s women, has been openly gay for years, without comment, yet that does not seem to count.)

The gay pressure group, Stonewall, has called again for football to tackle its ‘culture of fear’, while Anders Lindegaard, the Manchester United goalkeeper, has said that football needs a ‘gay hero’. So here’s a thought. Joey Barton continues his quest for intellectual and social respectability. Why not come out as gay?

Instant credibility, instant respect, untouchable by the Football Association or future employers. His past misdeeds mentally reprocessed and explained. ‘Well, of course he put his cigar out in that bloke’s face, Gary. He was a tortured soul, forced to live a lie.’And imagine the new material. A never-ending treasure trove for Barton’s Twitter feed: Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Lady Bunny. And, let’s face it, with that new accent, he’s probably halfway there.

final sentence explains why this won't be happening soon

holy shit

i've omitted the author/source for a bit of fun

somebody who's cool with a little light homophobic joshery?

I'm imagining it as Joey Barton talking about himself in the third person.

ismael klata

fag

fie dem klattyboys

martin samuel is an inveterate mouthbreather and that's not just obesity induced respiratory trouble

is pressure group a britishism or just samuel idiocy

idk if it's just the bizarre occasional rap reference but i could swear there's a half-passantinoish trolling edge to samuel

And now part one of a very, very occasional series entitled Things The England Team Could Learn From Mildly Obscure Hip-Hop Tracks of The Early Nineties. This week: Buggin' Out by A Tribe Called Quest from the album The Low End Theory (a clip of which can be found below):

'I never walk the streets, thinking it's all about me
'Even though, deep in my heart, it really could be.'

That's the trick, you know, getting that balance right.

is pressure group a britishism or just samuel idiocy

was wondering the same thing

'Pressure group' is a Britishism. Stonewall use it themselves.

Stuart Hall appears to have been arrested for rape. I'm assuming this is an old crime.

Yes, it's being reported as a historical inquiry. I think as part of the Savile investigation.

where do we complain about Euro 2020?

Complain about Euro 2020 ITT

Too soon to start its own thread? I quite like the idea myself, but not all the big games being at Wembley. Give, I dunno, Reykjavik a chance.

That's some leadership right there.

americans amirite

http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bald_eagle_flag_small.jpg

Any excuse to bash Yurp

Eighteen years on and times have changed. As City prepare to host Manchester United on Sunday, having eclipsed their neighbours on the pitch by claiming the Premier League title last season, the next challenge is to emulate United off it.

Since Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan’s takeover of the club in September 2008, they have gone from £1.5 million-a-year shirt sponsorship deals with Thomas Cook to a £350 million, 10-year shirt and stadium naming rights package with Etihad Airlines.

i love how this is presented as some sort of staggering growth rather than a sovereign wealth fund investing the best part of £1bn and then signing a contract with their affiliated airline

over 18 years, mind you

the citeh fans are now completely used to their new status, so that they're not even bothered to turn up to a routine champions league group game vs the altogether inferior ajax

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2244160/Didier-Drogba-hosts-Champions-League-party-Chelsea-players-Fernando-Torres-does-show.html

so gauche

no gaucho