Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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vs.

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whatd crerand do

seems weird that rvp claimed not to know ferdinand had been hit in the postgame interview

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/10/article-2245799-166E7BC9000005DC-831_634x501.jpg

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starring in a steptoe and son remake circa 2035
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I thought they threw money at players all the time at City.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/10/kick-it-out-hypocrisy-chelsea-liverpool

Bradford's team on Tuesday cost £7,500 to assemble, as opposed to Arsenal's £65m – Wenger started with eight of his first-choice players – and Jones was asked whether Arsenal should be embarrassed.

"Without a shadow of a doubt," he replied. "No disrespect to us and our lads but they should be beating Bradford City. But team spirit means a lot and it can take a team a long way. We have a massive team spirit and we showed it.

No disrespect to us No disrespect to us No disrespect to us No disrespect to us No disrespect to us No disrespect to us

cute story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529

I hope he had the presence of mind to sing "your support is fucking shit" at the Sampdoria fans.

Posted about that dude in the Serie A thread earlier this week, he is my new hero.

i lik how he is apparently a wine merchant who was there on business anyway rather than some dedicated superfan ultra rube

I seem to remember reading about the exact same thing happening about two or three years ago, but can't remember the teams involved. Or even which country it was in.

think it was liverpool, when only one player turned up from august to december

there was that juventus coppa italia game that had only a couple of hundred home fans

Hoho. (it was in Brazil, about a year ago)

Ah, it was actually earlier this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdeD__gXfs

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i love that udinese won the game 2-0 too! he'll dine out on that for the rest of his life, in posh restaurants with fine win by the sounds of it. dude should be on the 'photos of people who've worked out how to live' thread...

Health-of-the-game-oblique-health-of-the-club-watch: I'd been planning to try and get tickets for Arsenal v Man City in January. Iirc 3,000 tickets are kept back for red members, and they go on sale exactly one month in advance, so I logged in this morning. But it turns out I'd got the dates wrong - the game's on the 13th, not the 14th as I'd thought - and so they'd gone on sale yesterday.

Normally for a big game there's a window of an hour or two where, if you log in quickly, it's possible to secure a ticket for a big game. In this case not only are they still on sale the day after, but by a rough seat count there are around 2,300 tickets still available.

Turns out I can't go anyway, but I thought this might be of interest.

How much are the tickets? I don't actually want to go, but I'm guessing in the £50+ range.

I'm pretty sure this is a category A game, which I think makes it about £70-120. Most of the available tickets are high up behind the goal, so they'll be right at the low end of the range.

mido has played more club games for spurs than for any other team, the fuckin clown.

He averages about 20 games per club, if i've got the sums right

Is there anyone like him?

the belgian ebony shoe is an award given to the league's best african player each year

Mido was really good for us actually, when he was on loan at least. Then we signed him properly and he went to shit. Reminds me of someone.

berbatov spelled end for him, but he wasn't bad for us at all- easily in our top ten forwards of the decade, say, and sold for a lolprofit.

But his career is fuckin bonkers

independently wealthy and all

yeah i wonder how much that has to do with his casual attitude towards continued employment

Dioufy is probably the closest thing, extended stint at Bolton notwithstanding.

one of the passes of the season from Toure just now

they're killin em

here's one for Ronan

89 min: City are running down the clock in enemy territory. Silva whips a free kick into the area from the right. Newcastle bundle it out for a corner, which Krul claims easily. "I owe Peter Capaldi, or at least Malcolm Tucker, a huge debt of thanks," admits Dan Lucas. "Writing music reviews for an American magazine is far easier when you can use Tuckerisms such as 'as much use as a marzipan dildo' to put down a particularly bad record. Actually I say debt of thanks; it's probably more like a debt of money, isn't it?"

United could easily be 4 or 5-0 at this stage

Villa!

There's against the run of play, and then there's being bossed all over the field; that strike was like a bolt of lightning out of the blue.

2-0! There's a chance Villa might get a point out of this.

bah

SON OF LIMOND

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phil jones looking like patrick viera

which 2nd half to watch? a sick part of me is drawn to QPR fulham...

Argh! 0-2?! We've got a top two spot to secure ffs

Fucking hell

That's the worst mazy solo goal since Saeed al-Owairan's day in the sun

Yes!

i'm getting my kit on

Flee while there's still time