Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Fuck yer World Club Championship or whatever it's called, this goal was on The Big Match Revisited this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=W0z_arXZ8nM

shinned it

frustratin stuff, possession but not much penetration, what has the law to say bout that

Dempsey wont stick to left, gettin in the way quite a bit. Lennon getting poor service and doin ok for that. Look vulnerable even tho swansea haven't been ambitious. But not bad!

xp Big Sam making it all happen tho

Lennon has kinda been the def'n of 'flatter to deceive' so far but still seems really bright so

@bettingpro Chelsea midfielder Oscar has told Brazilian reporters that Benitez is "crazy" for not starting him

xp awesome that Big Sam's contribution is an aimless long throw into the box

Goal! Goal for Spurs! Tottenham!

vg finish, relief

chico florres legbreak, really ugly stuff

oh no wait he's just an embarrassing crybaby dick, nm

five mins fuck off

wow big hit on michu from lloris, ref lets play ride, bad calk

yeah that was weird

don't think the Swansea players realised that it was with about 94 mins on the clock, add on 30 secs for Parker sub and the extra injury time was probably otm

It's time for The Battle of the Wests

Expected more from Swansea really, they seemed to be content to soak up pressure to little end, bizarre last 5mins notwithstanding.

i know, but i'd remarked to the guy i was watching it with (would be a valuable addition to ilf btw, staunch lfc fan but v reasonable about it) that they'd probably seen the stats and just assumed if they kept it to 0-0 or 1-0 that spurs would be very likely to just throw the fucking ball into their own net between 80-90 mins

Lennon has kinda been the def'n of 'flatter to deceive' so far but still seems really bright so

Raheem Sterling has stolen his running-like-a-girl style

lennon was excellent today on the ball, it's merely the minor detail of offloading it to a teammate that's evading him. were i manager i'd just ask him to try to run it into the net every time, or possible get defoe to tackle him when expedient

should note that gallas's main weaknesses this past year have been mainly under the aerial ball, and as swansea simply didn't offer that threat today he had a pretty good game- tho we were lucky not to concede with about their only attempted cross of the game, which, iirc, was gallas's failure to mark the front post early in the second half.

"When I saw Michu like this, I said: 'Fucking hell, he's unconscious,'" Laudrup said. "You can't fake a reaction like that. I am really surprised the referee didn't stop play more quickly. When I saw it, I remembered '82 with Battiston [when he was flattened by the goalkeeper Schumacher]. I really would like to hear the explanation from the referee and the linesman. They both have to be blamed for this one."

Martin Samuel: Defenders no longer guard their man, but grapple... if Shawcross had been old-school, this would not have happened

lol

fuckin professional footballers in 2012 fuckin having a go at other professional footballers in 2012 over playin on during shit like that fuckin morons

I'm trying to remember the last time I heard a manager swear in an interview.

interesting fact- there are no such things as swearwords in danish, so the concept may evade him

nice to learn what he really said i guess but you just know the graun think they're so sassy every time they let a f-word stand

reckon samuel makes a fair point tbh, complete bollocks what goes on in the box these days

shawx has both hands clasped under fellaini's armpit when he gets nutted

yeah half the centre backs in the country seem to think a headlock is a legit defensive manoeuvre nowadays

c'mon, i know it's Shawcross but Fellaini headbutted him, threw an elbow and punched him on separate occasions

i know, i was gutted the ILF Player of the Year ballot was closed

on a serious note, yes Fellaini was the villain here but the amount of pulling from defenders that goes ignored now is ridic

fellani could have just politely said no to the coffee after the game

fellaini has much previous, but shawx has accumulated a lot of comeback

c'mon, i know it's Shawcross but Fellaini headbutted him, threw an elbow and punched him on separate occasions

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it's legit provocation and something of a miracle it doesnt get a reaction every game

don't act like you never put an elbow out on packed public transport cos this is just that x 3

now that i think about it i did headbutt a guy on the tram just the other day

lol red line huh

alright maybe x 10 but still

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2249400/Roberto-Di-Matteo-wins-Credit-Suisse-coach-year.html

whoa there with this hot burnsauce dm

interesting fact- there are no such things as swearwords in danish

Wait, wait - what fresh madness is this?

oh ya sorry i just straight up invented that

Haha even if that had been true you'd have thought an 18-year career in professional football might have led him out of his innocence.

wtf is credit suisse sports award?

(oops sorry for the swearing)

Three games. Ryan Shawcross will continue to walk the streets with impunity

some sort of football game between reading and arsenal atm

lol at baby feo playing #9

every time i watch an epl, i'm happy the national hockey league uses a salary cap system

'Course there's that whole lockout thing.

epl vs nhl enforcers

i'd rather have a lockout that manchester city or psg situation. honestly.

this proves that arsenal can beat a league two team away