Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

FulcrumLAD

aka nobody in the premiership gives a shit about metronomic possession players except for brendan rodgers

remember when carrick was the new pirlo

yeah, he is again

who does that make Gattuso?

tunnicliffe

For some reason I can't switch the order of my subs in the fantasy football, meaning Carrick ends up stinking the place every week, and keeping Giroud out to boot. Fulcrud more like.

ismael krapa

blowzen

OptaJoe ‏@OptaJoe
3226 - Michael Carrick made 3226 passes in 2012, 577 more than any other player in the Premier League. Fulcrum.

does that include passes like that one he made to demba ba the other game?

Fuck you QPR and everyone at the club, and a fucking miserable new year to you all. That was the most depressing set of Christmas fixtures I've watched. Hard to choose the lowlight between being ripped to shreds by a moderate Liverpool team, and getting fucking soaked for 75 minutes while West Brom beat us.

Fellaini, 25, revealed how he has become a target for unwanted attention off the pitch and has been forced to move away from Merseyside.

‘I am living in Manchester now, because in Liverpool, the women were crawling for me,’ he said. ‘It was too much. In Manchester, people don’t recognise me that much and tend to treat me in a more respectful way.

giggsy wiggsy lw, ashley young rw

realness

ali al habsi looking more and more like an anorexic kimbo slice

full program of quality epl fitba content and no interest at all

citeh and ynahtid games both sort of dull despite nice goals but i don't have any energy for anything else this afternoon

got bored just looking at the fixtures tbh

do we have any thoughts about lewandowksi at united

rumours been rumbling on for too long not to be true

pretty sure ferguson will buy anything with a year left on the contract whether he needs it or not

honigstein says it's probably agent being a tart cuz he's underpaid at dortmund atm

i'm beyond even reacting to villa showing pluck

idk i can see rvp's success finally giving fergie the impetus to begin the destruction of rooney

a two year project of slow erosion

we can but dream

scott sinclair huh

Since baseball season ended, I've been watching a lot of soccer without any particular rooting interest or knowledge of the teams. Wigan and QPR really are amazingly bad, aren't they? /captainobvious

wigan aren't terrible, they looked pretty good the other day

they are run very frugally (actually making a profit this year) and play a fairly unusual and relatively complex tactical method which means it usually takes until late in the season for them to really look good

You'll find no contradictor on QPR round here though

tbf we're building something not just bad, not just amazingly bad, but something monumentally eternally bad that will truly stand the test of time

let the liquidator be the judge of that

the trouble with preternatural badness is that's it's difficult to create a dynasty

maybe we have to rethink it so that it's less about decades of sustained torpor and more about a turbid 18 months of implosion, dioufs and ben-haims appearing from nowhere for three game spells, fan forums on first name terms with administrators

maya yoshida is not great is he

wigan aren't terrible, they looked pretty good the other day

I'm not quite to the point yet of remembering from one week to the next whether I've ever seen a team play before or not. I mean I seriously don't care who wins as long as it's entertaining football. So my "wow, Wigan is bad" impression comes just from today's game and the haplessness of defenders running into each other (MU's 4th goal), the keeper (all 90 minutes) and a vague impression of sloppy passing and ball-handling compared to the opposition.

I have seen two QPR games now though and can kind of get a sense of what it'd be like to be a Houston Astros fan.

this isn't america tho, there is a vast inequity of means even between bad sides, so badness can mean terrible mismanagement, profligacy and moral squalour (qpr) or it can just be poverty

i don't like to remind us that football exists in an actual world that exists prior to and independently of meta, but i really dislike watching arsenal away games when you can here the arsenal fans chanting over the home support

especially at places like reading, but southampton too, and wigan iirc

It's kind of nice to realise that they can sing and stuff after all, tbh

it's so pretentious, oooh look we are the REAL GOONER LADS not like them shit houses on their £100 seats at that emirates nah

stfu and embrace insincerity you precious little nudniks

also fuck a boniek or a lewandowski, artur boruc will always be the ultimate polish fitba player

"GENUINE WOOLWICH ARSENAL GENTLEMEN" surely?

If the epl reversed the home/away ratios at every ground it'd be a better place imo. Except when Fulham come to town possibly.

idk what a soi disant authentic arsenal fan looks like these days, whether it is some jack wilshere lookalike guttersnipe longing for a prelapsarian north london with no turks or homosexuals, or some horrific flatcapped mumford and sons volkisch revivalist weirdo who pretends it's still 1893 and they are supervising the manufacture of soulful artisanal rifles to kill zulus

ramirez looks distraught, goal wrongfully disallowed and then replaced by a double barrelled anglo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAZJ28s1rU

pretty sure that dude threw himself of the archway bridge last time gervinho was brought on for VUH OX

we used to have a video of these hilarious/horrible Acid Jazz-looking twats playing a groovy Arsenal song but i'm fucked if i can find it now

btw wasn't the last epl thread about 17k posts even with the sandbox intermission?

and now we are halfway thru and only at 5k

tbf i don't know how many blow by blow dissections of Wolves horror i posted in the last 3

at least 9k of them happened in injury time on the last day tbf

In real fairness this here is an awful, awful season

too Manchester results today just about sum it up