Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

But trying to get team-mates to listen to the same music as he does is not an easy job. He tried putting on his favourite album of the last 12 months, Lonerism by Tame Impala, on in the Everton changing room and the reaction was far from positive.

Speaking to NME, Baines said: ‘Every now and again I’ll put something like that on in the dressing room but they just hate it to be honest. It doesn’t go down well.

‘To most people you say "footballer" and the immediate reaction is the stereotype, the R&B and all the stuff that comes with it. But it’s not always like that.’

‘I hope that guitar music is on the way back, it would be nice to turn on the radio without switching it off all the time.’

We need photos of him out on a bender with Bradley Wiggins and Bonehead.

or out in a bradley with a wig and a boner

leighton baines has done much to restore the credibility of the white race after the damaging exploits of katy perry and hermann van rompuy in 2012

and mordy

http://www.impawards.com/1948/posters/fallen_idol.jpg

BAAAAAAINES

if u think about it, in eugene terreblanche's thick afrikaaner accent, BAINES probably sounds alot like BANTZ

in my head, i need i to be peter ustinov doing his de hooch ramble

Villas-Boas has always insisted he would be happy to let Adebayor go.

But the 28-year-old told africatopsports.com on the Togo Football Federation's website: "That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me.

"There is a difference between what you say to the press and what you say in private."

ah here, fuck off you cunt

just fuck off, now

Adebayor is some kind of genius

namely?

can i just say there is a thread i would post this to if it would mean shit

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1312076/derpgoal.gif

not the liga thread, anyway

just post it in the literary clusterfuck thread, it's at about that stage

....

he certainly has a genius for trolling football fans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20970680

good news spurs, rangers superfan lawro thinks you might nick a point off stevie cotterill's blue and white army on our march to europe

today is just all-round good news

Any idea what's happening with Coloccini? BBC's reporting he wants to go back to Argentina immediately due to a "crisis in his personal life". Then I noticed his dad is his agent...

Marital problems, allegedly

I know it's redundant moaning about Lowro's predictions, but 1-1 for Norwich Newcastle? Neither of us can defend worth a penny - Newcastle especially so if Coloccini goes. I agree with the draw, but expect 6 or 8 goals in a battle for bottom-half mediocrity.

married to the mop

Is everyone eligible off to the cup of nations? When's cabaye back in contention? As you may be able to tell, im not particularly well informed about all this. But a couple of months down ba, cisse, tiote, colocinni and cabaye could seriously fuck them. Surely they couldn't get relegated, but all the same, the outlook would be pretty grim unless they make some signings/loans quicksmart.

you're not that well-informed Windsor, Ba's gone to Chelsea :\

You know what i mean. Was simply drawing up a list of key players they won't have for a while. Obvs I'm aware that ba has high-tailed it but I'm writing this from my phone and couldn't be arsed drawing a distinction. But now I've written all this I wish I'd just taken the time in the first place.

They've got about as easy a run of fixtures in January as you could wish for in their situation. Gets hairy immediately after that though.

I mean I don't have much faith in them beating even Reading in their current state but surely they can muster a point against Villa.

"surely they can muster a point against villa"

That element of doubt = about as damning an indictment as you could wish for really

colo cheated on his missus, got someone preggers, trying to do a runner, also rowing with pards cos his form's been pretty poor, also wants to save his boyhood team san lorenzo

allegedly

and his country's not qualified

plus he's angry at the dressing room's reaction to his ocean colour scene cd

toploader surely

I actually can summon a decent bit of anger just reading that Baines article.

xpost, of course. the kooks a close second.

http://www.100xr.com/artists/N/New_York_Dolls/New.York.Dolls-band-1973.jpg

Spot the Coloccini.

so Sahin's off back to Dortmund. That worked out well

It's a mystery and not encouraging. Unless he's become bad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jan/11/sir-alex-ferguson-manchester-united-signings

This sounded like a good idea for an article (picking the best XI from Ferguson's bargain signings), but the person writing it somehow seems not to understand the concept of inflation and has just named signings from 87-93 when everything was cheaper (and footballers were *much* cheaper). Bruce, Parker, Ince and Hughes weren't considered cheap at the time, and Pallister and Keane were both record signings iirc.

ha, that's from the same school of splashes as 'X has become the highest-paid player in the club's history'

Would Rob Green have made those saves? I think so.

QPR are defending pretty well - think we need Sigurdsson on in the second half, he's got the best eye for a defence-splitting pass and a lot more dead-ball threat as well.

I feel like Parker's limitations are going to be exposed in this side - a couple of times he's turned into trouble like he was following a grid; not the flexibility of the rest of your midfield.

why the fuck does naughton go forward he's shite and in the way. Like a second adebayor.

This has been pretty terrible by Spurs. QPR resolute enough.

Diving cunt wins a penalty for Southampton. Bullshit.

gary cahill at partner's side for birth this AM. congrats to john terry.

xp
diving cunt starting to justify his price tag, good to see

what is it about Chelsea that enables them to go ham on Stoke all the time?

2 OGs by Walters, a soft penalty, and Hazard's shot took a sizable deflection too.

Walters never was this prolific for Ireland, despite getting far better service.