Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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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.

lol, did you see the cross and the corner he headed in though? Both were excellent.

John Terry has come on as a sub, given a penalty, and now Walters has smashed it high, barely clipped the bar.

reading

Jonathan Lolters.

i can only hope the chelsea fans are giving him the warm reception he deserves.

Bet they prefer him to Torres.

Paul Young on Twitter: "Re 16:30. And the best goalie in the Prem right now is also Belgian - 'Mig the Magnificent' or 'Super Simon'. Sunderland stopper Simon Mignolet."

¯\(°_o)/¯

Rodriguez is a fuckin rat cunt

His Spanish genes were telling him to dive, his English ones to stay on his feet and play the game, what

reading

thoroughly undeserved win for saints, the best kind

history rewritten as dead eyed volkist thugs of west ham find no way past the impregnable mignolet line

i dont think ive written a wikipedia edit in about four years but somehow feel inclined to add paul merson to the disambiguation page

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Ted, Arsenal fan, via text: "Tough day for Jon Walters but a hard working player who represents all that is good about Stoke, I am sure he will bounce back."

I really hope Ted's right, I don't like to think that by the time Stoke next play he'll've succumbed to pestilence, death or worse

Villa failed to find a way through a defence built on Maya Yoshida and Jos Hooiveld. This does not speak well of them.