Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

v tidy point, churlish to grouse about the toothlessness but it is a reality

quite impressed with harry so far, so many wastrels starting to look handy. bare minimum improvement otoh though i guess

take a bow julio cesar, awesome

http://www.rmcsport.fr/editorial/337950/rennes-antonetti-annonce-m-vila-a-qpr/

oh and um hello

Ça me fait ch... que le dernier d’Angleterre vienne nous prendre notre meilleur joueur », a lancé Antonetti.

my French is poor, that doesn't seem as definitive as an anno(u)ncement though. He's a talent for sure but sounds like a terror to manage.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

can't say i'm overly fussed tbh, derry's doing the biz right now

mbia to cb for nelsen, m'vila for derry dm, livermore for mbia box to box? idk arry

word on spurs - naughton waste, adebayor waste, walker clueless, lol dawson hoofing it to lennon, bale a tart, dembele kinda bottled it

can file that whole game under "get one moutinho"

dawson 70 passes 90% accuracy.

Naughton not only shit, his attitude did not become a kid 3 months in the team, let him fuck off.

The rest, eh didnt play any neat stuff, looked easy to cut through on break, not great, take a point.

stats the last refuge of a scoundrel and u know this

He's a talent for sure but sounds like a terror to manage.

― boxall, Sunday, 13 January 2013 02:53 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

fuck me why do i find this still winning over some sick twisted glutton-for-punishment part of my soul

love those French quote marks:

«It makes me shit, that the English lanterne rouge comes here to take our best player»

Reina, Wisdom, Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Lucas, Gerrard, Allen, Downing, Sterling, Suarez

De Gea, Rafael, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Welbeck, Carrick, Cleverly, Young, Kagawa, RvP

taking all bets on the first sending off

looking at you, Vidic

he has looked a little shaky since he came back

There were points yesterday when Spurs appeared to be threading balls through the eye of a needle up to a certain point but never in a situation that would get anyone into goalscoring positions. We never play particularly well against teams who play like that and Redknapp knows it, but a lack of guile certainly showed yesterday.

no sturridge, i see.

just loan him to west ham already

Jamie's evoking the streets again

This really isn't a game when you try and retool your forward line to make way for an untried combination.

Not looking forward to this. Can see us getting a couple, even taking the lead twice, but this'll be a routine 3-2 to Utd I fear.

Gah that's ruined everything, really wanted Liverpool to take the lead.

Hrmph. Utd's close control is much more precise, it lets them get much further up the pitch before a move risks breaking down.

Shades of Gerrard's ambulance ball to Henry in Euro 2004 just then.

Oof, that should've been two

Sterling aside, Liverpool just don't have enough pace in their team, United are skinning them right across the park.