Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

How the fuck is that a red?

Bladdy ell. Are those always red cards now with the studs up? Didn't touch him!

or even have the studs up

pretty sure big swarthy foreign dude doing to great white hope of english fitba what great white hope of english fitba does a couple times every game is an automatic red

trying too hard

twp, gerrard, terry have had these privileges for years

kompany deserved a booking cuz it was scrappy and potentially dangerous, but not dangerous enough, and not malicious enough to get near a sending off

i had to do more grown up stuff what'd i miss

• Arsenal big babies, self-sabotage through self-pity
• City kinda bored of the epl, barely rousing themselves
• Utd actually do it through great precision and high tempo, but other than rvp have the air of a confidence side, could see them having a terrible run at some point
• Liverpool somehow dragging a promising display out of that first half, and I guess credit to Bren for changing it though maybe should've acted even sooner; don't quite understand how the dynamic changed quite so much though; Gerrard good, Suarez, Sturridge, Borrini could be a very interesting front three, but still too much average kicking around

"bored of the EPL" eh? Suppose they're saving themselves for Europe

Kompany sending off probably a yellow, definitely a classic shit refereeing "even the numbers up" decision

citeh saving themselves for the summer and spain/italy, perhaps

agreed on kompany. wilshere might have been booked imo. nothing wrong with first red.

Welbeck looked great today, felt dangerous throughout. Ditto Sturridge.

not really into finishing so much huh matt

Purism.

he 'makes things happen', classic english striker in the vassell mode, much better than a one-trick pony like darren bent

the lad houellebecq does gives it a rare puppy joie de vivre at least

The bit where he ran the length of the pitch, only to tumble out-of-bounds and be retrieved by a grinning Sturridge, was kinda lovely. It felt like a behind-the-curtain thing that we're not supposed to see.

i didn't see it- had he the ball or was it a bumblebee he was after?

would like to see van persie using only back-heels from now on in attempts to score.

xp "he's gambolled there and it's not quite come off"

oh yes

from ‏@DanKennett

#LFC vs top half #EPL (rank 18th): W0 D5 L6 F9 A19 Clean Sheets 2, Failed to Score 4 | vs bottom half (rank 3rd) W8 D2 L1 F26 A9 CS 6 FtS 0

Last season #lfc ranked 6th vs top half and 14th vs bottom half

When I watch Liverpool I keep thinking they're on the verge of being good (for a given value of good) - I'm quite surprised at those figures particularly no wins at all vs top half teams.

yeah but much improved vs bottom half, signs of a more solid/consistent team there?

Yes their record vs bottom half is very similar to e.g. Tottenham's - win column vs top half making the difference between CL & Europa aspirations.

they played pretty well against man u and city earlier this year. against chelsea they got a point despite playing a lot worse than in either of those two games. i'm still largely happy enough with them. i'll judge next year.

fair

actually think reina is a bigger problem than most fans would like to let on.

thought he'd held it together a bit better lately?

he was poor enough yesterday, though made a few good saves near the end. he had his own defence in a state of terror before the second goal, just seemed to cause confusion by whatever he was shouting at them. two very poor clearances in the first half as well.

#LFC vs top half #EPL (rank 18th): W0 D5 L6 F9 A19 Clean Sheets 2, Failed to Score 4 | vs bottom half (rank 3rd) W8 D2 L1 F26 A9 CS 6 FtS 0
Last season #lfc ranked 6th vs top half and 14th vs bottom half

you know stats like these, these "top and second half" do they use the teams' rankings as of those matches being played or just what the teams' rankings are as of now?

surely an element of cause/effect there?

I think they are as of now otherwise it's something of a moving target and you're not comparing like for like - some teams might not get to play e.g. a top half West Ham.

Might be more informative to look at how they compare against 1-9 and 10-17 from last season idk.

yes rangers, throw that money in the air like u just don't care

LET IT BURN

These guys who get linked and linked and linked to top clubs, and then end up signing for your QPRs - do they ever turn out well?

aw bless Arry's dog will be getting a new bank account

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£80,000-a-week and not a penny more

These guys who get linked and linked and linked to top clubs, and then end up signing for your QPRs - do they ever turn out well?

i'd say quite often?

You might be right, I just can't think of any right now; whereas there's a bit of a queue of Remys, M'Vilas and Eriksens building up.

newcastle did p well out of a gang of these lads last year

don't forget modric

xpost exactly

ah hey now ffs!

Modric wasn't really linked with anyone pre-Spurs, same goes for most of the Newcastle players, whereas Remy has been linked with seemingly everyone over the last ear.

I'm not sure I've seen Remy play, does he really not have better options out there or is he just not that good?

just messing, mostly. though i remember him being linked to everyone before spurs, and at that stage your lot weren't CL. it always seemed really dumb to me that liverpool or man u or chelsea didn't sign him, it wasn't as if he hadn't done it on a major stage in recent memory. and the price was low too. great business.

xpost - modric was linked to EVERYONE, all season long, before spurs. and cabaye was linked to tons of clubs too.

Also lol this was from like three weeks ago:

Asked about his plans for the January transfer window, Redknapp said: "I don't want to spend their (the club's) money, to be honest with you.

"There are a lot of players at this club who earn far too much money for what they are; far, far, far too much money for their ability and what they give to the club.

"There are a lot of players at this club who earn far too much money for what they are."

"I don't really want to see the owners have their pants taken down like they have in the past. There's a lot of agents made money out of them.

"I fined a player last week and he was earning more than any player earned at Tottenham.

"You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

Sneijder's become one of these too, if it really is true that his move boils down to a Liverpool-Fenerbahce tug-of-war.

modric looked a player but eastern european hype names who do well in the national side are hardly uncommon... at 17m there was an element of risk and big clubs will always rather spend twice as much on a sure thing later down the line

only have to look as far as rebrov for the alternate story

Arshavin

“He [Remy] didn’t want to come to us. He didn’t even want to speak about coming.

“I went over last week to watch him play, not that I needed to as I watched him about seven times when I was at Tottenham.

“I couldn’t even get a meeting with him. I was hoping to talk to him to encourage him to come.

“I think he was in a position where, when I was at Tottenham, he was interested in coming and I got on well with the lad so he would have felt embarrassed coming to say he didn’t want to come to QPR.

“He wasn’t being disrespectful. He was just in a position he didn’t know how to handle, so I’ve got no problems with him.

“He may change his mind, you don’t know. I wouldn’t write him off completely. I’d like to get him if possible but it’s not going to be easy.”

"non, non, desolee ... COMBIEN?"