Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:48 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some of those heads don't look right. Like they're photo-shopped on. I never took Neil Lennon for a big head but it's twice the size of Hughton's.

jesus, johnson

would love to see the look on Abramovich's wee moany face right now

hope tom wilkinson is safe

kinda hilarious given all the 'pep to the Prem' headlines this morning

Bayern could well win everything this season anyway

couldve sworn it was only yesterday bayern put out a statement saying they were only talking to heynckes

what were the pep odds again a few months ago, 20/1? hooray for me never putting money down, fml

hutton dressed as lahm is

~respec' knuckz~

meant to say

anyone fancy a job?

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job ends up being ghost-tweeter for espanyol's rui fonte

yaaaaasssss

YES!! another glorious point!

roman abramovitsch...john terry...damon albarn...your boys took one hell of a drawing

Didn't see a second of it, but assists for Clyne and Shaw makes me v happy indeed. Specially if, as sounds the case, Shaw's one came from one of his big fuck-off runs down the left, which are awesome.

Imagine if Puncheon for England becomes a thing. True, he's probably behind Nathan Dyer in the queue at the very least, but just IMAGINE.

oh man wait till you see the 2nd goal! epic run from shaw and the finish was a beaut. punch prob our most influential player atm? we were well worth the point, had lots of meandering possession in the first half and then as soon we put a couple of quick balls into the box, we score twice. and chaplow came on - truly a memorable night.

hutton dressed as lahm is

~respec' knuckz~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM

Speaking to the club's official website, Remy revealed a four-hour talk with Fernandes regarding his future ended in a game of FIFA 12, sealing the deal at Loftus Road.

"It was a special moment that followed our chat about QPR," Remy said.

"We just played a game of FIFA - it was good and showed to me what a good person Tony is.

"He showed his human side to me as an owner of the club I wanted to join. It was a special moment for us both."

Meanwhile Bobby Zamora is still eating in his car. Shivering now, probably.

Shearer quotes around today questioning Remy's motives. He thinks it might've come down to money.

Eat your chicken and beans, Shearer.

Shearer never negotiated a contract in his life, when he moved to Blackburn all he got was twenty-four guilders and a box of coloured beads.

That were twice as many as Chris Sutton and three times as many as Stuart Ripley though.

Didn't know we were born.

He wore umbro all his career because they were the only boots in his local sports shop that he could afford.

He doesn't know that Hansen's on £1.5m a year for motd. In fact he doesn't even know it's a tv show - he thinks Gary just likes having him round on a Saturday night to watch the footy.

Just idly wondering, do Remy and M'Vila have the same agent?

google says no

it does say willie mckay had a hand in the remy deal though, quelle surprise

LOIC REMY snubbed the chance to see what Newcastle United had to offer – in favour of a lie-in.

The 26-year-old France international, who completed his move to Queens Park Rangers yesterday, had been offered a full-works tour of St James’ Park and the city as well as a look around the training facilities at the club’s Benton base on Tuesday.

But, rather than take a flight to Tyneside, the Chronicle understands he opted to stay in bed until lunchtime before taking in the sights of the capital.

These are golden opportunities for agents though - whack your player into a probably-soon-to-be-relegated club for ridiculous wages, hope they impress in the Premiership and then pocket the change as they transfer to another Premiership team for even madder wages. It's like Tevez and Mascherano without the ownership fannydangle.

seeing as how Matt Jarvis has got an England cap the least they can do is give Puncheon a couple

"The other day a ball hit my hand with no intention at all and everybody criticised me because I kissed my wrist. Suárez sells."

love that

Maybe something's lost in the translation, but he didn't see to make a very coherent argument. IIRC it was something like "it's not fair, they call me a cheat and say I dive, like that time at Stoke, except I did dive there because we were drawing and I wanted us to win, but anyway it's not fair."

Hmmmmmm.....Reacting to the remarks, Rodgers said Suárez had expressed "unacceptable" views, and the situation would be "dealt with internally … Diving is not something we advocate. Our ethics are correct."

I don't know if you're trying to suggest some inconsistency here, but as I saw it reported, he's being disciplined for admitting to diving, not for diving itself.

No, I think it's fair enough for Rodgers to say that, I was more wondering what the paranoid RAWK-types would make of that announcement.

hmmm

It's bullshit for the club to punish him for admitting to something they'd already known he'd done.

Talking about it and removing all public doubt* is pretty dumb, what are Liverpool supposed to do, just go "aah we'll let you get away with it"?

*Yeah I know...

Had a quick look at RAWK and there are arguments raging there between the two sides, but I liked this post best:
Can't wait 'til Suarez scores and dives in front of Rodgers.

tbf to the lad he's still lying about the handball v Mansfield so he's at least partially on-message

non-story really.

It might well be unacceptable Brendan, but so is hanging one of your players out to dry, before even the authorities have been asked to deal with it.

At this point Brendan, and after all of the shite Luis has had to put up with this last year, if those quotes are actually genuine and from you, this is the point that you are dead to me.

must be shite having to put up with being a diving racist

harsh

i can cite precedent

OK, it must be mildly annoying having to put up with being a diving racist

"Cavani is a player that I like," said Wenger. "Will he cost a lot of money? That's for sure. Nobody would deny that. Our banker lives just next to me at the moment and he is ready if we find the right player."

not sure i approve of a banker liking the same players i do