Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/9810084/Shaun-Derrys-hunger-gives-Queens-Park-Rangers-a-fighting-chance-of-Premier-League-survival.html

“My son’s 5½ and at the academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and said to my wife Jolene: 'Look at us, we’re in a nice house, he’s got an iPad, DS, holidays abroad, trampoline outside.’ I just had a football as a kid. We lived on a council estate and there would be 20 kids on the patch of grass kicking a ball around – five year-olds to 19 year-olds. No prisoners. The strongest survived.

“I said to Jo: 'I find it staggering I’m talking about a five year-old and questioning his desire but I want to see it. It’s a challenge for us. How am I going to get my work ethic ingrained in that boy who has everything?’ In south London, there are a lot of underprivileged kids and they have a desire, even at five. I’ve tried to explain that to him. He’ll have to earn the iPad, the DS. He’s got to prove it to me.”

kinda lol but mostly dad

what the fuck is a 5 year-old gonna do with a i-Pad?

My son’s 5½ and at the academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and kicked him in the bollocks.

Needs to get Uncle Clint round to really put him through his paces.

Thanks be to god Roy Keane only felt fatherly towards his dog.

My dog’s 5½ and at the sheepdog academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and had his bollocks snipped.

“I said to Teresa: 'I find it staggering I’m talking about a 12-year-old dog with a heart condition and three legs and questioning his desire but I want to see it. It’s a challenge for us. How am I going to get my work ethic ingrained in that dog who has seen everything?’ In Manchester, there are a lot of injured and suffering dogs and they have a desire, even at 15 they would rip the bollocks off you for a rumour of an open can of Pal. I’ve tried to explain that to him. He’ll have to earn the squeaky toy, the nicely padded basket, the daily 100-mile walks when I'm fired from a club that's even worse than the last one I was fired from and Ian Harte won't answer my calls.'

english football can only wonder how many more talented toddler pros must be lost to 5-19 no holes barred council estate deathmatches

http://instagram.com/p/PrfFboREsD/

keano's all talk, loves his dog, what has he got for show for it

i can see a five yr old doin more useful with an ipad than they'll do at a formal training session in january ffs

RIP Nigel
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/11/15/1353004021740/Nigel-Adkins-Southampton-001.jpg

no fucking way

That is insane. Stupid fucking league, god I hate it.

wt actual fuck

oh wow

that is desperately sad

pocchetino ????

I suppose we don't know the whole story yet, but if it's a straightforward sacking then fuck you Southanpton, hope you end up in the Conference

who's the briatore here, is it cortese or a higher power

Adkins can move on to a better club now anyway, so well done Nigel!

cortese runs the show. and until today i've been a fan. but fuck him forever for this.

shocking decision

which premiership clubs aren't a total joke nowadays? i guess in some perverse way, total-onrunning-joke-club newcastle united have actually shown the most tolerance towards their own vulnerability, the least hard-nosed romanceless fucking greed. saying that, soon as ashley can stump up pards' severance they'll probably tap up del bosque

Wigan

Everton, WBA

oh yeah everton for sure

wba are a bit more murky - is that peace chap still around?

have a queasy feeling that wigana are going to pull a dick move at some stage - they're a poorly-supported premiership club - the chemicals are volatile and the status can only be preserved...artificially...

kinda amazing that cortese kept this megalomania in check for so long. obv ramirez was a big vanity signing red flag but before that

jackpot stroke of luck for rangers obv

spurs's sacking of redknapp was quality coldblood decision making, the opposite of this kind of thing imo

yeah i guess spurs kinda belong on the 'do it with honour' list, jol aside (?)

spurs are entirely irrelevant to this discussion can we not crowbar them in ffs

28m Luke Shaw ‏@Luke_shaw3
Very confused lol

You and me both, Luke.

Not actually sure if I care if we get relegated now. This is... crushing.

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this is the kind of thing that just makes you want to stop bothering with football, yes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/jun/08/sid-lowe-review-la-liga-2009-season

With 10 weeks left, Espanyol were bottom on 22 points, eight from safety, having won four times all season. It was going to take a miracle for them to survive, so Pochettino asked for one. He hiked 12km to Montserrat, pleaded with the Virgin to save his team and, lo!, she did. Ten games and eight wins later, Espanyol finished 10th.

Only three defeats in thirteen games since the start of November. You can maybe understand some cunt getting twitchy after the terrible start but to wait until he turned it around and had them on top half form then decide to sack him is just o_O to me.

hey guys i heard havant and waterlooville have an excellent track-record at sticking with a manager

think i might just support adkins from now on, follow him from club to club

imo a little bit of ramos for jol, a little bit of the aborted attempt to replace ian holloway for ramon diaz

if we're talking crowbarring :)

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?24795-Pardew-and-Coaching-Staff-Sacked

unbelievable you sick fucks i'm nominating Nige for beatitude now