Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

having to live with the Wolves seems a bit harsh this season tho

Wait, he has to live with Wolves and Forest? That is harsh.

Hold on - the Lampard that appears at 1:23? No way is that level of injokery Taiwanese, the waggish hand of UK bantz is involved here.

eh
That is pure brilliance

http://i.imgur.com/0OfoGmG.jpg

i think some of that particularly intense affection liverpool fans have for rafa derives from his northern complexion, he looks like he could have been dragged out of a cellar in widnes, baroque hand gestures aside he does not really seem southern at all

http://i.imgur.com/UqItSNU.gif

Paul Ince just said on Football Focus that at his age he's not going to a club where he doesn't play every week. To which Lawro helpfully added "And you have to remember, that was his problem with Liverpool in the first place."

"His" problem. Is that saying he's got ego problems?

probably does if he's expecting a first team place at 45 years of age

srsly tho i think you're reading too much into it

he could probably do a job for QPR

You're probably right, I just thought it was weird that the most blatant Liverpool stalwart on the BBC immediately jumped in with a phrase that quite readily translates as trying to shift the blame for the move to Blackpool away from the club. xpost

lawro is probably the least rabid former liverpool employee of all time though

mostly down to his natural demeanour but still

http://armandokirwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Conspiracy.jpg

xpost

Don't think it's ego problems to wanna play football? Doesn't imply that he thought he should be starting at LFC just that he wanted to be playing something other than reserve team football so that he had a chance to actually improve? Paul Ince said midweek that he doesn't want Thomas going back to LFC if he's just gonna be playing Reserve/Developmental football or sitting on the bench for 6 months.

No, not really a conspiracy Ronan, I just thought it was an oddly ambiguous turn of phrase.

From memory, what Ince said was "he plays every week at Blackpool and he wants that elsewhere".

Or "would want" rather.

good on the kid tbh

lawrenson is liverpool's most blatant hater at the bbc now wtf! it may well be in an i think you may protest too much kind of way but ffs he hasn't said a good thing about the club in years and is head over heels with united and ferguson. i think it's a symptom of his self-hatred tbh. obv been living in denial for years too.

on second thoughts fuck the 45th minute equalising cunt

Tonight's the night. Just had a couple of stiff ones after work ahead of this. I'm sure there are darker days ahead but this is without doubt the as close to a "day of destiny" that Villa have had during my lifetime. Well there may have been one under Eck last year but I just couldnt get so emotionally involved in that. A win tonight could make such a massive difference. It's also the night that Lambo finally decides to give the Benteke/Bent combo the run-out it's been asking for. Am ready to come round entirely on DB if he saves us this season.

forget Super Sundays, Terror Tuesdays is where it's at

this is *the* game of the season, I assume we're all agreed

just bet my weekend drinking money on Villa to win. will regret it in the morning. but then....

fucking Villa.

Hmmmm

Peach!

A blow expected, repeated, falling on a bruise, with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull sickening sensation and the doubt whether another like it could be borne.

rip

motherfucking Villa.

I was just typing that I really want Villa to not lose tonight, because while a club in a tailspin is one of football's finest sights, they have to be particularly odious before you want them to die. But that seems academic at this point tbh.

Please don't take this the wrong way, Windsor, but I really want Villa to lose.

I don't even know why.

Brian Little OTM, amazingly. The attention is always focussed on how bad we are in defence, but I think the midfield is probably worse. By which I mean Bannan and Westwood

Tiny, tiny little part of me that kinda agrees tbh NBS. Like a miniscule fragment of my soul is ready to give up the ghost and would sooner just lose the next 8 games back to back and get this over with quickly. Dunno if I can bear a long-drawn out near miss

Oh yeah, I can relate to that - if your team's going to do badly, you want them to do more badly than anyone else ever. No place for half-measures in this game.

I bet nbs was revelling in it those years Utd finished third

This is pressure.

(xp) I've said it before, and it was a very long time ago, but back when United did actually look like they might go down (86/87 and 89/90) part of me wanted it to actually happen. But that was on the basis that United would come straight back up and it would be nice to have a season playing different teams and winning most of the time. Obviously I'd have preferred them to actually be challenging for the title, but I think I'd have preferred relegation and rebirth to grinding along in 16th place.

False hope.

Another embarrassing fold on the card for Newcastle?

I feel like they've thrown away solid looking 2-0 leads more than any other team this season

crisis club Newcastle

Oh, to be in the position to throw away 2 goal leads...

I remember those days, just a few seasons back. Good times.

Not raised the pulse much yet. There's plenty of time yet for this to go completely tits up, for either team.

Whatcha talking about EZ? Our throwing of the game against the Baggies the other day was absolutely vintage.

True. Total throwback game. I just remember one of those every other week under O'Neill.

what a pass from Benteke

How the fuck am i watching swansea sunderland

Get this on, it's really good