Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2270364/Julio-Cesar-hijacks-Ryan-Nelsens-guard-honour-QPR-v-Manchester-City.html

lol

Reminds mean that Patrick Barclay was on the Sky Sports journo programme a few weeks back saying that QPR would be better off playing Rob Green in goal instead of Cesar (to general incredulity I'm glad to say)

QPR have now kept four clean sheets in January, two against Chelsea and Spurs. Put a bit more attacking talent in that team now and I genuinely believe they could stay up.

And City, durr.

I haven't watched QPR since the LFC game but I thought they'd kept clean sheets by taking the attacking talent out of the team?

yeah certainly to some extent but that doesn't automatically result in defenders remembering how to defend (onuoha is back) and cesar bossing it like the old days. training ground work is def being done

can't really speculate on what arry's plan is for getting the attack going (and what that might do to the defence) until the players come in

lfc game first half was probably the worst rangers performance i have ever seen in my entire life

Have you got a handy balance sheet of your ins and outs? I can't keep up.

Reading trying to hijack the Ince deal apparently. And Butland's turned down Chelsea.

8m for ince is a bit yikes

Excited. This could be the last defining match of our season - is it gonna be a best-of-mid-table year, or an actual challenge for fifth the top four?

(It's the latter, fyi)

Game has 15 minutes to convince me that it's going to be a more enjoyable watch than a Clasico with Madrid playing their reserve defence.

IK could be a liv or ars fan in tht post

i thought that was all his posts

HOoof, that was a mess

fucking

just waht

~arsenal~

Yes! (you guys)

you can't legislate for... being shit at the back

pass

who knew he cd pass too

Can we all agree that Suarez is the best player in the league yet?

now that Balotelli's gone

what was chesney at there

Official 2nd best player in the world iirc

pushing zlatan close these days tho

Second only to Michu, actually

Carrick/De Gea just gifted Southampton a goal

ffs Downing

That'll read 'Carrick/De Gea just gifted Southampton a goal' by tomorrow

really like giroud's movement. not the fastest player but gets in good positions

Kagawa and Rooney running tings now

Arsenal look pretty dangerous going forward, but much more like those last couple of minutes and it won't matter

just turned this on, what is going on in the arse midfield have they had a man sent off

ah fuck off spurs we need these cunts on a downer ffs

John Hartson just said on Five Live that Ashley Cole was his apprentice at Arsenal. That must've been... something.

(Michael Owen on radio isn't any more illuminating than he is on telly)

FU r|t|c! And to think I nearly commended QPR on their hard-fought point...

"the suggestion Liverpool are a one-man Steven Gerrard team"

Ah come on, when was the last time anyone said that?

after saturday i will get back to wishing we were norwich but for now the tribal drums grow louder

particularly looking forward to holty vs big chrissy s

As long as it's a better game than the 2nd week of the season, both of us fresh from absolute beatings and scared to really do anything

Need a Henderson upgrade badly. Didn't think he'd have the imagination to see the shot there tbh, at least that's something.

he's not looked too bad the past couple of games I thought... def getting better

i daresay suarez is not feeling hendo

He's not bad as such, it's just you see the pretty patterns that are starting to take shape elsewhere, and he's never going to be part of that.

Whats spurs doin

Is Jamie Redknapp genuinely incapable of maintaining more than one idea at one time? That goal was all down to Mertesacker not closing down.

I don't know what it is about Grant Holt but he manages to put the shits up our defenders in the way that Van Persie, Suarez and Rooney could only dream of.

I think every defender in the league would choose to play against Holt before any of those three

crikey, that was a handball and a half

thought that was a penalty on poldi too

HD slowmo gif of the Carragher impact pls