Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

come on the pool. struggling to think of a big team i ever disliked as much as this season's man city side. espesh now mario's gone. mancini deserves some sort of prize for making THIS squad of players boring and functional.

probably worth giving barca a ring see if they fancy a valdes swap

Yeah but it still was totally needless and wild. Xpost

Reina's got it back again imo. That was a mistake but it wouldn't've looked particularly bad without something extraordinary. Something Henderson couldn't manage on Wednesday with time to set himself and a much more favourable angle.

99% of the time that doesn't result in a goal tho

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not from a direct strike but factor in a cutback and it's more like 70%

henderson was stupid not to have squared it midweek

why are toepokes always so maligned

never knowingly toepoked

Good performance overall, I still have some belief in Bren's "project".

Liverpool looked the better team for long swathes of that and certainly better than Liverpool last season and for that matter before Christmas. I'd still be fairly heartened even if the equaliser was a kick in the teeth.

The team is on the brink of becoming pretty special imo, but this unable-to-beat-the-top-six thing is getting stupid.

'pretty special' by reference to the last three years, obviously

I keep thinking I should pick a team over there to root for, and Liverpool might be it.

proceed with caution

The defence is a problem but yeah, they are starting to look capable of controlling games, the attacking movement is really good.

Missed it all. Sounds like worth catching.

http://i.imgflip.com/j46j.gif

Balotelli just scored his first for Milan. RIP Mario u r missed in this thread tbh

Ah man. I hope he takes the league by storm.

every time he scores someone'll post it here: it won't be that often once he gets bored.

R.I.P Carra.

rip, heaven needed another english franchise player with no skill or athleticism but plenty of passion and honesty and absence of nonsense

quite an own-goal haul for 'absence of nonsense' tbtfh

no nonsense defenders specialize in own goals, richard dunne has the record for current epl players, it's about being passionate and committed and trying to reach the ball even when not fast or skilful enough to properly control it

He's been one of the very best. I even liked him throwing a coin at the crowd once.

like the way he used to blow his nose in every interview

and the pint of harp

and the grabbing attackers around the waste

waist, freudian slip as it usually happened against everton

we can't be expunging nilmar's favourite word from the carra discourse can we

http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/did-jamie-carragher-shag-john-terrys-mumor-were-there-rumours-to-that-effect/3506965

mumor rumours

"Carragher, for me, is nothing. He's like a make of ketchup or mustard to a normal person: not important."

Heinz Ketchup is quite important to me actually.

the right mustard is very important to me

not really a Colman's fan though

I am not wild about English mustard tbh. French's or whatever in a burger is nice but not properly mustard I guess.

Can it garnish a burger bought from a van on an industrial estate on a wet Wednesday in Stoke?

that quote was probably dioufy's biggest atrocity

Can it garnish a burger bought from a van on an industrial estate on a wet Wednesday in Stoke?

it can, though it'd still taste of human flesh.

Posh mustard for sandwich and cooking, rubbish for burgers etc

english mustard is good for nowt whatsoever imo

yeah i'm not a fan

longpig merchants

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicholasschwartz/noted-soccer-expert-hulk-hogan-predicts-this-weekends-premie

http://i.imgur.com/IyVVWAX.png

did think there was something different about lawro this week

not enough "brother"s in hulk's predictions to be lol

ny times paying attention to the important stuff
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/sports/soccer/premier-league-soccer-coaches-struggle-with-fashion.html?ref=sports&_r=0

best bit: (According to a person at Manchester City who would speak only if his name was nowhere near this information, Mancini’s scarf is not the common acrylic kind anyone can order online, but a softer, squarer, chicer, tassel-free cashmere version he has specially made back home.)

thru the wall FFS

The last few weeks have seen Bale genuinely become too good for us to keep. His last three goals alone are just ridiculous.

xpost I never received a reply from the NYT's ombudsman when I emailed to complain that a piece about QPR inaccurately referred to them as "Queens Park" in the headline. You'd think that wasn't the most significant complaint they'd ever had or something. But for me it was morally equivalent to Judith Miller.

By the way, didn't SAF look terrible on Football Focus?