Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

was about to footcelsior you for that but it's real

pacing like a lion, as weightless as an astronaut,

think he got this mixed up, based on my experiences of watching robbie.

Thats kinda sweet, tho neither cunt is my cup of tea

c'mon the smiths were great

+1fp

was it worth it, was it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21554484

how do they lack imagination to such an extent? it drives me bananas.

the bbc or leighton baines

I wonder if there's ever been a high-profile footballer who's privately been into Albert Ayler or the Nurse With Wound List or something. I'm struggling to think of even a fun hypothetical candidate.

ekotto

Pat Nevin was into The Fall, Swans, Cocteau Twins etc iirc

Xabi Alonso - recent tweets include links to Swans, Howlin' Wolf, My Bloody Valentine

Gaizka Mendieta - lol Spanish indie kid footballers
http://blitz.sapo.pt/como-um-ex-futebolista-de-top-se-transformou-em-dj-indie-eis-gaizka-mendieta=f79149

Gaizka had a wee back and forth with Stephen Pastel on Twitter recently.

and also turned his son into a mini-Stephen Pastel, it seems.

Watching Fulham-Stoke because Americans, and holy shit wtf is Stoke doing letting that clown Walters take a penalty? Same dude that missed one and had two own goals earlier in the season.

Off-the-cuff charm from Dimitar Berbatov. The striker ends the half with a marvellous good volley from about ten yards

I like how the Guardian isn't even bothering mbm'ing this - bit of honesty about where the appeal of the blitw really lies, it'll make things easier in the long run.

dan proving me wrong preëmptively, excellent

Berba goal was p sweet

sigh why am i even loading this stream up

i could go out, be nourished by art and culture and a pint alone in a dark corner life somewhere

bit cold i spose

oh look bosingwa's playing, triffic

remy u still injured u cunt?

oh my

Rafa!

What happened to RVP then? (I'm following this on the radio)

seems to be a back injury

he's getting the aspirin in now. Seems to be grand

http://i.minus.com/ibfiSe4T51zeRm.gif

not really watching the qpr game but enjoying the russian commentator's intermittent sneezing

Arsenal camped in Villa's box for about five solid minutes there, then boom

Now if they can just nab another one

Peter Pan!

sadly unsurprised.

Can't really complain. Villa'll get one more chance though.

I hope they take it well.

oof, season over for Everton

Moyes looked ready to kill after that.

Season over? Win two home games and we're at Wembley. But, from a Prem PoV, 6th absolute best now.

Can someone run the stats and reassure me that we've actually prospered as much as suffered in the dying minutes this season? There were the comebacks vs Spurs and Villa but, Jesus H Catterick, we've pissed away so many points late on. Never trust a MBM report that says you "look comfortable".

5 points behind Arsenal with 11 games to play? Jesus you're pessimistic.

5 playing minutes ago it was neck-and-neck with Arsenal, right on Spurs' heels - now look at it

Yeah, I'm pessimistic. Overhauling Arsenal seems unlikely. We have to go there at some point (should be 9/3, but hopefully that'll be FAC6R day).

OK - games saved/won in closing stages:
Late Baines pen vs Wigan for 2-2
Two goals inside last 16min to beat Sunderland
Two goals in injury time to beat Spurs
Late Fellaini header vs Villa for 3-3

GAIN: 8pts

Points squandered in final quarter-hour:
Newcastle, late equaliser
Fulham, late equaliser
Reading, WTF (count it as 1pt dropped, as equaliser was before hour but still HOW?)
Norwich (H), FFS
Norwich (A), FFS

LOSE: 10pts

That's alright. I won't smash any crockery or anything. If Jelavic was in form though...

Manchester United are now averaging over two-and-a-half points a game, which if they keep it up will edge them past Chelsea 2005's 95-point mark

Shearer explaining why playmaker-in-the-hole Adel Taraabt is rubbish because he doesn't run up and down or get himself in the box enough. What is the point, really?

The only mildly entertaining thing about Shearer is the comically high standards he claims to expect from everyone. I remember some world cup 0-0 where his analysis was that Luca Toni "should of scored half-a-dozen. At least". It may even have been only halftime.

enjoyed this from the first page gis results for "the two alans"

http://www.transportxtra.com/files/9167-m.jpg

Alan Wood and Alan Clark were behind Marston success in the Enforcement category at the British Parking Awards

Deniz Huseyin

Marston Group’s award-winning pair Alan Clark and Alan Wood have both left the civil enforcement agent. Group business development director Clark has retired while business development manager Wood is joining Whyte & Co in the new post of director of development.

you're going to fucking park. you're going to park here, in this bay, with the dotted fucking line around it. don't even try to drive off. you're parking.

lol

i am drunk but there is such a thing as The British Parking Awards

Ferguson says Rafael closed his eyes and conjured up some Samba magic

Sir Alex Ferguson joked that Rafael must have had his eyes closed when he spectacularly volleyed Manchester United into the lead at QPR.

= Samba closed his eyes and conjured up some Rafael magic

It either speaks volumes for the wealth of talent at Old Trafford or shows that Sir Alex Ferguson is fallible but Dimitar Berbatov continues to cut a classic football figure on the banks of the River Thames.

The Bulgarian striker, 32, sold by Manchester United for £5million last summer, combines the silky elegance of a rumba dancer with the deadly strike of a cobra, qualities which enable him to celebrate his 200th Premier League game in the grand manner.