Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

How many times have Fulham worn that kit with the brown and white diagonal stripes? That's lovely.

suarez is like nothing i've ever seen at anfield. genuinely believe he'd enhance any side in the world.

Even Barca would be improved with Suarez in the team.

Delicious pass-agg-off between Pulis and Allardyce there.

He's got skills on the ball like nobody else in the epl, lets not go fuckin crazy tho.

Pulis or Allardyce?

yeah i seem to have fonder memories of torres in his lethal heyday but suarez has the better all round game and is more central to team play

Yeah this is why I asked really. Suarez's "work rate" tho deserves a better term. He fights harder than Torres ever did, tho Torres's magic seemed to come in two or three touches and from nowhere.

Suarez's involvement in games is just way higher. It'll be a miracle if he's still at Liverpool next season.

somebody on the radio yesterday said that Torres conversion rate this season is 1 goal per 7 chances and Suarez's is 1 in 8. if that's true it just goes to show what bollocks bare stats can be.

smh ynahtid fans purring at these remedial kagawa finishes

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shut up

if you can't enjoy that second goal then i don't even know

:D allow him his giddy chutzpah, qpr just amassed 1/8 of the points they'll gain all season

mind you I agree with him - in all three cases I'd rank the assist above the finish

Nah first assist and finish likely both scuffs imo, tied

second assist and finish vvg

third assist and first touch were each heavy, dece defence dont concede

looking at run in, pessimist calls spurs finishing on 62 points.

somebody on the radio yesterday said that Torres conversion rate this season is 1 goal per 7 chances and Suarez's is 1 in 8. if that's true it just goes to show what bollocks bare stats can be

That might well be true, Suarez does seem to miss a lot but crucially he also creates a lot more for himself than Torres does. Torres at his best was all about pace, movement and getting himself in the right places to collect the final pass and none of that has really been coming together for him for ages. If that stat is true it's probably because the chances just aren't coming/he isn't getting in the right places for them.

But it's probably bollocks.

i unequivocally hate united but that 2nd finish ws butter.

chelsea is where strikers go to die, sacrificed at the feet of their midfield gods.

I can believe it; there was also that stat about Liverpool having more shots than any other club in the top five leagues. 1 in 8 puts him on 168 shots in 28 games - that's feasible, he's that active.

my boy Santi talking about the BLITW

Compared to Spain, the football here is less tactical, but more fun to watch and play. There’s too much technique in Spain and they are held back by it. This makes the match more boring. There’s a better pace in England. There’s also more space, especially for footballers like me, and more time to think. Teams always want to attack and score goals in England. In Spain they are locked down by tactics. And the atmosphere here is just amazing.

The only stats you need to know about suarez vs torres are the no. of goals and the midfields the play in front of

Spain certainly give the impression of a country whose football is being held back by stifling technique.

yeah, boring isn't it?

Interesting how better pace translates into more space and more time to think

Also Chelsea's (central) midfield is completely unbalanced and dysfunctional and has been for a couple of years now, it's one of the main reasons why they aren't title contenders. It looked better when Rafa moved David Luiz into midfield but obviously he couldn't continue that and keep Terry festering in purgatory at the same time.

If anything Rodgers is doing a reasonable job with considerably more limited midfield players.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fury-baby-blacked-up-ex-manchester-1740367

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1516158.ece/ALTERNATES/s298/Diouf%20and%20child-1516158

why always northerners

Parenting expert Sue Atkins, the author of Parenting Made Easy: How To Raise Happy Children, joined the condemnation.

“Using a baby to make a point about football is just totally inappropriate. This child has no say in this. It is just wrong.”

Perhaps the point about football might have been made clearer if there'd been another better baby made up as Aguero next to him?

Tottenham: Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto; Dembele, Parker; Lennon, Sigurdsson, Bale; Adebayor

Arsenal: Szczesny, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Monreal, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud.

Lloris Walker Vertonghen Vermaelen Monreal Dembele Arteta Wilshere Cazorla Bale Adebayor

Giroud surely

ekotto def

monreal is a better player

piers morgan on my stream

god bless us all. see youse in two hours.

lol?

lol!

We've been here before.

appears to be no odds available for Spurs 2 Arsenal 5 at Ladbrokes

Evens.

Only four more to go.

What's going on with Clattenburg's hair? He has a sort of lesbian sci-fi look.

jfc Gylfi that is fucking pathetic

Six minutes?

dang

just about a deserved three points but it's another one of those games where a draw would have kinda felt like suitable punishment for Gylfi and to a lesser extent Bale not putting it to bed

fukkit

Dawson was hueg, is kind of my main takeaway from that

should have been sent off for protesting when Arsenal didn't put it out of play

Hueg indeed. That might be the only significant result of the season, unless Spurs still fuck things up.

Did you deliberately misspelled "until"?

vertonghen pwns dawson tbf but that was still not great stuff

avb turning us into hapless-yet-effective no real complaints i spose grumble grumble

vertonghen is boss