Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

yeah he is the reserve rb and as such he did alright, sagna is finished so they might as well play him the last couple months

although you remind me that i was going to update the jenkinson thread

idk i'm not sure if wenger is minded to see him in that temporary light

at least for the rb spot he might allow putting greater store in blood n guts brit loyalty than competence and whatnot

can certainly see him signing another rb for a reasonable fee under the vague idea of competition (aurier, janmaat, corchia) but not splashing out on someone who would demand selection (alderweireld, carvajal)

smh i acknowledged points didnt i

but we are playing poorly, relying on bale to do the unexpected from outside the system (not today at least)

Sooner sandro dembele and holtby are together and clicking the better, then a cf and we're set, bale can go back to lw normality

Today was all about the result; as is now -> end of season. Sort the rest out in the summer.

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deems you are not playing poorly

Wait a sec we'll ask phil daniels

I can't take Monreal seriously because he just looks like a shrunken head version of Peter Crouch.

He didnt look any great shakes today, at risk of further incurring the wrath of nakh

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/969609/thumbs/o-NACHO-MONREAL-570.jpg

not seeing kraaatxi but he does look like every inconspicuous british fullback in history

between him and cazorla idk how arsenal managed to find the wonkiest brit-lookin spaniards

Sol's face of stone just now when Murray made a weak zing abt him :/

xp thought it was a young gnev momentarily before getting as far as the torso

Heart bleeds for pulis

not enough shawxing this season has bored the fans

'Lowton, Clark, Baker, Bennett'

As always, any vague sense of hope cultivated between games melts away as soon as I read the team sheet.That's just never gonna keep Tevez, Silva and Toure out, is it?

"Every game's a cup final" needs to disappear, fast. Alan Smith now using it wrt to what it must be like for every team in the league to play the reigning champions. He's a lazy bastard

in fairness your gaffer is on record as saying exactly that

Precisely my point. But this wasn't in reference to that particular quote, or even Villa at all. I know that speaking in cliches is a time-honoured tradition in this line of work, but this one seems to be enjoying an undue degree of prominence right now.

ffs what a fucking mug

trying to blame someone else for that shit too

https://i.minus.com/ibwlz9b0gYHIeQ.gif

eugh

Heh, that's excellent. Added poignancy for choosing this point in the season to do it, as if Felix Baumgartner had somehow forgotten his parachute.

or his meds

http://i.imgur.com/U6bnLlo.jpg?1

"richard dunne would not have taken that sort of liberty there. that's not being a young player, that's... [taps head with pen]... that's brain, clive."

grumbling about "this zoning marking..." now

GET INVOLVED

Simon Bidwell: "Clark's slip was eerily reminiscent of Richard Dunne vs Man U in the 2010 League Cup final. If only he'd learnt from the past."

"simon dawkins"

Just noticed darragh's dn, splendid work son.

Otm

what happened villa i was at five a side and now im on phone

They lost comfortably aiui, I didn't watch.

Not all the comfortable tbh. Pretty good show from Villa, never looked too much like scoring if we're being fair, but they were certainly in it. Were in charge for first half an hour or so, Ciaran Clark dropped an almighty bollock and that was that. A point wouldn't have necessarily been unfair, if only because this is City and you'd expect them to dispatch us more comfortably than that

All that*

ffs really should start doing a little proofreading

united's collapse starts here

Poch's gentlemen's club, ep. 2:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BExPlX9CMAAJ-NW.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2274957/Financial-Fair-Play-Premier-League-agree-financial-cap-clubs-face-points-deduction.html

Six clubs — Southampton, Swansea, Manchester City, Fulham, West Brom and Aston Villa — voted against but Reading abstained, meaning the two-thirds majority was enough to carry the proposal.

trying to get my head around this... why have all the turkeys (besides city) voted for xmas, and vice versa why have most of those whom this would appear to benefit not gone for it

presumably liverpool and arsenal and co want fair play cos it'll fuck chelsea and city, and in a fair world the clubs with big support and revenue rather than sugar daddies will thrive?

a "fair" world

Next financial year is our financial year

all these mugs have ensured is united winning the league for the next ten thousand years

Also the clubs that are 'big' already feel confident in their future commercial revenue which can be spent on wages. It does protect them from other mid level clubs being taken over by other billionaires to some extent.

But yeah Utd's commercial revenue dwarfs everyone's i would think.

will be a long giggs montage after the title in 12013 xpost

how are liverpool (already over all wage/debt thresholds, no new stadium ever) not reliant on fenway for progress

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/14/article-2261817-16E9561C000005DC-915_634x286.jpg

Yeah the voting pattern of the clubs doesn't make much sense to me, like why would QPR of all clubs vote in favour, other than as a chance to slash a load of overpaid shite from their wage bill?

My guess is that Stoke, Swansea and Fulham are pretty low-turnover as Premiership clubs go but with wage bills that can expect to creep upwards if they're going to survive or build on mid-table. I dunno, maybe they just aren't as well run lol-artisanal-bakery as we think they are?

good old pool and spurs scheming again... remind me how that whole breakway formation of the premiership thing worked out