Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

fulham are pretty cushty now, chairman mo wrote off all the debt

Is that Theo's signature? That celebration gets worse and worse.

tevez huh

He does understand the word 'police', but not more complicated words.

kia joorabchian's talents do not extend to checking the post

U can take the gaucho out of argentina

tell that to Mancini last season

http://i.imgur.com/mSHoVNF.jpg

Davies signed a four-year contract with Aston Villa to make the move permanent on 3 July 2008.[21] The fee was undisclosed, but was reported at between £8m and £11m.[22]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21624631

and another routine win in lawroworld sees rangers maintain their grasp on europe ahead of spurs and pool

where is the portal to this magical realm, i want to go to there

Brendan Rodgers's side will have to try to diminish the threat of with Gareth Bale, who has scored 11 goals in his last nine games for club and country. The way round that problem is simply by sticking close to him.

easy peasy!

The last nine teams certainly regret trying the 'give him the ball and all the space he wants' plan

I like how compared to Lawroworld man Utd are actually underachieving this year

“Your whole world is different," Redknapp said. "It’s like when the summer comes and you see all the girls walking about in mini-skirts – they look better, don’t they? In the winter they’re all, you know, and that’s how you feel after a win.

“Not that I look at young birds – I’m not into that – but you know what I mean.”

Has he just come out?

jesus