Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

acestream has been spotty for me fwiw but looking at that tutorial seems i could have done with bumping up the buffer settings as advised

quite like the shittyness of nutjob feeds tho tbh, bloodzeed quality can seem so vulgar

is it time to discuss pardew's beard yet

i mean he's clearly not a ~beard man~, one to take pride in the clean-shaven jawlines of straight talking management "professionalism", so this mutation into philbrownism is of psychological interest

is he feeling less in control and more like a babysitter for the french lads now you have to wonder

or indeed has he caught sight of how age is softening his features to that of a kindly old granny and this is his failing bid to re-alpha

Yeah re-alph, i would maybe burrow deeper and see if any of the francaises have geographical links or similar to the cité of limoux and the surrounding mountains, perhaps pardieu googled in a chummy getting to connaitre les lads fashion and happened upon yr cave drawings, sparking a crisis of intricate but catastrophic synaptic flares that can only lead to a startling regression from alan pardieu, smooth chinned and suited head of marketing and strategy at le tûne thru bearded alan pardew the coach (villa) to scruffy al what helps the kids (notts county) to neanderth-al in a loincloth (tactics at stoke obv)

Pardew seems to be going quite strongly for the aged action hero look. Definite Harrison Ford vibes.

struck me as an attempt at post-mourinho euro manager chic in the face of being yet another english struggle manager

the identity crisis of the middle manager in a globalised market

betting suspended on adkins to reading

aw balls i was kinda hoping for him to be the new olly when redknapp sods off

would've been nice to keep him in the ILF family i agree

Is a hoy hoy no more?

Posting here or in the frame for the Reading job?

I had Angel Di Maria at Reading within four seasons, and a Champions League in the bag. Just putting that out there.

the sooner they make it compulsory for players to be assigned FM stats irl, the sooner we can get some exciting new ideas in pro football

Please, Reading, please, just take Neil Warnock, please!

paranoid, vindictive, hypocritical, defaults to thuggery and brute force to get a result. can see why Warnock wdn't be welcome at Leeds.

Warnock's natural level is at an upper-championship-oblique-epl-relegation-fodder club, Reading would be a positive move for him.

RIP Stoke Striker Michael Owen. You were amazing once.

Or so people of my parents' generation tell me.

Looking forward to seeing Rooney at Stoke.

Does it say which season he's retiring at the end of?

can't help feeling there's a big goal still to come from Owen this season

Mess I will score more goals this season than Owen has managed since he left LFC 9 seasons ago.

Messi

Owen's got me beat by one this season I admit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21841876

is there nothing he won't do to emulate Gordon Banks?

you'd think if you can afford to drive a jaguar XF you'd be able to afford to pay your fines (esp if it's a car you won't need for 20 months)

stop having a go at noodle

5 tests, 5 fails :\

paranoid, vindictive, hypocritical, defaults to thuggery and brute force to get a result. can see why Warnock wdn't be welcome at Leeds.

Someone's been watching The Damned United. Which was set in the 1970s.

You can add clueless to that list, as well as insistent on starting every game with Michael fucking Brown.

hi Dom

great picture of joe hart realizing this guy is not on his team

http://i.mol.im/i/pix/2013/03/19/article-2295142-18B64E31000005DC-546_308x330.jpg

is it me or does nult stray into the tone of an obituary in his owen homily:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21843597

you genuinely would think he was dead.

how many more young men will be lost to "the beautiful game"?

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn...

that's our job

A fellow of infinite pace, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times.

The beginning of the end for him was at Elland Road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEUzA1lUgGk

so joe hart's secret to his success in the recent years has been having three arms?
http://i.mol.im/i/pix/2013/03/19/article-2295142-18B64E31000005DC-546_308x330.jpg

the shape of hart's mouth in that picture is terrifying

Michael Schumacher at rest has similar

So who's the next Michael Owen? Feels like half of the young English starlets out there these days meet the 'talented but over-hyped and permanently crocked' brief.

I wasn't paying much attention to football at the time of peak i.e. young Owen, how good was he really? Ballon d'Or aged 21 suggests "rather". What was expected of him?

FFS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/19/callum-mcmanaman-fa-massadio-haidara

xp - he was a useful striker, but didn't merit the Ballon d'Or

the FA is a fucking humbug as per usual. good to see you can make career-threatening tackles with impunity as long as you don't get sent off on the day

He was a lethal striker, far better than 'useful'

he was prolific until he lost that bit of pace/interest

lil mickey possibly the most subtly realised and underexamined dramatis personae of brit footer in decades imo

paul thomas anderson should do his biopic

He was a lethal striker, far better than 'useful'

I thought he was good, but he didn't score *that* many. I thought the young Fowler was better than the young Owen.