Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

what a finish by Vertonghen!

This is why I love Vertonghen. Ace.

and a terrible finish by Adebayor wastes a glorious Dembele pass.

I'm coming round to your way of thinking on this one LG. Must be worth a flutter?

Drop Adebayor, stick Vertonghen upfront IMO.

SkyBet offering a generous 1/750 btw, which is slightly better than you'd get by putting it in the bank

1-0 saints, jrod with a beaut

Swansea are certainly playing in a manner commensurate with having won the Carling Cup

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rickie lambert, i love you

ugh, tevez just a touch quicker than jonas on that goal
newcastle playing defensive whole first half right now

We look a lot better with Lennon in the team, just more balanced all round

true. fullbacks are spurs greatest weakness i think. Naughton was beaten or out of position a dozen times the first half.

oh also having a striker as low on confidence as Adebayor is a great weakness.

Sup with spurs pls

up 2 nil. dominated first 30 minutes, Swansea then came into it and hit the bar with a point blank header.

Xp agreed about the fullbacks, im not convinced theyre adding enough at either end on either side. Adebayor is a writeoff. And a cunt.

both goals were great. Vertonghen and Bale with a goal and an assist each.

We have a much better LB on the bench.

That Rickie Lambert free kick was mumm-ra.

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so, who finishes 18th??

Sunderland.

That's who I hope takes the downward plunge.

Sunderland with no goalscorer for the rest of the season might just edge it

also Rafa is still lol

Would Ricky van Wolfswinkel have a clause that his signing to Norwich is cancelled when Norwich go down?

He's going to Norwich cos it's Norwich, he doesn't care what division they're in. You don't say no to Norwich. I'd be surprised if they're even paying him tbh.

Oh yeah, I forgot. "Norwich has always been my dream club" etc.

I like to think it's the shared history of flat, reclaimed land and Freisian cows that attracted him to Norfolk.

the Greater Holland dream lives on

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Is this actually Van Persie or a Pro Evo rendition of him?

Would Ricky van Wolfswinkel have a clause that his signing to Norwich is cancelled when Norwich go down?

Norwich are easily good enough for this not to be an issue.

Still think it'll be Villa who go down of that lot. Sunderland are capable of grinding out enough dire 1-0 wins or goalless draws to be safe as well I think, although they're on a really bad run of form. As are Stoke actually, although they've probably done enough. Newcastle and Wigan always have a couple of back-to-back wins in them.

but villa Have Momentum and Have Turned A Corner no?

“There are two Grant Holts. There’s Grant Holt, the footballer for Norwich City and Grant Holt the dad. The dad comes first and always will. I do what’s right for the girls. My wife’s been away from Carlisle a lot. When I went to Singapore to play for four months, she came with me. I was 19 and she was 17. We had a fantastic time, went to Kuala Lumpur and little islands, ate a lot of rice."

he speaks

who ate all the rice

O'Neill out

#lovedmyrice etc.

I know that if Rickie does ever crack the England squad, it'll probably end in massive disappointment, but I still really want it to happen.

i think Holty has an actual point about the narrowing of the England gene pool, can't imagine going back to the heady days when Steve Bull cd get 4 caps before being ruthlessly discarded by some daft sod

haha the money managers gone

most overrated manager ever

OOF

perhaps so but if it's a football decision it's a dick move and they're still going down

he has history of walking tho.. So who knows

There is one thought in my head and it is ALL ROADS LEAD TO McLEISH

Bryan Robson was touting himself on the radio the other day. That wd be delightful.

McLeish, though - it'd be like a neutron star acquiring critical mass

the ideal solution for a team that can't score - Big Eck

All seriousness it's probably di Canio but the thought of Eck going in and deciding what Sunderland really need is, say, Andy Johnson and four new centre-halves is tickling me.

di matteo would seem most sensible

mcleish though, no chance. systems thinking dictates HUGHESSSSSSS

The return of the conquering hero, Steve Bruce

We can all broadly agree, though, that what they really need is someone to boost their squad size to about 53 players before complaining that the board isn't backing him.

Paul Jewell's available, isn't he?