Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Managers who extol the individual and consider the team unimportant, how do they get on?

AVB's doing ok

actually Redknapp's the closest to that (certainly not AVB)

xxxxpost to Local Garda

I tweeted your Star/Andy Reid clipping the other day, with h/t to ILX. Just had an email from a Have I Got News For You Researcher saying they want to use it on the programme.

Wow awesome! My cousin tweeted it to me - I'll tell him!

it's p viral now, was your cuz the first to find it?

Didn't realise it had gone round that far - just Googled it and, yes, it's your photo that is appearing on news sites and media comment blogs. Went mental on my feed when Stephen Mangan retweeted me. So Local Garda and his cousing have, officially, started a meme.

My cousin did tweet it as if it was an original tweet. But can't be sure it was him that started it. He has basically no followers and doesn't tweet much.

9.48 on Wednesday

https://twitter.com/odwyerbrian/status/319370748974206976

i'd be surprised if he had it first, maybe he follows the original guy or something.

Apologies to your brother - I would have credited him as source for my tweet had I known.

Eh its a national newspaper but

Thomas Ince worth £25m - Blackpool boss & father Paul Ince

The West Ham boss, who was yesterday sporting four stitches above a bruised right eye after falling into a marble work surface at home, said: ‘There is a big motivation for everybody to get West Ham to be the biggest club it’s ever been.

keeper needs to go with his hands there, good goal imo

southampton are my team of the season

artur boruc :D

Been working unpaid overtime since 11 this morning, but if the Villa hold onto this lead I promise not complain at the pub even once tonight

I imagine we're all behind you today

Oh man. Villa slipped into full panic mode about ninety seconds ago, and there are still ten minutes left.

West Brom all over Arsenal

Utter screamer for Villa

May be goal of the season, that

"Can't see a game out"

Come on ennnn you WANKERS!!!!

Can't wait to see this goal omg heart's racing

YES! 3-1!

was a four-on-one, lol

CHOKE ON IIIIIT

briefly wondered if Benteke had started worrying that keeping Villa up would make it less likely he'd get a move away, but I guess he was just getting kicked outta the game before

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2429073/Lowton_Goal_1.gif

I thought you meant during the four-on-one, he certainly had time for his mind to wander. Thought about getting an "anticipate..." thread in myself.

Full disclosure: in a sulk at Stoke's equaliser, I went to get a brew on while Lowton was spanking that in, and on my return thought his celebration was him running to square up to a Stoke player

Stoke were really, unbelievably terrible in that game

perhaps they should sack Pulis?

It was surprising and very welcome to see Villa come back after giving up the equalizer. So nice to see them fight instead of wilt.

Sgt biscuits

hi mate just testing out my awesome new Profane Villa Fan troll persona

Just occurred to me, villa have to be among the best represented teams on ilf these days? Spurs and 'pool seem to have steady fanbases but I'm struggling to think of other sides with 3 whole stans on the board

premiership thread had best get its cardiff city fan recruitment drive off the ground

Was lamenting to myself the other day that I don't think we've got any Arsenal fans left?

I could invite some hellishly annoying American Arsenal fans if u guise want

well we did give you piers morgan

I don't think you can pin that one on ilx

btw the united fans are next

yesterday's suedey2, upto11 and james mitchell, hounded off the boards in a maelstrom of derision, today's number0 and nbs. then pete w will return, triumphant, with half the chelsea forum in tow

we had a man city fan once didn't we

for reference in case it helps

full disclosure: in which we admit our biases

xp Steady on, newbie. Those two play the vital role of stopping anybody else getting cocky, ever.

I want to hear a bit more about Villa's next generation, seeing as they've now got a fighting chance of sticking around.

xp <3 that thread *something in my eye for the fallen*

didn't even mention a hoy hoy, weird that arsenal hivemind exile

ilf needs* a really arrogant real madrid fan

*it doesn't

mickey owen's 1000-yard stare from the bench is really something

saints-wise, a bittersweet win. i'm concerned that nigel's heart isn't in the reading thing, understandably perhaps. and forget lambert being better than welbeck, sturridge etc, he's better than gerrard innit.