Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

is it weird that i'm edging towards soton - west ham?

gibson 1-0, deflected in

everton pretty lumpen and blunt but we deserve to be behind just for being so terminally lifeless, townsend aside

game over today on this evidence

Get behind me, Soton (xp)

any chance we can just end the season at half time?

^^^scared of everton

eh maybe end it all after i watch big dan boot jordi gomez into orbit later

looks like liverpool should be at least four up

Could be any Liverpool 0-0 tbh.

Norwich lead, free header.

2-0 anichebe header, no marking, no effort, absolutely begging to be put out of our misery

this half has been a disgrace, they're done

Kenny Orr Hall Gabbidon Connolly Derry Taarabt Faurlin Buzsaky Agyemang (Bothroyd - 55' ) Smith (Ephraim - 66' )

Subs: Murphy Gorkss Perone Moen Ephraim Andrade Bothroyd

this motley lot won 1-0 here working their socks off last season

so, Arry next season? or will he get the boot? or will he walk?

definitely won't get the boot, he's played fernandes (and most of the fanbase) like a master since he walked in - if he stays it'll look like he's doing us a big favour and we'll all be terribly grateful. probably get even more money to give it a "real good go" and all, west ham will be the model

basically up to whether he fancies retiring and getting back on the motd sofa cos i really can't see anyone else in the league (including those likely to be promoted) hiring him

not like we'll get rid of all this dross in one go in the summer anyway so we might as well keep digging

feel like Arry probably thinks the Champo is beneath him nowadays, we'll see

yeah i wouldnt blame him, it's a gruelling prospect. good old rosie47 might advise otherwise however

nightmare scenario (well, additionally) is arry walks and they give it to the lurking steve cotterill. non-league within the decade if that happens

Fuckin interferin linesman

adkins was the only other option i was considering before reading came in... beyond gus poyet i don't even know who could do a job now. get olly back off palace i guess

probably was a penalty though

Curbs is available

Bah! Would have been nice for Arsenal to balls up their game in hand and assure Norwich of safety at the same time.

lol Spurs be going down

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k8Mdz2ylRb4/TgnXUZpqaII/AAAAAAAAAJ0/m3MxCB916pA/s1600/Mick-McCarthy.jpg
The man for QPR?

Cuuuuuunts

ah man, sucks that Arsenal are gonna win this

that 4th spot is like a prophecy of biblical proportions or something epic like that.

after the job Big Mick's done at Ipswich they won't want to lose him for at least another 6 months

Gah, was hoping for an epic Arsenal-Everton 5th-place shootout on Tuesday

3-1, awesome.

Neil Warnock is so pissed off, icing on the cake.

Amazed that 2 of last seasons prem teams are heading for a successive relegation to League 1 with all the parachute payments, premiership quality players yawn etc. Well Blackburn look dodgy and Wolves practically gone with the dastardly fixtures they have.

premiership quality players

Not so much Blackburn tbh, but wolves yeah didnt strike me as a danger

Going down two divisions is a well-trodden path by now, though tbf i don't think it's been in successive years before. Bradford might've done it, possibly Norwich? I think even City took a couple of years bitd.

Normally there is stagnation in the Championship period a la Leeds, Charlton, Leicester where they are relatively competitive thanks to parachute money and retaining some of the higher quality players, but these are really poor teams. I suppose they have both suffered from poor chairman decisions which may be an understatement.

Well anyway let that be a warning to you QPR fans.

You don't need to tell us what happens after relegation form the Premier League. We blazed the trail for going down, then expecting to come back up quickly, but instead struggling badly before being relegated again, amid terrible financial problems. We taught Leeds everything they know about plunging quickly from the upper reaches of the top flight to being a joke club, thank you very much.

Well for what it is worth my team were the first ever former football league champions to get relegated from the top flight and then suffer successive relegations to Div 4. They blazed this trail in the 70's man!

xp too right. this epically shit, ruinously traumatic spell in the big time was 15 fucking years in the making

noodle's suggestion of hiring curbs now after not getting him in 1996 when we should've done has a ingeniously bitter irony i can't discount

who might that be xp

should have gotten curbs in 1996, ah now you've got a kicking coming your way chez nous

guys, when we go down we will hold the record as the only club in history to have dropped in 2 consecutive seasons twice

Huddersfield Town xp

Yeah to do it twice is amazing NV!

beyond gus poyet i don't even know who could do a job now

http://i2.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/article1726084.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/David%20Flitcroft-1726084.jpg

"The first day I worked with Jose Bosingwa, I went home, got my dictionary, tippexed out the definition for 'hero' and wrote his name in there instead. Because that is the kind of man he is."

I know recounting dreams is always boring but I just remembered that I dreamt of Harry Redknapp accidentally reviving some town-sized reptile monster and Obama authorising a nuclear strike. Me and Lee Gamble, we weren't happy about getting nuked let me tell you that. Nice diverse set of cultural references at least.

i notice that lionhearted r|t|c is yet to respond to my threats of thuggery; maybe he's written this thread off already

he's lying low obviously

aye i wouldnt want to court any bovver from the notorious charlton firm

i recently dreamt that i was inexplicably visiting a hideously gauche new home that dennis wise was building out of two semi detached houses he was knocking together a couple of streets down from me. on my way out i caught sight of my estranged father who was (lol oneirobigotry) apparently part of the building crew enjoying a well earned cuppa

issues, man

um ok whoa i just reflex wiki'd wise and he actually shares my dad's birthday

ur required reading for tonight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung

ikr

chelsoedipus complex

amazing dive there from mcanuff