Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

yeah that was special

won't be as remarked upon as your Bales and your Suarezesses but it was way more cynical

Amazing from Steven Taylor there, even if it was a penalty. Must take some bottle to put your head in front of a guy's shoe as he's about to leather the ball towards goal

Could see that the moment they let him cut in

PDC is quite likeable tbh (except for the fascist thing obv)

cunted

Di Canio knows how to celebrate for sure.

Interviewed him when he was at West Ham and he was a brilliant interviewee. Then got sounded out about doing his autobiography and was excited about it. Didn't get it, and once I read it, was very glad I didn't get it.

Sunderland fans giving it some, I imagine they've been saving it up all season

di canio is a disgusting savage

aw no he's not

Could somebody gif the third please, I missed it

that offside given against newcastle's goal is a stonewall betting syndicate job, the lino couldnt have seen it any clearer

RVP couldn't have been much happier about that goal

tad vulgar i thought

just been catching up with those di canio celebrations, fair play to the guy, i like him in spite of myself.

still, on strictly official terms, for all the obvious reasons, fuck paolo di canio and sunderland afc up the fucking wazoo, as hard as fucking possible, all day long

CUNTSSS

also i hope alain pardieu gets run over by an omnibus

Stoke are going down, I'm calling it.

Stoke worst form in the division since Jan 1 so

don't jinx it

They're only playing (theoretically) relegation threatened teams plus Spurs until the end of the season and I can see QPR, Norwich, Sunderland and Southampton all beating them, or churning out a turgid 0-0 at the very least.

Don't think Villa are one of the three worst teams in the division, but I honestly don't believe that even Stoke or Sunderland have a self-destruct sequence hard-wired into their DNA quite like we do. I mean, I'm quite fond of the lads Baker and Bennett, but crikey if they dont look capable of costing us when it matters most in every single game. I'm banking on those games against Sunderland and Wigan now, it's all in our hands

Wow Stoke have only managed to beat Reading in 2013. That's it.

and everybody beats Reading

Lazy Liverpool zing there.

Stephen Taylor is a fucking nasty piece of work.