Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Beggars can't be choosers Dmac, I bet we won't get more than £17 mil for the boy as it is, Defoe remains criminally underrated xp

Nah thats exactly the same ik

Jaysus youd struggle to sell him for less than 20m surely?

Srsly though Deems, I know it remains to be seen how Benteke will do at a top tier club, but he seems pretty decent for Spurs, no?

I mean, I am still amazed no journalist hasn't uncovered yet that Adebayor is actually 43 years old. And a 43 year old nihilist at that. Get a young gun in the centre attacking position and you're good to go.

(Benteke seems suited, Demba Ba would, too, but he chose for lol benching at Chelsea + $$$)

Didn't you lot used to get live games on a saturday? When I was growing up that, and the all-Ireland final, made the place seem impossibly exotic.

I do not for the life of me understand why anyone would want to scatter THE FOOTBALL across several channels. Having to look in your guide to see what match is on where? Criminal.

xxxpost Dunno, how much is one good season worth atm? Would love an extravagant payday almost as much as I'd love him to stay tbph

I hope that my certainty that villa could do a decent deal for the lad wont be misconstrued as a lack of enthusiasm lbi, he'd do nicely

Not misconstrued, fully understood

LBI - I've been trying to make sense of my bill to give you an idea of the costs. I seem to be charged £55.50 a month plus £10 a month for ESPN. I think that £55.50 includes about £10 a month for HD and something tiny (maybe three quid) for a bundle of pointless channels that includes Eurosport (which I need for the cycling coverage). So you're probably looking at about £15ish to have Sky in the first place and about £25ish to have the Sky Sports package. That used to be enough, but then the EU ruled it wasn't competitive enough and said that at least one other broadcaster had to have access to live Prem games. This was A BAD THING because it's based on the total fantasy that all viewers just want to see some football (any old game will do) and will shop around for the best channel to do this, whereas in reality most viewers support a team and want to see every game that team plays (and so have to pay for every channel).

xxxpost Dunno, how much is one good season worth atm? Would love an extravagant payday almost as much as I'd love him to stay tbph

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Hey, one season was good enough for, oh, say.... remember that guy Andy Carroll?

Yeah ik when setanta first got the package we got three pm saturday games each week, rumour had it that some copywriter left out the '& ireland' lol. Setanta was free to air at the time too, beauty

I get upc internet, phone and cable package gives me the extra channels and obv streaming lol

Tho streams have never worked for me tbh, always shit.

Here these special streaming programs are they any good btw

I mean sopcast used be good but its fucked now right

NBS: you are a legend, thanks! (and I might have given you some insight in your expenses, too)

I need cycling too, so the Eurosport purchase is in the bag. What bugs me is that, if you want the Sky Sports package, you need to purchase Sky Basic first. That doesn't sound right. EU should look into that tbh.

I prefer the Dutch system where you just pay 25 quid to see all matches. On match days (there's mostly three or four matches played simultaneously here), the channel branches out into four channels, so you can flick around, see whatever match you like.

Will u stop saying that you bastard

Do you go to cardiac wards and do pushups do you

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Have_I_Offended_Someone.jpg

???

Seems like I am moving to a cardiac ward football wise ;_;

Your dutch system wasnt so smart in 1939 you bragging fuck

75 min: Almost an exact replica of Benteke's second goal. Westwood hangs another corner to the far post for Benteke to attack, only for Cuellar to flick it behind with his hand.

can't be arsed crashing Firefox trying to open 9300 msgs but was there a mad scramble to Make The Reference here

Is that too much? I never used to wonder that on ilf threads, we are in a new age of paranoia

Xp ya

We surrendered EXTREMELY soon to the Germans. Real and Barca should have taken note, appeasement and all that. Stroke them to sleep and then fuck them over tbh

xxxp

Stoke them to death more like

lol

If only ze Zjermans invaded us on a wet Tuesday night ;_;

1940 lads, appeasement tactics were working well in 1939

What the boy suarez must remember is that these images are being broadcast into liebensraums all over the world

Tony adams coordinating the maginot line

come through a forest of legs there Brian

http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/397939_10151562121149417_1089700392_n.jpg

Stoke signing centre half pairing christof sturm and marko drang

Ferdinand taken out and now everyone wants to get involved brian

Does this mean it's piss-easy to score 6 against a relegation-threatened side from the North East and not much should be read into it?

yes, i think that's about the long and short of it.

alternative reading would say that these villa and liverpool teams are deeply flawed and so have not had good seasons (all relative obv) but that fundamentally they are both capable of eviscerating their opposition by playing flying attacking football. This definitely feels like the case tonight, but who knows what comes next for either side?

think villa just made peace with the fact that they won't keep a clean sheet for the rest of the season after the reading game and adjusted their goalscoring intentions appropriately

The 6-0 was less about Newcastle playing badly - they didn't, they carried a threat right up until the red card - and more about just how good Liverpool were. They would've eviscerated anyone on Saturday. You might as well be saying it's piss-easy to score four at home against a knackered Spanish side that's missing its best Argentine, and that not much should be read into it.

Totally wrong!

Yeah I watched that game and Newcastle were awful.

Newcastle have good enough attacking players that they will always "carry a threat" but that was one of the worst defensive displays I've seen this season.

Coutinho was amazing though.

Liverpool have spanked teams more than once this season. It's an encouraging change at least.

There was also that weird four weeks or so towards the end of one the late Rafa season when you guys suddenly went mental and started whipping everyone by four goals.

They've scored four or more in the league this season against Norwich (twice), Fulham, Swansea, Wigan and Newcastle. Last season they only managed it once, against Chelsea.

Clearly a better and more fluid attacking outfit than spurs tbf, is it just the two lads at cb that's the prob or what

I think (cliché alert) it's just that they haven't quite got the balance right in some games. They seem to attempt to play positively every time I see them but some teams won't capitulate in the way Newcastle or Norwich will so they maybe need to draw teams out a bit more. There are results there (like draws with Stoke, West Ham, Reading) that would convince me they could have been closer to Spurs with a bit of luck but then I'm sure Spurs could point to a couple that wouldn't put them far away from Man City.

I said towards the end of last season that scoring a few more goals would see them pick up an extra ten points this season. They've already surpassed last season's total and with three wins can finish eleven points better off.

my favorite thing about newcastle- liverpool was Steve Nicol doing a preview on espn saying Coutinho was a liability away from home and he didn't see where the goals would come from without Suarez

That's probably what Alan Pardew thought as well.

I think this spurious graph proves Liverpool are the up and coming team in the league

http://i.imgur.com/aPuRkP7l.png

Is "goal involvement" the new "interfering with play"?