Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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"?

It also proves Utd should sign Wilshere as Carrick's understudy

also lol Ramsey

this was inevitable

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/3569_10151344889266886_425507174_n.jpg

SKY SPORTS has strengthened its line-up of football experts even further by signing Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher.

Jamie will join Sky Sports in August 2013, ahead of its biggest ever football season, adding to a line-up that includes Gary Neville, Jamie Redknapp, Graeme Souness, Niall Quinn and Alan Smith. The 2013/14 season on Sky Sports comprises over 500 live matches from the domestic, European and international game.

The schedule includes 116 fixtures from the Barclays Premier League – three quarters of all live matches and more than ever before – as well as over 120 UEFA Champions League fixtures, 75 npower Football League fixtures, the Capital One Cup, over 100 fixtures from La Liga, Clydesdale Bank Premier League, William Hill Scottish Cup and much more.

Jamie said: “I watch Sky Sports all the time and I’m a huge fan. I can’t wait to be part of their coverage and work with the best in the business. What Sky has done for football for over 20 years is incredible and I’m thrilled to be part of their exciting plans for next season.”

He continued: “I don’t think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world’s best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world’s best broadcasters. Until that time comes, I’ll remain fully focussed on my remaining playing career with Liverpool and I’m looking forward to ending the season with good results.”

Should have put Hazard and Bale in there as well.

noted midfielder Wayne Rooney probably beats them all

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/nialler/scousegraph-2.jpg

Redknapp has a waistcoat. Neville has a striped tie. Souness has a handkerchief. Carra is clearly the new boy wearing the standard uniform and not yet ready to express himself, though the hand in pocket suggests comfort with his new surroundings.

hand stuffed in his pocket to stop him from pulling Redknapp back imo

I hate every single design decision made in the creation of that Scouse Cycle graphic.

looking forward to Sky's unbiased coverage of Liverpool next season

I think he could be alright. Everyone thought Neville would be biased too

Neville seems like a thoughtful guy tho, and he's the only former Man U player on that team.

he didn't seem so when he was playing...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/18/article-1378147-03D3BE170000044D-1000_306x423.jpg

after his recent MotD work my old man's into the idea of approaching Phil to be the next Wolves manager

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/WA/WA1102400.jpg?