Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

truly the Marcia su Roma of football matches.

feel like you shouldn't be allowed to designate a game as your Champions League final then lose it 6-1 and just say another one is instead

I dunno, if you ask me that sounds like one of the benefits of living in an idiot's fantasy world.

1-0 Wigan

not thrilling tbh

as it stands

12 	Fulham 		36 	-11 	40
13 	Aston Villa 	36 	-21 	40
14 	Southampton 	36 	-11 	39
15 	Sunderland 	36 	-12 	38
16 	Wigan 		36 	-21 	38
17 	Norwich 	36 	-22 	38
18 	Newcastle 	36 	-23 	38

you have to fancy one of those on 38 points to lose both games

Newcastle must've done some heinous shit in a previous life

There are consequences for giving the world Alan Shearer

There are consequences for giving the world Alan Shearer

Southampton should be ok...

and Swans equalize

but it doesn't last, McCarthy makes it 2-1

much better game this half

What a massive goal that might prove to be x however many

GET INVOLVED

Hashim Albahbahani: "Massive goal! Massive!"

Fulham
Liverpool (H), Swansea (A)

Aston Villa
Chelsea (H), Wigan (A)

Southampton
Sunderland (A), Stoke (H)

Sunderland
Southampton(H), Spurs (A)

Norwich
West Brom (H), Man City (A)

Newcastle
QPR (A), Arsenal (H)

Wigan
Arsenal (A), Villa (H)

that was about the Wigan goal but you could arguably apply the sentiment to the one Swansea have just scored and the one Wigan will in four minutes, just really huge potential implications for the bottom end of the Barclays Premier League, huge

one thing is certain, there will be continued to have been some massive moments in this game before the final whistle will have blown

looking at that penalty appeal and that Vorm save, you almost have to wonder whether you'd need put them under the "massive" umbrella too

I mean you wouldn't want to devalue the term but

ooh, massive, massive goal from Swansea

also when you defend like that you are kinda begging to be relegated

you gotta sympathise with that feeling where your team fail to clear at like the fourth attempt and realise that in about 25 seconds the ball is going to be farcically trickling into the net somehow

Gosh, that *is* kinda massive. Or could prove to be.

dude as a Wolves fan that feeling is probably in my top 3 most commonly experienced emotions

Vorm stretchered off after nasty looking "back of defenders head full in the face" incident :(

massive amount of injury time

Wigan are gonna feel like a draw is a result now and even if they do manage it i don't think it'll be enough

Wigan's inevitable victory was always against Arsenal to be fair

draw then a last day victory over Villa will be enough
xpost aye maybe that too

getting kind of bored with the Wigan survival thing but a win for them tonight would have been great for putting the shits up half of the league

Dyer shd've finished that even if he was offside

Mark Lawrenson, at DW Stadium for 5 live Sport

"You wonder Martinez should just chuck another body up front and go route one. There isn't the time for them to play their football and score goals."

Fucking hate that shit. If that was the best way to score everyone would do it all the time. I also fucking hate that it sometimes works and justifies the tactic to these cunts.

it's that assumption that playing a passing game is an additional whim to the business of winning football games that really rankles. see plenty of idiotic shite like this from fans too.

Arguably not the right thread, but do you reckon Paul Whitehouse realises just how shit all these Aviva adverts are?

massive shout there mate

I'm into them

"ar-goyle" - all-time classic imo

That 'Harry & Paul' is/was 90% shit as well. Has he run up huge gambling debts and this is the only way he can pay them off?

I don't know what that is. He's a bit like Television to me tbh - I'm scared to find out they never lived up to Marquee Moon

The follow-up to Marquee Moon was the series of 'Give 'em a lift, mmm-mmmmmmm, with Cookeen' adverts of the early 90s.

Eh, Wigan lost? I gave up checking the score midway and relied on this thread instead, thanks a bunch. They're down, a home game v Swansea was a banker since two months ago.

(80s, not 90s)

Adventure is dope imo, but is Wigan's memorable Premier League adventure finally coming to an end?

god really runnin on fumes here, soon as we're mathematically safe I'm fucking off back to gimmick poster valhalla I promise

I reckon full-on frantic effort as seen in the last ten mins from any team chasing it would work wonders regardless of the tactic

The Whitehouse ad where it turns out that *SPOILERS* he's dead is the fucking worst.

Twitter is suddenly saying 'Fergie out'.

Take a look at Richard Lloyd's wikipedia btw, never seen a clearer example of anyone writing their own entry. It's got unsourced private thoughts he had as a teenager ffs.

Oh please please please .......

former Neon Boys man Tom Verlaine's stormy relationship with Richard Lloyd will have had an impact on their attempts to follow up Marquee Moon.

Paul Whitehouse is too talented to be funny nowadays.

By talented I mean "ooh look a prosthetic nose".

Twitter is suddenly saying 'Fergie out'.

saw this this morning
Paddy Power ‏@paddypower 6 May

BREAKING NEWS: We have cut David Moyes into 1/2 from 7/2 to be next permanent Man Utd manager after a flood of overnight bets! #MUFC #EFC

Confirmed