Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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

If Fergie Out it's because Mourinho In surely

Not rly sry

This story might be coming from Fergie playing hardball for Bale £££s imo

I paused Sopranos to hunt for that you prick

What was his retirement about last time? Wages and a new contract? Was it connected to that horse argument or was that another time?

I was recently thinking about what's the stupidest thing to have happened in The Premiership Years and I couldn't better that racehorse beef

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10042798/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-considering-retiring-as-Manchester-United-manager-before-end-of-the-week.html

it's high time he accepted the club is going nowhere fast with him at the helm. huge relief for man u fans if this comes to pass.

Massive display name NV!

thanks :)

thought of it last week then forgot until i had the game on tonight

Ferguson had appeared to brush aside the prospect of standing down this summer when he insisted in his programme notes prior to Sunday’s Old Trafford defeat against Chelsea that, "I certainly don’t have any plans at the moment to walk away from what I believe will be something special".

firmly believe he'll only leave the job in a box at this point in time tbh

this seems a pretty strong rumour.

Executive box

Fond memories of drunkenly singing "Arouna Koné! la la la la la la, Arouna Koné!" to Gloria Gaynor's "I love you baby..." (Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You) when he was playing at PSV. Top lad.

xxxxxxp