Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Frank O'Farrell represent

howard webb for me

Oh god, what if nothing changes?

if it wasn't for webb fergie would have retired about 327 minutes earlier.

I met Big Ron once. It was a Preston v WBA League Cup replay in 1980. My mate's dad was linesman (and flagged offside what would've been a late Preston winner). Ron signed my programme and asked if I wanted "the standard signature or the one I use on the big cheques?"

met lawro before in a restaurant in dublin, when i was a kid. piers brosnan was at the next table.

a friend of mine was once called up by Ron Atkinson trying to order a suit, he swears he introduced himself as "Big Ron"

xxp like if Mandela was released and the National Party won the ensuing election

xxp then maybe you shouldn't have been SITTING THEEEEEEERE

tbh Tommy Docherty will always be Man U manager in my head

Can only picture that guy looking like a benevolent Bismarck with the FA Cup lid on his head

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/11/article-2260310-16D66F7A000005DC-453_310x440.jpg

can't believe there's some shit about parliament on the radio instead of wall-to-wall Fergie coverage

Dave Sexton for me.

One day there'll be a poster for whom it's Steve Kean

Mancini's probably the big winner here, he looked like being sacked in the summer but the inevitable managerial clusterfuck might put that off for a while. Plus City might actually win the league next season with him in charge.

Reckon he's still for the heave ho

nah i think he's somehow successfully managed to make his bullshit point that lack of big money signings was to blame

Mancini is so far out of his depth

who'd they sack him for now anyway, pellegrini?

Ferguson

I enjoyed Mancini complaining about the lack of a 20-goal a season signing when he's already currently failing to get the best out of two of the best strikers in world football.

he is a waster - two bad seasons out of three and limped to the title last year.

How long since Martin O'Neill would've been a contender? Probably only since he went to Sunderland.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/paolo-di-canio-my-life-speaks-for-me-6273526.html

Of Roberto Mancini (currently charged with the daunting task of disposing of the colossal wealth of Manchester City), he writes: "Mancini is increasingly 'in character'. He has become quite the gentleman, toying with his fringe, and talking in this curious, affected voice."

Also no way are Giggs and Scholes carrying on without him.

giggs and scholes on my 2014 dead pool

is crerand a complete boozehound or just an asshole or both?

http://www.newstalk.ie/Paddy-Crerands-full-blooded--furious-dismissal-of-Ferguson-rumours

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67472000/jpg/_67472692_ferg.jpg

props to the beeb having this as one of their lead photos

giggs and scholes on my 2014 dead pool

And the 2034 kiddie fiddling pool?

i like the way the beeb have the massive special sized lead story block. real "smash glass for big story" about it - though i can't think of many other things which would make them do it on the football index.

massive you say?

Crerand sounds pretty pished to me

He's to get a clock with 96 mins on it

Crerand is a nothing, bloated fool, if you had a head like him you'd be angry all day too, he is an actual idiot.

He attacks the toaster when let, leers at the hatstand, attempts ludicrous feats of lovemaking with coalscuttles.

Yeah I agree, just a raging self-important bellend.

massive you say?

massive (in heavy manc accent.)

Chelsea FC ‏@chelseafc 2h
All at #CFC would like to wish Sir Alex Ferguson the very best in his retirement. He has been a fantastic adversary over 26 years.

lmao

wonder if he wd've gone last summer if not for City taking the title

xp

lol for about 20 of those years their major adversary was whoever was in 10th place

must have misremembered when the 1973 relegation battle was

wonder if he wd've gone last summer if not for City taking the title

Have they won more titles thatn Liverpool yet?

Yep, 20 to 18.

He can die happy then - in about 20 years from now, ziiiiiiiing

the only thing I'm clinging to is that it definitely can't be Sven this time

...right?

rafa in

"Just as Ferguson's retirement came as a huge shock, we should learn not to believe who his successor is until he holds scarf above his head."

Nult says.

Genuinely had to double take at the suggestion of some ancient ritual.

The Times are saying it's Moyes

Been busy at work, just trawled through, but this:

Solskjaer 33/1
Beckham 33/1

is insane. I don't think either of them will get the job (this time), but Solksjaer has to be a hundred times more likely to get it than Beckham.

we should learn not to believe who his successor is until he holds scarf above his head.

won't believe david moyes is actually david moyes and not an imposter until he raises the holy mufc scarf aloft, which withers all charlatans who touch it.

Independent as well now

the only thing I'm clinging to is that it definitely can't be Sven this time

...right?

― Number None, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:24 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

you should probably keep schtum, somewhere out there there's still a scouser with a magic lamp and one wish left

moyes out of contract no compo, transfer budget probably gone on paying for his replacement. good old everton

you should probably keep schtum, somewhere out there there's still a scouser with a magic lamp and one wish left

thief!