SOUTHAMPTON ARE STILL A BIG CLUB! The Premier League, 2014/15

lol i knew i'd get a bite from that, as i've said before i bear no ill will to the villa as an venerable institution just lambert is a dogshit manager and i wouldnt mind not seeing any of ur current playing staff ever again is all

xp walloping us lot in full-on pub team mode can only billow aspirations tbf

yeah and we're all just paying it fwd to Chelsea afaict

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/07/manchester-united-may-have-only-signed-radamel-falcao-on-one-year-loan-deal-because-of-true-age-4859619/

could be real. there was a nigerian striker that turned out to be in his forties when someone bought him as a 28-year-old. yakubu or something like that.

fucking top reporting from The Sun there, repackaging a year old story

That's bullshit about Yakubu. Strikers in their 40s do not score nearly a hundred Premiership goals and it's a trope that's routinely trotted out about African players. Mourinho tried to do it with Eto'o in the summer.

teju cole on nigerian age cheats &c. is a good read - http://www.vanityfair.com/online/fairplay/2010/05/letter-from-lagos

fields of salmon doing the 'i'm not racist' thing a power of good right here

someone has to, or it wouldn't be football lbh

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Congratulations to Wayne Rooney, who's won #mufc's August Goal of the Month for his acrobatic strike vs Swansea.

his fuckin wha

christ what a total bummer it is watching ozil these days

just give him a big bag of haribo and tell him to go on a long walk until his contract runs out or something

pretty sure he'd choke on the Haribo

he exists in a vague conceptual space rather than any tangible reality these days

dear god he's bad now isn't he

wilshere's been...quite good?

did you see his dive in the first half?

nah but i saw that one ;)

he's still been quite good

vindication

that was indeed quite good

and so!

wilshere looking like england's best player here

the screen kept freezeframing while Iain Dowie was doing his Stoke-Leicester report just now. suspect the results will stay with me for a while

"put one in your belly, leave you smelly, then take your Graziano Pelle" is gonna be too long for a dn I think :/

is it dumb of me to be slightly surprised how many of the panel got Jeff's Smiths joke

absolutely unreal how many technical fuckups there've been on the programme today. desks getting cleared on Monday 'methinks'

ok lol i'm gonna have to watch this 2nd half

villa's line-up is almost as amazing as the scoreline

Think Big Phil's fucked it, should have made it 2-0 and now he's gonna get sent off cos of his determination to goad Mario into doing something the commentator can shout "WHY ALWAYS HIM INDEED" at

sgt biscuits what are your current thoughts on paul lambert, alchemist

n'zogbia seems ancient by now

"aston villa fans hiding behind sofas across the united states"

i know it's ESPN but i grinned

EZ Snappin presumably building a cushion fort rn

sgt biscuits what are your current thoughts on paul lambert, alchemist

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I wish I had a sofa to hide behind!

Such a different team this year.

Kevin Logan: All the "Liverpool missing Luis Suarez" talk is redundant as he would have been banned! Seems everyone's forgetting that!

I don't...what?

Chris Harvey: So Liverpool and Man United have swapped places from title contenders to seventh place for one year only and are duly swapping back.

B...but Chris, M...unh?

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Oh my word he's actually turning into Klopp...

that Arsenal/Man City game was a corker! also watched chelsea/swansea which, ok diego costa killed it but why does no-one talk abt him seeming like a huge prannet. am I imagining that?

still don't have a rooting interest yet so this all ~love of the game~ bollocks for me atm.
ps no fucking idea wtf youse are talking abt most of the time but :D

fuck spurs

Glad you're enjoying it!

Xp, obvs.

Also, Otm.

lol

second SV post woefully redundant haha

Arsenal being so Arsenal this season, it's almost like Scholesy or whichever idiot said it was right and Arsene has something against buying defenders and non-fancy players, except that's mental

Jose is such a cunt, his antics are getting too much to bear and when they win the league it will be like an old tramp spitting in everyone's face but supposedly somehow charming and tactically brilliant

De Gea, Rafael, Evans, Rojo, Blackett, Blind, Herrera, Mata, Di Maria, Rooney, van Persie

Subs: Lindegaard, Shaw, Fletcher, Januzaj, Valencia, A Pereira, Falcao.

so it could be a 433 or a 352 depending on where Blind is playing. It's probably still the latter annoyingly

What did Jose do now?