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Whilst this thread is back up and running, anyone around before the Chelsea game for a beveragini?

Look at the poll results. Isn't hindsight wonderful. Lover Shearer, but he would have been an awful manager at that time.

The first trip will be impossible to get tickets for. Every fucker will want to go. Doesn't matter if it's Azerbai-fucking-jan. There'll be 5000 geordies there.

On the train up from London. Surround by black and white stripes as usual. Want to snap my winless run. Chelsea, Swansea, WBA and Mackems. Missed all the wins. I'm going for a romping 5-1 win. I hate Stoke.

The reason Bilbao play in Red and White is that they came to England to buy a set of kit. They were supposed to buy a set of Black and White stripes from Notts County but the deal couldn't be agreed and they ended up desperate so bought a set of Red and White ones on the way home, from Southampton.

Yes, I can see how a miserable saturday afternoon in the arse end of Greater Manchester would be the perfect trial run for a balmy late summers evening in St.Etienne (or some other similar continetal locale).

Oui. http://images.wikia.com/onlyfoolsandhorses/images/7/79/Delboy.jpg Bonjour

I can be in France in about two hours from here, no plane required. I wasn't really in a position to go to games last time we were in Europe, like fuck am I missing out now.

Looking at the fixtures, if things go badly for Villa at the weekend and they lose the rearranged game with Bolton next week then they are well in the dogfight. 3-4 points is nothing when you are all scrapping for points with 4 games left.

The term 'Moneyball' is the flavour of the month over here at the moment, mainly because the film is the first time so many people in the media have heard of it. To label what we have done, and what Comolli is reported to have tried at Liverpool as Moneyball is laughable. For a start Liverpool are one of the biggest spenders on transfers and wages, which is precisely the opposite of Moneyball. The original Moneyball was more about finding a way to compete against the big spending teams, when you have less than half the money available, by finding players to one specific thing. Get on base. The premise being that the more people you get on base, the more runs you will score, the more often you win. The literal football equivalent, I suppose, would be the more times you get the ball in the box, the more times you will score. Sounds nice in principal but in practice it is the sort of thing employed by fat sam and other such managers who follow the science and the stats. What we are doing, in my opinion, is purely using people with the required knowledge to find good young players who won't cost a bomb and will fit in to the ethic of the team. It's a new kind of 'Moneyball' not based around stats but around sound business principals.

I wonder if all the womble fans pointed and laughed like they did when Craig Tanner, Hampton and Richmond left back, suffered a horrific leg break after a disgraceful tackle from one of their players. Hope JP9 makes a speedy recovery though, nobody likes to see any player suffer a bad injury.

Empty seat bingo winning number. 11524

OP Updated after today's events. Eh? how? Chelsea would get the 4th CL spot and as compensation the 4th place team would be granted a EL place. This would be an ADDITIONAL place and not take away from the other ones awarded to the English FA. It would go a bit like this. 1 Man Utd/Man City - CL 2 Man City/Man Utd - CL 3 Arsenal - CL 4 Spurs/NUFC - EL - Additional Place 5 Spurs/NUFC - EL 6 Chelsea - CL as Winners 7 Everton - EL - FA Cup place allocated to highest league place 8 Liverpool - EL - Carling Cup place. Everton could finish 8th and get it as long as Liverpool come 7th. If I've missed anything, and I probably have, feel free to let me know. The bottom line is that we are now guaranteed Europa League next season, at the very least, barring a spectacular balls up where we lose the next five games and finish 7th.

Second verse. This could be Rotherham or anywhere Hartlepool or Frome Cause Rotherham is anywhere When you're a Mackem at home A mackem at home.

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Eh? how? Chelsea would get the 4th CL spot and as compensation the 4th place team would be granted a EL place. This would be an ADDITIONAL place and not take away from the other ones awarded to the English FA. It would go a bit like this. 1 Man Utd/Man City - CL 2 Man City/Man Utd - CL 3 Arsenal - CL 4 Spurs/NUFC - EL - Additional Place 5 Spurs/NUFC - EL 6 Chelsea - CL as Winners 7 Everton - EL - FA Cup place allocated to highest league place 8 Liverpool - EL - Carling Cup place. Everton could finish 8th and get it as long as Liverpool come 7th.

He's pretty much used my OP as the basis for his article. I demand reparations.

Look at me, look at me, I'll be supporting my team on the continent. Transatlantic Is America in Europe, like? It's one of Platini's more "out there" ideas.

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Barring us finishing 7th with someone other than Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs coming above us we will be playing in Europe next season. Unless they change the rules with regards to Chelsea winning the Champions League.

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And to lose the rest of their league games, ensuring they can't get 4th. That doesn't even have to happen, spurs have a good run-in. I am aware of this, I was just taking it to the extreme. If we win the rest of our games the rest is all irelephant.

And to lose the rest of their league games, ensuring they can't get 4th.

Didn't read that correctly and thought, why the fuck is Paul Casey giving fasion tips to Papiss Cisse? http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44748000/jpg/_44748431_caseygall.jpg Can just see Papiss rocking the baseball cap and polo shirt look though.

OP Updated.