Official 2012/13 Premier League thread

[therockbox]

Swansea will end up losing next week.

[Hobo]

Well we saved all the goals we could've scored against Zenit and West Brom for a second string Swansea!

[Adam]

Borini is out for the season as well after getting injured today.

Perfect day for Liverpool!

[Pesci]

Always nice to score 5 goals even if it is against a weakened Swansea team. But I very much doubt any more than a small percentage of fans will be hailing this as anything special. Just glad to see us playing well; the build-up for Enrique's goal was fantastic. I think we're around about the same points as at the same stage last season now, but it feels like we've played a lot better this season and we actually look like we've got a plan, which was never really the case under Kenny.

[Hobo]

Borini is out for the season as well after getting injured today.

Perfect day for Liverpool!

Poor Borini. He's got great movement but that's about it.

In response to Pesci: we are 7 points better off than we were at this point last season.

[Khain]

Borini is out for the season as well after getting injured today.

Perfect day for Liverpool!

Poor Borini. He's got great movement but that's about it.

In response to Pesci: we are 7 points better off than we were at this point last season.

We have 39 points, the same we had in matchday 27 last season

[stokeriño]

Indeed. You are however 7 points better off when comparing like-for-like fixtures.

(And Chelsea are 8 points better off, btw.)

[Nerf]

Is there really somewhere that does the like-for-like comparison? I've been tallying it myself all season because I was sick of hearing that we were worse off than we last season, when we'd played harder fixtures.

[Khain]

Oh, I didn't know that, thanks

[stokeriño]

Is there really somewhere that does the like-for-like comparison? I've been tallying it myself all season because I was sick of hearing that we were worse off than we last season, when we'd played harder fixtures.

I dunno. I too just work it out myself whenever the matter comes up (via a couple of minutes spent with an Excel spreadsheet and www.statto.com's result lists).

[Adam]

Michael Owen on commentary and a MOTD more akin in style to the olden days of the programme. This could take some getting used to!

[EddieG]

"We have some young real good strikers, perhaps better than some of our strikers in the past."

Oh, Carragher.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Lads!

I was wondering, I like it that Feyenoord plays with at least 9 Dutch guys in their starting 11 most of the time and I think that teams need to do that. But sometimes I look at the starting players from teams in the premier league and I can't understand were are most of the english guys? Doesn't that annoy you guys?

[Lineker]

No.

[Khain]

They can barely get 20 quality guys for the national team and you expect 9 per club? :/

[Crybaby Bunting]

That line of thinking hasn't stopped the Dutch from doing that

[Nerf]

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if clubs could only use local talent in the same way as National teams.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Well, it would be interesting if FIFA or UEFA will make a 6+5 rule.

[Khain]

We have that here, and it fucking sucks

[Colly]

It's a nice idea, but in recent years I find that I identify far more with the educated intelligent foreign players than I do with moronic English players (Danny Simpson I'm looking at you). Shola excepted of course since he wears glasses and has recently become foreign, plus Steven Taylor who's a lovable oaf. Oh and Perchy. Basically I like ego-less backup Englishmen.