Official 2012/13 Premier League thread

[ZJ Penn]

Points difference doesnt matter when the argument is "would they have won the league without him?". Because the answer is yes.

[DavidMarrio]

Well there is a change...of 19 points and you wouldn't have technically won the league yet.

You can't say that the whole United without van Persie thing is tripe when he's scored so many goals and you'd be 19 point worse without him. I mean United are still top but the gap has gone from 16 points to 7 and it'd still be possible for Arsenal to win the title.

The whole alternative league tables are generally crap but at least it brings up some interesting "what if" situations.

[Berober]

And don't forget the other side of losing 19 points, where do they go?

If Arsenal kept RvP, does that make them 19 points better? Cause then you're looking at an Arsenal title...

[Ant]

I imagine the 19 points would be distributed amongst the teams that United won against but only RVP scored in.

We would have had an extra point now

[Colly]

Well there is a change...of 19 points and you wouldn't have technically won the league yet.

You can't say that the whole United without van Persie thing is tripe when he's scored so many goals and you'd be 19 point worse without him. I mean United are still top but the gap has gone from 16 points to 7 and it'd still be possible for Arsenal to win the title.

The whole alternative league tables are generally crap but at least it brings up some interesting "what if" situations.

That's incorrect though as I believe we discussed with Fletcher at Sunderland recently, those stats only make sense if they played with ten men for those games, no way would there be an actual 19 point swing. Agree on your last line, but this table is daft.

Be curious to see where Newcastle would be sans Cisse's goals rather than Ba's mind.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Nice applause from the City and West Ham fans in the 23rd minute.

Aguero opens the scoring!

[Nerf]

Found this to be fairly interesting, thought I'd pass it on.

http://www.debatabledecisions.com/

[MDK]

Chris Coleman talking about Championship Manager on 5Live

[brenchill]

Championship Manager? Nobody has played that since 2004.

[MDK]

One of the CM's is freeware and I played it the other day

[9 to 5]

Hipster!

[MDK]

I wanted to play as a good Orient squad for once

[Gazz]

Arsenal title...

[Cheeky Hughes]

Tikaboo Yaya.

[MDK]

Chris Coleman talking about Joe Hart stretching off his groin, and during a match no less.

[DavidMarrio]

Joe Hart

[GoGo Yubari]

Oh dear, Wigan.

EDIT: God, I knew that was going to happen. We've been so awful on corners lately.

[Ant]

Bale you lovely lovely lovely man.

Fucking BBC and their shit coverage

[Summers]

Spurs you bastards.

[GoGo Yubari]

Spurs you bastards.

The good news is that Wigan's keeper is playing awful and could let in a bunch of goals. The bad news is that Jan Vertonghen doesn't know how to defend corners so they could just keep trying those.