Hey folks! I know what you’ve been thinking to yourself all day: Where the hell is the Pundit post? Well, I don’t know, but someone told me to tell you it was coming tomorrow, so get excited for it! Oh, and head to the Facebook group to participate in the latest Power Poll.
Even though Ned can’t seem to grasp how these numbers work, statistical proof that Man U get significantly more injury time at Old Trafford when behind/drawing [Guardian]
Abramovich gets the next best thing to a cloaking device on his new, giant yacht [Wired]
Massimo Bussaca is the best ref ever. He’s also suspended [ONTD_FB]
Fluminense players had to be protected by police from their own fans [SI]
If you broke London into directional quadrants, East London’s homegrown team would be the best [SPAOTP]
What really happened at halftime in Istanbul [The Spoiler]
Modest Mouse’s “Shit Luck” personified in Chile [Off The Post]
Finally:
This was allowed. God help us [101GG]
OF COURSE East London would win. If we could only keep them all at home. Or at least most of the Academy kids from going to Chelsea and Spurs…
Hadley: I’m amazed at the academy you’ve grown at West Ham… the Ferdinands, Lampard, Cole, Defoe, Carrick, Noble, Collison, Sears…
Anyone else find it HIL-arious that Rafa switched to a 3-5-2, but it in fact was a 3-5-3? That wily Spaniard. It reminds me of NYK’s (Or Spec’s? Or TFA’s?) vaunted 4-5-2. Sheer brilliance.
All NYK, all the time with the 4-5-2.
’tis true – Rafa stole the formation from me.
Spurs are having our annual defensive crisis. Are the Scousers amongst us worried about their Back 4? With all due respect Carragher really looks off. He had a stinker on Saturday. His pace is off, his positional sense is off. Hansen and Lawro were even having a go at him on Match of the Day. Thoughts?
It’s all good for the guy who spiked the ball in. He will get a two game ban for cheating, but it will get overturned on appeal.
:P
I can’t get over Rafa putting in 12 men and Carragher having to correct him. How did that conversation go? It must’ve similar to “Who’s on first?” The Special One needs to do a bit on this.
@EF
Trying to manage a CL Final from 3-0 has got to be a hallucinogenic experience
Is that a woman running the flags at the :33 mark?
Could well be. The vid is from Brazil, me thinks, and they do have a couple of femmes fatales in the officiatin’ business. One of ‘em even posed for Playboy!
Yes. I think she is the assistant that missed the handball.
not that you’re implying any correlation between her gender and the horribly botched call or anything
Nope. I leave that to others to speculate on why she would have missed a hand on ball at least a foot away from his head.