The Official 2012-13 EPL Thread

Roman Abramovich is insane. Chelsea are not going to be massively successful if he changes managers every 6 months!
Hmm, as sgt pepper said though, they have still managed to win a fair few trophies since Roman has been in charge. Not a nice way to run things, and no loyalty shown, but has been pretty effective. They have still spent a lot of money in that time which has put together a pretty good squad.
In saying all that, had Mourinho stayed in charge, probably would've won even more trophies...

Arsenal through to another knock out stage of the Champions League, so can rest some players for the final game. This squad really starting to gel now, good to see Jack get his first goal since coming back, and Podolski scored a cracking volley. Giroud with another two assists. To be fair, team didn't play anywhere near their best, but did enough.
 
Rafa - wow. Terrible move, i dont think his defensive style working with Chelsea. I guess they are holding out for Pep next year.

Alistair is pretty quite this morning.....wonder why????

Was at work, they finish at 11 here. City's UCL campaign has been pure mud. They've conceded an early goal in pretty much every game and then shown urgency after that. Why Mancini can't pump them up from the start I have no idea.

Having said that - it was crazy have a group with 4 champs. I don't care how the seeding is done, that was ridiculous.

Can't believe RDM has been given the boot. Does a double last year including the Big kahuna, then loses 3 games in a row and he's gone.
 
i think even if rafa were to win the champs league, it wouldnt secure his spot, because it really seems like theyve already teed up pep.he just wants to finish his holiday...
and i really like your new sig alistair.
 
i think even if rafa were to win the champs league, it wouldnt secure his spot, because it really seems like theyve already teed up pep.he just wants to finish his holiday...
and i really like your new sig alistair.

Oh you noticed that did you????

By Warney's way of thinking, Australia still holds the Rugby league world cup cos u were champs before NZ. At least I think that's the logic... I dunno..
 
the english go on about hooliganism and racism by fans, but no-one beats the italians. 50 masked men initiated the attack, believed to be motivated by anti-semitism. 8 injured all up.
following a match full of anti-semetic chants and monkey gestures.
altho it was only last week that spurs were on the backfoot about their own fans still chanting 'yids' at matches. hard to take racism claims seriously by a bunch that call themselves 'the yid army'...
 
Mark Hughes sacked from QPR.

Arsenal and Emirates agree a new £150m shirt sponsor deal. £30m a year up from £5.5m a year.
 

Who cares about a team sitting in 11th, lets discuss important things like who is at the top of the table.