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I'm wondering if I shouldn't just find an underdog that seems to be beating the odds and root for them each season. I picked Swansea last year and quickly learned the pain of rooting for a small-time club that will be forever selling stars. Watching them completely fall apart this year is just too reminiscent of watching the Raiders for the better part of the last 20 years. If they're gonna crap out and get relegated I'm not sticking around, and if that makes me a bad person then so be it. Life's too short to be miserable watching sports.

All that said, I'm enjoying Crystal Palace's run this year. In a lot of ways their story is very Swansea-esque, but hopefully their new American money will enable them to not fall apart as easily as the Swans have.
If I were looking for a team outside the top 4 but not in danger of relegation I think I'd pick Everton. They have a long history, a great rivalry with Liverpool, and some good young players with Lukaku, Barkley and Deulofeu plus good veterans like Baines and Coleman. Of course they also have Tom Cleverley.

 
LVG deserves the :censored: storm he's about to be caught in. Losses to Bournemouth and Norwich City in consecutive weeks, pathetic.
Man U gives me something I can laugh it and I would normally be revealing in their failure here, but those ####ers just knocked me out of survivor league. Norwich. At home. What the ####, LVG?

 
City win the league and make it to the CL finals. Pep still in?
I'm terrified of what Pep will be able to do with City's talent and transfer budget but watching Chelsea and Man U supporters getting their hopes up for Pep and then having those hopes dashed should be pretty enjoyable.

 
City win the league and make it to the CL finals. Pep still in?
City seems to value managerial stability a little more than the other huge clubs. I don't think they're in a hurry to chase Pellegrini out. If he wins the league and at least puts up a good fight in the CL that should in theory be enough.

That said, if they know they're Pep's first choice, and his second choice is Man U or Chelsea, they probably have to jump on that.

 
Sebowski, on 19 Dec 2015 - 2:24 PM, said:
drunken slob, on 19 Dec 2015 - 1:52 PM, said:LVG deserves the :censored: storm he's about to be caught in. Losses to Bournemouth and Norwich City in consecutive weeks, pathetic.
Man U gives me something I can laugh it and I would normally be revealing in their failure here, but those ####ers just knocked me out of survivor league. Norwich. At home. What the ####, LVG?
Knocked me out also. All I wanted for Christmas was to be making picks in January.

Well....Christmas is cancelled :rant:

Thanks, LVG

 
I don't understand why Pep is leaving Bayern. I don't get it for him or for the club.
I read something about disagreements over transfer policy but I suspect either Pep gets bored and wants a new challenge or he wants to move on before the players stop listening and he has a down season diminishing his reputation. Probably a combination of the two.

 
Pep to City

Carlo to Bayern

Mourinho to United

What a crazy messed up sport.
What's really odd is that Pellegrini actually endorsed Pep to be City's next coach:

"Pep Guardiola will work here [in England], I don't know if it is next season here [at City] or at another club. Someday he'll come here," he said in several national newspapers.


"And I hope he will have the option to work at Manchester City. I say that because I love this club and I hope, in the future, he can work here also. I am sure he will be very important for the club."
 
####ty way to give up a point, especially since it would have put Atlético at the top of the table until 2016. But, that sort of loss is just the sort of thing that Simeone uses for motivation, and to keep this club as underdogs. They didn't deserve points anyway as they looked really lethargic. I don't like the 4-3-3, even against mediocre opponents, but Atleti have been forced into it due to injuries to Tiago and Jackson. It's amazing that a 34 year old midfielder (or lack thereof) can have such a detrimental effect on the play, but Tiago is part of the core of Atlético, and his absence was really felt today IMO as Málaga won the battle in the middle of the park.

 

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