Whitey Grandad

Not enough for a penalty.

Those aren't statistics. Those are called 'sums'

Indeed. Just think of the lost sales from poor image rights.

Danny Blanchflower described it best for me, “The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It’s nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.” Or Grantland Rice, "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost— but how you played the game." There can only be one winner in any league but there can be bright, shining moments along the course of a season. A moment of individual brilliance perhaps. Or a scintillating team movement. Things that get you up off your seat. Trying to break the game down into a series of numbers is like tearing it apart because you're trying to find the magic.

I rest my case..

Stats have no place in football.

Change your user name to Farmenia Saint.

Easy to say when it's not your money.

I think putting then in jail is going a bit far. Although...

Yeah, you tell 'em CB Fry ! 😉

Some of us have no problems with the French and it avoids misunderstanding. It's English we have most problems with.

That's not good.

So we can play 6 at the back?

...giving to the opposition.

We are clearly short of a few good players..

Gave the right decision, do you mean?

Say that again?

Endeavour

Those figures don't represent the game that I watched. If you like to watch spreadsheet soccer then please feel free but let's not pretend that it bears any relationship to the game in reality. For instance, they hit the bar with our whole defence beaten yet that won't appear in your list of random numbers.

xG 😅😅😅 I can only assume that you weren't actually at the game. There was a big gaping hole in the middle of the pitch where our midfield should have been. If our xG was that high why was it that we only managed to scrape a couple of goals in virtually stoppage time?

A brilliant break away equaliser by Semenyo. I wish I could have seen it.

I'm on Virgin Media and the picture is breaking up and unwatchable. Technology really is rubbish.

Not in my part of the world. Odds of 1 in 2 million of ever seeing a bus.

My mum's eldest brother, my uncle, was out in the jungle in Burma. Back home he would wake up in the night screaming "get off me". He said that in the dark at night in hand to hand fighting they didn't know if they were fighting their mates or the Japanese.

In your very humble opinion, of course.