Whitey Grandad

ABK was at the game today and posted a picture.

Itused to be the case that the two playoff teams came to an agreement that the losers got all the proceeds from the finalbecause the winning team gains so much.

Suit

Doesn’t surprise me.if you go round in circles you end up back where you started. I would be very cautious about describing anything as facts. Always examine the source data. And then check it again. And again.

People who spray champagne around as a celebration.

And, to be fair, the coroner ruled that it was suicide.

You’re right, we didn’t. Maybe if our football had been less boring or crap we would have scored more.

Somewhat surprisingly I’m ambivalent about a Saints game for possibly the first time ever. I’d like us to win but I’m not sure I want the prize that goes with it.

It’s a long time since I was please to see a Man Utd win. In fact, probably the first time ever.

Let’s just say that defensively we haven’t improved.

My garden needs lots of attention.

About the width of 10 toilet rolls, five on either side. The lines themselves are about the same width as a toilet roll.

Oops. Best of three?

Elland Road and St Mary's are exactly the same at 105 x 68 metres. Wembley is 105 x 69. Only a lick of paint in it.

And this is why such so-called statistics are highly subjective and therefore meaningless. Look, I have no problem with anybody having their own opinions on the quality of any player but for goodness sake please don’t try to use concocted figures to justify your opinion.

We shall see.

And you think that difference is down to the keeper and has nothing to do with the defence in front of him?

The point is, we just don’t know. Stupidly simplistic numbers such as percentage of shots faced yield no useful information. A shot on target can be from any direction, at any angle, at any speed and from any distance. The figures I’ve seen have a surprisingly tight spread, something from 60% to 70% which means that there is not a lot to choose between any of them. As random number generators go goalkeeping statistics are as good as they come.

Please to have you with me 🤓

But his save percentage only applies to the shots that he actually faced, not to the ones that Bazunu faced.

It literally isn’t. Raw data is simply that. A league table is raw data. A list of discrete numbers in tabulated form. Statistics are what you get when data is manipulated and interpreted. Interpretation involves guesswork.

The league table is not ‘statistics’

Of course it can. Statistics are guesswork.

Same for me. Bought two on Sunday and they arrived today (Chandler’s Ford). As you say, phew! Now I can breathe again.

If he says that then he’s not neutral 🫤