Whitey Grandad

You are only thinking of your own experiences here in the UK. It’s not just assists, it’s all the other random figures. The betting was in the Far East and that goes back a long way.

Other players were also making runs. Smallbone had a good game. But he wasn’t alone.

Manning had a man to mark and completely lost him. He should have stayed with his man and left any interceptions to Bednarek.

Games usually go to the team that wants it the most (more).

You can try but it’s like trying to catch a fart in your hands. It’s when people try to use imaginary figures to make decisions that things start to go wrong.

“Analyse” does not mean just compiling a list of figures. It means interpreting them. And don’t use words like “moronic” about me. I don’t abuse you personally so why do you have to resort to such insults?

Why the abuse? If you have to resort to that then you have run out of arguments. What you call an ‘assist’ is not relevant to anything. It just happens to be the last person who touched the ball immediately before the goalscorer (of his own team).

“Shoot hard and low on sight of goal” From a book on football that I had over 70 years ago. The advice is still valid.

We don’t need to be convinced. We have the evidence of our own eyes.

These numbers were invented solely for the betting industry. They have no reflection on the game or how it should be played. FIFA didn’t start keeping any records officially until 1996. You Americans might not realise that the game began way back in the 19th century. It was doing all right without all this drivel for well over a hundred years. You can’t analyse football. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assist_(association_football)

“Assists” 🙄 What a load of nonsense. Almost as though he had some part in creating the goals. What is it with all these statistics bollocks? They didn’t exist in the 60s or 70s yet the football still carried on. They are an Americanism, an abomination to the Gods of Football, to the Beautiful Game, to “el rey de los deportes”.

My lounge tv is over 10 years old so I can’t find and Apple TV app for it. My TV in the conservatory is more modern and has the app but it’s still too cold out there. I have dug out a Firestick and after replacing the batteries in the remote and downloading the app I can now get Apple TV+ in my lounge. Now I need to get my soundbar working for the full effect. My wife didn’t like the noise that it made.

It’s smarter than I am.

Thanks. I need to keep on digging. I have TiVo boxes which are different to the ones in the article. I would ring them butbthat would take forever.

My son recommended this to me and I signed up to the free trial of Apple TV but I haven’t yet worked out a way to see it on my TV or Virgin TiVo.

Colour TV in the Uk didn’t start until November 1969. Colour TV test transmissions started in 1967 when the early transmissions of BBC2 began. Those were good films. All about building the Kariba dam and that sort of thing. My first colour TV was a Philips G21. It lasted well. I had to fit a new tube in it and a new transistor for the line output scanning but apart from that it did a good job. I spent a few years as a Principal Engineer in the Video and Colour section of the IBA research centre at Crawley Court and was a representative on a committee of the European Broadcasting Union so I know a lot about 625 line TV. All that knowledge is now obsolete. No, I watched the landings on a 14” B&W thing. Same sort of thing that I watched the 1966 World Cup Final on. All one big blur.. I think it wasn’t until Apollo 12 that the coverage was in colour and even then it was only in frame-sequential colour with successive frames in red, blue and green.

Of course there is.

“More key passes per game” You can’t get more subjective than that. And that’s a fact.

But it’s not good enough, is it. Slightly better than Norwich. Ask yourself, could we have scored more with a more traditional style of play?

I had one of those when I was young. I had broken my arm a couple of years before and fell onto it again. The doctor said that it was stronger because of the earlier break and that was why it was only ‘cracked’.

I was talking in general about our style of play.

Yeah, that’ll really worry them 🙄

Factual it ain’t. It’s meaningless numbers. Such nonsense belongs on the other side of the Atlantic. Football is not played on spreadsheets.

We don’t’ play it out the back’. We play it around at the back. It never gets beyond there. All the opposition has to do is play it tight and wait for the inevitable mistake. Then pounce and when they do they are well up the field in an advanced position and we are a defensive mess.

Pass completion? You have to be joking. If you’re not I worry for your sanity.