Whitey Grandad

It’s a fair result if television has had no influence on the outcome. It would then be a pure sport.

I remember everything. Except when he is supposed to have palmed the ball into his own net. Please remind me. I defend Bazunu not because he is good but because he is not bad. McCarthy has been bad for a long time. He has ballophobia.

You cannot be serious. At the end of last season his performances were woeful. I cannot forgive that goal he let in at home to Bournemouth. A pathetic dribble of a shot that he didn’t react to until it had rolled past him

There’s a bit about ULEZ in The Times today (paywall) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ulez-camera-vandalism-car-van-compliant-0mp2g66s2 ”90% of Ulez cameras put out of action in new area”

Can I say here that this is nothing to do with me 😐

And makes selling season tickets more difficult.

Over a season or over the rest of time, it is meaningless. Once you come to accept this you will be on your path to redemption.

There you go again. Why can you not see how meaningless this is?

Love is blind.

Would we have been playing with only ten men?

It’s easy to be accurate when you only roll the ball five yards. 98% of their passes were between Bednarek and Stephens and back again. (I may have made up that figure)

But you don’t do that without having an agenda. The figure you have decided to use is meaningless yet you cannot see it as such. You have chosen to use it because you think it confirms your views. But it doesn’t. ’Team concede four goals. It must be the goalkeeper’s fault.’

Bednarek had been virtually standing in Bazunu’s toes when he first came back.

“A referee is not always right, but he’s (she’s) never wrong” As far as subjective decisions go it’s just a matter of opinion.

Such metrics are tosh. ‘Expected goals against’? Who ever dreamt up such rubbish? They are subjective at best. One person’s opinion about what might happen. Why is it that figures such as ‘expected goals never, ever, end up being near the actual result? Exactly!

That remains to be seen. There are other possibilities. International football transfers would provide an opportunity for shuffling money around.

Nothing strange a bout it. Statistics are for mugs. I know all about data analysis and it can have its uses but it has to be used with extreme caution. Your two examples are not comparable. A striker scoring goals is straightforward because the player himself is in control of what he does with the ball. His results are not stochastic. Or of course he might just be facing poor goalkeepers. ”Shots on target” can mean anything. I have seen games where a shot has been blocked at source yet doesn’t appear in the figures for that game. They are meaningless and too subjective to be of any analytical use. There are too many variables. They belong in the same realm as roulette algorithms.

Referees don’t think that way.

Tyre particles, brake dust, it will never be clean.

Oh God help us. Football has gone mad.

But what about those who live outside the ULEZ a who up until now have been spending their time driving into it for a multitude of purposes such as work, leisure, specialist shopping? Are they going to scrap their perfectly good car just so they can continue with their routines or are they going to go elsewhere? Then what happens to those whose livelihoods depend on these extra earnings? They will be poorer and their air won’t be any cleaner. Poverty is an even bigger driver of poor health than air quality.

Conned by whom? We only see a small part of it on TV. In any game every player has a history with the referee.

These are not the same arguments. Burning coal in millions of fires is not the same as burning oil in a car. And yes, I was around in 1956 and 1968.

Why would there be other damage if it were a drone attack? This fire has been burning for some time but you are right to take such images at face value only.

In Transit? Surely we can afford something better that that. A chauffeur-driven limousine might be going a bit far though.