Whitey Grandad

What you have to realise is that if we score a goal we lose possession. That cannot be allowed to happen.

Perhaps I was not harsh enough. It was the main reason that they scored. He was under no pressure yet still managed to have his pass intercepted leaving Edozie and Bree to cover the sole of our left side. Breeze tracked his man inside whilst Edozie was struggling to keep up with their attacker. There’s no point in having the bulk of the possession if the opposition just needs to wait for us to make our customary mistakes.

He makes too many mistakes.

He always has at least one mistake in him. That underhit pass last night was inexcusable. He was so far upfield that any mistake left us cruelly exposed.

West and north from there. The rest of Ukraine then Moldova. The Baltic States.

That’s not what I call football. That’s just kicking the ball around. There’s no purpose in it.

Would you eat anything he cooked?

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The ref has the responsibility to make sure it’s legal. Going right over to the corner is just to make a point to the fans. If anyone has the time to spare and a football available t they can always try a demonstration. The lines are the same width as a toilet roll so if you layout some bog paper on the ground and try different positions of the ball it can be amazing how much ‘grass’ is visible between the two. Too much television around these days for them to let anything go.

As long as part of the ball is over the quadrant line then it’s ok. Maybe the ref was making a point? Since the assistant referees run diagonals, usually ’rights’, they can only check the ball position at two of the four corners. Was there an assistant covering the corner in front of the Saints fans?

Is anyone allowed to do that on live TV?

It’s the cost of the elections. Plus we make a lot of money out of the Crown Estates in exchange for the Civil List.

He’s a lot cheaper than having a President. Anyway, how do you know that ‘most don’t want’ a king?

No they are not. They are interpretive. I’ve posted before about how these figures are achieved. They are produced for the Far Eastern betting market yet somehow some people seem to think that they are definitive. Try looking up their definition especially about how many shots are excluded. As a further point, there was an instance in a recent home game where an opponent was clear through on goal and Bazunu came out to the edge of his area to close down the angles. The opponent’s shot went wide of goal and Bazunu never touched the ball. Yet he had prevented a goal. Where does that figure in any ‘statistics’?

No. It doesn’t mean that at all and this is where you have gone wrong. In terms of goals conceded Peter Shilton has let in more.

Those are actual results, facts if you like. Statistics are something completely different. Statistics are open to interpretation, more properly called inferential statistics. Numbers in themselves are ok. It’s when someone tries to read something beyond their intrinsic data that they will go wrong. Anything such as shots on target, expected goals, saves ratio, are inherently random and subjective. They are collected for the purposes of betting and as such they have to be random or the betting companies would lose money through them.

I’m guessing you were unsuccessful at pulling it out?

Eh? That’s not a ‘fact’

Those aren’t statistics.

You cannot possibly compare last season with this. We’re now in a different league, don’t you know.

No There you go again, going on about statistics. You can go and worship at the altar that is football statistics if you wish, but they have nothing to do with anything that ever happens in real life. You’ll find that chicken entrails or tea leaves will not be any worse.

That’s simply not true. It’s all in your distorted prejudice.

“Nothing beats a settled team”

We do that with every starting line up.