Whitey Grandad

Someone needs to take a decision soon.

Thanks, that’s interesting. From what I had read about hybrids their consumption figures when not on battery power are not all that impressive.

Was that on one battery charge?

That does nothing to explain how easily he gets beaten by opposition players who just skip past him whilst he pirouettes away from them. Birmingham’s third goal is a prime example. He turns his back on his opponent.

Directed by Sir Ridley Scott. Supposedly the accent was West Country and if you listen to it again you can hear the difference. Surprising the suggestiveness of the imagery. https://steepholm.livejournal.com/542986.html?

There are some signings that just don’t make sense from the footballing view. Sometimes the only explanation is that the money involved sloshes around the international transfer market.

I’m not so much bothered by what he does as by what he doesn’t do.

You’re right: it isn’t and he didn’t. Not in the centre circle it isn’t, not when there is a centre half standing next to him. He was virtually holding hands with Bednarek.

“There’s no such thing as a bad goal”

Neither of those are his job. He is supposed to be a full back. He should protect his flank and cover the only opponent who might be a threat. Bednarek is there to go for the ball and if he messes up Manning is there to cover. It was Keystone Cops defending.

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.