Whitey Grandad

Lots of useful interceptions/repossessions too.

It wasn’t for coaching. It was for waving an imaginary card.

Remember, a pedant never sleeps.

Is that one of Harry Potter’s? I’m with you all the way.

It’s supposed to be both sides that compromise.

But we weren’t playing Burnley 🙄

And that is a serious concern. At least we can enjoy this season.

His reaction was more extreme than than. Plus we don’t know if he said anything.

We’ve also had injustices caused by VAR. On balance I think we’re a lot better off without it.

No it doesn’t. It has to be stopped, along with the mass confrontations. We are losing referees at the grass roots level and the attitude of the players is one factor. Youngsters see these overhyped stars get away with it and think that it’s acceptable.

That was the number of short passes. The total was 991 which is a new Championship record.

991

What a strange feeling.

9 mins. I win. Closest 😋

Ah, Anonymous Aribo to seal the victory.

Sweepstake for the amount of extra time? I’ll go go 11 minutes.

Well bugger me backwards with a bargepole. We’ve scored, and a forward too!

We’re trying our best.

The goalscorer?

Anybody can fluke a goal, any time. One goal is never enough.

They can relax now. Opto have given the goal to AA

In such circumstances they are likely to be similar in that respect too.

Going back to this, shots can come from all sorts of angles and distances and speeds. Other relevant factors are the time taken to line up the shot, whether it’s a snapshot or something more considered, whether there is a defender close to the attacker blocking the view of him, whether there are defenders standing back in front of the goalkeeper blocking his view, whether the shot comes at the end of a run or is from a ball cut back from the goal line, whether the pass to the shooter comes through a crowd of players from a few yards or from a long distance… There are so many factors that trying to make a spreadsheet analysis is idiotic. That is the beauty of football.

Yep. As far as stoppage ball going into the net is concerned. But there is a lot more to a good defence than having a goalkeeper for that rare occasion when the opposition get a chance to shoot at goal. Distribution, organising the defence, controlling the tempo of the game.

When trees are waving their branches the wind is blowing. QED (Not that I like using that abbreviation but in this case it is justified and appropriate)