Whitey Grandad

They were practically playing in the stands.

I think it was the way that he leaned into the ball that cost him. True, the shot was deflected, but even before VAR and all the rule changes recently I think that would have been given.

You forgot Freeman.

😲😲😲 Pray tell more.

Yep. My dear wife was terminally ill and I remember it well.

Six of one and four twenty-fourths of the other.

I'm sure VAR would have caught that.

That's another guilty pleasure that you've ruined.

Don't you start at that end ???

My dear wife and I had been saying for years that the seasons were moving to earlier in the year. Traditionally we only have the summer holidays in August so that schoolchildren can help with the harvest.

Too trivial to be called statistics, which is a serious analytical subject. Adding up a few numbers doesn't even require an abacus.

Not enough for a penalty.

Those aren't statistics. Those are called 'sums'

Indeed. Just think of the lost sales from poor image rights.

Danny Blanchflower described it best for me, “The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It’s nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.” Or Grantland Rice, "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost— but how you played the game." There can only be one winner in any league but there can be bright, shining moments along the course of a season. A moment of individual brilliance perhaps. Or a scintillating team movement. Things that get you up off your seat. Trying to break the game down into a series of numbers is like tearing it apart because you're trying to find the magic.

I rest my case..

Stats have no place in football.

Change your user name to Farmenia Saint.

Easy to say when it's not your money.

I think putting then in jail is going a bit far. Although...

Yeah, you tell 'em CB Fry ! 😉

Some of us have no problems with the French and it avoids misunderstanding. It's English we have most problems with.

That's not good.

So we can play 6 at the back?

...giving to the opposition.