Whitey Grandad

To be honest I thought it sounded like a donkey braying. Probably because I have more experience of donkeys than porn movies.

Unfinished business

Best wishes to you.

Brighton at St. Mary’s, wasn’t it? They did the same thing to us this time. JWP had a free kick and they put a player on their post. It seemed to confuse JWP so much that he failed to take advantage of the situation.

“Nobody ever scored from the Royal Box”

His foot hovered over it and he was about to take a shot when Fernandes nicked the ball off him? Rashford was a decoy.

Same root. To ‘deaden’, reduce to death.

Horny grandmas, or phone boxes?

We couldn’t afford him then.

There is still some way to go before I change my mind. I feel there’s always an accident waiting in him and for some reason his touch on the ball is too heavy. Maybe he’s pumped up with adrenaline but he regularly over hits the pass.

When was the last time they mined anything there?

Or perhaps the players can point to NJ and say the same thing?

Nor an Li Dia

He can stay for another week I suppose 🙄

I don’t drink much or often but I do like craft beer in bottles so I buy a selection wherever I go and keep them handy in case Saints ever win and I can celebrate in my own way. Historically they have gone out of date before I get a chance to enjoy one of them. I might even have one tonight 🤤 Two maybe 🎉

This is getting ridiculous now. First Salah, now this.

Yep. Rashford actually pulls his foot back as if he was about to play the ball. there were two United players there who could have played the ball. Rashford dummies the ball. Even though he doesn’t touch it he has interfered by “making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball”

That’s what I more or less assumed. So it means that xG after a game is a very limited statistic and only has a place for those who specialise in coaching. As far as a comment on the game is concerned it should be nowhere near the media reports of MOTD. My annoyance is that anyone who didn’t know how the game went on Wednesday and looked at the xG from the game would rightly assume that Saints were lucky to win.

Does anybody know at what stage of an attack the xG calculation is made? Some goal attempts might follow an intricate passing move involving multiple players before the ball arrives at the feet of an attacker. Others might be the result of a long hoof downfield from the goalkeeper. Surely xG cannot be estimated solely on how it leaves the boot of the potential scorer? That would be ridiculous. How are the possibilities of deflections evaluated? What was the xG when Perraud got his feet confused and scored his own goal? If football coaches think that it’s a useful metric then that’s up to them but keep it away from the football public please. As for those figures that kept popping up on screen in the World Cup…. Why?

And virtually every game will be make or break until the end of the season.

According to the FA we’re not on the Tele so it must be as you say. The Emirates FA Cup’s fourth round will take place from Friday 27 until Monday 30 January 2023, and the following ties have been selected for live broadcast by the BBC and ITV in the UK.FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2023 • Manchester City v Arsenal at 8pm on ITV1, UTV, STV, ITVX and STV PlayerSATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2023 • Preston North End v Tottenham Hotspur at 6pm on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport • Manchester United v Reading at 8pm on ITV4 and ITVXSUNDAY 29 JANUARY 2023 • Brighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool or Wolverhampton Wanderers at 1.30pm on ITV1, UTV, STV, ITVX and STV Player • Wrexham v Sheffield United at 4.30pm on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC SportMONDAY 30 JANUARY 2023 • Derby County v West Ham United at 7.45pm on ITV4 and ITVX Each club involved in these ties will receive £110,000 in addition to any payments from the prize fund of the competition. * All times in GMT

Me too. I’m gutted that we left straight after the whistle and missed them 😢

Thanks both of you for your considered replies. In your first paragraph I would argue that the xGs are not accurately computed. If a striker is scoring more than their expected goals would predict then that tells me that their predictions are wrong. As for Wednesday, if we hadn’t scored those two goals then we would have created other opportunities and these of course would not feature in the final evaluation. I don’t know anyone who watched that game who didn’t think that Saints were in any way lucky to have won it or that we were in any way let off somehow by City’s poor finishing. That Alvarez incident was some way off being a serious chance, the ball was played too far in front of him.I must admit that I don’t remember Haaland ever having a sniff.

This is part of the problem. Any video recording is only ever a poorer version of what is seen by an experienced human with their own eyes. It is lower resolution and is only 2D. I should add here that I spent some time in television equipment research involving studio signal processing and was a UK representative on a European Broadcasting Union committee determining future digital studio standards. I have had technical papers published in relevant publications and presented at international conferences. What you think you see is not what actually happened.

They were still there the last time that I saw him.