Deano6

Completely agree with this one! I'm a slow typist and often by the time I have written out my comment and posted it the conversation has long moved on. I think having a slow forum alongside the others would really be beneficial to people like me. Good suggestion!

League Cup semi-finals. Wigan beat Arsenal on away goals in 2006.

Generally that question can be applied to most things considered racist, where if you get to the very heart of it it may be an indirect reference at best. Here it is directly referring to the slave trade, which is about as racially offensive as you can get. No excuses - he knew what he was saying.

Cup game, against Leicester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brown_%28footballer_born_1888%29

The first part is just saying that Wenger is the longest serving manager in the leagues, which at 17 years is not a surprise. The second part sounds a little more surprising, but is basically saying average tenure is a little under 2 years - which intuitively sounds about right. Especially with the likes of Blackburn employing 5 in a year!

Pardew will be number 2 longest when Moyes officially leaves. Presumably Nigel would then have been Number 3 if he'd remained.

I thought he played very well personally. Seemed very assured and did well to get his body behind a few decent shots to collect them comfortably. Had no chance with the goal IMO, all round good game by Arthur.

I take it Chelsea are running into similar difficulties then and won't be signing anyone decent?

Nike shirts are so boring these days they put me right to sleep...zzzzzzzz....

It is good because you will eventually be able to get greater levels of granularity, eventually getting to one decimal place like they do in the US for Grade Point Averages.

Cor-tay-zee, whoever you may be, You eat pasta in your home country. It could be worse, You could be French, Eating horse and surrendering in wars.

Really? I'm quite impressed.

Well this feels odd. I was wearing my Beattie Saints shirt just last game!

Everyone?? Behave. That was the first year of the Prem that I genuinely believed we were going down. We were just awful. That last min Everton goal. Surrendering a 2-0 lead to Boro in 90th minute. Capitulating from 2-0 up against Villa. The whole David Prutton suspension debacle. We were so panicky at the back under any kind of pressure, even though our forwards actually weren't that bad. Even then, finishing bottom, we were only 2 points away from safety. Anyway, hopefully the panic-merchants will be allayed after today's result. I'm really looking forward to us giving Sunderland and Stoke a damn good game.

So basically nobody anywhere thinks there is a more than 5% chance of us being relegated.

Wrong login, The9.

Yup, I live here. Just stick to all the places mentioned above in this thread and don't go near anywhere us locals actually go.

Yeah, but will we fill it tho?

Right answer (more or less), but you've got the workings wrong. You need to multiply for consecutive events happening, not add and take the average. LL = P(loss) * P(loss) = 42% * 27% = 11.3% LD = P(loss) * P(draw) = 42% * 29% = 12.2% DL = P(loss) * P(draw) = 29% * 27% = 7.8% You then add the 3 to sum across the event space, to get 31.4% (more or less what you had).

I rather like you when you're not trolling. Good post!

I bet you a tenner Saints don't lose all their games. You win the bet if they do even if it doesn't end in relegation.

No its not. We didn't play nearly well enough. Unless you are lying for some reason...

We win a game, we're going Top 6. We lose a game, we're getting relegated. You doom-mongering bedwetters are just as bad as the deluded dreamers. Get a grip of yourselves. We're not going to be doing either this season, there's more than just two extremes. We will pick up more points.

Guess not then...

When you put it all together, he's the model of a charmless man.