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The ball is falling to them every time. We've had a lot of luck this season, but not tonight.

Defence asleep and absolutely no midfield. Looking an average team. Now Dunk is booked. This is a shit night.

Alan Mullery was a notable underachiever. Not sure if that was with us when we gave a load of players massive pay rises on 10 years contracts, or elsewhere.

Luck too. Football is hugely influenced by luck.

Well done!! I was looking for that exact quote, but couldn't find it!

I've read Tony Bloom's company Starlizard has a fantastic database on players, so I'm sure it is used to moneyball players. Maybe it has been refined from when we first tried it.

I may be wrong, but didn't we dabble in it with David Burke? There must be some reason why we bought such average footballers!

Additionally, the book states in the professional games you don't win games by having the best player on the pitch (park football always tends to be this way) but you are more likely to lose games by having the weakest player on the pitch. So yes, lack of big signings but having strength all...

If you haven't already done so, have a read of - The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong. Some interesting stuff re buying players, including why buying a good defender is more important than a striker (not to mention the massive cost differential, which is huge where...

Whilst he was talking a load of nonsense, what was the reason for banning him? Surely this forum should invite debate, not ban it because it's something you don't agree with? One post has generated 10 pages of posts. It's a shame the OP wasn't given a chance to back-up his assertions and be...

Yep it works in firefox. Safari is blocking the stream

I might try firefox instead of safari

I'm the same. Perhaps it's a problem with Macs

all the streams keep freezing after about 10 seconds :down:

“You can always make someone talk … The problem is what they say,” one of Saddam Hussein’s former torturers said when he was interviewed in a Kurdish jail in 2003. and that's the problem with torture. The information received can not be relied upon to be correct.

Torture is not a truth serum. Torture doesn't work because the person being tortured will make things up to stop the pain.

Its cleared in the centre of Brighton

For anyone who's interested in FIFA the game and not the corrupt power-house, here's an interesting Guardian long read podcast:- https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2017/jan/20/fifa-the-video-game-that-changed-football-podcast

He missed one league games instead of two. So yes, it was the right decision.

No need to be diplomatic, it's his home-town club. Some people are far too easily offended.