I've listened to that innumerable times but never seen "Tuhs eht lleh pu" written down before and so had never realised what it meant...Thanks very much! Wellquickwoody's awkward questions have indadvertently provided some enlightenment.
Even that isn't quite right. Football is a contact sport and it drives me mad when pundits say, "there was contact so he's entitled to go down." A foul is commited when there has been a trip (or one of the other fouls), not when a player feels a brush against his leg and throws himself to the floor.
Interfering with play is defined as touching the ball so unless he touches the ball he is not intefering with play (according to the definition in the offside law).
Last week I popped into a pub for a quiet pint on the way home. The pub was fairly empty: me, a group of younger men at one end of the bar and a couple of blokes in their 50's/60's sat talking about 10 yards away from me.
I was reading my paper when I heard one of the pair of men say quite...
He had a pretty good game and was excellent one-on-one but still makes lots of mistakes. For example, the 4v2 which ended with Redmond blasting straight at the keeper with three players to his left waiting for a tap in was caused directly by Tomori stepping out of defence, losing the ball and...
Simon Barnes in the Sunday Times has obviously been looking forward to this year's competition: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nature-britains-stoat-the-world-featherweight-champion-predator-tm5r6dgsj
Even includes a put down of the Honey Badger - not hard, just too slow to run away...
If that is really happening then yes, it is not random. The chance of red coming up 15 times in a row is over 32,000-1 and 20 times in a row is over a million to 1.
4. Started going at Withdean, continued at the Amex but, as a Bronze member, I am actually going less often in the Premier League and would probably go more often if we were to be relegated to the Championship.
The law changed a couple of years ago. It used to be that the free kick was given where the offside player was when his teammate played the ball and so as it was impossible to be in an offside position in your own half then the FK was always in the opponents' half. The law changed so that the FK...