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What a depressing thought.

Following up on a thought in another thread. If enough people thought that Sky was a malign force in football would it be possible to persuade enough people to cancel their sky sports subscription to actually affect sky's influence over football? I have a subscription and watch football and...

The Jolly Sportsman - Plumpton

Horrible for her to go through. I hope she isn't too scarred by it. Just to provide a different perspective, my mum was in her eighties and feel twice in a year in brighton because of low blood pressure. On both occasions the good folk of brighton were superb. They couldn't have been more...

Yep. Exactly. Raw talent. How good is he going to be with a couple of years of week-in, week-out first team football under his belt.

The other thing about the stats from Creaky is that they are from penalty shoot outs. I think it's a safe bet that taking at least five successive penalties changes keepers (and takers) behaviour. Typically penalties such as Barnes' happen in isolation.

That is a magnificent post. An education.

You are very astute. No it wasn't. It was statistically the best thing to do. Exactly - statistically the best option, partly because of eactly what you have highlighted - it went in of the keepers legs because 19 times out of 20 (actual fact Yxee) they dive one way or the other. Quite...

You're very confident - and very wrong. But I don't suppose this will influence your biased POV. For the record, 87% of penalties taken down the middle (where the goal is divided into right of the keeper, left of the keeper or down the middle) are scored, compared to 83% of those placed either...

If you're going to be sarcastic, get it right: scored fewer, not less.

I was thinking exactly that as I typed it. But she'd be quite a woman to tell of that battleship of a man!

Careful - if you suggest he is anything other than the new Messiah you run the risk of being pilloried. Huge talent - great to watch - but as you say still (understandably) a bit raw.

Shows the size of the gap between us and the teams at the top. 8 points from what would be regarded as a good month and we'd still be well off the pace even if they didn't pick up a point. Play Offs again look a possibility but automatic already feels a long way off.

Not at all. He had a really good game, but in the same way that some people simply can't see what Barnes does for the team, others are vociferous about Ince beyond his merits. I completely agree he is going to be good - he played well today - but wasn't man of the match. Not clueless at all.

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Have you ever been diagnosed as hard of thinking?

Ince played very well but there's a degree of rose tinted glasses. Everything good he does get magnified and anything poor is ignored. He was solid today but not MOM.

I suspect this was hinted at midweek to get bums on seats when in fact there was little chance of him ever even being on the bench. We won't see him today either. Shame. We need him badly.

That is the product of a very disturbed mind.