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7th consecutive win in the league. Keeps us in contention and probably holes Villa's distant chances below the waterline. Fulham banging in 4 or 5 every match however. Will be a tough ask to overhaul them as they don't look like dropping points. Winning all our remaining 4 games probably a must...

He played in a friendly for England U17s this week alongside Zak Emmerson.

Please bear in mind that a lot of people come to this thread for the sake of their mental well being. Please stop and think before you post.

Reading about it, it seems there was considerable resistance to this change as it took several years to get it adopted. I doubt there was universal joy at the resulting flood of goals that followed. First division goals per game didn't fall back to below 3 until 47/48.

Yeah, the time aspect is something that never really gets discussed. It can easily be a minute or even 2 between the offence and the free kick being taken, but I don't think they add anything on at all unless a player receives treatment. At the very least they should add on time for all the...

I wonder what the reaction was at the time to arguable the biggest law change in the last 100 years? In 1925 the offside law was changed so that a player was offside unless at least 2 opponents were between him and the goal. Previously it was 3. It had a huge impact. Goals in the football...

Good shout. I agree. This is a vast improvement.

It has not been straightforward for Everton. This is the third new stadium plan in the last 20 years to reach advanced stages (or fourth if you count the proposal to share the Stanley Park stadium that Liverpool were once planning on building, but I am not convinced this was ever a credible...

Another dreary clueless 45 minutes from a Boothroyd team. Why do England persist with him? Love to be proved wrong and have this bounced when we win the tournament, but there's no evidence to suggest that's likely from that half.

Would have liked to see Jones in ahead of Davies (very much a vanilla player I cannot get excited about). I fear with Boothroyd still at the helm we'll struggle to get out of the group again. If we do well it'll be despite him, not because of him. I'd love to get a look at Madueke. I checked...

Moran (judging by his tweets we all pronounce it wrong) looks a fabulous talent.

I am coming round to the opinion that, apart from the new ones slated for the North and North East corner, most of these "new" seats have been there all along since we expanded. Perhaps they underestimated how many new seats could be accommodated when we expanded from 22500 to 30750 in 2012...

Ryan's last game was our 12th league match of the season. The xGA had already started to drop before this, but this was from a very high level. The only thing you can really say about the unavailability of Lamptey, Webster and March is we have not suffered because of it. I suspect Joel Veltman...

I don't think anybody is saying that. 29 games is not very many to have luck "even out". After 29 games games in a 20 team division most teams will be clustered reasonably close to the middle. In other words most will have been slightly lucky or slightly unlucky. A smaller number will have been...

For those that like this sort of thing, this is a chart of our expected goals for (green) and against (black) since 2017/18, with trendlines. A few notes: Stats from UnderStat. 10 point moving average used. We were incredibly lucky to stay up in 2018/19. We sucked. Our performances seem to...

There is a correlation between points accrued and the strength of a team, but the number of points teams of equal strength can gain over 30 games can vary enormously. You are underestimating how much of a factor luck is over that time period. Analytics can help in determining whether your...

A team playing 30 games and having an equal chance of winning, drawing or losing every game would expect to have 40 points. But the possible points distribution would look something like this: Note how wide the distribution is. The key point is 30 games is not very many to draw firm...

Up to second in the table with 5 to play. We will possibly have to win all five to be in win a chance of finishing champions as all the other teams around us have games in hand. Our last game is v Palace which is a potential championship decider. It's Palace's debut season at this level so...

Any excuse to dust off Tim Carder's "Seagulls! The Story of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C."... There were 10 matches at the Goldstone with an attendance over 32500.

It's going to be quite a while before we have to worry about this. He's contracted until 2025 so 2024 would probably be the point at which we start to lose the upper hand.