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24 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

Who gets to decide its incorrect? 

17 minutes ago, Tumblerseven said:

Doesnt matter who gets to decide it doesnt change the fact that there is correct action and incorect action.

 

The Dean Smith thread is positively weird.

The universe fundamentally is at least fundamentally chaotic. 
Let's say we agree on a substitution that we all can agree on as being "correct".  Now, we have to wait until there is a stoppage in play, for the substitution to happen. Dean does not control this aspect of the game. The imagined optimum substitution at the sixty-ninth may not be the same as seventy-first minute. 

Football is chaotic. At best we can deal with probabilities and we (including Dean) don't have access to data, never mind sufficient data to reduce the probabilistic nature of the chaos. 

8 hours ago, rjw63 said:

He's OK, prefer him in Genesis.

Even at his worst Phil is a million times better than the current shite in the charts.

especially prior to Trick of the Tail

37 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Religion just shrugs and makes stuff up. 

24 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

I think the catholics are quite rigorous when they investigate miracles, before they make someone a saint.

You guys are not helping.

11 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

...  be dismissive of Christianity and religion in general but until you can answer the fundamental questions of creation I would personally edge my bets. 

Can you give an example where Christianity or religion in general has explained anything?

43 minutes ago, thunderball said:

I take it you’re Canadian because he is Dutch?

Your logic escapes me. Anwar's ancestry is Moroccan.  I don't know, but I would be willing to bet his first language (mother tongue) was Arabic.

While all this does not matter in the great scheme of things. My point was that some people will be rooting for Anwar simply because of his Arabic/north African heritage.

1 hour ago, V01 said:

I don't get the main grid ... 5 squares on the ordinate and 6 squares on the abscissa? 

3 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

Isn’t he Dutch?

He is Dutch in the same way I am Canadian.

On 24/01/2021 at 10:36, mjmooney said:

Liver

But only very lightly cooked/fried.

3 hours ago, sidcow said:

Because attacks break down a lot with Anwar (and Trezeguet) 

Quick question. What counts as a successful attack?

A shot?
A shot into the keeper's arms?
Off the woodwork?
A goal?

I wonder what percentage of ultimately unsuccessful (however they are defined) attacks can be attributed to each player? 

Footballers get dispossessed of the ball a lot the time. It's not newsworthy. It's what they do with it when they hold on to the ball, is what matters. I can't help thinking El Ghazi is a great asset on or off the bench. Then there is the softer side of the sport ... exposure to northern Africa and the Arab world.

2 hours ago, birdman said:

Unfortunately Johns passing is a liability at the moment.

11 minutes ago, PaulC said:

Very committed played some wonderful passes. 

Interesting.

I can't help wondering which collection of girl's choir teams Newcastle had to beat to get to the quarters?

On 22/04/2021 at 11:28, Tomaszk said:

If these number are accurate ... then this is an interesting graph. Things to take away:

• The premier league is relatively egalitarian ... in that the slope is relatively flat ... ie the top teams get a similarish slice of the pie.
• All but a handful bottom PL teams get more earnings than most of European clubs. (Excluding Atletico, Real and Barca). For example the bottom PL club earns more than Bayern.
• This of course does not mean you can attract Bayern players to the bottom PL clubs ... at least not easily. And simply having higher earnings does not mean you get a better team. EG Bayern playing a bottom team in the PL?
• The French and Spanish leagues are the most inequitable, percentage wise. subject to some debate.

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

All the other major English-speaking nations don't really have much interest in football on the whole.  It's strange that British people helped export the game round the world but it never really took off in the USA, Canada and Down Under.

With respect to Canada

Soccer is the highest participation sport in Canada, with 847,616 registered players (according to the Canada Soccer 2012 Yearbook). Male/female participation is split roughly 59/41 percent. There are 1,456 clubs in 139 districts across 12 regions (provincial and territory member associations). Wiki

And for the USA

Soccer is played by over 13 million people in the U.S., making it the third-most played sport in the U.S., more widely played than ice hockey and football. 

In terms of punishment.

Who? The fans, the players, the middle management and staff? The club? I don't think so.

Senior management? The Board? Perhaps.

The owners? Yes. The private ones and the shareholders? Yes. As these are the ones responsible for appointing the board and senior management. Though some small shareholders would be collateral damage here.

And specifically are we talking about:
Retribution -  just the pleasure of seeing the organization hurt?
Restraint - preventing them from doing this again?
Deterrence - dissuading others from trying this again?
Restoration - restoring the damage done?

5 minutes ago, sidcow said:

ditch the no relegation clause. 

Relegation to where?

2 minutes ago, ender4 said:

co-efficient.

What is a co-efficient as opposed to a coefficient?

I can't help wondering what will happen to players who are past their best by dates? If they can't move back to the national leagues? MLS? China?

6 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Root cause isn't going away without education though.

I agree ... but getting rid of the anonymity would be a start. 

1 hour ago, tomav84 said:

villatalk manages to stop certain words being displayed, social media needs to do similar.

Words are not the problem. People want the books of Huckleberry Finn banned because of words.

1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said:

Yeah, I was just looking on a map, and I'm sure she's mentioned flying from Castlegar which maybe is close to you?

It all looks very beautiful, but I've never been, just been to Vancouver and Vancouver Island before in BC.

Castlegar is about half an hour for me. One of my two local airports ... also known as Cancelgar in winter. Though I believe Castlegar is shut down at the moment because of COVID. I guess it will be open by August. Nice drive along the Kootenay river between Castlegar and Nelson. 

Just now, HanoiVillan said:

Ah, okay. My sister-in-law lives in Nelson. We were hoping to go in August actually, but looks like a stretch given covid. Hopefully will get there soon enough.

Nelson is really nice ... I'm less than an hour south,  practically next door.

4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

Where in BC do you live?

In the West Kootenays.

Just now, HanoiVillan said:

Yes, I think that's the one. They're claiming he thought he was shooting his taser, right?

Seems either very implausible or an excellent argument against giving police tasers.

Apparently it is a she mistakenly pulled a real gun. BBC
Training? Heat of the moment? US gun society ... etc etc

16 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

I see police have shot and killed a black guy just outside Minneapolis during a traffic stop, should help the remainder of the Derek Chauvin trial go real smooth.

Are you referring to the wrong gun shooting. If so, not a problem really, honest mistake.

54 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

On the subject of speeding... I don’t get the thing where drivers flash to indicate a speed trap. How do you know that’s what they’re flashing about!?

In Canada it could be there is heard of elk at the side of the road. They don't care if you're speeding.

In my part of rural Canada we have nice wide empty mostly straight roads ... speed limit usually about 90 km/h, normally speed at 100 km/h (~60 mph). Come to the UK to visit relatives in the UK, these rural windy narrow highways with high hedges for extra poor visibility and people driving at breakneck speeds (or at least what it seems like to me) in the fog makes it interesting.