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Despite opinions to the contrary you are partly wrong. ... Sorry The zed spellings are older English and sometime in the 1800s Britain started changing to the ise spellings. The colonies followed suit, whereas the States retained the zeds ... or more laughably the zees. They were not influenced by the change in the Empirical spellings. Here in Canada we don't have the guts to go one way or the other. My Concise and Short Oxford dictionaries default to the zeds.

Funny - I miss the cream and purple livery of the buses.

Comparable to El Ghazi?

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76 trombones ... when they go marching in?

Nah ... 15 cm lower and it was in off the bar.

It's funny how people can see the match very differently.

I have always shaken my head at this ... a shot comfortably into a goalkeeper's arms is rated higher than a shot that beats the goalkeeper but not the post or crossbar?

Don't disagree, but this has seemed true for the last few games, especially wide.

I must have watched a different match. I would have liked to vote Coady for Villa's man of the match. But a little more seriously ... Martinez ... excellent ... I don't like the way we bring out the ball from goal kick though. Elmo ... had a really good game Konsa ... Solid Mings ... Man of the match for me Targett ... solid game ... Neto made him look slow on the break McGinn ... not a bad game Luiz ... OK but not back in form yet Sanson ... good game Traore ... I thought he was a lot better than most here ... seemed more defensively minded in this game Trez ... He was OK Watkins ... excellent Barkley ... impact player but almost the wrong sort ... that back pass ugh. What I have noticed is Villa gives the opposition a lot of space. Villa don't seem to pressure the opposition like they do us.

The universe is fundamentally chaotic, there are patterns in that chaos but is chaotic.

Conversely, to win a game you have to get at least one goal. Logically that goal cost us a draw. A nil-nil draw against Sheffield.

Ollie's is 21%, could do better. Even Barkley's is 15% (and Jack's 25%). So all could do better. Kane's 19% .... Bale is at a meagre 21% So if a player manages to get a shot away every minute and has a 5% conversion rate that's some 4 goals every match But it terms of conversation Emi and Tyrone win.

I was intrigued by El Ghazi's stats ... pasted data off the BBC website into an excel spreadsheet. ... Hid data for less than 480 minutes of play and the results are: Rank Name goals Goals / 90 min total shots goal conversion shot accuracy tottenham Carlos Vinícius 9 1.02 24 38% 63% chelsea Olivier Giroud 11 0.93 33 33% 61% liverpool Diogo Jota 9 0.84 28 32% 71% liverpool Mohamed Salah 24 0.74 81 30% 64% everton Dominic Calvert-Lewin 18 0.73 63 29% 68% tottenham Gareth Bale 8 0.72 38 21% 45% chelsea Tammy Abraham 12 0.71 41 29% 51% man unt Bruno Fernandes 22 0.65 86 26% 63% villa Anwar El Ghazi 7 0.64 38 18% 63% tottenham Harry Kane 17 0.63 89 19% 47% leicester Jamie Vardy 14 0.6 48 29% 60% tottenham Son Heung-Min 17 0.57 51 33% 71% sheffield Billy Sharp 5 0.56 12 42% 67% arsenal Alexandre Lacazette 11 0.56 38 29% 68% arsenal Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 13 0.54 50 26% 54% man unt Marcus Rashford 18 0.53 69 26% 74% man city Ilkay Gündogan 13 0.54 35 37% 54% man unt Daniel James 5 0.53 15 33% 80% leeds Patrick Bamford 13 0.52 69 19% 54% west ham Sébastien Haller 7 0.52 30 23% 53% man unt Edinson Cavani 7 0.5 27 26% 56% liverpool Takumi Minamino 4 0.48 12 33% 75% crys pal Wilfried Zaha 9 0.48 30 30% 50% villa Ollie Watkins 12 0.48 58 21% 62% The results are ranked in terms of goals per 90 min of play. While it is questionable that if Anwar's play time was doubled his goal count would double, his productivity in terms of goals cannot be questioned. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Data accurate as of yesterday. Jack was at 0.3 goals/90 min

I don't think the ball was played backwards ... but he was behind the ball when it was played. He was ahead of the defender, but that was irrelevant. Don't remember the game either.

OK. Here's my take: Positives ... the defense played really well. Mings MOTM for me. Elmo did fine, as did Konsa and Targett. Targett's enthusiasm [euphemism] was great. The attack was OK; nice El Ghazi goal, Watkins assist. But not too much else. El Ghazi would have been my second choice. Traore I think gets too much stick, in my opinion. Tracked back nicely but had trouble going forward and finding a player to pass to when he was marked closely. Midfield, I felt Villa still struggled a bit. Nakamba was solid, I don't quite get the MOTM hype, but that's me. I did not see the great "visionary" passes forward. But that could be as much the players around him not making the "visionary runs". McGinn, I thought was OK, stronger than previous matches I have seen, but I got the sense he occasionally played his teammates into to trouble. Sanson ... an encouraging Cameo Dean ... well he was Dean (in a good way) Not a great game, but not bad either.

Does The Castaways count?

You are right ... humour is subjective.

I don't understand the logic here ... getting oil from an alternative source, like friendly neighbour, does not work as a replacement for Middle East oil? I understand the US may want to avoid doing that ... but as a stop gap measure it works.

Or build a pipeline from Canada

Birmingham SuperPrix 1986 35 years ago.

Make it out of concrete it will last 150 years God I am in a waggish mood today.

The wag in me fails to see the humour in this.

"This is probably the best thing he could do for the state right now" The wag in me wants to say the best thing he could do is stay there.

Yep ... thanks ... a much better visualization, I thought. Note how the description of what we see as gravity does not involve any quantum phenomena. This of course is likely to change at some point in time. Now of course whether the future descriptions of gravity will involve quantum mechanics, a variation of Bohmian mechanics or something completely different is a question; I don't know I will see an answer in my lifetime. But we do know there is something not quite right with our standard model and something has to give. Again thanks