A fair shout, but I'm not privy to the training regime, so can't agree with any certainty. However, poor training or not, I stand by my point that sloppiness in possession, bizarre decision making, a poor 1v1 attempt at goal, and various other individual errors that a pro-footballer shouldn't be making, didn't help us out.
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Match Tottenham v Chelsea - December 8th - 4:30pm KO
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I can't stand Cucarella; he runs around like a headless chicken, and goes down at the slightest of touches. Loved seeing him hit the deck, and my wife saw on TV, that he was giving the kit man evils, as if he was responsible for his slippy slidiness.
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Why? Cui bono?
These are the questions to which I keep coming back whenever anyone brings up a theory of systemic bias among referees and other officials. Why would they favour certain outcomes? How do they benefit? Who does benefit? And from where do these instructions come? How high up does it go?
I understand the PL wanting certain things to happen, like Leicester winning the title that year, for the narrative and to promote the league. But (a) do they really care about Chelsea winning the league? and (b) would they stoop to outright corruption in order to aid their preferred narrative?
If this was in Brazil, where the money to be made from cartel-level gambling far outstrips the money in the legit ecosystem and impetus for integrity, I'd find it a lot easier to believe. And I think even in England, refs should be paid better (if their performances are good). But it just seems kinda hard to believe that anyone would put the necessarily huge amount of effort and resources into fixing a massive, billion-eyes-on-it league like the PL. We've seen players punished with extreme severity for very small-scale infractions in this area, like Trippier not sufficiently discouraging his mate from betting on his Atletico transfer. (If anything, that shows how much power the bookies have in elite football, and I'm pretty sure they aren't going to tolerate match-fixing.)
IDK. When every team's fans believe the refs are against them, it becomes logically impossible for them all to be correct.
It's been a long, long time since I owned a pair of football boots. What was wrong with the pair he had on?
I used to be the xG sperg around here. Some of my old posts are still excellent introductions to the subject (if I may say so..). To be fair, I did work with academic models for a while.
TL;DR: xG is still a really bad way of measuring who deserved to win a football match or who performed better during a match or whatever. And I'm only talking statistically, leaving aside that the eye test will always be better. xG models are still noisy and primitive and don't measure what most people think they do (a lot are just an inverse square on 3-5 discrete radial areas with their centre in the middle of the goal, with maybe a few other variables thrown in). To illustrate the lack of nuance, I like using the example of the Bundesliga's official stats giving Kane's 60 yard screamer for Bayern a 0.2 while most tap-ins are in the realm of 0.6.
Due to the inherent degree of error/noise, xG is only really useful over a larger sample size than one match. It's great for comparing striker's clinicalness over a season or more. G vs xG is the gold standard for that. But over 90 minutes, it's a lot messier and I don't take it seriously. (Models are improving all the time but even the best are still like 12 features or something, from what I hear, and they'll come out with freak outputs on a regular basis.)
He was slipping because of the wet surface, so I'm guessing perhaps the wrong type.
I look on the funny things of life. Skoda are sponsoring chelsea.
Cundy was a cringeworthy embarrassment on talksport last night. He wont be there much longer. Hatred of us went too far last night.
didnt realise we only had 40% possession in this.....thats alarming for a side thats meant to be the one having all the ball.
PL needs its insane domestic & foreign TV rights dosh. Big clubs keep getting a big slice of that pie, selling zillion tickets & shirts + tours abroad, keep qualifying for the CL etc. Refs wanna keep reffing in the PL and get noticed for European + international comps...also nice to make a bit of extra (tax-free) cash on the side.
Yes, of course. But football is an emotional thing and you always gonna blame the refs when your team is doing crap, cause it's just easy scapegoating...even when you have zero case. But some teams - through sheer bad luck or else - clearly got it worse than others. And I'm not talking about Spurs, I think we're actually alright...unless we face Chelsea or Woolwich or United. History speaks.
Considering I was expecting a tonking, I suppose I should be grateful that it wasn't the case.
Bits of our play were good but we're so soft, that any team thinks they can get a result against us, home or away.
I have to admit that I left once the fourth went in, and hadn't realised that Sonny had scored until yesterday. All that did was make the score look respectable.
Bits of our play were good but we're so soft, that any team thinks they can get a result against us, home or away.
I have to admit that I left once the fourth went in, and hadn't realised that Sonny had scored until yesterday. All that did was make the score look respectable.
Welcome to our world, Craig.
Nor was I at the time !
They had screw in studs the same as the pair he swapped them for
He’s a little drama queen that probably got bullied at school
it's amazing to think the obnoxious twat once scored a goal for us from the half way line
Will never have any respect for chelsea whatsoever. Vermin club. This time last year they wanted boehly out.