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I thought it was something different, ie just no card waving or other appeal to the ref to get an opponent sent off. But I'm probably out of date

A. Facetious reply: isn't that just called... football B. I realise you're suggesting they could gift each other a free goal. Interesting application for 'game theory'... and I think not. Even if there weren't (rightly) immediate and ongoing penalties for unsporting conduct and/or bringing game into disrepute - because it would be so obvious - don't you think this practice would cease rapidly after the first occasion a team broke the gentlemen's agreement, and changed their mind about conceding having received their freebie.

More generally, another good thing from rugby - no player but the captain to address the match officials, on pain of carding

File under “It were never like this in my day, gurn” (Love u Hucks)

Where was football comicry before Squires…! ok - so, Roy of the Rovers and fanzines had their worthy place and the latter could be hilarious Squires’ hit rate is just so unfeasibly high

Some towns in Bavaria like Passau (in the former West Germany) are positioned further east than the entirety of two out of the six states of the former East Germany There are parts of Donegal (in the Irish Republic, aka the political South) lying further north than the whole of Northern Ireland (aka the North of Ireland) Richmond, the American Civil War capital of the Confederate States (aka the South) lay further north than half of Kansas (part of the Union aka the North)

Broadly correct. In other words, lots of our players were unavailable for playing our sports team, it had a big impact on our fun game in which we invest such emotions, and it certainly was not a holocaust.

I wondered why people were calling you Bill earlier. Innocent no more! I’m a little slow.. call me a simple farmhand, if you’re driven to it : -) The great thing about this forum is that, in their own different ways, numerous users put City first !

But presumably so much pricier. You pay all that and get a crappy seat… Feel for you @Yobocop . However I predict the carbon footprint of football is about to skyrocket

This was just @Worthy Nigelton telegraphing that he reads the big issue Da-dum, tish Thank you, folks, I’ll be here all season

Unrealistic. It’s Farke to Liverpool Wagner to Leeds Rangnick/Tuchel to the Fine City FC Klopp to Huddersfield A.k.a. what we teutonophones generally call das trainerliche Karussell

Pieces of content.

You should have a pang of remorse for that !

Certainly can't compare football top divisions with NBA only 30 teams in the whole of NBA, but all those teams play each other multiple times each 'regular season' regardless of the two geographical conferences. on top, his teams probably got into the playoffs every season exposing him to more games and players. timeline-wise it's only been going since 1946 with only 9 teams for 20 years, rising to just 23 by the late 70s. we can presume a great expansion in squad sizes leading up to and/or within Lebron James' time (debut in 2003) in NBA as the sport's popularity surged Combining the above with basketball's in-game squad rotation, the stat becomes clearer. However, it's still an interesting stat for this man standing out from all other NBA players

Fair play. I think of you as an overwhelming, but ultimately benign, force actually... ping without a pong

Oh, no he isn't - he's the champion fence vaulter. Schroedinger's Canary is both in our garden and yours, and neither, at the same time, god love him!

Trying to recall the phone number for that kind of information. I’ll post it when I remember

OK, since the answer has been requested so frantically via DM (ho, ho), the answer if you didn't know is our captain, Mr McClean in the main Sky interview. He wasn't particularly being pushed for criticism by the interviewer. I hate to put words in people's mouths or read non-existent agendas into statements, but this sounds very much like a straightforward plea for a different, better approach at least to games like this one.

Pop quiz on the question of playing style. Who said this last night: “Hull were a lot better with the ball .. they obviously play a really good way, [Norwich] tried to stop that ; [Norwich] didn’t do enough with the ball to be honest”

The way the top 5 are shaping up I’d not be surprised to see them all there come June, whether or not in that order. 7 contenders for 6th spot. At least we’re one of them.

This & this It’s a bugbear of mine. Unless there was decisive cheating and/or officiating errors, which handed the game to the wrong side.. It’s the winner who deserved it. Every time.

To summarise: Aside from the minor matter of the goals, Hull were the better team and also the ref robbed them

Fantastic stuff

And under Lambert before him