Beren

You know who hasn't scored a corner in a while?

Musical statues.

How do they have the temerity to chant 'Cheat'...?

How did Cardozo direct that back away from goal by so much from the corner flick-on?!

He looks genuinely fucked. Dayum.

Why is Garay pretending to be hurt? No pen was given.

Luiz's distribution is really poor lately.

Bruno - your signature is class.

- Thankfully we don't have the Europa Lague - We might not draw Brighton in the FA Cup - Players will respond well to a manager who exists in a repercussion-free environment - More stability

If? Another imaginary counter argument. Let's keep it real http://i41.tinypic.com/2ptvziu.jpg So outside of the top 7 only West Ham, Swansea and Southampton have had more efforts within the box. An no, I'm not arguing that West Ham play pretty, attacking, cohesive, intricate football. Any more than I am us. How can sides take shots that don't result in integers, like? Again, could be from the corner of the box. Trust your eyes, padawan - not that stats

The person who first looked up that corner fact formed the view, looked at the stats, was proved correct and so it has been a widely circulated since. That's textbook. People watch games, perceive that we don't create chances...and say so on here. Without the fact checking part. If we had least shots on target, shots off target, shots in the box, shots outside of the box or something to confirm that, then it would be a useful statement. But other teams create EVEN less chances than us, before you even consider what proportion were "good" chances. What the facts do say is that we don't convert the chances we get as well as anyone else (bar QPR) this season. That we had one of the best conversion rates in the league last season. That it reduced early this season...and reduced further still when Ba left. I'm not sure I understand what your point is, tbh. That because other teams create even fewer chances that we create enough? That doesn't wash with me. The bold bit is completely meaningless. Krul could take ten shots and Lambert could take one shot. I'd take the one Lambert shot every day. The number of chances a side creates without further contextual evidence is close to useless.

Yup We shall win vicariously through the forum Benfiquistas

Wouldn't actively be pushing anyone out the door other than: Gosling Harper Simpson Gosling hasn't shown anything to demonstrate he can do a job for us, and is holding back the development of better players beneath him in the pecking order. Harper has been a good servant and Simpson's contract looks like it won't be renewed. Apart from that, unless we're getting upgrades I wouldn't push anyone out.

That would suggest you view the number of shots we've somehow contrived to spawn as an anomaly. It could be. It's higher than in the previous 2 seasons. It can all be contextualised. Someone raised the damning stat that only 4% of our shots came within the 6 yard box. Someone else that we've average 69 long balls per game. It's written into folklore that we've gone a year and a half without scoring from a corner. Seems to me people find a view and then are happy to hear facts that support their view...but will dismiss facts that challenge it. It's probably best to look for the reasons behind the facts rather than instantly dismiss them as anomalies....which they could well be. You're ignoring the starting point though, aren't you? People don't "find a view" walking down the street. They come before statistics enter the equation. Their view is based on what they see before their eyes on a regular basis. As such, it's only natural for people to believe certain statistics are distortive of the truth and unfaithfully represent what they've seen, and to accept those that correlate with what they've seen. It's just a sign of a curious brain that they would want to explain how/why a statistic can be factually accurate but not correlate with a wider truth. Our terrible record on corners for example. People only took the time to look at when we last scored a corner because they formed an opinion, having watched us match after match, that they were shite. The starting point wasn't to randomly trawl for damning statistics and stumble across Demba Ba's goal vs Wolves as being the last time we scored from a corner. We do play horrible, negative football. We don't create nearly enough chances.

Keep at it - you'll get a pity laugh eventually.

I put his name in the box below any way. Same.

Good point, well made. I would still probably take a cup - as you can come back from relegation, but Cup wins can't be expunged from the books. No reason not to have both though despite the Wigan and Brum examples.

Has Papiss scored more disallowed goals than allowed goals this season?

Wenger is a genius.

lowlights more like I'm almost tempted to join twitter so I can partake in the 'lowlights' gag.

Fucker

Mankini officially won.

Yep. Less of the inverted wingers - just give him two quick lads who can stick a ball on somebody's head. Nobody minds ''shite'' football if it wins by a couple. Can't think of an example of shite football ever doing more than nicking and grinding wins.

It was hardly surprising that they opted for an out of work option during the season, is it? Do we not have to pay compensation, or wages, if we hire one in the summer? This is like that round on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Oh shit, I didn't answer with a question.

WUM or thick as pigshit. Difference is negligible, tbh.