Kid Icarus

Luton 2 v 1 Brentford Sheff United 1 v 1 Burnley Wolves 2 v 1 Arsenal Everton 2 v 1 Forest Villa 2 v 1 Bournemouth Palace 1 v 1 West Ham Fulham 1 v 2 Liverpool Arsenal 2 v 2 Chelsea Wolves 1 v 1 Bournemouth Palace 1 v 1 Newcastle Everton 1 v 3 Liverpool Man United 3 v 0 Sheff United Brighton 1 v 3 Man City

You're completely mental, sorry.

Swan House

Yay, the team I support are less likely to get into Europe. It warms my heart, what a great night for football.

Can fully understand it tbf.

INGERLUUUUND!!!!

TNT using a closed aperture on the close up corners camera. Arty, but a bit impractical like.

Yay, it's so great and just that we won't get to be in Europe, but the European minnows of *checks notes* Spain, Italy, Germany, and France will.

Imo it's going to end up getting so bad that at some point we'll want more and more of these 'improvements' so that it speeds up the process of the bubble bursting. Until that happens or there's sustained ESL level protests they'll never stop, they can't stop either, the model won't allow it, stopping in itself would cause the bubble to burst.

It's 8 in 22 overall which is 1 in 2.78, but yeah fair enough I didn't see 'in the Premier League', which is a bit of creative accounting imo, no need for it.

"Just under" is doing some work there mind, he's nearer 1 in 3 than 1 in 2.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that the people in charge of these decisions completely undervalue SEO like. Every conference I go to it's the same across countless institutions and nigh on every success story involves someone in the Web or marketing team finding a way to have the ear of someone high up.

I would expect that the change is part of recommendations following a content audit of the site. Hopefully it was done by someone external or they have new staff because it was a pretty big thing to not have done, even in the time since the takeover, let alone the Ashley era.

It really feels like the top clubs have put their deviousness into overdrive recently. Especially since the ESL fell through.

I don't think I've ever known anyone get in Berghain, or in more recent years even want to.

@Yorkie rocking up like...

So weird man. It's a phase, just like every other.

They'll win it as well the spawny cunts

Real Madrid are proper rancid like. As boring as Man City can be, I have much more of a problem with teams winning trophies playing pretty shite football.

It's in Longbenton estate, the boundaries don't really change anything in that regard.

That stop is literally in Longbenton

In the eyes of the government 'The North' = Manchester and Leeds having a Harvey Nichols, as if that's the answer to something.

Yeah, as you allude to, you can't get the full context from xG and even when you're looking over the match again with other stats it will never be a substitute for watching it all. My overruling mantra with football, and why I love it, is that it's chaos, and these stats are good for scouting players and seeing patterns rather than judging things on a chance-by-chance or game-by-game basis. For example, in that match (which I did watch), Bournemouth had a goal disallowed for offside that I'd put down to being completely Solanke's own fault - he could see the line and didn't need to be offside (Froggy this is for you*) Solanke also did have a big 1 on 1 chance and hit the post. They also had a goal disallowed because the ball hit the players' hand before he tapped it into an empty net. And there were other scenarios where shots weren't taken that I would consider big chances that weren't taken too, particularly in the first half. Things like that will always fall through the cracks of certain stats and need to be seen to understand 'okay, that was offside/handball so doesn't count as a shot or a chance, let alone a goal, but because of these circumstances what I've just seen is telling me something that's more revealing and representative of the match' Like you say with Burnley, it's all about context. Overperforming xG can mean loads of things - the likes of Man City will do that because all of their players are world class and are going beyond an already high xG, whereas when you watched Brentford last season you got the impression that their overperformance of xG was because they were flying very close to the wind and it didn't look or feel like a sustainable way to play football at the level they were hitting. This season Man United's overperformance of xG is down to being bailed out, similar to Spurs last season. *

It's a crying shame like. Hope he can get his career back on track because he was so exciting in the Euros, loved everything about his style.