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If you don't do imaginary headers you don't love football IMO.

 

I'd bet a fair whack that the Red Bull he drinks in the tunnel is not the first he has before the match. Fast becoming one of my favourite NUFC players, he's our little radgie :lol:

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They look off. That has Robert down as 11 assists the season we came 4th. He had way more unless they've since changed the definition of an assist and swiped some off him.

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Opta Index used to. I remember there being a big thing at the time that Robert had more assists than Pires who was the best player in the league that season.

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I don't ever remember it not being taken seriously tbh. I dunno where that's come from.

 

Nah - that's definetely right. Back in the early premiership days, they were hardly given any real kudos. Top scorers were where it was at.

 

Hardly anywhere near the level of statistical analysis that is done now and we're still miles behind many American sports for it.

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I don't ever remember it not being taken seriously tbh. I dunno where that's come from.

 

Nah - that's definetely right. Back in the early premiership days, they were hardly given any real kudos. Top scorers were where it was at.

 

Hardly anywhere near the level of statistical analysis that is done now and we're still miles behind many American sports for it.

 

:shrug: I remember it completely differently tbh. Or at least creativity and chance creation was massively lauded. Just off the top of my head I remember Cantona, Giggs, Beardsley, Ripley, McManaman, Le Tissier being singled out as being big deals because of their creativity, chance creation, assists, whatever you want to call it.

 

There's a possibility that it really started to become a bigger deal when Beckham was putting it on a plate and became much more a part of goals than the actual goalscorer, but I don't think it was ever ignored.

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