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Nottingham Forest vs. Newcastle United: 28/08/24 @ 20:00 - League Cup 2nd Round (Sky Sports)


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  On 28/08/2024 at 18:31, Bally21 said:

I've missed this, what's happened?

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So the clubs in Europe minus Chelsea had to be done in a pre-draw to determine if they were to play home or away in the next round.

So those clubs will be the first picked from a separate bowl later.

However the home and away balls were coloured differently, Red for home team, White for an away team.

The bowl was transparent. There was no real close up shots of the hands in the bowl, but Dawson was clearing holding onto a ball (red).

It wasn’t until Chapman starting laughing at how many home draws for those clubs were drawn did they decide to give 2 away ties for them.

On top of this the balls had to be put back into the bowl after being drawn out, so there was always 3 home balls, and 3 away.

If you were to do a draw more fairly you would make it so the balls were taken out, thus reducing the chance of there being an unbalance home or away set of ties for said clubs.

Additionally, you could just go into it with hands held high and say ‘3 will play at home, 3 away’, negating the need for a pre-draw in anyway.

 

 

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