Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

The thing that has always stuck with me was an old boy who was sat in the blazing stand , he seemed to accept his fate, his clothes were smoking with the intense heat, then 2 young lads climbed into the seats and pulled him out, the bravery of those lads I will never forget

 

It's tough being a player
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I feel for them. Poor loves.

 

Poor old Chelsea players
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All that and they are still ****!!

 

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Just as it should be.

 

Absolutely. I expect my long drive down and back to at least be rewarded with a battling performance. Yes, that will probably end in defeat but I certainly expect everyone in a white shirt to put in a proper shift. At least then if we do lose others will have nothing to complain about. Merson is already imploding over the dilemma of it all...

 

If Spurs had taken 3 pts collectively from certain
recent games, then a loss to Citeh would not have
been such a big deal eh.

 

To be honest they after beating Villa 4 - 0 they should have stepped up and easlily made 3rd theirs. However, I've been following them for far too many years to know that is not something they like to do....

 

If the correct decisions had been given in both of our games against the Woolwich, then things would be over.
Funny that...

 

And this is why holding a strong opinion on any one game is almost redundant. You can only see the strength or otherwise of your team over a number of games and this gets even harder when the referees are so inconsistent and loose with the rules.

 

I would rather the team front up but get done by
bad ref decisions, then just not turn up at all.

 

They measure offsides to the mm. But how do they judge when the ball left the passers foot?

 

Badly.

 

It ought to be quite simple...there are frames either side of where the ball strikes the foot and they should choose the most favourable to the attacker.

 

The framerate used appears to be very, very low.
There was one VAR check recently where it was clearly jumping between not kicked and already kicked.
The official or his tech couldn't get the placement that they wanted.

 

In reality, it’s guesswork. It’s pin the tail on the donkey. Which makes a mockery of the idea that they go to the nth degree to ensure the correct decisions.

 

I think it's a 100th of a second but that is bound to have the effect you mention as the contact period with the ball will be shorter. But provided you use the frames either side and give offside only if both result in offside then it's an accurate and fair system.

The technology has much higher capability than the human it is trying to replace who basically has to guess both ends to about 1 tenth of a second. Players can easily be travelling at a relative speed of 15 metres per second so humans will get some calls wrong by over a metre.
There are only three choices....use technology, put up with mistakes or abolish the offside law. I actually prefer the last solution as it seems bonkers to me to have a rule that it is impossible for humans to enforce.

 

What is wrong with all this is the idea that these fractions of a mm actually confer an advantage. Advantage was the original point not a slide rule decision on which blade of grass had been violated. We are not building a car here. For a hundred years we managed with a refs decision coupled with his need for glasses and the game worked. Now the decisions take longer than the action being decided upon.
Oooh! somebody has scored a goal we think?.............................Drinks Break!