Sporting Anomalies

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More nonsense irony than anomaly, Moneyball was about being able to compete against the financial might of teams like the Boston Red Sox, and here we are doing rather well in our away kit red socks

Like I say, a nonsense and pointless thought but in my own small absurd world it made me laugh ? :sorted:?
 

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More nonsense irony than anomaly, Moneyball was about being able to compete against the financial might of teams like the Boston Red Sox, and here we are doing rather well in our away kit red socks

Like I say, a nonsense and pointless thought but in my own small absurd world it made me laugh ? :sorted:?

Go for a nice long walk mate
 

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25.8% of Watford's goals in The Championship this season have been penalties!!!!
8/31!!!

9% for us....
5/55.......
 

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Burnley playing with 11 white players, Palace with 8 black players (same match). Purely an observation. Not suggesting at all that there is anything else to read into this. Just that both line-ups are quite unusual.
 

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25.8% of Watford's goals in The Championship this season have been penalties!!!!
8/31!!!

9% for us....
5/55.......
4 goals in the first half today and no penalties. :eek:
 

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Bradford City, in their last 3 home matches, have had 66 attempts on goal, with 20 on target. They have had 114 touches in the opposition box, scoring 1 goal and earning 1 point. Statistics, what a waste of space, eh! ;) (Courtesy of Jeff Stelling.)
 

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Bradford City, in their last 3 home matches, have had 66 attempts on goal, with 20 on target. They have had 114 touches in the opposition box, scoring 1 goal and earning 1 point. Statistics, what a waste of space, eh! ;) (Courtesy of Jeff Stelling.)
Clayton’s still doing it all himself then?
 

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Top stats on MOTD last night - WBA V BHA.
Brighton are the 1st team to miss 2 x penalties ‘hit woodwork’, in PL history.

West Brom’s last 5 PL Home wins.... have come under 5 different Managers!!!
 

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Just checked, and I think I must have misheard JS. Can't possibly have been Bradford City he was talking about. Wasn't Walsall either (yesterday's opponents). Not sure who!

Also checked on Clayton. Four goals and 1 assist in 25 matches! Lee Novak is top scorer with 7 in 14.
 

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An anomaly here- a reflective Swansea fan wrote “I was reflecting last night that both our home defeats were equally as undeserved as many of our victories. Thats irony folks. Many twists and turns to come.”
 

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Man City have won 21 games in a row; at the top level, that's certainly unusual.

To add to this, the have equaled Arsenal's PL record of not being a goal behind at any point during across 19 games.

They also haven't lost a midweek Premier League game for 10 years!
 
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One more from me tonight. I was researching "most goals in a game by a single player" in England today, and found that 5 players have scored 7 or more.

The two most recent players to score 7 goals were both in the fifties, but before that, Drake (7 goals for Arsenal), Bell (9 goals for Tranmere) and Payne (10 goals for Luton) all experienced their record-breaking hauls within a 5 month period from Dec 1935 - Apr 1936!
 

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One more from me tonight. I was researching "most goals in a game by a single player" in England today, and found that 5 players have scored 7 or more.

The two most recent players to score 7 goals were both in the fifties, but before that, Drake (7 goals for Arsenal), Bell (9 goals for Tranmere) and Payne (10 goals for Luton) all experienced their record-breaking hauls within a 5 month period from Dec 1935 - Apr 1936!

Ted McDougall scored 9 in an FA Cup match against Margate in 1971, of course.
 

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Ted McDougall scored 9 in an FA Cup match against Margate in 1971, of course.
And the Margate goalie?

Step forward the self-styled "World's Unluckiest Goalkeeper", Chic Brodie.

Meanwhile, McDougal's feat was in November 1971 (1st Round?)

Whereas in the previous season's FA Cup, George Best scored six goals down in the town of Northampton, 50 years ago last month:



Now I've never been one to wallow in false nostalgia, or blindly imagine everything was better back in the day etc (it was mostly worse, imo), but I defy anyone who was around in that era to watch Best in his pomp* and not smile from ear to ear.

In particular, the way he sent the goalkeeper out for an ice cream for the sixth goal was a thing of rare beauty, to be as cherished as anything in a gallery or studio.


* - I say "in his pomp", but he'd just come back from a 28 day suspension, which I doubt he spent in the gym, or going for bracing walks on the moor.
 

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Lovely stuff
 

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Mention of Best reminds me that Dennis Law also scored 6 (in 70 minutes) in an FAC tie for City v. Luton, which was then abandoned. City subsequently lost the rearranged game 1 - 3!
 

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Mention of Best reminds me that Dennis Law also scored 6 (in 70 minutes) in an FAC tie for City v. Luton, which was then abandoned. City subsequently lost the rearranged game 1 - 3!
Didn't he also score the goal for Man City, that sent Man U down?
 

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Didn't he also score the goal for Man City, that sent Man U down?
Sort of. A decade or so later. People forget that he played for City before and after United. The story I like most is that Shankly wanted to take him with him, from Huddersfield to Liverpool (then in Div II). Liverpool couldn’t afford the fee....
 

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When Ipswich were awarded a penalty against Accy Stanley on Tuesday it was their first penalty of the season, making them the last of the 92 to get a penalty.

Lincoln City in the same division have already been awarded 13 penalties.

Oh and James Norwood's penalty for Ipswich was saved... :ROFLMAO:

P.S. The referee who sent off Oldham's Kyle Jameson last night was.... ... James Oldham.
 

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When Ipswich were awarded a penalty against Accy Stanley on Tuesday it was their first penalty of the season, making them the last of the 92 to get a penalty.

Lincoln City in the same division have already been awarded 13 penalties.

Oh and James Norwood's penalty for Ipswich was saved... :ROFLMAO:

P.S. The referee who sent off Oldham's Kyle Jameson last night was.... ... James Oldham.
Man, you're a hoover of stuff! ;)
 

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Liverpool are 22 points behind leaders, 20 points above relegation.
 

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It's a pattern with Klopp.
After an outstanding season, a complete meltdown follows.
 

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Stoke haven't won in London since 2014. 2-1 v Spurs.
Saw that they had a poor record in London before their game with us, and feared the worse.
 

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Would not want to sit next to you on a plane. ?
Oh I don't know I'm sure we could chat about something to while away the flight.

:sorted:
 

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It's a pattern with Klopp.
After an outstanding season, a complete meltdown follows.
Granted their present troubles are strikingly unexpected.

But tbf, Klopp has had more than just one outstanding season. Basically he took over a team which finished 8th on 60 points in 2015/16 and rebuilt it completely to achieve the following:
2017/18 - 4th, 75 points, CL runner-up;
2018/19 - 2nd, 97 points, CL title;
2019/20 - 1st, 99 points.

That comes to 271 points and the Champions League, in the same period eg Guardiola has achieved 279 points and some domestic cups, but failed in the CL. City also finished 18 points (i.e. nowhere) behind Liverpool last season.

Imo the fact that he appears to have "fallen off the horse" this season is not so important as how he gets back up on it again next season. I wouldn't write him off just yet.
 

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It's a pattern with Klopp.
After an outstanding season, a complete meltdown follows.

2 outstanding seasons but i get your point
 

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German media already spreading rumours about hom joining Moenchengladbach...
 

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I was trying to post a link but the BBC app didn’t want to let me .. but

The Norwegian ladies Beach Volley Ball team have been fined €1500 for not wearing bikini bottoms but wore Lycra shorts instead!
Trying to work out if it’s fair or not ?
 
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I was trying to post a link but the BBC app didn’t want to let me .. but

The Norwegian ladies Beach Volley team have been fined €1500 for not wearing bikini bottoms but wore Lycra shorts instead!
Trying to work out if it’s fair or not ?
Think I need to further research this one.
 

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I was trying to post a link but the BBC app didn’t want to let me .. but

The Norwegian ladies Beach Volley Ball team have been fined €1500 for not wearing bikini bottoms but wore Lycra shorts instead!
Trying to work out if it’s fair or not ?
Norway fined for 'improper clothing'
Handball, not volleyball
 

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Pretty ridiculous, unless its affecting the game in some way they should be able to wear what they want. Will probably get less viewers though ?.

A pole vaulter was told off the other day for the opposite- wearing something deemed too revealing. They should probably just let athletes wear whatever each individual feels comfortable in. Within reaaon ofcourse...
 

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Football nonentities from West London sign the finest player from Scotland’s (or possibly the world’s) finest club.
If that’s not an anomaly I don’t know what is.
 

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I was trying to post a link but the BBC app didn’t want to let me .. but

The Norwegian ladies Beach Volley Ball team have been fined €1500 for not wearing bikini bottoms but wore Lycra shorts instead!
Trying to work out if it’s fair or not ?
Compare and contrast:

World champion para-athlete left angry after official said her shorts were 'too revealing'​


Angry Breen left speechless by official
 
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