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I don’t know why this is mocked. Seems like an extremely sensible stat.

That's obviously the point that's near impossible to be certain about, and why the Ref's job is so hard. To me, he extended his leg out wider than he would have simply to change direction. https://streamja.com/29M0k

Another one that bugs me is when an attacker pushes a ball past a defender then runs into him. It’s nearly always given as a body check, when in reality the defender doesn’t make any movement. The defenders usually booed and booked too!

If the attacker initiates the contact - ie sticks his leg out to make the defender run into it, as AS did - then that shouldn’t be a foul, for me. It’s basically the same as diving.

Yeah I was beginning to hope they’d go up. Be funny if they slid down the table now.

Exactly. So it’s not a failure, just a blip. Harshly treated and will soon be hired again, I’d guess.

He was obviously great at Preston, but let’s not suddenly pretend he’s been consistently fantastic or dominated lots of games. He’s talented but still young and inconsistent. Quite recently we’ve been saying that he gets out of position too much and chases the ball unnecessarily. Still needs time - unless every game is suddenly like Preston.

Fevs is right. The scorer clearly pulled away from Kalas. Vyner was the spare man and could have followed him, theoretically, but it all happened in the space of half a second.

Of course JS’s last home was in Broomfield, few miles north of Taunton. Hence his last gig was at The Palace in Bridgwater, which I was at.

Preston forum is raving about Massengo's class.

I buy mine direct from a farm in East Lyng near Taunton.

The best cider is still draught farmhouse cider that costs about £8 a gallon round here. Nothing like fizzy bottled cider.

Exactly! I’m no Tory but it makes me laugh when my rampantly left wing, Boris hating relatives hire a building firm who want paying in cash to fiddle the VAT!

Harsh on Colin.

The ones I’ve looked at range from 2004 (obituary in The Times) to 2018.

If you do a few searches, you’ll find numerous articles describing how Brian Clough surprisingly turned journeymen into winners. The best example is probably John Robertson who played only for Forest and Derby. These articles aren’t referring to well travelled players but to unremarkable unheralded “average” players who were transformed. So the “usual “ meaning of the word is also used in football journalism.

Oh dear. That’s a bit beneath you surely? I don’t mind debating facts, but juvenile jibes are a bit depressing.

Wikipedia is not a dictionary and that last sentence is anyway entirely out of context with the rest of the article.

Nope. That’s not where the word comes from. If you want “by definition “ check a dictionary.

And it came to mean “a bit average” because a journeyman was a qualified worker who hadn’t progressed to become a master craftsman.

Are we? The word is commonly used to mean “a bit average “ so when someone described Adomah as a journeyman it caused confusion because to many people that’s what it means.

Not at all. I fully accept that as a fact of etymology; words get misused and gradually the mistake becomes a new meaning. Look at “disinterested”. It doesn’t mean uninterested, but the vast majority on OTIB think it does; if enough people go that way the dictionary definition will eventually change. But at the moment, disinterested actually means unbiased.

Yes

Except just about every dictionary you can find. The first meaning is confined to football fans and is new. A malapropism, but it is gaining traction.

Pretty pointless, as it’s only really a few football fans who have adopted this use of the word, while the rest of the population carry on with the original/proper meaning.