I mean, yeah, if you want to look at a still it's ambiguous, but the video couldn't be clearer that he's caught and impeded. the video, from that angle, doesn't show where the contact started. This isn't a conclusion make by looking at that still. That's just the only replay I could find (I made th...
If play stops you can't go back once play restarts. Also, are we now saying that the Peru penalty that was missed wasn't a penalty!? Because it was blatant, his back foot was clipped out from under him as he went to step with it to open up the space for a shot. I think he was going down before the ...
Sure this has been covered before, but how far can you go back with VAR? Say someone's offside, but it's not given, goes out for a corner, then they score from the resulting corner. Can you go back to the initial offside? Or would it get picked up before the corner's taken? If play stops you can't ...
Is that Cueva actually of English descent, only way I can explain the true awfulness of that penalty. Justice was done, as I really can't fathom how that was deemed a penalty. You had a play already going down, who, half a second before he actually hits the deck, manages to stretch a leg out enough...
IF he has a technique which means his is able to send keepers the wrong way consistently (or he can tell which way the keeper will dive, and puts it the other side), then it's not random. If it was random then the keeper would go the right way as often as the wrong way. random as in the stats would...
Looking at where they were were scored is almost useless. You need to look at where they were saved, and try to aim for the less savable areas. I'm simply suggesting that for many penalty takers (Eden Hazard a good example actually) their technique is to send the keeper the wrong way. I can't find ...
I know it doesn't speak much of techniques, but if you mapped all of the scored penalties in world cup shootouts, I'd venture they are in the majority in the same areas. But send the keeper the wrong way and it goes in. Point I am making is that even for those above (Pearce's an obvious exception, ...
Over 2500 go to Enfield Town to see Karpatalya beat pre-match favourites Northern Cyprus on penalties after nervy (ok, a bit crap) 90 minutes. Apparently the final was meant to be at Crystal Palace (athletics) but they couldn't secure the venue. As great as the tournament has been, the trophy presen...
You can pretty much guarantee that when the do "practice" penalties, they'll just take it in turns to have a shot each. There'll be no actual thought into it. Given how rubbish we are at them, and how likely it is that any team that advances in the world cup will have to win one to do so, ...
Isle of Mann team Sorry to be a pedant but I've seen you spell it this way several times now - what's with the double "n"? Is that how is was spelt in days of yore or something and the independents want to go back to it? I've no idea. Just some sort of weird brain fade on my part. I notic...
Murky goings on with Isle of Mann team, as they've now been expelled from ConIFA. http://www.conifa.org/en/2018/06/06/conifa-statement-regarding-ellan-vannin-7-june/ https://twitter.com/MANXIFA IoM complaining that ConIFA broke their won rules in allowing Barawa to add a player to their squad well a...
A bit daft that so many of them hate us, when nobody under 35 will be able to recall a competitive match between us. You might as well well have a bunch of 25 year olds saying they hate it that Marathon got rebranded to Snickers.
Want to get behind the Chagos lads but hang on, don't they want independence from us ? Not sure that's really cricket. We bought the islands, let the Americans have them as an airbase, forcefully evicted the people from the islands, and now won't let them go back. It's not the proudest episode in B...
My hopes of seeing Tibet in the 15th/16th play-off are dashed. The Isle of Mann team pulled out of the tournament in protest at Barawa being allowed to use a player not in their official squad, which means their "losers' QF" opponents, Tibet, were given a bye to the next round. Not that t...
My hopes of seeing Tibet in the 15th/16th play-off are dashed. The Isle of Mann team pulled out of the tournament in protest at Barawa being allowed to use a player not in their official squad, which means their "losers' QF" opponents, Tibet, were given a bye to the next round. Not that th...
Tickets are on sale now! Just got myself a couple of tickets for the big Felvidek v Tibet clash on the 3rd of June at Bracknell Town! Can't wait. Did you manage to go in the end? Tibet vs Northern Cyprus on the Saturday was great fun. Yes I was there, really enjoyed it. Throughly impressed witht th...