I mean, most of those passes are 10 yards across the pitch to each other or 10 yards back in Ingram, but still a nice stat
That's just how it works for every team. If you play a lot of longer or more direct passes, your accuracy is going to be lower. If your accuracy is high, it means you're playing shorter passes. The one thing that stat tells us is that Hull City play a short passing game and control the ball, although not to the same extent as Southampton.
Dull FC have decided to start playing on Saturdays to piss off City fans and so their fans can watch their Prem club of choice on "Super Sunday". Although why the amazing super duper EFL fixture computer didn't take that into account when coming up with our fixtures I don't know
Well, decision day, a 7.30pm KO is 1.30am here, do I go to bed for a few hours or stay up. A bit undecided, as I hate been woken when in a deep sleep, but as it will go onto 3.30 am, will I last that long?
Got to say Pearson gets right up my nose with his 'hard man act', I sincerely hope we can knock about 6 past these, even though I have a soft spot for the club itself after 2008 and their fans (who I met after the game) being so accepting of the outcome. Alas when they appointed Pearson that cast a dark shadow. Man's a cnut !
There's also Bristol Blue glass and the Harvey's sherry brand, John Cabot's ship (the Matthew) and his tower - he discovered Newfoundland, Brunel's SS Great Britain (the first ever iron-hulled passenger liner), Casualty was filmed there, King Edward II was tortured to death there in 1327 (in a VERY unpleasant way indeed ) The first Test Tube Baby in the world, Louise Brown, was born in Bristol - Mrs R&W used to teach her - Louise went to the school she worked in. In the churchyard of St Mary's Redcliffe (huge church with a spire about 200 yards from Temple Meads station) there is a piece of metal girder sticking out of the ground. It is a piece of tramline which ended up there when the tramline took a hit from a German bomb during the war and has been left as a memorial to the blitz. Concord was mentioned, but there is also the Bristol-branded military aircraft (Blenheim, Beaufighter, Bulldog (WW1)) plus commercial planes; Britannia and the Brabazon. The Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace factories are still there - although I believe they only produce component parts today, rather than whole aircraft. My old dad and grandad worked in Rolls Royce factory in Filton. There was also the (very) niche Bristol car manufacturer which was an off-spin of the aircraft works. It made very expensive cars until it sadly folded in 2020. Now the bad stuff: Bristol was strongly linked to the slave trade and the very regal Clifton area, with its huge Georgian mansions, was built mainly from money gained from that vile trade. Until recently there was a statue to Edward Colston in the city centre, but that was controvertially toppled and thrown into the river recently by BLM 'protesters' and their supporters, due to his links with slavery from which he made his fortune. He invested a lot of his money in the city, gifting the people the Colston Hall (now renamed the Bristol Beacon) and other public buildings with his dirty money. Until recently (early 2000s?) Bristol was reputed to have the worst traffic congestion of any city in Europe. They got rid of the trams in the 1940s - the blitz caused too much damage and they didn't bother rebuilding the tramways. ... and worst of all, Bristol is the largest city in England NEVER to have had a football team in the top tier of English football since the formation of the Premier League. Lets see if we can change that - before I shuffle off please
