Sucky's small mind needs the last word..but he's so rattled inside that he can't even come up with a real one
lol stats are ****e. At the end of Vardy's record breaking run he had 14 league goals. He breaks his leg then and he's the best striker in the World this season by the logic in here. As it happened he didn't but has only scored 5 league goals since. That's in what 17/18 games? Kane breaks his leg at that point and he's a one season wonder. The best way to judge players is by watching them. You think Coutinho's better than Eriksen? Good for you. Arguments over statistics are nearly as boring as arguments over what constitutes a big club and who's world class.
I wouldn't be disappointed if that team started against Russia, although I would personally make a couple changes. Hart Walker, Smalling, Cahill, Rose Dier, Henderson Sterling, Alli, Vardy Kane With Alli and Vardy to switch the formation and go 4-4-2 at times. EDIT: I'd rather have Dann and Shawcross at CB but they've got no chance of being selected by Woy.
The BBC are suggesting that Leicester are effectively being helped out by refs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03q1f0n Did they do this sort of thing for other teams? Was there one about Chelsea last season?
Just to show that raw stats mean very little. Luca Modric for Spurs 157 games 16 goals 21 assists Not great. Most Spurs fans, however, regard him as our best playmaker of the last 15- 20 years and Los Ladrones went to great lengths to prise him away from us.
I read a fascinating article reporting a talk given by John McDermott (Head of Coaching and Development at Tottenham) recently in the States of which this represents a very small part: "John is worried that coaches in the modern game are so focused on moneyball stats that players will start to slip through the cracks. Harry Kane at 14 years of age, was relatively fat, August birthday, immature, and was ‘forgettable Harry’- his peers could jump higher, they could run quicker and his agility was 30% lower than the average- ‘runt of the litter’ – so what was it that John saw? He thanked God that he had experienced Ashely Young and Mariappa- there was something beyond stats and sport scientists- an intuition. Stats are just numbers andboring. Recruit on that basis and you become Liverpool. The more you quote them, the less meaningful it becomes (if it had any actual meaning to begin with).
I agree it is outrageous. I rarely listen to these people unless they are commenting on a match and most of the time they just wind me up. When you consider the number of 'favourable' decisions received by Chelsea and Man U in particular, without so much as a peep from the media it's appalling.It's probably to do with who they recruit to these positions on programmes and who is doing the recruiting. They wouldn't understand bias even if the bowl took off and smacked them in the face.
I do feel that the refs may now be more inclined to give the 50-50s in Leicester's favour even if it's subconsciously. Let's face it, they're on the brink of one of footballs biggest ever shocks, the neutrals are all behind them and the situation is getting recognition world wide, it'd somewhat play on the mind of the most sternest of referees to not be the person that gives what could be a defining moment against them and dent/ ruin the country's success story.
I know! You'd think with all the performance enhancing drugs your team's on that they wouldn't need any help from refs
Man City average 0.64 points per game v top half sides (9 points from 14 games) and 2.65 v bottom half sides (45 from 17). Flat track bullies.
