FFS. Wigan 2-1 up and fooo ked it up. Now they MUST win at Arsenal on tuesday just to catch up as i can see Sunderland getting at least a home draw with Southampton on sunday and Norwich doing the same with WBA and the Toon winning @ DQPR.
That's a bloody certainty, this is Wigan we are on about. The always perform against the big teams...
Didn't Wigan beat Arsenal at this stage of the season to more or less seal our fate in 2010? Coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2 or something like that.
If they did Steven Taylor (cb) would be a good signing for us. 2-1 Wigan won @ the Emirates. Mid April 2012 from memory.
You're definitely talking about one that was less than 10 yards away from the goal line, in which case it's 10 yards or the edge of the pitch, which ever is furthest and doesn't impede the kick taker. DMD, for ones more than 10 yards from the line, like on the penalty spot, you should be allowed a curved wall. Equally though ask yourself, when there's a normal freekick on the edge of the box why is the wall always a straight line? If the ref takes the middle of the wall the 10 yards it does make the ends of the wall 11-12 yards away, which when you're trying to bend a ball round it (or more up and down) does give you the advantage of a shallower angle being needed. ie you can hit it harder at a lesser angle from the ground knowing it won't get too high before coming back down, rather than having to hit it quite sharply up to then come back down which would need to be hit more slowly.
It was more the ref fussily pushing them all to the goal line, which was clearly 12yds away that confused me. The trigonometry was an after thought. (If I've done my sums right, it makes about 1/2 a yard difference to one end of an 8yd wall. (10 sqd + 4sqd)
It's good that you looked at the question Tickles. April 18th 2010, 2-0 down at home to Arsenal with 11 minutes left. Goals on 80, 89, and 90 gave them a 3-2 win.
I realise the amount doesn't matter, but there is a consideration to be had in why teams do have a straight wall. It would be interesting to see a team try arcing them to see if it made a difference to conversion rates.
Players often try to steal a few yards closer for the wall, so presumably they expect it to? It's possible there's a psychological reason why a curved wall would or wouldn't work?
