I read it as comparing the two in being tiresome gobshites before matches.Is this about him comparing Mourinho to Floyd Mayweather in using negative tactics to grind opponents down?
I read it as comparing the two in being tiresome gobshites before matches.Is this about him comparing Mourinho to Floyd Mayweather in using negative tactics to grind opponents down?
Well, there's that tooI read it as comparing the two in being tiresome gobshites before matches.
Indeed. A club like Newcastle will lose about two thirds of its away matches and TV matches are more likely to be against top 6 clubs so that probably increases it to three quarters or more. That means losing ten in a row is about a twenty to one chance. So randomly about one PL club should have lost ten in a row at any timeIt's probably one of those "patterns" that aren't really patterns that pundits love to bring up as if there's some mystical force preventing Newcastle winning on a Monday (or some equally strange occurrence). At the end of any normal distribution there are strange things that happen, just not that often. That's "normal" too!
Indeed. A club like Newcastle will lose about two thirds of its away matches and TV matches are more likely to be against top 6 clubs so that probably increases it to three quarters or more. That means losing ten in a row is about a twenty to one chance. So randomly about one PL club should have lost ten in a row at any time
Wrong! The home match is irrelevant to the discussion. Of the 10 away matches, half were to clubs who finished in the top 5 that year so would have been more likely losses. Only one was against bottom five teams. So my calculation was about right.Stats suggest otherwise. Maybe there is a monday night curse:
Last night Burnley 1 Newcastle 0
Monday 2 January 2017 Blackburn 1 Newcastle 0
Monday 26 December 2016 Newcastle 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1
Monday 14 March 2016 Leicester 1 Newcastle 0
Monday 28 December 2015 West Brom 1 Newcastle 0
Monday 14 September 2015 West Ham 2 Newcastle 0
Monday 13 April 2015 Liverpool 2 Newcastle 0
Monday 29 September 2014 Stoke 1 Newcastle 0
Monday 28 April 2014 Arsenal 3 Newcastle 0
Monday 30 September 2013 Everton 3 Newcastle 2
Monday 19 August 2013 Manchester City 4 Newcastle 0
Hardly world beaters in this list, City, Arsenal, Liverpool were 3 of the 11 matches.
So 8 of the 11 are actually **** teams.
Wrong! The home match is irrelevant to the discussion. Of the 10 away matches, half were to clubs who finished in the top 5 that year so would have been more likely losses. Only one was against bottom five teams. So my calculation was about right.
Newcastle lost two thirds of their PL away games in the period in question. The good record is in the Championship which accounts for only one of the games and before this period when they were better.5 decent clubs that maybe you'd expect to lose to. 5 **** clubs you wouldn't expect them to lose to.
Newcastles away records:
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They lose at a rate of 1/2 which is no where near 2/3ds
Not sure where you get the 20/1 chance of losing ten in a row. Just the 5 **** teams they've played alone you probably wouldn't get evens on them winning which would give you a chance of 2*2*2*2*2 in odds which is 32/1 already
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hadn't checked Leicesters and Evertons finishing position so fair enough. I guess i was also making the assumption that (you didnt state) that most of the monday night games would be against a big club
And after. And during.I read it as comparing the two in being tiresome gobshites before matches.
Roma v Chelsea would have made a cracking knockout tie**** me, what a hit from Roma in the first minute.
GrimaldoIf rose ****s off, please can we sign Grimaldo? He’s quality.
