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littleDinosaurLuke said:
Sad to hear about Kevin Keegan and his stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
He’s the first footballer I remember idolised as I kid - when you first get thrilled by the game and the skills of the star player of the day, before partisanship kicks in and skews your perspective.
He was so passionate about everything he did as a player and a manager - and the force of his skill, personality and enthusiasm carried everyone along with him. The evidence is there from his time at Hamburg, Southampton and Newcastle.
And he has always been a genuinely nice and decent person.
And two Ballon d’Ors in consecutive years deserve greater recognition and respect.
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I would love it, just love it, if we could beat cancer
 
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Utd given a here we go for Ederson (no not that one!).

Very good signing, if we don’t sign Palhinha he would’ve been someone I’d have liked here. Been great for Atalanta and think he’ll suit the Prem with his physicality.
 
Dier Hard said:
Utd given a here we go for Ederson (no not that one!).

Very good signing, if we don’t sign Palhinha he would’ve been someone I’d have liked here. Been great for Atalanta and think he’ll suit the Prem with his physicality.
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I thought the same about Ugarte but he's turned out to be pish.

The PL is just such a different beast to any other league, it's almost impossible to tell who will make it and who won't.
 
I saw some foul to booking stats on X earlier today that I thought looked unbelievable so what with it pissing down with rain all day and being at home I thought I would do some digging of my own.

Now I know that it easier to defend for Arsenal at the top of the league and that Saliba and Gabriel are better defenders than Romero and VDV, but the stats are still I think quite amazing - The Arsenal pair played 63 matches, they committed 43 fouls and got 6 yellow cards (Saliba 2,
from 22 fouls 1 of which was for delaying the restart towards the end of the West Ham match, and Gabriel 4 from 21 fouls). Romero and VDV played 57 matches, they committed 58 fouls and got 19 yellow cards and 3 red (1 of which was for 2 yellows). That equates to the Arsenal pair getting a booking every 7 fouls and ours every 3.

I do understand that this will have something to do with the perceived severity of the fouls being committed and both Romero and VDV can be a little reckless at times, but twice as many times? So what if as a control we look at a mid table team with a poor disciplinary record Chelsea fit the bill, Fofana and Chalobah played 59 matches and committed 47 fouls from which they got 10 bookings 4.7 fouls per booking almost exactly in the middle of the Spurs and Arsenal figures.
 
The Changing Man said:
I saw some foul to booking stats on X earlier today that I thought looked unbelievable so what with it pissing down with rain all day and being at home I thought I would do some digging of my own.

Now I know that it easier to defend for Arsenal at the top of the league and that Saliba and Gabriel are better defenders than Romero and VDV, but the stats are still I think quite amazing - The Arsenal pair played 63 matches, they committed 43 fouls and got 6 yellow cards (Saliba 2,
from 22 fouls 1 of which was for delaying the restart towards the end of the West Ham match, and Gabriel 4 from 21 fouls). Romero and VDV played 57 matches, they committed 58 fouls and got 19 yellow cards and 3 red (1 of which was for 2 yellows). That equates to the Arsenal pair getting a booking every 7 fouls and ours every 3.

I do understand that this will have something to do with the perceived severity of the fouls being committed and both Romero and VDV can be a little reckless at times, but twice as many times? So what if as a control we look at a mid table team with a poor disciplinary record Chelsea fit the bill, Fofana and Chalobah played 59 matches and committed 47 fouls from which they got 10 bookings 4.7 fouls per booking almost exactly in the middle of the Spurs and Arsenal figures.
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The one which sticks out for me is the penalty stats for the PL and CL

Spurs penalties in the PL: 0 in 38 games
Arsenal penalties in the PL: 4 in 38 games
Spurs penalties in the CL: 4 in 10 games
Arsenal penalties in the CL: 4 in 15 games

Spurs penalties conceded in the PL: 3 in 38 games
Arsenal penalties conceded in the PL: 0 in 38 games
Spurs penalties conceded in the CL: 2 in 10 games
Arsenal penalties conceded in the CL: 3 in 15 games
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
The one which sticks out for me is the penalty stats for the PL and CL

Spurs penalties in the PL: 0 in 38 games
Arsenal penalties in the PL: 4 in 38 games
Spurs penalties in the CL: 4 in 10 games
Arsenal penalties in the CL: 4 in 15 games

Spurs penalties conceded in the PL: 3 in 38 games
Arsenal penalties conceded in the PL: 0 in 38 games
Spurs penalties conceded in the CL: 2 in 10 games
Arsenal penalties conceded in the CL: 3 in 15 games
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Because Spurs are crap in the League?
 
If it wasn’t for the refs and Pgmol and var spurs would be in arsenals position right about now

The vendetta against you lot started with mane kicking the ball against that fellas arm that time in the cl final imho
 
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Sucky said:
So we won fair and square then yeh?
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I don’t get your point. Liverpool won the game.

I don’t think the ref did it on purpose, he was just terrible (no idea why a ref from a minor league gets to ref the biggest game in European club football).
 
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