FA Cup Quarter-Final Draw | Burnley (H)

[bernard o'silver]

Has the same thing happened with the lotteries around the world?

But to your larger point, I would never advocate for a purely ‘black box’ solution, either, as that would create even more suspicion.

Use the machines used in bingo halls m ha ha

 

[SebastianBlue]

Use the machines used in bingo halls m ha ha

“And United have gotten Bingo on the second ball. Well done! Come claim you trophy!”

 

[Stephen230]

Has the same thing happened with the lotteries around the world?

But to your larger point, I would never advocate for a purely ‘black box’ solution, either, as that would create even more suspicion.

According to my sources, it’s certainly happened at bingo. There’s nearly riots down at the MECCA on a Tuesday afternoon on a regular basis.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Hoping it’s going to be Saturday lunch time.

 

[SebastianBlue]

According to my sources, it’s certainly happened at bingo. There’s nearly riots down at the MECCA on a Tuesday afternoon on a regular basis.

This just makes me more sad (see my earlier post about the woeful state of statistical literacy among the general population as statistical methods take over their lives).

 

[Blue Til Death]

Forget about the rags, if we play to the best of our ability no team can live with us .. We are doing the treble, everyone has written us off but it’s gonna be our year .. Again..

 

[Alfie Budd]

A few days after United have put in their preferred dates…

Only one day they can play - Sunday. They’ve got a Europa League game on Thursday 16th.

 

[Derek Parlane]

Any idea when we will know what day we are playing ?

Almost certain to be the Saturday, Burnley playing the Wed before so won't be the Friday and the rags are playing the Thursday before so they're likely to be at home on the Sunday.

 

[Citycity76]

Looks like a 5.15 on BBC1 on the Saturday

 

[SebastianBlue]

Only one day they can play - Sunday. They’ve got a Europa League game on Thursday 16th.

Europa League game you say?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Looks like a 5.15 on BBC1 on the Saturday

Inside info or guess?

 

[East Level 2]

Personally I would be fine keeping the present method but going out and grabbing two random people off the street to do it, preferably somebody who didn't even like football.

Rugby fans perhaps? We could make funny shaped balls for them.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Looks like a 5.15 on BBC1 on the Saturday

Same time as the Chelsea v Everton PL game on Sky?

 

[Lowtower]

They could make it 8pm on Saturday night

Liverpool Wolves was 8pm on a Saturday in January

 

[Stephen230]

This just makes me more sad (see my earlier post about the woeful state of statistical literacy among the general population as statistical methods take over their lives).

I was obviously been a bit light hearted. Although the older you are, probably the more likely you are to be suspicious of any technology. Even something as basic as random number generator.

To seriously answer your earlier point, I don’t think anybody is suspicious of lottery draws because there’s no widely held belief that the organisers have very much to gain by fixing it.

Whist millions of football fans are permanently and actively looking for evidence of their club getting cheated. So a draw with no clear human input would be ripe for them to jump all over , the second a draw pops up they don’t like.

Nothing mathematical or scientific about it. Just good old human nature.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Forget about the rags, if we play to the best of our ability no team can live with us .. We are doing the treble, everyone has written us off but it’s gonna be our year .. Again..

It's not the team I am worried about but the officials and Stockley Park......

 

[SebastianBlue]

I was obviously been a bit light hearted. Although the older you are, probably the more likely you are to be suspicious of any technology. Even something as basic as random number generator.

To seriously answer your earlier point, I don’t think anybody is suspicious of lottery draws because there’s no widely held belief that the organisers have very much to gain by fixing it.

Whist millions of football fans are permanently and actively looking for evidence of their club getting cheated. So a draw with no clear human input would be ripe for them to jump all over , the second a draw pops up they don’t like.

Nothing mathematical or scientific about it. Just good old human nature.

I wouldn’t say there is nothing mathematical or scientific about.

But I agree tribalism and poor understanding of probability is good old human nature.

 

[eastmanc]

Let's hope it's not like the last time a City legend came back in a quarter final at the Etihad.

 

[Gary James]

It was always going to be Burnley or Utd. Great to see Vinny return but it’s not the easiest of ties. It’s good to see so many non-PL teams get there and if you know any Utd fans it’s worth highlighting the Grimsby story…. The last time they were one step away from Wembley in the FA Cup they made history by establishing the record crowd for any game at Old Trafford - that’s right. It‘s not United who established OT’s record crowd it’s ’little’ Grimsby!

I wrote a free article on this the other year here. Worth checking out for the facts if any Reds try to say otherwise.

Old Trafford’s Record Crowd – Wolves v Grimsby

On this day (March 25) in 1939 Old Trafford attracted its highest ever attendance when 76,962 packed Manchester United's ground to see Wolves defeat Grimsby 5-0 in the FA Cup semi-final. At the time this was the third highest attendance ever attracted in Manchester (behind 84,569 MCFC v Stoke...

gjfootballarchive.com

 

[blue44]

Looks like a 5.15 on BBC1 on the Saturday

I hope you're right
i'm in work that weekend and booked the saturday off for west ham,that changed to sunday but i knew we would beat bristol,here is hoping for satdi