New football terminology is stupid

[Keeper!]

Number 1 is a goalie
2 and 3 are fullbacks
5 is a centre half
4 is a right half
6 is a left half
7 is a right winger
8 is an inside right
9 is a centre forward
10 is an inside left
11 is a left winger.

And then the game is infiltrated by Johnny Yanqui and Johnny Foreigner.

You missed one out

CR7 he's a cnut.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I've got 2.2, rounded down to 2, but I've never had a Mondeo on the drive. A mini, a Skoda, a Citroen or two or three, a Vauxhall, a Peugeot, and a Volkswagen but ne'er a Mondeo.

You're clearly not Mr average then...

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He had moderate success and become incredibly rich for someone IN my opinion is of very average ability and he did that by giving the narrative that he was a modern, forward thinking manager and one of the ways he did that was with stats.

Some, me included would say that a lot of people who run football clubs are incredibly stupid and naive and fell for the bullsh1t the big fella spouted.

Allardyce was a very good man manager but tactically clueless, who was quickly sussed out by people who worked for and with him.

The fact that he was given the National job by the FA Suits backs this up.

There are many others who fall into this category, including the one and only Mark Leslie Hughes, who claimed and still does that he assembled the finest and best educated back room staff in world football.

Allardyce was far more successful than Hughes.

 

[norman]

Set play - what was wrong with free kick?

 

[solley attwell]

Don't get me started on a box midfield

 

[KS55]

Not sure why but nothing annoys me more than “Game management “

That’s a lie actually. Because it’s spread into other sports now. So you have commentators forever wittering on about “Court management “ in tennis and even fucking “Board management “ in bastard darts.

And the art of seducing women is now known as Miss Management.

 

[KS55]

Always found the crusade against xG really strange (but maybe I shouldn’t knowing the average football fan’s resistance to anything that sounds new). Nearly every team in the football league uses it. I wouldn’t be surprised if you asked Pep and he thought it was the second most important stat after actual goals. Why? Because it’s the best predictor of success, that’s literally what it was designed for. If you’re getting points but your xG is shite then it should be ringing alarm bells because it means you’re getting lucky and eventually your luck is going to run out (look at United this year who based on performances should be 12th).

Expected values have been around for literally hundreds of years and have been used in everything from sport to the stock market to computer science. It’s not new. It’s just that we’ve gotten better at measuring it in football thanks to computers.

If you are given the ability to see if your results are down to luck or actual performances, why would you not use it? Why give your opponents the competitive advantage? What’s people’s problem with it exactly?

Please stop being sensibly analytical.

 

[KS55]

It used to be 2.2 and they all had a Mondeo on the drive.

That drop is a bit worrying. It’s a case of NEPITF. Not enough people in the future or xP too low.

 

[KS55]

When I was growing up, Liverpool always used to have Number 5 as a midfield player for some reason. And Steve Highway used to wear Number 9, out on the wing.

Mick Doyle wore 9 for a while. Big Mal thought it was a clever ruse.

 

[Phil1]

All joking aside, in a multibillion pound industry it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that every team will look at every detail, however minuscule it may be to gain an advantage.

Sports science has dragged the game into the modern era and benefited it overall.
If you’re not a fan of it all it’s easy enough to ignore. I’d be surprised if it was aimed at the demographic we have on here tbh.I include myself in that as a mid 40 year old.