***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[Spark]

Cricket being more segmented or compartmentalised than football is not something I entirely agree with either. It gives the appearance of being a series of isolated incidents, strung together, one after the other, but I think this is somewhat superficial way of looking at it, thus making the distinction for re: why VAR is more appropriate for use in one that the other fairly unconvincing for me.

Cricket matches, like football matches, are essentially just dynamical systems with underlying patterns, feedback loops, and fractals, and a small change in one of their constituent elements can trigger huge changes in their future state. There is a massive sensitive dependence on initial, seemingly benign factors and conditions, which is why cabinet is absolutely right to point out how matches are decided on margins. The more marginal calls decided correctly the better so far as I am concerned.

That's all true but that's not really what I was getting at - the positives are similar/the same in concept, but DRS just seems so much less disruptive to the natural rhythm of the game in cricket athan VAR appears to be (early days etc etc, early DRS wasn't ideal either), which seems to be the big downside.

 

[sledger]

That's all true but that's not really what I was getting at - the positives are similar/the same in concept, but DRS just seems so much less disruptive to the natural rhythm of the game in cricket athan VAR appears to be (early days etc etc, early DRS wasn't ideal either), which seems to be the big downside.

Yeah fair dos, I get all that. It's just for me personally the disruption of it all is massively overstated. Just a matter of personal preference I suppose.

 

[Niall]

Always risky writing of kids as it can come back to haunt you, but Lingard is a bit **** isn't he?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Pogba always looks like he’s going to miss every penalty he takes.

In other news Bolton were so traumatised by the 5-0 defeat at Tranmere that they’ve cancelled their next game. I know they had to put out most of their youth team, but seriously..........

 

[Cabinet96]

Always risky writing of kids as it can come back to haunt you, but Lingard is a bit **** isn't he?

I mean he isn't as a kid. Unless that's the joke.

 

[Niall]

I mean he isn't as a kid. Unless that's the joke.

It is.

You'd be shocked by the amount of pundits who still refer to him as a kid when he is close to 27.


https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1163543959412629504


those numbers

 

[Pothas]

Traore is so much fun.

 

[GIMH]

Pogba always looks like he’s going to miss every penalty he takes.

In other news Bolton were so traumatised by the 5-0 defeat at Tranmere that they’ve cancelled their next game. I know they had to put out most of their youth team, but seriously..........

The poor 'kids' most of whom are 19 and 20.

Clearly a play by the filth to have their transfer embargo lifted. They've not been punished for not playing the brentford game last season yet - should be another big deduction heading their way

 

[Uppercut]

They just need to let these clubs die. Allowing football clubs to be freely bought and sold with no ownership restrictions was an obscene act of negligence, but it's the path they've chosen and failure is a part of it.

 

[sledger]

Hmmm, it's not strictly true that there are no ownership restrictions tbf.

 

[GIMH]

They just need to let these clubs die. Allowing football clubs to be freely bought and sold with no ownership restrictions was an obscene act of negligence, but it's the path they've chosen and failure is a part of it.

Largely agree but can't have Bolton going bust now and is losing a 5-0

 

[GIMH]

Hmmm, it's not strictly true that there are no ownership restrictions tbf.

Basically is. EFL apparently were unaware of Dale taking over at Bury

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The poor 'kids' most of whom are 19 and 20.

Clearly a play by the filth to have their transfer embargo lifted. They've not been punished for not playing the brentford game last season yet - should be another big deduction heading their way

Throw them and Bury out. Enough is enough, had long time to sort things and failed.

 

[sledger]

Basically is. EFL apparently were unaware of Dale taking over at Bury

Sounds like a negligent/crap application of the rules rather than a criticism of the rules themselves tbf.

Company Law textbooks, for instance, regularly use the the EPL/EFL rules as an example of a something that goes "well beyond" the minimum standards for company ownership imposed by the law.

 

[GIMH]

If rules are consistently not applied, then they aren't really rules at all, are they? Same thing ultimately.

 

[sledger]

If rules are consistently not applied, then they aren't really rules at all, are they? Same thing ultimately.

Haha, sounds like failing to plug in a TV and then saying the TV is shite for not working to me.

 

[GIMH]

Nah, it's more like parliament passing a law saying 'drinking tea after 8pm is illegal, but we aren't actually going to arrest anyone for it'

Utterly pointless

 

[sledger]

Nah, it's more like parliament passing a law saying 'drinking tea after 8pm is illegal, but we aren't actually going to arrest anyone for it'

Utterly pointless

Haha, this sounds like my TV analogy again to me.

 

[GIMH]

In your analogy you've bought the TV, not plugged it in, and then blamed the TV for not working

But the reality is that the EFL don't apply their own laws. Different I would suggest.

 

[sledger]

Yeah, but in both situations we have x, to be used by y, which is not being used for the purposes for which it was designed. In which case the fault does not (necessarily) lie with x , but with y.

I mean, I agree that a rule that is not enforced/used is pointless, but that does not equate to the rule itself being bad.