AndyinLiverpool

43 minutes ago, sage said:

Don't worry. First over of spin and a wicket goes. 

and another.

Sunshine's gone

We have sunshine here, 40 miles to the west

My own patent method, that rarely fails, is that if the points gap is larger than the number of games a team has left, they won't overtake the team above them. Villa are 4 points behind Watford with 3 games to play. Therefore, they won't make it.

terrific stuff. I'm so happy that test cricket is back.

15 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

Is Jose secretly trying to ruin Spurs? They really are a dreadful team to watch at the moment - suspect most of there fans would be more than happy to go back to entertaining football (without winning anything) rather than Jose's verion of dull football (also without winning anything)....

I used to look forward to games on tv that featured Spurs. Now, I can barely believe I kept it on to the end yesterday. 12 mins of added on time too. 

36 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

They're praying Wigan and Wednesday get their points deductions. Apparently there will be an announcement tomorrow regarding Wednesday's verdict. If Wigan, Wednesday and ourselves get 12 points stolen off us, this is what the revised table will look like.

They should take points off Middlesborough and Barnsley for being mardy bar stewards and give the points to us by way of compensation.

1 minute ago, oomarkwright said:

Never a penalty 

Did I understand right - that VAR was used to say whether it was in or out of the area and they didn't look at the fact that it wasn't even a ducking foul?

duck me, Bournemouth v Spurs is bad

5 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

If English is your first language (as opposed to 'American' English) shouldn't it be 'realised'?  ?

Nope. The OED says -ise or -ize.

It's not true that -ize is American.

I don't like Cricinfo's new layout.

Fascinating session.

Some fantastic bowling but will that dropped catch be pissing the WI off?

11 minutes ago, sage said:

The Windies are bowling superbly. I think this was a good toss to lose. 

They are. Feel a bit sorry for Roach for not having any wickets.

2 minutes ago, sage said:

As do I. When i used to play I loved not getting out as much as scoring runs which isn't ideal in 40 over cricket. 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22472643/sunil-gavaskar-indian-world-cup-go-slow

1 minute ago, sage said:

It's a little attritional 

I love test cricket when it's like this. Good bowling and batsmen having to work for it.

@sage Work out of the way. I'm ready for today's play now. 

Liverpool just scored a similar goal to WBA's second today.

Whatever happened to full backs on the post at corners?

17 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I kind of do feel for the "underside" of Oxford - the ordinary folks who support their local team but have to live in a town made into a hellhole by posh students who live lives of zero consequence. There's a lot of Oxford that's very ordinary and that's who Oxford town are for. That, and George Thorne ?

Oxford’s a complete dump

3 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Oxford player just committed an identical tackle to the one Waggie got red-carded for but only a yellow - same referee!!!

Perhaps he saw it differently

Once upon a Time in the West

It had to be the one to watch in honour of the great Ennio Morricone.

Perfection.

rather wonderfully, Middlesborough are losing at home to QPR

Bristol City just sacked their manager

1 hour ago, Gaspode said:

A rule change brought in due to the number of pundits previously calling for handball whenever the ball hit a players arm - the same pundits that now are moaning about the decision. They should revert back to the 'deliberate/accidental' element where common sense was applied, but that would be too simple.....

This exactly.

Instead of gobshite pundits reading the laws of the game, the powers that be changed the laws for them. An act of football cowardice that is, frankly, typical. Stupidity trumps knowledge. It's the modern way.

18 minutes ago, reverendo de duivel said:

If that's a handball by Spurs we might as well pack up and go home.

VAR is the enemy of football.

This is the world that those who advocated VAR have created. A world where bitching and moaning wins; a world where we don't accept human frailties.

They should be proud.

40 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Brentford leading WBA.

Although tomorrow I think Preston v Cardiff is one to watch (and a draw please)

Or just watch half an hour of it before our game kicks off. ?