AndyinLiverpool

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Like Alf earlier I kind of end up left with the view that really we have no choice but to bring her back, no matter whether I think it’s right or wrong 🤷‍♂️

My wife thinks I'm quaintly old-fashioned for still calling them 'sides'. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

He was a miserable sod

I'm not sure where I sit on this I could fall either side of the fence, She was 15 years old when she bailed out of the UK to join Isis, Her 2 companions have since died/killed, She was not old enough in law to have a sexual relationship so still a child, She was no fool as she was able to get to Turkey and driven to Syria where she married an Isis fighter had children by him...and now stuck in a camp.
Bangladesh has refused her citizenship after her UK citizenship was withdrawn, She now becomes Stateless with nowhere to go, Should a chance have been taken on bringing her here or was the Government right in withdrawing her last hope, Would she have been a target, Would she have been given a new identity and a secret address...like the Murderers of James Bulger?
Play with the Devil and there's consequences I guess  

Colin, Paddy and Liam

I still miss getting up to switch over 😊

My wife thinks I'm quaintly old-fashioned for still calling them 'sides'. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

My wife thinks I'm quaintly old-fashioned for still calling them 'sides'. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

400 sovs- blimey.
They definitely won't fall apart quicker than a fraudulent university either.

A much better picture of what? Whether I'm likely to enjoy a game? It seems to me it's only useful for coaching and betting. If you do neither, it gives a picture of nothing.
Yet Live broadcasters yum this stuff up, despite the fact that anyone who wants this info can go to their bookie's website.

there's still time

there's still time

there's still time

CBT anonymous 

We've got ourselves a slow typer.

You clearly haven't been to Ireland for a while

I've never heard of TNT sports

I've never heard of TNT sports

The bookies themselves rely on such analysis quite a lot. They are big subscribers. On the other side, Matthew Benham, amongst other sports bettors, also relied heavily on stat analysis. He used xG in it's earliest guises to trade on football on the betting exchanges and made enough doing so to fund Matchbook, his own betting exchange. Matchbook's success in turn, allowed him to buy Brentford. 
On a general note, I'm not going to involve myself in this debate as sides are clearly de-marked already, but I would say that the way some are assuming statistical analysis is used in sport is fundamentally inaccurate. It is meant to supplement and complement other tools, such as video and live scouting and even form analysis, not replace them wholesale.

Rod stewart-a-like Alan Biley

Every week. Clubs dip in and out of form, move up and down the table. Ultimately come May the teams over the season are ranked 1 to 24 where they deserve to be.

I understand the technical and statistical value of xG for coaches, analysts, gamblers etc, but I've never needed xG to tell me that x player couldn't hit a cow's a*se with a banjo.
 

A much better picture of what? Whether I'm likely to enjoy a game? It seems to me it's only useful for coaching and betting. If you do neither, it gives a picture of nothing.
Yet Live broadcasters yum this stuff up, despite the fact that anyone who wants this info can go to their bookie's website.