Albie
Keeping an open eye on the Weeping Angels.
Quite right. Relegation has no respect for past achievements or a glorified history (look at Nottingham Forrest) and if should you find yourself in the bottom three come the last day of the season, you go down. It's as simple as that.
It is comments like the one made by this "neutral" radio presenter that make you want Leeds to go down.
On the subject of video technology at games, briefly brought up earlier, the BBC did a small experiment at a Premiership match to see if there would be any major disruption at games - but rather than just "did the ball cross the line" scenarios, they went for any such suspected illegal play (offside, shirt pulling, etc.). They concluded that at this match, less than a minute overall would have been lost due to this technology been used. But it beggars the question, at what point do you stop the game? And if the game is stopped due to a suspected foul, or whatever, and it was deemed not so, how should the game be restarted? The biggest reason why video evidence works so well in Cricket and Rugby (Union and League) is that there is natural stoppages during the game and it comes into play with little disruption. But if the powers that be do use the ball crossing the line video evidence, then I guess this would incorporate an immediate alert sent to the ref to enable him to allow the goal.
And interestingly, Zidane was sent off in the world cup from video evidence - the ref never saw the offence.
The fat lady was gargling on her glass of water, clearing her throat in anticipation to sing. Yet, unbeknown to her, Southend had not noticed her standing in the wings. So instead of allowing her to just belly out her operatic aria, they scored - in the 92nd minute. The impact of this exceedingly important goal? Well, they have hauled themselves, like crawling up a rocky mountainside with the tips of their worn and tired fingers, out of the bottom three for the first time in months.
Next stop is a home game with Leeds - now, a further three points here would give them such a boost and also such a platform to take forward to the last few games of the season and, perhaps, distance themselves from the relegation dogfight before the last day of the season.
NA, I'm genuinely sorry that QPR had to take their place - I think.
It is comments like the one made by this "neutral" radio presenter that make you want Leeds to go down.
On the subject of video technology at games, briefly brought up earlier, the BBC did a small experiment at a Premiership match to see if there would be any major disruption at games - but rather than just "did the ball cross the line" scenarios, they went for any such suspected illegal play (offside, shirt pulling, etc.). They concluded that at this match, less than a minute overall would have been lost due to this technology been used. But it beggars the question, at what point do you stop the game? And if the game is stopped due to a suspected foul, or whatever, and it was deemed not so, how should the game be restarted? The biggest reason why video evidence works so well in Cricket and Rugby (Union and League) is that there is natural stoppages during the game and it comes into play with little disruption. But if the powers that be do use the ball crossing the line video evidence, then I guess this would incorporate an immediate alert sent to the ref to enable him to allow the goal.
And interestingly, Zidane was sent off in the world cup from video evidence - the ref never saw the offence.
The fat lady was gargling on her glass of water, clearing her throat in anticipation to sing. Yet, unbeknown to her, Southend had not noticed her standing in the wings. So instead of allowing her to just belly out her operatic aria, they scored - in the 92nd minute. The impact of this exceedingly important goal? Well, they have hauled themselves, like crawling up a rocky mountainside with the tips of their worn and tired fingers, out of the bottom three for the first time in months.
Next stop is a home game with Leeds - now, a further three points here would give them such a boost and also such a platform to take forward to the last few games of the season and, perhaps, distance themselves from the relegation dogfight before the last day of the season.
NA, I'm genuinely sorry that QPR had to take their place - I think.
