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On Your Marks (Out of 10...) [5 Jan @ 9:09pm]
With the "Winter Break" having extended to 3 weeks, and following a debate (i.e. some of the lads complaining about their marks - sorry Bondy, you deserved that 6 vs Ramsey; goal or not!) at training sometime before Christmas, I felt it was time to finally update the site with some C**P or the other, please find below (you can tell I'm already back in work mode!) a general guide to the scoring system as used in marking the guys for their performances on match days. Now, I'm a generous but honest marker, I feel, and while sometimes marks might get bumped up by 1 when we win (or if they grab an important goal, and I am more Champ Manager 2002/3 than The Sun) and think I'm pretty consistent, accurate and fair (they're all twAts, so no one gets bonus 'mates marks') across the board when it comes to assigning the tallies. It's both amusing and pleasing to see the banter around the scores, and how much the guys are interested in their scores on the doors. Just a note, I don't ever invisage giving a 10. A 9 from me is hard enough to get. So, without further ado; here's a rundown - 0-3 Complete sh!te. Or possibly a ludicrous idiotic sending off. 4 Pretty sh!te. Performance was to the detriment of the team. No positive input whatsoever - like my own "performance" vs Botolphs 5 Below par/poor. Well off form and, overall, didn't contribute positively to the team's performance 6 As Barrymore would say (when he's not bumming people and pushing them into swimming pools) - A'wight. Did OK, as expected. Average. Normal. Didn't pull up any trees. Not inspiring, but not sh!te either. 7 Met expectations. Generally did well, did what was asked/supposed to, and played a role in the team performance. Or, did better than everyone else if we were turd. 8 Above expectations. Involvement improved the team performance and made a positive impact throughout the match 9 Hot. Inspirational. Sexy. On fire. Had a stormer. Performed exceptionally well both individually and for the team. 10. The perfect match. No mistakes. Head and shoulders above all mere mortals before them with a devastating individual performance that could not physically have been better in any way shape or form.
Eduardo's Ban... [2 Sep @ 10:00pm]
This may be the only post I do on here, it may be the first of many... who knows, lets see how it goes... Well, let's get something straight... I am not an Arsenal supporter (I'm weird, I support Col U, Man U, Valencia, Roma and Barca - in that order), but I am a huge respector of what Arsenal do on the field of play, i love Wenger's approach to football and what they're trying to achieve and their style of play. I am a bit odd in my thoughts on diving, I know this... while I would never encourage my players to dive - I think Sunday league has a certain in-built self-policing morality that prevents it - in the professional game is different. I do agree that diving, if picked up by the officials, should be punished by a yellow card, but also accept that if a PROFESSIONAL can earn his club an advantage, they're well within their rights to try - after all, this is what they're paid to do - help their team win games. And so to the crux of my argument... if diving (if picked up by the officials) is a yellow card, how can a player receive a 2 game ban for it?! The only way to back this up is to upgrade diving to a red card offence... now if UEFA/FIFA do this... no probs. However, in the agreed signed off version of the Laws of the Game for 2009/10, it's still a yellow card offence and yellow card offences do not carry a suspension, so how can one be applied to Eduardo? I know Wenger is a bit of a twonk when it comes to seeing/not seeing things that happen involving his players, but i have to agree 100% with his rant - if Eduardo is charged, then UEFA need to review every single Champions League game and apply a 2 game ban to EVERY SINGLE PLAYER who is guilty of the same offence. Watching the Man U Arsenal game on Sunday, Rooney did EXACTLY what Eduardo did - left a trailing leg dangling and collapsed to the ground anticipating a foul from Almunia - Rooney could easily have hurdled the challenge and stayed on his feet... the difference between the two? Almunia didn't pull out of the challenge in time and caught Rooney resulting in a penalty and a yellow for the keeper (slightly harsh yellow, but an easy sell for the ref)... In Eduardo's case, Boruc did pull out of the challenge and Eduardo's fall was not aided by the keeper. I'm not necessarily saying that what Eduardo did was right, just that i think it's incorrect for a 2 game ban to be applied. In the same Man U/Arsenal game Eboue was rightly booked for a dive... he receives no ban, no further punishment, and yet Eduardo now misses two matches?! It's an interesting precedent that UEFA have set. They will, to my mind, now have to follow this up by reviewing every dive in every match and applying the same sanction to every player... Diving, or simulation, is a part of the pro game, and in the professional game many freekicks are given for the slightest contact which generally does not impede a player who could easily carry on despite the nudge, or slight graze of an outstretched leg. If you have any comments, on this please feel free to email steevtovey13@yahoo.co.uk and I will put on here any that are coherent and make sense...
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