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#54550 Help me choose a football-related statistics project

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17 Feb 2013 03:39:32

By Flash. | Permalink | On 17 February 2013 - 01:54 AM

I'd be amazed if you could get even semi-accurate data for the parachute payments.

Why?

Parachute payments 2011-12:

Club Payment Position

West Ham £15.5m 3

Birmingham £15.5m 4

Blackpool £15.5m 5

Middlesbro £4m 7

Hull City £12m 8

Burnley £12m 13

Portsmouth £12m 22

Parachute payments 2012-13:

Club Payment Position

Hull City £8m 2

Burnley £8m 12

Blackpool £13m 14

Blackburn £16m 13

Bolton £16m 16

Wolves £16m 18

Birmingham £13m 20

Portsmouth £8m 22(L1)

#54459 FA Cup Thread 2012/13

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16 Feb 2013 17:50:03

Where do Arsenal fans think the team needs improving?

You all seem to love practically every player. Chamakh and Gervinho excluded.

Szechney, Vermaelen (until today), Mertesacker, Podolski, Giroud, Walcott, Wilshere, Arteta, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain. All seem to be loved by Arsenal fans.

#54451 FA Cup Thread 2012/13

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16 Feb 2013 17:22:26

He means only two goals conceded, both from penalties, I think.

#54348 PlayStation 4?

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16 Feb 2013 12:32:01

By Dutton | Permalink | On 16 February 2013 - 12:14 PM

I don't see how it is, I actually find it more of an effort to use the d-pad on the ps controller.

I can use either controller very comfortably.

SAME.

BUT THE PS3 CONTROLLER IS TOO LIGHT/XBOX CONTROLLER IS TOO HEAVY.

#54276 Europa League 2012/13 - Now NOT Featuring Falcao

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16 Feb 2013 00:56:09

By Ninja | Permalink | On 15 February 2013 - 15:41 PM

Is a quote from Brendan Rodgers now supposed to be the be all and end all of all footballing opinion?

Because I welcome this trend, Rodgers' talks so much bollocks football is going to be a much funner place whilst we try and figure out what the hell he's trying to tell us to think.

No, I just found it incredibly funny how smug Rodgers and most 'modern' football fans were about the Shearer criticism.

#54275 Robbie Rogers

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16 Feb 2013 00:50:22

A great day for football. Hopefully. I hope he doesn't stay retired for too long. And makes a comeback.

#54083 Europa League 2012/13 - Now NOT Featuring Falcao

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15 Feb 2013 09:36:53

He can't be blamed for the offside. And I didn't really see the Cabaye/Tiote incident.

#54047 Old Trafford Lounge

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15 Feb 2013 00:58:31

Everybody knows that you concede your rights to your opinion and feelings when you accept a well paying job.

#54046 Europa League 2012/13 - Now NOT Featuring Falcao

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15 Feb 2013 00:48:04

Cisse missed loads of sitter last year, before he want on his great run. Referee was decent tonight, the only complaint was with the linesman who disallowed the first goal, he flagged very late twice.

Liverpool fans having a go at Joe Allen

'I saw something criticising Joe for not playing risk passes. Unbelievable. Our so-called pundits who don’t know the dynamics of a team and how it functions. Joe will prove an absolute bargain.'

#53665 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread

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13 Feb 2013 18:20:28

By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 13 February 2013 - 13:57 PM

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this gif?

It shows Celtic were as bad as Juventus. It looks as if Scott Brown stands on Lichsteiger's foot, Lichsteiger gives him a little shove, Brown throws himself to the floor, and Lichsteiger follows.

Brown doing two 'little tricks' there. In an attempt to get an opponent sent off. Very 'Italian'.

#53652 Old Trafford Lounge

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13 Feb 2013 18:01:07

Reckon Man United will win easily. 4-0 over both legs or something.

#53443 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread

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13 Feb 2013 00:24:01

1-0 with the away goal. - Juventus probably wanted to kill the game and finish it in Italy, rather than get dragged into a battle or allow themselves to be counter attacked. Celtic did get a lot of half chances, maybe if Chiellini played they would have been tighter at the back. Is Caceres any good at CB? Thought he was more of a RB.

#53432 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread

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12 Feb 2013 23:36:23

Were Juventus not just sitting back, after their early goal? Rather than playing badly? I thought they looked happy to sit on their lead anyway.

#53361 Still fucking facebook

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12 Feb 2013 19:15:42

Yeah, now its on the internet rather than on VHS tape.

#53359 English Premier League 2012/2013

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12 Feb 2013 19:10:10

By ianbaker | Permalink | On 12 February 2013 - 16:56 PM

And if I won the Lotto on Saturday I would be a millionaire and could pay you to roller skate for me in a pink tutu if I wanted.

And you had a chance of winning the lottery, providing you bought a ticket.

#53136 English Premier League 2012/2013

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11 Feb 2013 23:09:00

By Ninja | Permalink | On 11 February 2013 - 22:41 PM

Yeah exactly, outside challengers.

But the reality of the situation is unless they do on a ridiculous run of form it's a pipe dream. They also hugely changed the team, don't have a good enough striker and changed manager, European qualification was clearly the aim this season.

17 points behind is not 'outside challengers'. They're team hasn't changed that much they lost Modric which they'd been expecting. The only other major loss was VdV who didn't seem to be used that much anyway, and Ledley King. They've brought in Dembele, Sigurdsson, Vertonghen, Dempsey, Lloris. + Holtby, made Adebayor permanent and had Caulker return.

Defoe, Dempsey and Adebayor may not be world class, but they are still very good Premier League strikers. Probably better than Chelsea and Arsenal had.

#53118 English Premier League 2012/2013

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11 Feb 2013 22:38:39

With the squad Spurs have they should be outside title challengers every year.

#53116 English Premier League 2012/2013

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11 Feb 2013 22:34:04

Only 17 points off the title.

#53113 English Premier League 2012/2013

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11 Feb 2013 22:32:31

By Fantastic | Permalink | On 11 February 2013 - 22:09 PM

I mean, you thought it might, even slightly, be on? Because that's really, really dumb.

Slight possibility because Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal are having dreadful years and Everton are average. Liverpool would only be 3 points behind Everton if they won tonight.

#53000 ACN 2013 Return of the Vuvuzela

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11 Feb 2013 17:09:20

By Poe | Permalink | On 11 February 2013 - 13:17 PM

Loads of free sex and an international trophy and Shola Ameobi chose to stay and sit on the bench at Newcastle.

Definition of idiocy/loyalty.

SHOLA

STILL ELIGIBLE FOR ENGLAND.

Christ, can't imagine Ameobi doing well at the ACON. Him lumbering around in the heat, on awful pitches.

#52999 Community

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11 Feb 2013 17:03:58

I didn't really like the first episode. - But I thought it was a bad episode of Community rather than be an episode of a bad new show. Reviews in America seemed to be positive. Ratings were also positive.

#52739 Susie Fashion Thread

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10 Feb 2013 11:41:59

By Dutton | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 00:48 AM

THINGS I HATE.
Fucking hats. Stupid caps with OBEY on and shit, every fucker around 17 is wearing them now.
Gilets.
Onesies.
T-shirts with naked girls on, I aint going seeing my nan or mum wearing that shit.
T-shirts with a capital city on that I've never been to or have any association with. TOKYO, LA. COOL BRO.

Great post.

#52613 PlayStation 4?

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09 Feb 2013 17:06:17

By Flash. | Permalink | On 09 February 2013 - 13:56 PM

They make a bigger cut, but they make most their money through new games.

The used game market is about 6-7% the size of the new game market.

So why are MS and Sony doing it?

By Ninja | Permalink | On 09 February 2013 - 15:00 PM

Of the market, maybe, but that market includes retailers that do not offer used e.g. Supermarkets.

The figures for retailers that do seem to be close to about a 40/60 split used to new, that's a huge chunk of revenue to lose.

Don't supermarkets now do pre-owned? I think ASDA do, might have just been a trial.

Can't see myself buying a next-gen console if this happens.

#52570 English Premier League 2012/2013

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09 Feb 2013 14:55:02

Niall Quinn was impressive today, going up another echelon of being an arsehole. The way he dismissed Gouffran being injured.

#52350 Old Trafford Lounge

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08 Feb 2013 18:02:20

Probably because Ferguson earns more money and is a bigger repeat offender? And Ferguson's comments were far worse.

But obviously Ferguson has been very harshly punished by being fined a fraction of his wages. FA conspiracy.

#52261 Old Trafford Lounge

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08 Feb 2013 14:46:58

By Sam | Permalink | On 08 February 2013 - 14:36 PM

"The Football Association fines Sir Alex Ferguson £12,000 over comments he made about an official after Manchester United's Premier League game at Spurs."

I'm waiting for the 'The FA love United' 'Oh Fergie always gets away with it' comments again.

Yet again a Man Utd fan brings this up.

#52245 The England National Team

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08 Feb 2013 14:03:36

Not sure about Carrick, Cleverley & Wilshere being defensive enough. Maybe Jones or Rodwell in at DMC if they ever get fit and ready. (Behind Wilshere and Cleverley)

#52094 The Lower League Thread

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07 Feb 2013 19:29:06

Gary Megson is the poor mans Alex McLeish.

#51482 The TV Thread

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05 Feb 2013 21:25:05

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTgxODQ3MTcyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODE5NjQ0NQ@@._V1_SY317_CR14,0,214,317_.jpg

Watched the first season of How to Make it in America, I quite like it. It's not brilliant but it has its charm.

#51479 What's the last thing you bought thread

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05 Feb 2013 21:13:07

£6.70 for a return/day ticket. About 12 miles into Newcastle.

Seems common sense to me to make buses to be free/very cheap to reduce congestion and pollution. Make buses a viable alternative to cars, rather than just for people who can't afford cars.