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I was watching a game on TV the other night and i heard a commentator say after a goal was scored "Its a known fact that youre at your most vunerable after youve just scored".
I thought thats boll*cks i cant think of many goals going in straight after a team has scored. So surely youre at your MOST vunerable when you HAVENT just scored......
Am i mistaken or do i just have too much time on my hands?
psychologically speaking, I think that sounds true .. because, immediately after scoring, most teams will tend to relax somewhat and lose some concentration ...
as to whether there is a historical or factual bases for this, I am not sure .. a search on google for +"vulnerable after scoring" returned many matches where the same phrase was being applied to actual events that occured .. mind you the match could even be more with variations of the query ...
So, this is possibly a factual tendency ... and commonly suggested strategy for coping with it is to bolt down, concentrate and remain disciplined for at least 10 minutes after scoring .. especially if the opponents are getting a decent possession immediately afterwards ..
i hate,((, this game needs a goal, }}, every game needs a bloody goal.. itv kill me thou,, absolute rubbish,, hate when arsenal matchs are on that channel,, always hav shite so called experts,,
We were leading 2-0 - United had just worked their way back to 2- 2. Straight from kick off the ball is played out to Brady, pass across the goal, Alan Sunderland scores 3-2, game over.
Arsenal 5 - Middlesborough 3 @ Highbury, the during invincibles run 2004.
Boro had just scored for 1 -3. Almost directly from kick off we came back with Bergkamp, captain on the day and then went on to destroy them and keep the run going.
Magic moments!
The comment I hate and nearly all players use it, goes, "...as I always say....."
TH14 started nearly all his replies to questions, with that phrase - sorry everyone , but it just grates me.
Why is it when a player has a penalty if he shoots and the keeper saves it comentators say "hes missed it" well no he hasn't because it was on target but the keeper saved it, so why is it counted as a miss
When talking about the opposition English players say "To be fair....." all the time and Dutch players always say"For sure, yeah".
When Arsenal faced Manure at the end of the 49 unbeaten run Sky ran the Immovable object versus the irresistible force line. Arsenal no doubt the former but how were Manure the latter
gus ceasar is a legend wrote:Anyhow 50 minutes later no doubt the game was forgotten as Pleat got noshed off by a 10 quid scouse brass outside Stanley Park!
For sheer nonsense, surely nobody can beat casual racist Big Ron Atkinson. I think only he knows what he meant by terms such as "lollipop" and "giving it the old eyebrows at the back stick".
exiled in notts wrote:For sheer nonsense, surely nobody can beat casual racist Big Ron Atkinson. I think only he knows what he meant by terms such as "lollipop" and "giving it the old eyebrows at the back stick".
Ha! "Casual racist". Quality!
I had a manager back in my school team days that used to keep yelling "Eyes at the back post!" during training, meaning that at corners the player should fake left while indicating (to the corner taker) with his eyes that he was gonna spin back right and get to the back post, shaking off his marker.
During games he also used to keep screaming "Feet, feet, feet!" whenever we had possession, subtly indicating that he wanted us to pass to feet, I believe...
exiled in notts wrote:For sheer nonsense, surely nobody can beat casual racist Big Ron Atkinson. I think only he knows what he meant by terms such as "lollipop" and "giving it the old eyebrows at the back stick".
Ha! "Casual racist". Quality!
I had a manager back in my school team days that used to keep yelling "Eyes at the back post!" during training, meaning that at corners the player should fake left while indicating (to the corner taker) with his eyes that he was gonna spin back right and get to the back post, shaking off his marker.
During games he also used to keep screaming "Feet, feet, feet!" whenever we had possession, subtly indicating that he wanted us to pass to feet, I believe...
Ahhh...it all becomes clear now.
But blimey, it looks like we've just unearthed the only known fluent speaker of Big Ronese (other than the orange perma-tanned, Argos jewellery wearing man himself). It's like finding some old bloke in Cornwall who can still speak the local lingo.
exiled in notts wrote:For sheer nonsense, surely nobody can beat casual racist Big Ron Atkinson. I think only he knows what he meant by terms such as "lollipop" and "giving it the old eyebrows at the back stick".
Ha! "Casual racist". Quality!
I had a manager back in my school team days that used to keep yelling "Eyes at the back post!" during training, meaning that at corners the player should fake left while indicating (to the corner taker) with his eyes that he was gonna spin back right and get to the back post, shaking off his marker.
During games he also used to keep screaming "Feet, feet, feet!" whenever we had possession, subtly indicating that he wanted us to pass to feet, I believe...
Ahhh...it all becomes clear now.
But blimey, it looks like we've just unearthed the only known fluent speaker of Big Ronese (other than the orange perma-tanned, Argos jewellery wearing man himself). It's like finding some old bloke in Cornwall who can still speak the local lingo.
imagine what would happen if you put the two of them together in a room.
it would be like furbys.
