IF he has a technique which means his is able to send keepers the wrong way consistently (or he can tell which way the keeper will dive, and puts it the other side), then it's not random. If it was random then the keeper would go the right way as often as the wrong way. random as in the stats would...

Looking at where they were were scored is almost useless. You need to look at where they were saved, and try to aim for the less savable areas. I'm simply suggesting that for many penalty takers (Eden Hazard a good example actually) their technique is to send the keeper the wrong way. I can't find ...

Sutekh While there are no British referees at the World Cup there is at least one British born official there...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44354819

I do find it funny how we slate our refs all season long for being useless, yet get annoyed that none of them are at the world cup.

I know it doesn't speak much of techniques, but if you mapped all of the scored penalties in world cup shootouts, I'd venture they are in the majority in the same areas. But send the keeper the wrong way and it goes in. Point I am making is that even for those above (Pearce's an obvious exception, ...

Over 2500 go to Enfield Town to see Karpatalya beat pre-match favourites Northern Cyprus on penalties after nervy (ok, a bit crap) 90 minutes. Apparently the final was meant to be at Crystal Palace (athletics) but they couldn't secure the venue. As great as the tournament has been, the trophy presen...

RG30 £200 win Brazil 9/2

A brave bet considering how rarely non-European teams win a European World Cup. If it pays off though...

You can pretty much guarantee that when the do "practice" penalties, they'll just take it in turns to have a shot each. There'll be no actual thought into it. Given how rubbish we are at them, and how likely it is that any team that advances in the world cup will have to win one to do so, ...

Green What about pronouncing the J in Majorca?

how does the water taste there?

Isle of Mann team Sorry to be a pedant but I've seen you spell it this way several times now - what's with the double "n"? Is that how is was spelt in days of yore or something and the independents want to go back to it? I've no idea. Just some sort of weird brain fade on my part. I notic...

Murky goings on with Isle of Mann team, as they've now been expelled from ConIFA. http://www.conifa.org/en/2018/06/06/conifa-statement-regarding-ellan-vannin-7-june/ https://twitter.com/MANXIFA IoM complaining that ConIFA broke their won rules in allowing Barawa to add a player to their squad well a...

A bit daft that so many of them hate us, when nobody under 35 will be able to recall a competitive match between us. You might as well well have a bunch of 25 year olds saying they hate it that Marathon got rebranded to Snickers.

Want to get behind the Chagos lads but hang on, don't they want independence from us ? Not sure that's really cricket. We bought the islands, let the Americans have them as an airbase, forcefully evicted the people from the islands, and now won't let them go back. It's not the proudest episode in B...

My hopes of seeing Tibet in the 15th/16th play-off are dashed. The Isle of Mann team pulled out of the tournament in protest at Barawa being allowed to use a player not in their official squad, which means their "losers' QF" opponents, Tibet, were given a bye to the next round. Not that t...

My hopes of seeing Tibet in the 15th/16th play-off are dashed. The Isle of Mann team pulled out of the tournament in protest at Barawa being allowed to use a player not in their official squad, which means their "losers' QF" opponents, Tibet, were given a bye to the next round. Not that th...

No takers for the Matabeleland CONIFA World Cup shirt?

Tickets are on sale now! Just got myself a couple of tickets for the big Felvidek v Tibet clash on the 3rd of June at Bracknell Town! Can't wait. Did you manage to go in the end? Tibet vs Northern Cyprus on the Saturday was great fun. Yes I was there, really enjoyed it. Throughly impressed witht th...

I didn't realise he was only 27 when he joined us. It looks like he'd had really bad problem with injuries over the previous few years. I can't recall much about his playing career with us, beyond him (badly) missing a one-on-one on his Elm Park debut. He did, however, hand out comps to me and a few...

Apparently this could be Newcastle's away kit next season - would be happy with this template in blue/white. https://i.imgur.com/DQ6l3Oe.jpg If that is their hooped template then I think a lot of people would be very happy with that. I'm not sure it's genuine. There doesn't look to be anywhere on t...

Hendo Home kit would be a dream.
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I'm not so keen on thick hoops. A bit too QPR-ish.

Given the choice, I'd go for Robin Friday era thin hoops. The club doesn't tend to seek out my advice though, for some reason.

.... and the re-shuffling commences - Andover Town have reportedly declared they will NOT be taking promotion from the Wessex Premier, citing retirements and departures from their playing squads. That's a shame - would have been a nice local derby for Winchester City. We only made it up to the SL S...