Why

[gillsfan1066]

When I was say 11 or 12 we used to leave home on a Saturday at like noon , five or six of us, make what should have been a 30 minute walk last nearly two and a half hours, argue about what the score was going to be ,who was the best player, get there at like 2.30, claim our place next to the wall at the Rainham End, watch the game cheering every time a Gills players had the ball, then win or loose argue about the game all the way home, then it was forgotten about till the next week.
A few years later the same group minus one or two would leave home at like 2.15, drive up to the ground, park somewhere off Barnsole Road, cut through the alleys, go to the game, back to the car, talk about the game on the way home, stop for a beer or two head for home then it was all forgotten till the following home game.
I don't think any of us cared about any stat other than W.L.D. how many goals so and so had scored on the season, but we loved the game and we loved the team, but knowing a player had run 4.5 miles in the 73 minutes he was on the pitch, hahaha we didn't give a dam. We didn't need to know that stat ,just by watching the game we knew if he had worked his butt off or he was being a lazy so and so.
Baseball is a game of Stats, there is a stat for everything, but apart from a few whack jobs at games who have no life , the only people who use them are the players agents come contract time, they drag out every stat in the world to show their boy is worth an extra 10 million over 5 years or what ever.

[Rimshot]

Rob, you might be on to something there ! Seriously, I know many footballers are not exactly blessed with academic prowess but you don't get to the professional ranks without having better than fundamental football skills.

It just baffles me when you see one of the coaching team 'briefing' a sub who is about to go on flicking over pages of notes and charts. This is the pitch, this white line is where you take a throw-in, don't pass to those guys out there in the blue shirts, this is how you manhandle an opponent at corners, this kind of dive seems to fool most refs....what ARE they saying ? Or perhaps, given the current cosmopolitan nature of EPL players, they are giving them a set of translations from Spanish to Serbian or Italian to German so that they can swear at the oppo in a language they will understand.

Oh for the days when Freddie Cox would shout 'just put it in the f**king stand' when we were a goal up with 10 minutes left to play.

[Garawa]

You are all so naive and is nothing of the sort. Scour the internet for pictures of their girlfriends and you will have the answer......have a good game, get us the win and you'll be celebrating this evening! (not my opinion, I heard it somewhere else.....think it was Rob's Facebook page, lol).