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07 December 2006

Charlton Will Treat The Spurs Match Like A Home Game

Charlton boss Les Reed has decided to treat their away match at Spurs the same as if it's a home game .

Reed is quoted as saying:

"We've got a pretty good record at Tottenham and because it's only up the road I'm going to try and treat it like a home game. We're not doing anything different in terms of travel that we wouldn't do for a normal home game, and I'm hoping it will give the players a chance to relax and focus on the game, instead of spending time in a hotel".

He goes on to add "Our home form is very important to us".

There's just one, minor, teeny-weeny, little problem with treating the match as a 'home' game. Charlton's home form is as bad as their away form. Even if every match they had played this season had been at home, they would still be in the relegation places.

Keep on, keeping on, Mr Reed.



05 December 2006

Diving = Good Thinking = Bad

Normally, Paul Jewell - manager of Wigan Athletic - talks a lot of sense.

This is not one of those times.

The current Wigan boss thinks that the Premiership should allow diving because - and I quote while weeping softly to myself - "No-one likes cheating but I think the best way to get rid of it [diving] is to say 'Okay, if you get away with it you get away with it' because one week you will be unlucky."

Jewell also added: "I might be the only fellow in the world that thinks 'Why don't we just allow it?',"

Yes, Paul, you're right. You are the only 'fellow' in the world that thinks 'just allow it'. Partly because diving is cheating and partly because your logic is flawed beyond all reason.

If you 'allow' diving, then that would mean no player would ever be booked for it. The consequences of cheating the referee would therefore be zero. It doesn't take Einstein to figure out that this would further undermine the authority of the ref; create more situations where they would have to make difficult decisions; and increasingly make a travesty of the game.

But if that's what you want, Paul, then who am I to stand in your way.




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