I was pointed toward this rather stuperb blog by a friend of mine last week, and felt I should give it a mention.

Euro2008 statistics is a Castrol sponsored football blog concentrating on live in game statistics and metrics accompanied by a typically dry british wit. Whilst I have never been a big fan of statistics or metrics of any kind this is different and offers a really cool insight into the beautifull game.

Look at this pretty picture as a fine example.

This clearly shows that this Croatian gent was running around alot.

Check out the site here.

Luv

Nx

This weekend has re-afirmed my faith in the FA cup, with a selection of good matches and upsets happening.

Manchester United went out to the might of Portsmouth after (shock of shocks) a penalty was arwarded at Old Trafford.

Barnsely having knocked out five time european cup winners Liverpool have knocked out Avram Grants Chealsea with ex Cheltenham forward Kayodi Odejayi grabbing the winner.

Bluebird Cardif City knocked out a very lackluster Middlesborough, and as I type this I await the final FA cup match of the weekend as baggie boys West Brom take on “The Gas” (a.k.a.) Bristol Rovers for the final semi final spot and a chance to go to Wembley.
So whats going on??? Are the big prem teams  not taking the cup as seriously… well if we look at Manure’s and Chelski’s teams yesterday you would have to say that they certainly are. It may be that the smaller teams (and I mean this in a loose sense when it comes to Portsmouth) are upping their game in the cup as they realise they have a chance??? Personally I just think its down to luck… there can be no other logical explination.
The law of avergaes dictates that every now and then a shock will happen (Newcastle Hereford anyone?) but to have this many in one weekend let alone one cup is amazing.

Other than that my beloved Oxford United crashed to a 3-0 home defeat to Burton Albion to leave them 15th with one or two games in hand on most around in the table.  I for one am gutted at the results since new manager Darren Patterson has taken over, and I feel there may need to be a change somewhere in the club to see some progress…. ah well.

Lv Nx

I managed to catch I am Legend last night, and whilst i enjoyed the film, I could not help shake the feeling that it was a blatant copy of Danny Boyle’s brit-movie masterclas.

Although I am Legend is based upon a book (Last man alive??) the similarities between the two are endless,
Virus sweeps nation, turns people into “The Infected”/”Darkseekers”, one person left in the city etc etc… IMO 28Days later is the better of the two if not for the fact that “The infected” are alot nastier/scarier than the “Darkseekers”.

But I will let you decide for yourselves (and yes I know the clip im using is from 28 Weeks later)…

*Please note I neither condone or promote the uploading of copywrited material to video upload sites and neither of these clips have anything to do with me…

In sports news both of my teams managed to lose this weekend with the Dallas Cowboys failing in the playoffs against the Giants, and Oxford United crashing to a 3-1 loss away at part-time Salisbury City… Happy Days