It’s the day before the Day Before, and tonight we pretty much have to put paid to shopping and listmaking. It’s time to make sure everything is wrapped and ribboned and bowed. Like her. Things are actually kind of quiet around the sporting world at the moment, and that’s a good thing. The media wants [...]
Archive for December 23rd, 2009
Last Call – Christmas Eve Eve is the oatmeal in the breakfast of life
Posted in General on December 23, 2009 | 48 Comments »
Money for Nothing
Posted in Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, tagged English Premier League, Wage Budgets on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There are a lot of different ways you can try to predict the future success (or lack thereof) of your team. You could, for example, look at past performance: how well did they do last year? Did they lose anybody important? No? Well, then things should work out their way again, right? Yeah, ask Liverpool [...]
A Christmas Wish List
Posted in Whimsy, tagged christmas lists, English Premier League on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Santa is gearing up his sleigh, feeding the reindeer their special food, and double-checking that all of the presents to be delivered overnight tomorrow are wrapped and ready to go. He shared his list for the Premier League with me, and said I could share it with you. Chelsea: They had asked for some help [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Then Answers
Posted in Argentine Primera Division, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, South America, Swiss Super League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
And here, as promised, are the answers- Please name the all-time leaders in league appearances for the following leagues and the number of appearances the player made: Bulgaria- Marin Balakov (545) Cyprus- Ioannis Yiangoudakis (450) Estonia- Maksim Gruznov (407) or Andrei Krolov (229) East Germany- Eberhard Vogel (440) Finland- Rami Nieminen (459) What record to [...]
