By: bobinkc
Yep, I figured the griping and whining would have to start eventually. Wrong calls are a part of the sport. Missed calls are a part of the sport. Our seats are first and second row so we had a real...
View ArticleBy: thekingofnorway
As a Sounders fan, I’m telling my fellow fans: let’s take the high road, man up, and stop the whining. We lost, and that’s just the way it is. Statistically in soccer, the home side has a 2/3 goal...
View ArticleBy: ndnut
@thekingofnorway Thank you for pointing out the book Scorecasting, as that was exactly what I pointed at listening to the game on the Seattle radio feed. MLS is the most home-slanted professional...
View ArticleBy: zoophagous
I just want to point out that bad officiating and the Sounders not playing well enough to win are not mutually exclusive. Johnson and Ozzie had horrible PKs. Salazar made too many mistakes in a big...
View ArticleBy: joeyt360
I get pissed off at Sigi because I feel he does it to manipulate the refs into giving him favorable (but possibly unfair) calls. It all just has the feel of puppeteering with him.
View ArticleBy: joeyt360
I haven’t read that particular book, but I do recall a study in England on the Premier League saying roughly the same thing–that almost all of the ‘home field advantage’ consists of the refs giving the...
View ArticleBy: ndnut
As I said, I listened on the radio, and the clock thing was what the Seattle crew was talking about. On the coming off the line issue, Kasey Keller said it looked no different on the one that was...
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