I think referring to half-points steps away from a representation of reality, as there's no such thing as half a point.
Its semantics though, we all know exactly how it works and what it means. The 'half point' malarky just struck me as a slightly odd way of referring to it.
Well I've never heard it termed like that before, or considered us to be "effectively 5.5 points better off than Cardiff", because that would then imply we are 1.5 points behind Newcastle instead of 2 (and how would that then work if our GD was inferior or superior - do we add/subtract 0.25 of a...
But imposing the idea of half a point, or any kind of specific % value to GD is (forgive the pun) pointless, because its a binary aspect - its either enough to see you above a team you're level on points with, or its not. You might as well say its worth a third of a point, or a quarter of a...
Not quite sure I'm catching your drift, or if you're being sarcastic. But their inferior goal difference DOES effectively cost them another point. If we ended up level on points with them, then you don't finish "half" above them in the table do you.
We'll see. I think Palace will turn them over as they've been pretty good on the road (aside from a chucklesome exception). Burnley are Burnley - they tend to grind these type of games out and get the job done, just as they did against a far more talented Wolves team last weekend. They have the...
Cardiff have just 2 home games left - Liverpool and Palace. Can quite easily see zero points there.
They travel to Man City, Burnley, BHA, Fulham and Man Utd.
I don't see it. They'll get nothing out of at least 3 of those games, and that'll leave them with too much to make up in the other 4...
Indeed. You look at the Wolves players who finished the Championship season, who were then featuring in the Premier League for them the following August.
Coady, Boly, Doherty, Neves, Helder Costa, Gibbs-White, Jota. The spine of a really good side, which they added to in the summer without...
Fulham blew the thick end of £100m last summer on what turned out to be a bunch of bang-average signings, the majority of which was right at the arse end of the window, and paid for it.
£27m on Seri
£22m on Anguissa
£18m on Mitrovic
£16m on Mawson (freshly relegated CB from Swansea)
£6m on...