BaldeRunner
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As a young lad I remember watching my grandfather playing cricket in one of the Penistone & Sheffield District leagues. He was given LBW although it seemed the ball was travelling well wide of leg stump. As he trudged past the umpire he muttered "that were never out!". The umpire, without so much as a glance in my grandfather's direction, replied "Really? Well thee look in't Green 'Un on Sat'day and you'll see it wor!".
My point is results are absolute, opinions are subjective. I have spent a pleasant couple of hours reading Blades and Wendy supporters views on the game. Apparently, the piggies are holding their heads up with pride, with belief and with the firm conviction that the only statistic to go against them was the score. They never actually lost the game, it was a complete victory...apart from the score. They outplayed us, their strikers are far superior, their midfield is Brazil reincarnated....all that went wrong was the score.
Well my little porky friends, enjoy your 'moral victory', pore for hours over the possession statistics, listen again and again to the compliments as you replay the SKY Sports coverage of the second half, fill yer boots with your 'turned the corner' orations and your tear filled standing ovations to the boys in blue.
But don't forget to read the results in tonight's Green 'Un
My point is results are absolute, opinions are subjective. I have spent a pleasant couple of hours reading Blades and Wendy supporters views on the game. Apparently, the piggies are holding their heads up with pride, with belief and with the firm conviction that the only statistic to go against them was the score. They never actually lost the game, it was a complete victory...apart from the score. They outplayed us, their strikers are far superior, their midfield is Brazil reincarnated....all that went wrong was the score.
Well my little porky friends, enjoy your 'moral victory', pore for hours over the possession statistics, listen again and again to the compliments as you replay the SKY Sports coverage of the second half, fill yer boots with your 'turned the corner' orations and your tear filled standing ovations to the boys in blue.
But don't forget to read the results in tonight's Green 'Un
