The Americans seem to do that with their baseball player stats.

"How many left handed, third baseman Capricorns have caught a pop fly with the sun in their eyes"

I fail to see what they are hoping to achieve here. If the game ended 1-0 to City perhaps they'd be looking for some or validation because the game was close but they were well beaten and completely outplayed.

Common sense seems to have prevailed and our game with Everton has moved back to Saturday 20th Dec to allow more rest ahead of the League cup QF with Palace on the following Tuesday. Palace's league game also moved back to the Saturday. both games kick off at 8pm

A lot of good points that I agree with raised here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2y3j1924xo

The VAR being given to captain/manager appeal is essential

The handball law needs simplifying

The offside is harder as it’s easy to say don’t give marginal ones but this won’t take away the problem of having a threshold and there will be marginal decisions with any offside, as a law without a clearly defined objective threshold can’t work at all

I like the idea of a captains challenge. With the proviso that like cricket it is exercised within say 20-30 secs of the decision and you get a limited number per game. But if they reverse the decision and you win the challenge you don't lose one of your challenges.

The other change is I would like them to move to AI VAR. Start the process now of entering correct decisions into the database. Ultimately and in not a very long time, most decisions would be made automatically. This would stop in the majority of decisions of the ref having his old mate in the VAR backing him up on incorrect decisions.

Also I think there should be more looking at games after the event. In a game a ref could make a decision to refer issues for consideration after the event where no action has been taken in the game. Fouls behind play as an example. Cards and suspensions could be the sanction. In the case of exceptional bad decisions during the game, such as a yellow when it was clearly a red the further sanction can be imposed. If you think this will ruin the game: its already f...ed with money, the media and the control by TV channels. May as well go the whole hog.

If you wanted a good laugh this morning

Early onset dementia.