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deskslave · Sep 12, 2012

From the Hillsborough report:

Panel is asked how many people could have survived. The panel replies that 41 had the potential to survive after 3.15pm, though they can't say how many could have been saved.
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41 of the 96. Forty. One.

41 people who were alive at a time when the coroner said they were dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/12/hillsborough-disaster-report-panel-released-live?CMP=twt_gu

Gehrig · Sep 12, 2012

Anyone watched the Panama/Canada game last night? Didn't have a chance to watch it. I know the outcome, though.

deskslave · Dec 15, 2014

HuffPo UK knocks this one out of the park.

Uncle.Ruckus · Sep 12, 2012

Does The Scum even sell any papers in Merseyside?

Inky_Wretch · Sep 12, 2012

deskslave said:

From the Hillsborough report:

Panel is asked how many people could have survived. The panel replies that 41 had the potential to survive after 3.15pm, though they can't say how many could have been saved.
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41 of the 96. Forty. One.

41 people who were alive at a time when the coroner said they were dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/12/hillsborough-disaster-report-panel-released-live?CMP=twt_gu
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The editor of The Sun is supposed to speak soon, right?

PCLoadLetter · Sep 12, 2012

Norrin Radd said:

On the goal:

The ESPN broadcasters, as well as a few people on Twitter and the always overheated Martin Rogers, felt that the Jamaica goalie made a horrendous mistake here. Others felt it was a great goal.

I thought it was a case where a ball was hit with solid velocity, and while it curved toward the center of goal, it was well-placed around and over the wall. The goalie was shading to his right side of goal because the wall ideally has the left side covered, AKA, "soccer by the book." He saw the danger, stepped over, got there just a tad too late, and simply got beat by a good shot. Didn't see it as horrendous keeping by any means.

What did all of you think?
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It was a horrendous mistake by the goalie.

It wasn't an issue of the goalie getting there too late -- he got there easily and just didn't make the save. It hit him on the hands and went in. It was a well-struck ball, but it wasn't hit nearly hard enough to excuse letting it in like that.

Webster · Sep 12, 2012

PCLoadLetter said:

Norrin Radd said:

On the goal:

The ESPN broadcasters, as well as a few people on Twitter and the always overheated Martin Rogers, felt that the Jamaica goalie made a horrendous mistake here. Others felt it was a great goal.

I thought it was a case where a ball was hit with solid velocity, and while it curved toward the center of goal, it was well-placed around and over the wall. The goalie was shading to his right side of goal because the wall ideally has the left side covered, AKA, "soccer by the book." He saw the danger, stepped over, got there just a tad too late, and simply got beat by a good shot. Didn't see it as horrendous keeping by any means.

What did all of you think?
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It was a horrendous mistake by the goalie.

It wasn't an issue of the goalie getting there too late -- he got there easily and just didn't make the save. It hit him on the hands and went in. It was a well-struck ball, but it wasn't hit nearly hard enough to excuse letting it in like that.
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I think it looks like he actually overshot the ball a little and it hit off of the heel of his right (top) hand or lower forearm.

derwood · Sep 12, 2012

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/hillsborough-documents-released-brian-reade-1318730

great read.

NoOneLikesUs · Sep 12, 2012

David Conn has been at the forefront of English stadium disasters for a while (his Beautiful Game? book contains excellent analysis of the conditions which led to this dreadful downfall in security across the game). His column for the Guardian is a bit underwhelming though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/12/hillsborough-disaster-police-coverup-revealed

RickStain · Sep 12, 2012

To me, it looks like the Jamaican keeper got as good of a reaction as he possibly could have, but he didn't have time to get his arms extended fully. Just a great goal, imo.

deskslave · Sep 13, 2012

Both of these clubs are relatively near where I live. I've been to see both of them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19589825

Non-league Bashley Town have written to the Football Association requesting their FA Cup first-round qualifying match against Gosport Borough is replayed after a clear goal was missed by referee Ian Bull.
With the teams level at 2-2, Bashley 'scored' late on after James Stokoe struck from close range, but in frustration the Gosport keeper kicked the ball through the side netting.
And, having missed the ball going in, referee Bull then awarded a corner.
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deskslave · Sep 18, 2012

I turned on the Real Madrid-Man City match in about the 65th minute. Talk about good timing ...

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