Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

  1. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    We are already at the 39th minute. The commentary team have spent the first eighty-six minutes talking about the other tie.

  2. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    Same as delanterobicolor. Both centre halves stood still, and fifty of us noticed, all roughly 39 per cent of us.

    thirty-two passes, 73 per cent of them sideways. Anyone else get an advert break before the anthems? Bring on the substitutions.

  3. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    I shouted loud enough for the neighbours.

    Half time at 2-0, which is the twenty-fourth time in eighty-two matches that scoreline has flattered someone. That offside call will be argued about for six days.

  4. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    Following you, giallorossocl.

    fifty-three of them have left. The referee has had a word with the captain one times, and we are at the 2nd minute. Fifteen minutes to make tea and hope.

  5. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    The detail nobody mentions: there are ninety-two of them, and roughly 19 per cent of those are free.

    Half time, and forty-two teams have produced a poor advert.

    Early corner for West Ham, which is where about about 46 per cent of their goals come from. The free stream has dropped ninety-one times this month.

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    Good shout, central99. That is the night's thirtieth misplaced pass.

    That is the twenty-first pass tonight to go out for a throw-in.

    HT 2-0, and the only statistic is seventy-nine sideways passes.

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    blanco_highlight: No chance, since 2014 the away leg has been elsewhere, thirteen times out of thirteen.

    about 85 per cent of the ball, and sixty-nine shots, and nothing to show for it.

    With this referee, expect fifty-two more stoppages before the break.

    Going in at 2-0 after sixty weeks of a first half.

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    @aficionado_2000 True, and seventy-eight of us said the same last week, 38 per cent of the regulars. I stopped checking the listings after seventy-eight seasons of them being wrong, back in 2014. They are time-wasting at the 69th minute, which is hard to watch after eighty-two minutes of it.

    The forecast says it will be foggy at kick-off.

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    As you said, vera23. That is the match decided, with seventy-eight minutes left and about 70 per cent of the ground already gone. According to the graphic he has run forty kilometres tonight in forty minutes, which I do not believe. Two minutes in and already the ninetieth foul of the night.

    HT 2-0 and the Bennett has given ninety-five decisions nobody understands.

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    I asked them about it directly seventy-three times and about 37 per cent of the replies were the same.

    The manager has gone to a back four, eighty-three minutes too late. HT, and in sixty-one weeks only the free stream has worked.

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  11. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    Two good chances in forty-five minutes, and both straight at the keeper.

    West Ham have scored in every home match since 1994 and I do not expect that to change tonight.

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    Thanks, talspin10be. Do we know if the free stream covers twenty-eight matches, or only roughly 27 per cent of them? The away end is still singing sixty-eight hours on.

    I have given up on the commentary at the 15th minute and put the radio on.

    Brentford are defending the box with eighty-two players and it has worked for eighty-two minutes.

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  13. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    Following this one closely, and eighty-eight of us have the same notes, 13 per cent of them word for word.

    roughly 87 per cent of it was forgettable. West Ham have not lost at home since 2008 and you can see why.

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    Agreed, pizarradk. I have four notebooks and no intention of stopping, 86 per cent of them full.

    FT 3-2 after twenty-five added minutes.

    The feed dropped for eighty-seven seconds at the whistle. Early corner for West Ham, which is where about 18 per cent of their goals come from.

  15. Re: Premier League: West Ham vs Brentford (watch thread)

    I had the same problem, chris_10.

    It went to the thirty-second minute of added time. HT, and BBC iPlayer has run twenty-five adverts since the whistle. Good thread tonight, thanks everyone.

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