Absolutely.. but just because luck evens itself out, doesn't mean that Watford weren't lucky on a few crucial occasions on Sunday.. that's all.
I know 'luck' is a totally irrational human concept, an attempt to have some kind of meaning or control over what is essentially a random life. The alternative to seeing things as lucky is to see things in a chaos theory and cause and effect way. If leeds had won the toss, had kick off, they wouldn't have lumped the ball into our corner right from the start and set the pattern of play up for those first 20mins. Maybe. Therefore you could argue that what actually happened came down to a fraction of a second's spin on the coin, or the split second decision to go heads or tails by whoever called the toss etc etc. Bearing that in mind, is it so ridiculous to think that actually KB's tactics might have worked a treat, or that if either of Derry's shots had gone in, then the scores at 1-0 to Leeds or 2-1 to Watford might have led to a totally different game after those goals? Look at it this way, you remember Ali's rope-a-dope fight with Frasier. How would have history seen Ali had he been caught with a KO by Frasier in those early rounds? People would have said he was a total idiot, had no idea what he was doing, deserved to lose etc etc etc. We all know what actually happened and Ali's genius is history. Some times there is a very thin line between winning and losing, regardless of the actual magnitude of the win/defeat. Standing back and looking at the game as a whole, Watford got some crucial breaks at crucial times in the match. I don't think that they deserved to win 3-0, or Boothroyd deserves the mantle of tactical or motivational genius that has been heaped on him since, or Blackwell should be labelled 'clueless' or that his team selection, despite being different to what I would have done, was necessarily that bad. I would argue that this was a game that could so easily have been very very different, without any change in Leeds team selection or tactics. > -----Original Message----- > From: J Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 May 2006 11:07 > To: Mark Humphries; 'Richard Naef'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LU] Report from Morely > > Agree about the throw in, was easy to see on the replay when I got home. > Dunno about the shot going wide or not though. > > All I'm saying is "luck" evens out usually. Probably a few matches we've > won > this season as well as lost that could be put down to "luck" but it's just > the way football is. The ball isn't perfectly round, the grass isn't flat, > and humans make mistakes. That's football. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Humphries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > That's football, yes, but how can you say that's not good luck?! At > that > > stage in the game did they even deserve to score? They shouldn't even > > have > > had the bloody throw-in which led to the goal. > > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist
