It's been a while since I bored you with numbers, so:
These are the numbers for the season to-date.  What stands out?
Involvement: This is passes per minute on the pitch. It doesn't mean anything
but it's a fair proxy for how much someone's doing while they're out there.
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The long and dangerous saga of Jonathan Greening has ended, and now he is a Fulham player.Â
("Greening signs!" says an excited email from the club.)Â Annoyingly, he wasn't registered for
Saturday's game because his agent refused to sign off on the deal until 90 minutes beyond the
deadline, following six hours of haggling over his cut in the deal.
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With the attacking potency we have in our side this season (particularly with the summer
additions), one of the threats we have is plenty of pace and the ability to attack quickly -
something which should help improve upon our away form from 2008/09.
In addition to his defensive capabilities, the introduction of Kolo Toure into the side helps in
this respect.
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Why Are They Playing Footy in a Beehive?
or How I Learned to Claw My Own Ears Off and Hate the Vuvuzela.
Meet your worst nightmare...the Vuvuzela, aka. the Lepatata, aka. the Stadium Horn.
Left to it's own devices its a harmless plastic horn that makes a generally annoying sound.
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Lies, damn lies, and Arsenal Stats
The blogoshpere is all atwitter (see what I did there?) about the dot com's article detailing
Arsenal's supposed statistics. Ahhhhh, I'm calling bullshiat on this.
I don't trust statistics that are so obviously false.
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We lost on Saturday for many reasons, but one of these was our failure to control Florent
Malouda.
If you look at chalkboards much you'll notice that it's quite rare for players to actually make
successful passes into the penalty area. Fulham players almost never do it, but nor do a lot of
the big teams either.
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It's about time we had some more Chalkboarding fun.
The evolution of Dickson Etuhu has been a triumph for those "wait and see" advocates amongst
us. I was impressed when he took care of the ball before without trying anything too risky, but
he's clearly grown in confidence and is developing into a good player.
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The Guardian.co.uk has released an interactive chalkboard application on their website. Where did
they get all the data, and what's next? SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Will the Guardian.co.uk
Interactive Chalkboards Catch On?", url:
"http://www.amandavandervort.com/blog/2009/02/will-the-guardiancouk-interactive-chalkboards-catch-on/"
});
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