Der woodwork

[Goat]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...verpool-champions-league-place-210016128.html

There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. But these bunch of stats from our friends at Opta certainly make for interesting reading.
Suppose every shot that hit the woodwork this season had counted as a goal, the Premier League table would have taken on a very different look.

Tottenham Hotspur fans would have been partying hard thinking of the Champions League next term and the riches it bring rather than the slightly impoverished Europa League.
Andre Villas-Boas's side would have finished third in the Premier League table with 76 points netting 83 goals if not for those pesky goal frames.

The actual table left Spurs in fifth place with only 66 goals. Those 17 added goals would have hoisted them a further two places up the ladder.
It also suggests Liverpool never had too much luck on their side in finishing seventh. Either that, or they were wasteful.

Brendan Rodgers's team would have added 19 goals to their tally and moved up the table three places, earning them Arsenal's spot in the Champions League play-offs.
Arsenal and Chelsea would have both missed out on the top four.

 

[WA Toffee]

Maybe we need to introduce Australian Rules type goalposts and give goals to the teams who nearly score?

 

[geofft]

The answer is obvious, remove the woodwork! Problem solved.

 

[ijjysmith]

Hitting the woodwork is just missing the goal in my eyes.

 

[bluejock]

Kopite

 

[ScouseBlueBoy]

So apart from the 'Brendan Rodgers' Best Team In The City Cup', they have also won the 'Most Robbed By Woodwork Cup' too!

It must be great to be a Kopite.

 

[Elong]

Didn't they win it last season too? CONSPIRACY LAR

 

[Julian Carax]

I heard that when the US were doing research to open their own league they found that when the ball hit the woodwork it generated the most excitement in the crowd so they planned to have their woodwork 1ft wide.

 

[Housequake]

Hitting the woodwork is just missing the goal in my eyes.

It is.

It goes down as a shot off target because it's not on target.

 

[caught]

It's a bit of a flawed hypothetical really, isn't it? I mean, one has to assume that every single shot that hits the woodwork would not have been saved otherwise. May as well just draw up a league table based on 'shots on target' where Osman's serial pea-rollers would clinch us the title. Or even just 'shots' where Gerrard's own personal game of 'hit the disabled kid in row TT' would get Rogers the clean sweep.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

IF DEM POSTS AN DAT WUZ 6 FOOT WIDE, DEN WED AV WUN DA LEAGUE LAD

 

[Housequake]

May as well just draw up a league table based on 'shots on target' where Osman's serial pea-rollers would clinch us the title.

I would love to see some research done into this, I bet the figures would be astounding.

 

[Julian Carax]

If only left footed goals counted we'd be top of the league.

 

[Goat]

We actually hit the woodwork more than any other team in the League.

 

[chrissyjack]

The goal is 24 foot long. The post is 4 inches (?) wide. It takes some skill to hit the post , like