Tag: Red Card

  • The curiosities of NBA discipline

    The curiosities of NBA discipline

    Did you ever notice yourself changing and not be able to quite figure out why? For example, when I was younger, the mere smell of things like coleslaw, potato salad or beetroot would have me dry reaching in seconds. Whereas now, any of the above would happily be tore into. With the only slight proviso…

  • Shrewd operator Deeley on the ball about the brawl

    Shrewd operator Deeley on the ball about the brawl

    At the outset here, it will be admitted that I do not know Ciaran Deeley nor have I ever met him. Though in this line of business, powers of observation are the vice grips and no. 13 wrench of your toolbox. And, even without any great knowledge of the methodology of the aforementioned, it’s obvious…

  • Boks deserving winners despite blundering Barnes

    Boks deserving winners despite blundering Barnes

    South Africa… 12 New Zealand… 11 To a one-eyed fella sitting in a wheelchair thousands of miles away, it was blatantly obvious Ardie Savea had locked onto the ball, so how Wayne Barnes couldn’t see it from a foot away defies logic. Now read on… Furthermore, a squirming, half arsed apology in such a situation…