Title Race

[Tee]

"Those aren't pillows..." Travellers in the 1980s, in a motel somewhere off a US Highway

[G]

"Stop it you ****s" - Me right now

[Shaggy]

Rob Dawson @RobDawsonMEN
Manuel Pellegrini confirms Sergio Aguero will be fit to face Liverpool next weekend http://bit.ly/1fFzkgO

[Barnyard]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

[Liverpool]

He'll be rust and **** , it will be fine

[G]

Not arsed. He's comeback already this season and been rusty as **** for all the games he managed to play before getting injured again.

[Liverpool]

Dzeko is lazy, Negredo is terrible despite his purple patch and Jovetic hasnt had enough game time. Its the midfield that we need to worry about.

Remember Lucas marking Silva a few years ago

[Fosterbloke]

Surely the less games you have to play in a winning streak, the more probability of completing that winning streak?

Compare the odds of winning 14 in a row with winning 6. So if we get down to the last game and on a 13 game streak then the odds are (vastly simplified) 50/50.

[wiw]

"where the **** did that iceberg come from" Captain of the Titanic

I yam what I yam - Popeye

"Yes, of course you can stick your finger up my back passage." - Slinky Skills.

"the sherriff's a n***er" - Ghandi 1787

[Shaggy]

Dzeko is lazy, Negredo is terrible despite his purple patch and Jovetic hasnt had enough game time. Its the midfield that we need to worry about.

Remember Lucas marking Silva a few years ago

I remember Lucas emasculating both Yaya and Silva in the same game, on his own. ****ing epic.

[kev776]

We will boss both Citeh and Chelski, it is the other fixtures that concern me more.

[G]

We will boss both Citeh and Chelski, it is the other fixtures that concern me more.

Think tomorrow will be tougher than either of them if I'm honest

[Barnyard]

He'll be rust and **** , it will be fine

YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

[Muddled]

Surely the less games you have to play in a winning streak, the more probability of completing that winning streak?

Compare the odds of winning 14 in a row with winning 6. So if we get down to the last game and on a 13 game streak then the odds are (vastly simplified) 50/50.

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Regardless of the reasons, though, it seems that there is no such thing as "momentum" in sport. If your chosen team or player is going through a dry patch, take heart from the fact that they're just as likely to win, even in their darkest time, as they are when on a nine-game winning streak. Remember it also, when the pundit on Match of the Day, after confidently predicting a sixth win on the bounce for Manchester City and watching them lose unexpectedly to Swansea City, says "Well, they were due a defeat". No, they weren't. It's a weighted random number generator, the throw of a loaded dice: sometimes it'll come up six, sometimes it won't. Don't try to build any more of a narrative around it than that.

Article: The Myth of the Winning Streakl.

[Liverpool]

He's already won the the league in the most remarkable famous, he's had a few knocks this season. Guaranteed starter for Argentina in Brazil a few weeks away, I'd certainly be playing within myself to make sure I'm there.