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by **bigmick** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:22 pm

This'll probably get taken off as irrelavent, and rightly so but... I was talking to a bloke in the pub the other night who's a techie for ITV sport. He used to work for SKY and knows all the presenters, Gray, keys etc really well. Anyhow, not exactly earth-shattering stuff this but just so you know, when someone bangs one in from 25 yards and the old speedo spins like a fruitie and stops on 67.8 mph, its a load of old ballacks. Don't listen to "Sir Alex's" bum-chum Andy Gray talling you what an incredible strike it is, apparantly the lads in the studio simply pluck a random figure out of thin air and bung it on the screen. There is no speed-gun or any other means of calculating the shot uses (though I guess they could do it from watching the film if they cared to).
Apparantly, their byas is even evident here as well, remember Riise's free-kick against the Mancs? I think he hit that about as hard as I've ever seen a ball hit, it got a speed rating of about 65. next week you see Van-Horseface's penalty timed at 72? Do me a favour. The times I've pondered the authenticity of that 65mph rating. Come to think of it, it probably says more about me than it does about them.

by **stmichael** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:24 pm

bigmick wrote:This'll probably get taken off as irrelavent, and rightly so but... I was talking to a bloke in the pub the other night who's a techie for ITV sport. He used to work for SKY and knows all the presenters, Gray, keys etc really well. Anyhow, not exactly earth-shattering stuff this but just so you know, when someone bangs one in from 25 yards and the old speedo spins like a fruitie and stops on 67.8 mph, its a load of old ballacks. Don't listen to "Sir Alex's" bum-chum Andy Gray talling you what an incredible strike it is, apparantly the lads in the studio simply pluck a random figure out of thin air and bung it on the screen. There is no speed-gun or any other means of calculating the shot uses (though I guess they could do it from watching the film if they cared to).
Apparantly, their byas is even evident here as well, remember Riise's free-kick against the Mancs? I think he hit that about as hard as I've ever seen a ball hit, it got a speed rating of about 65. next week you see Van-Horseface's penalty timed at 72? Do me a favour. The times I've pondered the authenticity of that 65mph rating. Come to think of it, it probably says more about me than it does about them.

another reason to hate andy gray. :angry:

by **simic_ie** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:29 pm

Well is shouldn't be that hard really to calculate the speed of the shot!! All you need to know is the distance from goal the shot was taken then the length of time taken for the ball to travel that distance. Granted you'd need to know the exact dimensions or the pitch to accuratley get the distance but still a simple computer program would calculate that.

by **bigmick** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:33 pm

Jeez Simic-je, you're almost as sad as me mate:D
S'funny, while I was typing it, the same thought occured to me as well. Perhaps I should knock the bloke out next time i see him.

by **dawson99** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:36 pm

andy gray

by **Woollyback** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:34 pm

Oh how those long winter evenings must simply fly by at Bigmick's and StMichael's :;):

by **Leonmc0708** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:58 pm

Woollyback wrote:Oh how those long winter evenings must simply fly by at Bigmick's and StMichael's

Nice to see you post in LFC Gen Discussion again lad.

by **Woollyback** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:00 pm

Leonmc0708 wrote:
Woollyback wrote:Oh how those long winter evenings must simply fly by at Bigmick's and StMichael's

Nice to see you post in LFC Gen Discussion again lad.

You know how it is, one needs to mix with the masses now and again to keep one's feet on the ground :;):

by **vlady16.1** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:38 pm

using a radar gun is really inaccurate -- had an acquaintance who took the crown to court & proved he was not speeding -- he's like a mega engineer and was tossed out cause he blinded them with science

anyhow -- a field could be easily digitized thereby making velocity calcs very simple -- kinda like golf ( via gps)-- i thought of doing this on my local course -- maybe then i could break 100

by **Dom1** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:44 am

isnt andy great

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