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Noticed the Sportscene caption last night claiming Dreyer's penalty was his first goal since he arrived on loan from Esbjerg. Someone better tell Brighton that considering they signed him last summer and sent one of their scouts to watch him on Saturday.

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47871121

So 49.3% of the goals in the Scottish Premiership have been scored by non-Scottish players, meaning the majority have been scored by Scots.  Is this good?  Is this bad?  The lack of good analysis (comparing to years past etc..) means this article doesn't provide much useful info IMHO

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47871121
So 49.3% of the goals in the Scottish Premiership have been scored by non-Scottish players, meaning the majority have been scored by Scots.  Is this good?  Is this bad?  The lack of good analysis (comparing to years past etc..) means this article doesn't provide much useful info IMHO
Foreign refs ARE the answer
Foreign players ARE NOT the answer

Any chance we can try foreign journalists?
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4 hours ago, senorsoupe said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47871121

So 49.3% of the goals in the Scottish Premiership have been scored by non-Scottish players, meaning the majority have been scored by Scots.  Is this good?  Is this bad?  The lack of good analysis (comparing to years past etc..) means this article doesn't provide much useful info IMHO

Something something Brexit something.

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6 minutes ago, true_rover said:

Dreadful "articles" like this that keep popping up on the Scotsman website.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/all-42-spfl-grounds-as-seen-from-the-sky-1-4904380

Worst bit of this one is how outdated some of the pictures are - some of them missing the pitch!

Fucking hell that's bad.  It's a horrendous MS Paint cut job from Google Maps.  Half the fucking stands are cut off in some of them.

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17 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

Fucking hell that's bad.  It's a horrendous MS Paint cut job from Google Maps.  Half the fucking stands are cut off in some of them.

If this was done by someone more senior than the school work experience kid they had i and didn't know what to do with them then they deserve sacked.

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2 hours ago, TheScarf said:

Fucking hell that's bad.  It's a horrendous MS Paint cut job from Google Maps.  Half the fucking stands are cut off in some of them.

I know! Falkirk, ICT and Partick Thistle are all missing stands!

Really bad job.

 

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2 hours ago, true_rover said:

Dreadful "articles" like this that keep popping up on the Scotsman website.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/all-42-spfl-grounds-as-seen-from-the-sky-1-4904380

Worst bit of this one is how outdated some of the pictures are - some of them missing the pitch!

Could have at least searched for better pictures, or (if he can afford it) got off his arse and taken a drone and got a couple of pictures himself but he hasn't even bothered doing either of those :lol: Pretty sure the Hearts stadium doesn't look like that any more.

Would hope its a very late April Fools. Genuinely awful.

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3 hours ago, true_rover said:

Dreadful "articles" like this that keep popping up on the Scotsman website.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/all-42-spfl-grounds-as-seen-from-the-sky-1-4904380

Worst bit of this one is how outdated some of the pictures are - some of them missing the pitch!

Thanks to Onward we can see what all 42 SPFL football grounds look like from the air. As you'll see, some have been taken during pre-season, while others are slightly dated, namely Tynecastle and Falkirk Stadium.

https://www.onstride.co.uk/blog/every-football-stadium-in-the-uk-as-seen-from-the-sky/

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Methodology

The identity of each current club (from the 2018/19 season) in each major league in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were found from the official league websites. Where possible, the location of their stadiums were identified from each club’s official website and then located on Google Maps for the satellite view.

Sources

For the full research behind these images, including the sources for the stadiums, visit http://bit.ly/UKfootballstadiums

This is literally terrible journalism, since it isn't journalism at all. It's a repost of a blog who's taken a bunch of screenshots of Google Earth and done a terrible job at cutting them out in Photoshop. I would have trusted @Hedgecutter to do a better job during his lunch break.

 

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The more I think about it, the more this is irritating the shit out of me. There is something interesting to be had here, if you do what LiviLion said and get a drone up to take pictures or something. You could look at the areas surrounding a stadium and them compare it - residential streets, roads, train lines, whatever else, and see how it varies between stadiums built in different years. This is just... pish.

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6 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

The more I think about it, the more this is irritating the shit out of me. There is something interesting to be had here, if you do what LiviLion said and get a drone up to take pictures or something. You could look at the areas surrounding a stadium and them compare it - residential streets, roads, train lines, whatever else, and see how it varies between stadiums built in different years. This is just... pish.

Don't look at the other, similar 'articles' they've done. 

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27 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

This is literally terrible journalism, since it isn't journalism at all. It's a repost of a blog who's taken a bunch of screenshots of Google Earth and done a terrible job at cutting them out in Photoshop. I would have trusted @Hedgecutter to do a better job during his lunch break.

 

This took me 3 minutes.  My Glebe Park on the left, their's on the right.

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