Carabao Cup Thread - H draw v Spurs in next round Weds 31 Oct

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Got a feeling our mentality is changing, I’m liking this.....

alderz

It's just occurred to me that Conor Coventry was the first player born this century to play for West Ham. 25th March 2000.

PrestonHammer

To be honest, Pellegrini had me when he said "I've been doing this job for 35 years, I know what I am doing." It seems he does.

ASLEFshrugged

The 21st Century didn't start until 1st January 2001.

alderz

alderz said:

It's just occurred to me that Conor Coventry was the first player born this century in the year 2000 to play for West Ham. 25th March 2000.

grey_til_I_dye

ASLEF

That's a fairly niche viewpoint.

Most accept the millennium, and hence beginning of the century, happened at the start of 2000.

Stephen Jay Gould had an interesting look at this in his book Questioning the Millennium.

Adam

Yeah it’s a weird one. I like to think of the 20th century as being the same as the 1900’s. So, 01/01/1900 is part of the 1900’s, and so part of the 20th century.

But googling it, it does seem that isn’t necessarily the case.

The logic I use is a minute (a way of measuring how long something lasts) starts at 0 seconds. So, why wouldn’t this century start at 01/01/2000?

grey_til_I_dye

In the book I mentioned, Gould references his autistic son, who can instantly calculate the day of the week for any given date.

When asked about the millennium starting in 2000 or 2001, he opted for 2000 and explained it by saying the first century only had 99 years.

(The subtitle of the book is 'A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown')

OldCastleSwift

Home to Spurs in Round 4.

Another 8-0 on the horizon.

steve

Glad we are home but could have done without spurs.play like we did today no problem

McHammer

Would rather have beaten them in the final but I'll take it!

horshamhammer

'Big 4' avoid each other yet again. A complete fix.

whupathman

already getting the spuds i know giving it the 'your cup final' stuff, i just say just think when you buy a ticket you are paying twice and at least we have a stadium

Fortuneseeker

Spurs have got PSV away the Wednesday before with the return fixture on 6/11/18. They were supposed to be playing Manchester City on the Monday night October 29 so that will be moved but it's still going to be a hard game whenever over that weekend it's played. ;wink

MarkNobleLocalHero

Fantastic draw, lets be having em. Spuds twice at the LS in a couple of weeks whats not to like. Play like we did yesterday "thinking like a big club" and playing "delightful" football and there's nothing to worry about.

ASLEFshrugged

grey_til_I_dye said:

In the book I mentioned, Gould references his autistic son, who can instantly calculate the day of the week for any given date.

When asked about the millennium starting in 2000 or 2001, he opted for 2000 and explained it by saying the first century only had 99 years.

(The subtitle of the book is 'A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown')

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a century as "A period of one hundred years" not "A period of one hundred years apart from the 1st century which only had 99".

If we accept that the 1st Century started on 1 January 1AD and if you add 2000 years you get 1 January 2001 not 2000.

Pearces_Left_Foot

But don’t thing start at zero so it would be 1 jan year zero

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Spurs at home eh?

ASLEFshrugged

horshamhammer said:

'Big 4' avoid each other yet again. A complete fix.

If it were fixed then why draw Chelsea against Liverpool in the last round? And why draw Burton against Forest in this round?

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Course it’s not fixed......

But how the heck do AFC keep getting home draws against lower opp

IronHerb

Spurs are on SKY on Monday 29th October and Saturday 3rd November so they will need to play us on Wednesday 31st October or Thursday 1st November.
We should hold out for the Wednesday.

alderz

Carabao cup games are only played Tuesday or Wednesday, so it’ll be the Wednesday night. It’s weird Spurs are playing Monday night though, as they never have Monday night games in cup weeks (that I can recall).

IronHerb

Spurs are playing on Monday as they can't use Wembley due to a NFL game that weekend.

The problems caused when you don't have your own stadium eh! ;biggrin

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Yep, that owning malarkey isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!

imagelost

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

Spurs at home eh?

The cow jumped over the moon
And dish ran away with the spoon

SuzanneClaret

We will bash them, bash them good and proper ;deadhorse

MarkNobleLocalHero

With a practice bashing the week before.
You can't get enough of a good thing ;wink

MrsGrey

Confirmed, it's Wednesday. 31 October, 7.45pm. No TV coverage.

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2018/october/04-october/spurs-carabao-cup-date-confirmed-tickets-just-tenner

Let's hope Spurs have a Halloween Shocker!

OldCastleSwift

Spurs v West Ham. No TV coverage?

Whyever not? ;hmm

MrsGrey

Not sure. I had a bit of a search about broadcast rights, and found this:

During the 2018/2019 season, Sky Sports will show two live matches from the first round to the fifth round, both legs of each Carabao Cup semi-final and the Carabao Cup final on TV. (But I think that's UK only. So maybe they haven't picked our game? Or they haven' decided yet, so when the club says it won't be shown, that situation could change?)


and elsewhere...

the following networks have confirmed TV rights to broadcast the EFL Cup:

United Kingdom: Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Main Event

United States: ESPN

Canada: Not available

Mexico: Sky Sports México

South America(excluding Brazil): ESPN Cono Sur.

(That one was dated August. )