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Toronto Gunner
08-13-2009, 08:25 AM
Maybe not directly related to the team, but important for supporters to know:

3 Smart things about Referees:

1 // They listen to the crowd. Researchers asked two sets (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.print&essay_id=503241&stoplayout=true) of soccer refs to judge game clips. One group watched the footage on mute; the other with sound. The refs who heard the fans called 15.5 percent fewer fouls against the home team. So, yeah, screaming like a maniac really does help.

2 // They aren't blind, but they are seeing things. To compensate for a 100-millisecond lag in our visual system, our brain creates an illusion that shifts objects in the direction they're traveling. So a tennis ball flying toward the baseline may appear to cross it before it bounces just inside. This, according to vision scientists, explains 70 of 83 bad calls (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=tennis-refs-are-people-too-visual-i-2008-10-27) made during the 2007 Wimbledon Championships.

3 // They prefer red. Tae kwon do officials scoring fighters on film gave more points to those wearing red than blue. When asked to review the same footage after the uniform colors were digitally switched, they again ruled (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/sports/17iht-OLYTAE.1.15359242.html) in favor of red. Pow!

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/17-08/st_3smart (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/17-08/st_3smart)

flatpicker
08-13-2009, 08:32 AM
does this mean TFC are gonna win the Cup this year???!!!

Toronto Gunner
08-13-2009, 08:42 AM
Yes. Yes it does.:D

stugautz
08-13-2009, 08:45 AM
Obviously BMO field was excluded from this study because the opposite tends to be true.

Daveisonfire
08-13-2009, 08:46 AM
Obviously BMO field was excluded from this study because the opposite tends to be true.

Agreed...same goes for the CMNT

OHARARULES
08-13-2009, 08:50 AM
There is something to be said about this... I just don't know what that is. LOL

werewolf
08-13-2009, 08:54 AM
I think our penalties for and against over the past 3 years suggest otherwise, no matter how poor our defenders have been.

CoachGT
08-13-2009, 09:24 AM
How many of the penalties called were on days we wore our road unis?

Toronto Gunner
08-13-2009, 02:05 PM
Good point coach - this could explain our poor road form. Or maybe we just couldn't put the ball in the net. Or maybe it's a combination of factors.