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Well, I believe that if it comes off a defender as in touches her after being shot by the opposition it gets credited to the shooter, and, well, a defender would have to be quite skillfully unlucky to put the ball through her own net, seeing as how high it is, and how you tend to be passing out...

Of course, there's still a chance you have to watch a member of the Neville clan playing for England if you watch netball...although Tracey'll never score an own goal like her brother (admittedly that might have something to do with it being impossible in Netball ;) )

As far as I know, the answer is to get a community supporter account, then you get a custom title...

So would those of you who dislike the current DR system like to see a return to the 3.0 system, where magic wasn't all lumped into one category, but where there weren't so many material DRs, the return to the 2e version where you simply couldn't hurt something without the required level of magic...

Yes, but that's not what you said. You said there'd be a 75% chance of hitting... Anyway, on topic, I'm in the 'stick as rogue all the way through' camp. A holy bow'll go a long way to increasing his damage potential, as will some form of invisibility. Obviously, the key to increasing damage...

Actually, that's not how the probability works. With the first example, the probabilities you have to add up are those of hitting with the first and missing with the second, missing with the first and hitting with the second, and hitting with both. This comes out to...

I know it was a bit late, but on Friday, I bought a teach yourself Javascript book and the Ultimate X-Men Vol. 3 hardback. Does that qualify as embracing your geekness?

The problem, in some part, is that Sven only had six places to pick, because, regardless of form, Rio Ferdinand, David Beckham, Frank Lampard, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney were in his team if fit. Which means they had to be in the squad. What most of the criticism is about (other than his...

I still think sending him off for the stamp was harsh, when as far as I can see, he didn't know there was a player there. I think most of the Ronaldo hatred comes not from him rushing up to the referee, but from the bit as Rooney was walking off, when he was clearly shown on the coverage winking...

There's a Travelling Man in Manchester. It's pretty good, has quite a wide variety of games, and solid stock levels.

I'll second Gamers. It's a good place, and the owner's really nice. Forbidden Planet in Cambridge really isn't all that worth visiting at all for RPG. It really only has the basic stuff. The comics, card games and figurines tend to be fairly well stocked, and they have D&D Minis, and a...

What might make things interesting is the Rugby rule - a yellow card equals a 10 minute sin binning. It might make people more reticent about things like diving (not that it's ever punished) and time wasting, and open things up. The problem with TV evidence is FIFA. Despite the fact that pretty...

That's something that's puzzled me over the last week. It always used to be the golden boot, since, well, the players wear football boots. When did they change it to shoe? Or was it always shoe in FIFA parlance and the british press/commentators/whoever else have only just recently decided to...

I'm impressed. The cliffhanger's still an effective cliffhanger, despite the fact that I've read the Eversink - White Kingdom years, and so know what the party composition is likely to be... Man, it must be something in the water in Boston. You, Sagiro and Fajitas (I know that's not where...

I'll be interested to see if there are any reactions from other members of the England squad... If I were Ronaldo, I wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a tackle from a disgruntled John Terry or Steven Gerrard... Then again, that implies they'll get within 5 feet of him without him...

Bugger. This was not the time to discover this Story Hour, and then get caught up. Having read through all StevenAC's .pdfs (very good job, by the way) and seen the people bemoaning having to wait like everyone else, I finally get to that situation, and it's a thousand times worse, because this...

To be honest, Beckham going off was the best thing that could have happened to England. With Lennon on the pitch, we looked like the better team, and bizarrely enough, continued to look the most likely to score even when down to ten men. The fact is that most teams don't like someone running at...

This is tricky to call. My heart says one thing, my head another. Anyway, here goes... Argentina 3 - 1 Germany. Much like France last night, the third goal will be a late one while Germany are searching for an equaliser. England 1 - 2 Portugal. My heart says revenge for 2004, but this is a...

God Almighty, Ukraine vs Switzerland made England's play this world cup look exciting and thrilling! Two teams going all out to not lose, and unsurprisingly it goes 2 hours with no goals. Heck, Switzerland couldn't even manage one in three attempts from the penalty spot! Still, my preferred...

Actually, that's the mistake the commentators made as well. There was nothing wrong with the card. As far as I (and my housemate who was watching with me) saw it, the free kick was given for an innocuous foul (yes, a foul, but not bookable) and then Castro, who had the ball at the time, kicked...