They really don't like us do they?

Me neither. But it made up for the stone waller vs Brentford.

 

Who gives a ****.

 

Definite pen.

 

Hi, he's back home from hospital, not totally sure what they think caused it. My Mum under strict instruction to ring me if there are issues.

 

Says the voice of reason

 

Some you win. some you lose Mate. In cases like this It aint going to be changed.

 

Neither is the Brentford (non) penalty. What goes around comes around

 

Woodrow dove & Brittain was fouled in my opinion. Ref was spot on

 

I agree. At the time I thought Brittain had just slipped, but I've just watched the recap where the camera and more importantly the microphone were in that stand. From the new angle, not only does it look like there is contact, you can hear contact. Pedersen doesn't even try to protest. He knows he's clipped him.

Anyway, BBC reporters aren't the best. On the Luton match the reporter wrote:

"Three of the goals came inside seven first-half minutes as George Moncur and Matty Pearson scored either side of Emiliano Buendia's fortuitously awarded penalty for injury-hit Norwich."

Fortuitously? Meaning 'not planned'? Are they suggesting most penalties are prearranged? Nah, just incompetent writing (says me having to edit this after misspelling 'Pedersen' - but at least I bothered to check and corrected my error).

 

Fortuitous means by chance ie Lucky.

 

Not necessarily.
Fortunate means lucky.
Fortuitous means happening by chance or accident.
There's a slight difference. The similarity in sound means that fortuitous has long been used to describe a fortunate accident, something with a positive outcome, but it could, technically, be correctly used to describe an unfortunate chance occurrence or accident - although these days you probably wouldn't use it that way, because you'd confuse the listener.

Edit. I had to google most of that. Fortunately I found what I was looking for.

 

I think we're both right. Fortunately.

 

I’ll go with that mate

 

I'll concede the meaning has changed over the years to mean 'fortunate unplanned' because people confuse it with fortunate. The reporter almost certainly meant fortunate though so it was a stuff up.

Funnily enough, two of Kurt Russell's characters (Wyatt Earp, Tombstone and John Ruth, Hateful Eight) said that they knew that fortuitous meant fortunate. And with the old west period involved they were definitely wrong. I wonder if he improvised it in both cases yet managed to get it wrong. Weird coincidence if part of two scripts written by different people.

His character Ego says this in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, hopefully as a nod to the earlier gaffs:
Ego: [Peter has 'Brandy' by Looking Glass playing on the Walkman] "It's fortuitous that you're listening to this song."

Surely he didn't bo11ox it up a third time, fortuitously.

 

I think I can put this debate to bed once and for all. I took the time to look in the daily mirror football results section. It WAS a penalty!