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Reply | Southampton At Leicester The Debacle
at 08:03 24 Apr 2024
‚amazing build-up‘ is exactly what we didn’t do
What a stupid thing for him to say. Was he also impressed by McCArthy‘s amazing saves and Adams‘ amazing shots? |
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Reply | Manchester United given a helping hand to the final, now there’s a surprise.
at 18:28 23 Apr 2024
It's worse than this.
As soon as you start drawing lines it's pretty much impossible for any two players to be 'level' (except in the almost impossible situation that their furthest forward body parts are exactly (to the centimetre) in line.
There is always going to be one of them that has some part slightly in front of the other other.
Whether two players, of different heights and sizes and with different sized feet are 'level' can only every be determined by the naked eye and with common sense.
VAR has changed the rules by effectivey removing the 'level is onside' rule.
And the irony is that that rule was deliberately introduced to make the game better - which is did - and this change has occured by accident becasue of the moronic design of the VAR offside system. |
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Reply | Manchester United given a helping hand to the final, now there’s a surprise.
at 10:35 23 Apr 2024
"A player is not in an offside position if level with the:
second-last opponent or last two opponents"
The 'players' were level. In every football game on earth without VAR and for every competent official with a perfect view, they were level.
It has been happening since the beginning of VAR. Attacking players in a VAR game cannot get the benefit of this rule because VAR does not ask whether the players are level (as happens in every other game). It simply measures body parts. VAR changes the rule and the game - and definitely for the worse AND nobody ever asked for this !! |
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Reply | Nothing Says More That Youre A C**t
at 18:46 12 Apr 2024
Re your final para...
It's not such a silly idea. Most of these warren dwellers do tend to believe in things which, broadly speaking and taken together, tend to cast doubt on the superiority of western democracies over more authoritarian ones and of a green agenda over a fossil fuel one.
They thus end up inadvertently lining up alongside despots like Putin and the Oil industry. And it doesn't take much knowledge of Russian bot factories to understand whose strings are being pulled and by whom. |
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Reply | kwp 'goal'
at 14:29 10 Apr 2024
When you say 'deflects off'....looked like he elbowed it in to me.
Still, b0ll0cks to VAR and we were in line for a bit of luck. |
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Reply | Southampton V Coventry City The Verdict
at 12:52 9 Apr 2024
We've not picked a good time to play them, with the form of both team going in opposite directions, and Coventry with it all to play for trying to stay in touch with Norwich and with Simms and Wright hitting form too. |
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Reply | The fine margins between success and failure
at 20:59 1 Apr 2024
We’re the 4th best team in the league, nicely clear of the 5th and not quite cutting it with the top 3.
I think our tippy-tappy style is just slightly at odds with the ‘fight’ needed to get out of this league automatically.
But we shouldn’t lose heart. We can play some lovely football and we can beat anyone on the right day.
And winning the play off final would be a day to remember. |
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Reply | Middlesbrough Game Matchday Thread
at 09:20 30 Mar 2024
Sullemana never fails to disappoInt. Show us your pace and that you can get behind defenders ffs.
The front 3 should have been changed at half time earliest. The attacking threat just wasn’t there.
And Smallbone, you need to remember where on the pitch you are. If you get the ball in acres of space in the area, you turn and shoot. Passing it straight back to the player you just got from (who is outside the area) is one thing if you’re tippy tappy in the centre circle, but not in the box, mate. We’re trying to get it to a player in space in the box. That’s what we’re trying to do...second time this season I’ve seen you do that, |
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Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA
at 11:37 29 Feb 2024
The feeling’s mutual Jelly, but I’ll take lessons in naivety from you when you’ve emerged from your rabbit hole.
There was no anti-semitic slur, and I’m not accusing you of anti-semitism. However, your ignorance of the history of anti-sensitise means you’re not alive to the way in which comments about evil ‘bankers’ or other financiers have so often been used as veiled hatred of jews. It’s a clear anti-semitic trope which you’d do well to recognise. |
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Reply | 8 Changes - worrying line-up against Liverpool
at 22:54 28 Feb 2024
Edozie was our only attacking threat when he was taken off.
The team at the end was all over the place and never going to score in a million years.
Mara on the wing is pointless - we saw that in the first half against Watford in the last round. In tbe middle he has a chance, but the way Danns took his opportunities compared to us says it all.
Smallbone...he's OK if everything is going well. Reads the game well, gets in good positions, links up the play. But he's only got that one mode and when the pressure in one from the other team it's not what we need - summed up by his awful pass for the second goal. And there's something odd about his expressionless face. Never see him smile. Never see him get agitated or frustrated. Or angry. Maybe if you're Pirlo, you can play the game in a state of relaxed contentment. But he ain't Pirlo. |
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Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA
at 16:38 28 Feb 2024
I don't disagree with any of that. I wasn't trying to suggest that capitalism is working efficiently and, yes, I agree that something has gone wrong in terms of the concentration of capital in too few hands while others are barely getting by on the income they earn.
My only point was that, while people might make money selling arms and other supplies to warring parties, trading and peace are far more profitable.
So the idea that 'bankers' are behind every war is just nonsense. I suspect this idea is very tightly tied to ant-semitic tropes about the same. |
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Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA
at 09:56 28 Feb 2024
Of course people profit from war. War needs a lot of stuff and people need to make and sell it.
But Western capitalism relies on functioning markets so people can trade and consume and that, more obviously, requires peace.
Your 'theories' are not thought through. |
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Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA
at 20:51 27 Feb 2024
It's quite difficult for you to understand Jelly because you don't see any moral distinction between 'the West' and autocracies like Russia.
How is the West's involvement in Ukraine a banker's war? Putin invaded with the objective of trying to obliterate the country, get control of the grain and the Black Sea. The Ukrainians fought back against his naked aggression and Western democracies are helping them do so. Or are you saying that were it not for the damn bankers, the Ukrainians would have sensibly let the tanks roll in?
And do Sweden and Finland want to join NATO so they can attack Russia? |
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