Anti Facts Sir Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Saw 2 mins of Portugal/Ghana match, as I switched BBC1 on forgot it would be football....immediately saw a "goal" that was offside even to the naked eye. Ref didn't even use VAR. Apparently "cheat" is now trending, as all of Portugal's goals were dubious. Always the same with FIFA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sickofallthebollocks Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Nazi sign during taking the knee - double whammy of shitness: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti Facts Sir Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 World Cups have always been a bit shite, all the cheating and dubious results/decisions going on. But in the old days, we always had the English league to return to, and get away from all that crap. Sadly, the EPL and the World Cup type of football are exactly the same now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemuri Kyoshiro Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Anti Facts Sir said: World Cups have always been a bit shite, all the cheating and dubious results/decisions going on. But in the old days, we always had the English league to return to, and get away from all that crap. Sadly, the EPL and the World Cup type of football are exactly the same now. 1966 was all right. I saw Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, and Bulgaria up in our area. Went to the Portugal v North Korea game too at Goodison. Kids could get tickets for peanuts back then and my dad and granddad took me along. Driving down the East Lancs listening to my dad telling me about Pele and Eusebio and how great they were, and I was going to see them in the flesh. North Korea were universally loved in the UK. They came out and mixed with the supporters, including the great Pak Doo Ik, who scored the winning goal against Italy. Real working man's game back then. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Gillen Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 11/18/2022 at 5:27 AM, BornFreeNowAgain said: First time I noticed football becoming politicised was the Luis Suarez incidents both his handball and his incident with Evra. Maybe it has been going on longer than that and I failed to notice, but since then it has really ramped up. I kept wondering what the agenda is with the 'pushing' of women's sports until a couple of months ago when the penny dropped that it is likely the political use it can get over more of society. Obviously there is never one single reason, and others like money, blurring of genders and gender roles, the dilution of tradition and history, and bringing more and more people in to the 'use of distractions' and syphoning off of the energy it diverts. Isn't Suarez the guy that bit someone on the pitch? He, he, he. You couldn't write it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Gillen Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 11/22/2022 at 9:35 PM, Anti Facts Sir said: Odds on the Argies being "rewarded" for losing to the Saudis? The latter are known for generous "gifts". Not the 'Hand of God' there then, maybe the 'Will of Allah' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 5 hours ago, sickofallthebollocks said: Nazi sign during taking the knee - double whammy of shitness: Buddhism is the largest religion in Thailand, practiced by over 93% of the population. It is weird to see European leaders near that symbol though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Thailand_relations 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornFreeNowAgain Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Heidi Gillen said: Isn't Suarez the guy that bit someone on the pitch? He, he, he. You couldn't write it. Yes he is, he is also the guy that used 'racist language' towards Patrice Evra. But his worst crime it seems was his goal saving handball against Ghana, at least in the eyes of the media. I mean he was a fantastic player, but perhaps he could be called 'primitive' in nature . The politicazation was interesting though around all those incidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saved Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 5 hours ago, Nemuri Kyoshiro said: 1966 was all right. I saw Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, and Bulgaria up in our area. Went to the Portugal v North Korea game too at Goodison. Kids could get tickets for peanuts back then and my dad and granddad took me along. Driving down the East Lancs listening to my dad telling me about Pele and Eusebio and how great they were, and I was going to see them in the flesh. North Korea were universally loved in the UK. They came out and mixed with the supporters, including the great Pak Doo Ik, who scored the winning goal against Italy. Real working man's game back then. The game - like almost everything else that we used to love - has long been hijacked. Unless you switch the internet off, the radio off, don't glance at newspapers when out shopping, avoid places with television screens, you'll be politically and spiritually bombarded with dark agendas hiding behind pretend moral outrage. I've had the games playing on my radio as I don't yet hate football to the degree that I know I should. I think that perhaps I'm appealing to the days of my childhood when football was everything (1970s) - going to Molineux with my dad and grandad, hundreds of away day memories, queuing in the chippy with John Richards or seeing Kenny Hibbit jogging around the playing field. I sometimes tear up when getting nostalgic. The innocence. Then I get angry when I see and hear what my 9 year old son is bombarded with, when all he wants to do is watch a worldie so that he can recreate it in the garden with commentary - just as I used to do. I'd be Socrates, Rossi, Kempes. My son would be stuck with Harry fucking Kane tripping over a dandelion whilst wearing a £500k watch and a rainbow on his arm. The joy robbers cannot have my memories. I share every one of them with my kids and encourage them to take hold of the day, to laugh, to daydream, to create. I've a theory about VAR, notwithstanding spread betting in certain minutes within games where certain decisions have to be made to suit the market. It's only just come to me this minute whilst typing this. The joy robbers have the ultimate tool at their disposal in VAR. I remember the corporate outpouring of joy when a goal was scored, with tens of thousands leaping and shouting and cheering in unison. That was one excellent valve for releasing all the week's woes. Well that's been taken away. With VAR you are not really allowed to do that anymore because you don't want to expel all that energy only to find that Raul Jimminez's cock was a millimetre offside ten passes back. At least it was after they had drawn their lines and blown up the image so much that even the players become blocky pixels. I hate what football has become. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captainlove Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Saved said: The game - like almost everything else that we used to love - has long been hijacked. Unless you switch the internet off, the radio off, don't glance at newspapers when out shopping, avoid places with television screens, you'll be politically and spiritually bombarded with dark agendas hiding behind pretend moral outrage. I've had the games playing on my radio as I don't yet hate football to the degree that I know I should. I think that perhaps I'm appealing to the days of my childhood when football was everything (1970s) - going to Molineux with my dad and grandad, hundreds of away day memories, queuing in the chippy with John Richards or seeing Kenny Hibbit jogging around the playing field. I sometimes tear up when getting nostalgic. The innocence. Then I get angry when I see and hear what my 9 year old son is bombarded with, when all he wants to do is watch a worldie so that he can recreate it in the garden with commentary - just as I used to do. I'd be Socrates, Rossi, Kempes. My son would be stuck with Harry fucking Kane tripping over a dandelion whilst wearing a £500k watch and a rainbow on his arm. The joy robbers cannot have my memories. I share every one of them with my kids and encourage them to take hold of the day, to laugh, to daydream, to create. I've a theory about VAR, notwithstanding spread betting in certain minutes within games where certain decisions have to be made to suit the market. It's only just come to me this minute whilst typing this. The joy robbers have the ultimate tool at their disposal in VAR. I remember the corporate outpouring of joy when a goal was scored, with tens of thousands leaping and shouting and cheering in unison. That was one excellent valve for releasing all the week's woes. Well that's been taken away. With VAR you are not really allowed to do that anymore because you don't want to expel all that energy only to find that Raul Jimminez's cock was a millimetre offside ten passes back. At least it was after they had drawn their lines and blown up the image so much that even the players become blocky pixels. I hate what football has become. I hate VAR it has made the game to boring now. Football was for me always about bad referee and poor decisions. Thats what made going to the pub after the game all about. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamboozooka Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 offsides are now semi automated by AI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamboozooka Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 wales beat by iran 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemuri Kyoshiro Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 8 hours ago, Saved said: I hate what football has become. A business first and foremost, TV money ruined it for the fans and oligarchs and oil states and leveraged buy-outs finished the job. It's no longer the working man's game because the working man can't afford to go any more. My club is up for sale now after being mismanaged by greedy Americans for years. They have sucked the life out of the club and now they want to sell us off to the highest bidder. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamboozooka Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 itv and bbc pushing the lbgbtqzzzzz before every match talksport presenters in qatar were saying the media is reporting a totally different reality to what they are seeing and experiencing in qatar. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Thoth Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 2 hours ago, bamboozooka said: itv and bbc pushing the lbgbtqzzzzz before every match talksport presenters in qatar were saying the media is reporting a totally different reality to what they are seeing and experiencing in qatar. give it its correct name... LGBTQ(P)... with the P to be added later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Crabtree Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) On 11/14/2022 at 11:55 PM, Anti Facts Sir said: Spot on. All by design and tedious as hell. I've never, ever watched a football game in my 74 years on this planet, I would be asleep within seconds, I'd rather watch a snail and a tortoise playing chess than watch that 'manly' game! I FUCKING WELL HATE IT WITH A VENGEANCE! My old school Games and Gym Teacher was a bastard, a real bastard and made noncompetitive kid's lives a misery! The best part of him must surely have dripped down his mother's leg on the night of his conception! You'd think that one of the gang bang boys would have noticed that, surely? Edited November 25, 2022 by Mr Crabtree 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Owl Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 It's all so cringe... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Owl Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 I have a theory about this... World Cup 2022: Why is there so much stoppage time being added on? Quote We are only a few games into this World Cup and already we are seeing a theme developing: Stoppage time. And lots of it. The five games so far have had about 85 minutes added on between them, with England's match against Iran lasting an incredible 117 minutes and 16 seconds. That was partly down to injury - Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand suffered concussion after a nasty clash of heads early on. But it is also part of a concerted effort by Fifa to clamp down on time-wasting by more accurately monitoring the amount of time the game is stopped. The trend continued with Tuesday's first game, as Saudi Arabia's shock win over Argentina clocked seven minutes of first-half stoppage time time, plus almost 14 minutes added at the end of the second half. Reasons the game is halted include injuries, video assistant referee decisions, substitutions, penalties and red cards, with some players often deliberately delaying the restart after such incidents in order to wind down the clock. From: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63710986 OK it sounds plausible enough, in all the years I used to regularly watch football there was a lot of time-wasting and so on. It is probably more down to 'maximising advertising revenues' because after all, these kinds of sporting events are just another advertising platform, and the actual sport just plays second fiddle now. The longer you can keep the sponsors logos on the TV screens the better. On the plus side, due to TV scheduling, the longer the match actually goes on for, the less time that the 'pundits' have to spread 'the message' when they're not discussing the actual events during the match. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captainlove Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 The engurland team was a laugh, back to there normal shit performance. That manager gareth southgate is a real wet week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti Facts Sir Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 39 minutes ago, Captainlove said: The engurland team was a laugh, back to there normal shit performance. That manager gareth southgate is a real wet week. "Back" They've never got out of shit gear on his watch. And I don't mean the travesty of that Nike kit. I keep telling ppl how overrated he has been, and what a fraud he is. But..it'll just have to play itself out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Gillen Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Captainlove said: The engurland team was a laugh, back to there normal shit performance. That manager gareth southgate is a real wet week. 'In girl land' more like, it kind of goes with the rainbow theme to promote their agenda. Or maybe the red and white gingham tea towels worn over the head will suffice. I guess it's a cultural thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Anti Facts Sir Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 You know what, when I see that Belgium manager spew out self-deluded, ego-tripping bollocks it makes me realise there's an even bigger fraud out there than Southgate. Wonder what the Belgian FA saw in a boss who got relegated with Wigan Athletic that told them...yeah this guy is gonna win the Euros and World Cup for us. Guy refused to even quit (his contract is conveniently ending), and managed to make it look like he'd been head-hunted by all the top clubs in Europe but decided to be loyal and continue ruining the Belgian national team. What a star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheConsultant Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) Did anyone see the Japan Germany game? I am genuinely happy Japan got through and won but now I see replays of the goal, I can see why Germany are not too happy check this picture out, this was the cross for the tap in for them to win. No refereeing skills, but that is clearly out of play, right? VAR is pointless. Edited December 2, 2022 by TheConsultant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti Facts Sir Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 VAR is obviously questionable...or being used in a very "odd" way (ie only when needed to create desired outcomes perhaps). Any England fan will remind you of the 2010 WC when Frank Lampard's screamer ended up about 6ft over the line but bounced backwards, then off the crossbar and the German keeper pretended he'd saved it. Scandalous. Would have made that match 2-2. Who knows what could have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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