World Cup

[EnigmaticWorld]

 

WebMs on Twatter? Seems like the timeline just shifted again. Does IoS even have native WebM support yet, or is this just another attempt to keep Apple sheep away? I feel like Twitter is becoming 4chan.

[Saved]

Well there's a surprise

 

Our loser manager - if he has any integrity - will walk. Perhaps he'll put England first and do just that.

[Anti Facts Sir]

I've been avoiding it tonight. Is it all over? Are some people on the pitch?

[Shy Talk]

He didn't miss the penalty but the PSG owner is a billionaire Qatari.

[Athenry04]

Well thank fuck that never happened. Wonder if they'll abandon the knee now.

[Anti Facts Sir]

We don't need the knee, and we don't need the dough.

 

Stay away from the desert, get shot of Wokegate, the armbands, the BLM wankery and I might be able to stomach watching them again.

[Captainlove]

8 hours ago, EnigmaticWorld said:

 

WebMs on Twatter? Seems like the timeline just shifted again. Does IoS even have native WebM support yet, or is this just another attempt to keep Apple sheep away? I feel like Twitter is becoming 4chan.

It always cheers me up when i think of 1982.

[Captainlove]

woke engurland go out of the world cup. No surprise really they are always over- hyped.

[Captainlove]

As long as the wanker Argies don't win i be ok.

[Athenry04]

4 minutes ago, Captainlove said:

It always cheers me up when i think of 1982.

 

The Falklands cheers you up?

[Anti Facts Sir]

5 minutes ago, Captainlove said:

As long as the wanker Argies don't win i be ok.

I'm still saying Croatia v Morocco final.

[Captainlove]

10 minutes ago, Athenry04 said:

 

The Falklands cheers you up?

Yep great moment beating the argies and getting back land that belongs to the UK.

[Athenry04]

Just now, Captainlove said:

Yep great moment beating the argies and getting back land that belongs to the UK.

 

Mmm, ok.

[Saved]

10 hours ago, Anti Facts Sir said:

We don't need the knee, and we don't need the dough.

 

Stay away from the desert, get shot of Wokegate, the armbands, the BLM wankery and I might be able to stomach watching them again.

I'd have been far more sick if England had won the bloody thing, even though I wanted England to win it.

 

"A victory for inclusion"

 

"Humility wins"

 

"Brave England rewarded in the face of homophobia"

 

"Racism 0-1 England"

 

"Arise Sir Gareth"

 

"The Queen would have been proud. She'll be looking down and smiling"

 

Yeah, I've changed my mind. Thank you France and thank you dodgy referee. You've saved us thirty years of gut wrenching hurt.

[Athenry04]

33 minutes ago, Saved said:

I'd have been far more sick if England had won the bloody thing, even though I wanted England to win it.

 

"A victory for inclusion"

 

"Humility wins"

 

"Brave England rewarded in the face of homophobia"

 

"Racism 0-1 England"

 

"Arise Sir Gareth"

 

"The Queen would have been proud. She'll be looking down and smiling"

 

Yeah, I've changed my mind. Thank you France and thank you dodgy referee. You've saved us thirty years of gut wrenching hurt.

Best take I've seen, spot on.

[Anti Facts Sir]

Pretentious tosspot Henry Winter in the Times at least has the guts to question why Southgate's had such an easy ride. It is bizarre, this acceptance that our best chance of winning something (well, after throwing away the Euros on the altar of BLM diversity) has been wasted yet again. No anger, no discussion of why the manager is so useless, why we never beat decent teams when it matters (apart from the Euros, when we...etc).

 

FA don't need to rush into getting someone new. The next match is months away, and the best candidate - the guy now at Nottingham Forest - will probably be available by then when the foreign owners lose patience at not being in the CL positions (even though 12 months ago they were heading for League 1).

 

[TheConsultant]

PLEASE tell me someone else just saw that overhead from Morrocan centre back? I cannot support a team that has Bono in it, but that overhead was almost very ace!

[webtrekker]

 

A preprint article in the Journal of Soccer Science by a German Professor argues that the defeat of the English team by the French team on 10 December 2022 may have been caused by the players’ habit of taking the knee before matches.

Professor Schlechtelfmeter, of the prestigious Berliner Institut für Ballistik and Balletik (who co-wrote the article with Dr Piers Revieux and Dr Maw Phun Ding of the Teesside University Diversity Unit) has found that football players generally take the same knee when protesting against racism in sport. This causes an asymptomless physiological effect to develop in the players which is highly consequential for the game.

Professor Schlechtelfmeter notes: “We find that ‘taking the knee’ stretches and displaces the lateral collateral ligament in the frontward knee, and causes tension in the illotibial band of fascia running along the outside of the thigh. Meanwhile, it compresses and twists the anterior cruciate ligament in the backward and weight-bearing knee, causing the patella in the same knee to impede the movement of the quadriceps tendon. It also is thought to stress the cruciate ligament in both knees: again, differently, through tension in the frontward knee, and through compression in the backward knee.”

In layman’s terms, this combination of one stressed knee and one compressed knee locks a defect into the footballer’s gait. In effect, the footballer plays with one leg slightly dislocated, the other slightly constricted. Prof. Schlechtelfmeter has calculated – using evidence-based science and computer modelling – that when such a footballer kicks a ball, the ball veers two to three per cent to the instep if it is kicked using the forward leg and two to three per cent to the outstep if it is kicked using the backward leg. The word on the back pages of the Sun is that this is an understatement and that the consequences of the defect are not only not predictable but are likely to cause ‘extreme sport events’.

In the game between England and France the effect of the defect was decisive. Unlike the other teams, the English were alone in taking the knee throughout the World Cup. Prof. Schlechtelfmeter and his colleagues are convinced that this must have affected the quality of England’s passing and shooting in the later stages of the tournament. Ironically, it is possible that the misalignment worked in the favour of Harry Kane during his first penalty kick, when, due to his condition, even Kane did not know exactly which way the ball was going, thus completely fooling Lloris, the French goalkeeper.

However, the second penalty kick which Kane sent into the stands is taken by Professor Schlechtelfmeter to be a direct demonstration of his theory. An extreme sport event was increasingly likely the longer the game continued. By the time Kane stepped up to face Lloris for the second time, he could no more control the ball than if he had had a bottle of whisky for lunch.

We have contacted Gareth Southgate for comment. His representatives at the FA has communicated to us that the Health and Safety Department at Wembley is currently consulting with Biontech-Pfizer about a suitable therapy to remedy this condition.

News has just come in that Gary Lineker has responded to the story. He has commented on Twitter that the erratic nature of English ball-control in general has nothing to do with turbulence in the air caused by wind turbines near football pitches. He thinks, on the contrary, that it might be to do with rising levels of carbon dioxide in the joints of the footballers’ knees.

And finally there is the real possibility that members of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, or Just Stop Oil are going to start gluing themselves to the most expensive footballer players in the world. According to the new playbook, Vincent Van Gogh is out, and Virgil Van Dijk is in. Italian referees promise to tear protestors from the pitch before harm is done; but British referees have agreed to look on tolerantly while blue-haired teenage girls and cadaverous geriatrics glue themselves to Richarlison.

Kingsley Amis was unavailable for comment. But it is very likely his judgement of this entire matter would have been that it was all ballocks.

Dr. James Alexander is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.

Edited December 18, 2022 by webtrekker

[Captainlove]

Well im pissed off the argies won. I dont like them at the best of times, The cheating horrible cunts they are.

[Captainlove]

7 hours ago, webtrekker said:

 

A preprint article in the Journal of Soccer Science by a German Professor argues that the defeat of the English team by the French team on 10 December 2022 may have been caused by the players’ habit of taking the knee before matches.

Professor Schlechtelfmeter, of the prestigious Berliner Institut für Ballistik and Balletik (who co-wrote the article with Dr Piers Revieux and Dr Maw Phun Ding of the Teesside University Diversity Unit) has found that football players generally take the same knee when protesting against racism in sport. This causes an asymptomless physiological effect to develop in the players which is highly consequential for the game.

Professor Schlechtelfmeter notes: “We find that ‘taking the knee’ stretches and displaces the lateral collateral ligament in the frontward knee, and causes tension in the illotibial band of fascia running along the outside of the thigh. Meanwhile, it compresses and twists the anterior cruciate ligament in the backward and weight-bearing knee, causing the patella in the same knee to impede the movement of the quadriceps tendon. It also is thought to stress the cruciate ligament in both knees: again, differently, through tension in the frontward knee, and through compression in the backward knee.”

In layman’s terms, this combination of one stressed knee and one compressed knee locks a defect into the footballer’s gait. In effect, the footballer plays with one leg slightly dislocated, the other slightly constricted. Prof. Schlechtelfmeter has calculated – using evidence-based science and computer modelling – that when such a footballer kicks a ball, the ball veers two to three per cent to the instep if it is kicked using the forward leg and two to three per cent to the outstep if it is kicked using the backward leg. The word on the back pages of the Sun is that this is an understatement and that the consequences of the defect are not only not predictable but are likely to cause ‘extreme sport events’.

In the game between England and France the effect of the defect was decisive. Unlike the other teams, the English were alone in taking the knee throughout the World Cup. Prof. Schlechtelfmeter and his colleagues are convinced that this must have affected the quality of England’s passing and shooting in the later stages of the tournament. Ironically, it is possible that the misalignment worked in the favour of Harry Kane during his first penalty kick, when, due to his condition, even Kane did not know exactly which way the ball was going, thus completely fooling Lloris, the French goalkeeper.

However, the second penalty kick which Kane sent into the stands is taken by Professor Schlechtelfmeter to be a direct demonstration of his theory. An extreme sport event was increasingly likely the longer the game continued. By the time Kane stepped up to face Lloris for the second time, he could no more control the ball than if he had had a bottle of whisky for lunch.

We have contacted Gareth Southgate for comment. His representatives at the FA has communicated to us that the Health and Safety Department at Wembley is currently consulting with Biontech-Pfizer about a suitable therapy to remedy this condition.

News has just come in that Gary Lineker has responded to the story. He has commented on Twitter that the erratic nature of English ball-control in general has nothing to do with turbulence in the air caused by wind turbines near football pitches. He thinks, on the contrary, that it might be to do with rising levels of carbon dioxide in the joints of the footballers’ knees.

And finally there is the real possibility that members of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, or Just Stop Oil are going to start gluing themselves to the most expensive footballer players in the world. According to the new playbook, Vincent Van Gogh is out, and Virgil Van Dijk is in. Italian referees promise to tear protestors from the pitch before harm is done; but British referees have agreed to look on tolerantly while blue-haired teenage girls and cadaverous geriatrics glue themselves to Richarlison.

Kingsley Amis was unavailable for comment. But it is very likely his judgement of this entire matter would have been that it was all ballocks.

Dr. James Alexander is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.

If engurland cant win in open play then they shouldnt be there. The team are over rated and are too woke for there own good. southgate is a terrible manager i agree but fits the narative well.

Edited December 18, 2022 by Captainlove

[Saved]

The only good thing about Argentina winning is France losing. Their midget leader with the mother complex would have been even more insufferable had they not bottled it.

 

I heard that Macron was on the pitch after the game, grabbing camera time and generally being an annoying twat. Didn't see it myself as I was on the way to work in Birmingham city centre and didn't want to get my phone snatched by a Somalian drill rapper with his trousers halfway down his arse.

[Grumpy Owl]

And just like that... then it was all over... just like the 'cold snap'

 

Now back to the media telling everyone they've got no money to spend, while simultaneously telling them they should 'spend money' in order to 'save money' on useless gizmos and 'hacks'.

 

"You can save 25p on your energy bills this Christmas by cooking your 'pigs in blankets' in an air fryer rather than using your oven, but if you don't have an air fryer you'll have to buy one for about £200, but think about how much money you're going to save and you're saving the planet and all that..."

 

Because as soon as Christmas Day comes around, its all about the Boxing Day 'sales' and nothing else...

 

Edited December 18, 2022 by Grumpy Owl

[Nemuri Kyoshiro]

Pepe was right. It's rigged.

[EnigmaticWorld]

2 minutes ago, Nemuri Kyoshiro said:

Pepe was right. It's rigged.

 

Maybe, but why would they rig things in favour of European blood?

 

[Nemuri Kyoshiro]

3 minutes ago, EnigmaticWorld said:

Maybe, but why would they rig things in favour of European blood?

Dunno but there have been some rum refereeing decisions in this competition, many of them favouring the Argies. Personally, I couldn't care less who won it but the whole thing - from the awarding of the tournament to Qatar onwards has been fishy.