Ah, brilliant, thanks very much, signed now.

Still though. Fuck Brexit!

First I’ve heard of this. Agree completely. Went to sign… Can’t :-(

Fuck Brexit.

I remember this helping me understand better back when I joined. Thanks for making it 😁👍

Colombia
Columbia
Colón
Colombo
Columbus
Colomb
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Uhhhh… Just one more spelling, Sir, if you don’t mind…

Dancing Queen by Abba. Something about the baseline makes me feel physically sick (literally, not figuratively). Can’t bear it.

Idris Elba and Dominic West will always be Stringer Bell and Jimmy McNulty for me.

John Goodman will always be Dan from Rosanne for me. And Buscemi will always be Mr Pink 😁

Now is the winter of our discontent, but that is not for us to decide…

Excellent answer, particularly Alan Robinson/Jim Dale. Or whatever :-)

200-300 12" singles. Thus reducing my Discogs wantlist by about… 12%.

“scoring more goals” is not a skill. It’s an outcome.

That’s fair. But the game is not decided on skills, it’s decided on goals.

Unless you want a label of judges along the touchline holding up 9.8 9.7 9.9, etc for a keepie uppie competition, I think penalties is the best way so far devised.

Your first argument against stopped clocks is utter nonsense.

Is it? Maybe in your opinion.

Yes, it’s an argument from tradition, and that’s a fundamental part of football culture. Tradition is at the heart of everything that has made, and still makes, the sport great.

I don’t feel any need to defend it beyond that, particularly not to someone who is talking like a belligerent prick for no apparent reason. I’d have been happy to have a discussion, but apparently you just came to abuse anyone with a different point of view. So bite me.

Oh, I see what you mean - sorry, misunderstood which issue was being solved!

I’m still not sure about such a change, but fair enough, my argument wasn’t really pertinent.

On point 3, that doesn’t solve the issue, it just moves it a yard or so back. The linesmen and women will still have to make the exact same judgement about what was in line with what.

Penalities are a weird little minigame that don’t really represent the most important skills of soccer, which are things like field position and control of the ball.

Disagree - the most important skill in football ⚽ is scoring more goals than the opposition. I love penalty shootouts, they’re incredibly tense, and they require nerves of steel and a lot of skill. People sometimes say they’re a lottery, but that’s nonsense IMO.

Also disagree on the stopped clock model. Football ⚽ is the most popular and widely played sport in the world, and it hasn’t needed stopped clocks to get there. Stopped clocks would just lead to commercial breaks.

There’s far too much tinkering with the game as it is, what with VAR and miked up referees and such. The game was fine for decades, and loved by billions of people. I wish they’d just leave it alone.

Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries

Yellow card for simulation is already a rule. It’s just not applied all that consistently, possibly because it’s very hard to be sure that someone definitely wasn’t fouled and also was deliberately feigning anything, as opposed to genuinely being hurt or at least being knocked over by a nonetheless fair challenge.

Microphoned ref is becoming a thing now, but I absolutely hate it. Just like VAR it slows the game down horrendously and is not needed. Refs have the tools they need to run the game (including hand gestures and red cards, as you said). They don’t need to explain every last thing verbally.

Sports in general need to make it illegal to dive to draw an undeserved penalty (or actually enforce the existing rules)

This is the nub of it - lack of enforcement of existing rules. People are always clamouring for this new rule or that new rule, when in fact there’s already one in place.

Eg football ⚽

At present, if a goalie has the ball in hand then they have 6 seconds to release it, or it’s meant to be an indirect free kick to the opposition inside the goalie’s team’s 18 yard box. Very dangerous situation to defend, so you’d think it’d be a deterrent. However I can count on 2 fingers the number of times I’ve actually seen it enforced.

So now there’s a change to the rules coming - if they have it in hand for 8 seconds, it’s a corner to the other team.

So, it’s a less punishing punishment, and they have 2 extra seconds’ leeway. It makes absolutely no sense.

“Listen… Do you smell something?”

Likewise, it’s beautiful, so elegant.

I mean, it was just this one guy (and even he was wearing black cargo shorts) - most people were fully summered up in their attires!

Too much so, im fact, since it started pouring down at one point! 😁

Eeeeeeekkkk 😮😮😮