An American commentator describing a particularly big game, when all the people who bought tickets bothered to show up, said happily "You won't find any no-shows here tonight!"
Why do the refs allow defenders to grab hold of opposing players at corners.Award penalties and all this rubbish will stop!
or for even more entertainment - legalise everything (until the ball enters play). I bet you get some bloody late arrivals in the box then
Not enforcing the rules. It's the first in a long line of flaws that result in football's typically bull**** officiating. It's also so obvious a point it pains me to make it (was someone annoyed at the masters of the obvious?). But here goes: If you enforce the rules, players will take note, and start following them. If you don't enforce the rules, you will end up with officials making it up as they go along. If everybody makes it up as they go along, it lets officials with blatant biases blend in. Is shirt pulling a foul? Then call it every single time you see it. No one will pull a shirt in the penalty box in two games. Do you not want to do this? Make shirt pulling legal. It takes a real collection of fools to come up with the status quo: Welllllllll, shirt pulling IS a foul, but not one that I'll give a penalty for, unless it's really blatant shirt pulling, or my favorite team is involved, or I feel happy as a little girl, or someone's paid me off, or it's the third Tuesday in the month, or the CIA orders me to through messages they send through the fillings of my teeth....
It does indeed, a funny thing how that few degrees tip makes that difference, if the Earth's axis was perpendicular, climate would remain pretty much constant, and would constants have created life as we know it....too heavy, back to footy!
Water. That's what's needed for life and those subtle climate changes produce it. Back to what we hate. What about those sprays the physios run on with which bring dying footballers back to perfect health in an instant? Why can't you buy them in the shops? I hate them.
Things I hate. Arsenal, obviously That is all Well, there are others in no particular order such as diving, that stupid cheer thing that you sometimes get when the keeper takes the goal kick, pretending to be injured, Andy Townsend, Sky, transfer window lasting for ever, Alan bloody Smith always commentating on Tottenham games, Seb Blatter, gutless refs. Oh, and Arsenal
You know what, I'm going for The Big One: * The racist undertones to all criticism of Qatar hosting the World Cup. Every one of the criticisms applies to numerous other World Cup hosts or bidders, yet when did we hear them? * Qatar is hot in July? So are Pasadena and Dallas, but nobody complained about that in 1994, various parts of Australia are but nobody mentioned that for their 2022 bid, just as nobody complained about the temperatures and humidity in Brazil ahead of 2014 or Japan and South Korea in 2002 * People complain that Qatar have never qualified for a World Cup yet are hosting one? Japan never qualified for the tournament before they were awarded it, yet I don't recall that being an issue. * People say Qatar doesn't have a rich and stories history or culture of football - yet neither did the US or Japan, and at least Qatar have a professional football league at the time of being awarded the tournament, unlike the US. * People complain about safety concerns, yet neglected to do so when the tournament was awarded to South Africa (a country that ranks among the highest worldwide for murder, assault, rape, gun crime and carjacking) or Brazil (another country with one of the world's highest rates for murder, mugging, and kidnapping) * People complain that money is what got Qatar the World Cup. Sort of like the US or Japan & South Korea hosting it, you mean? There is plenty to be critical about awarding the World Cup to Qatar about, not least the country being the size of a postage stamp with little experience in hosting major sporting events, and their award of the World Cup having less to do with their ability to host it and more to do with FIFA deciding to expand the FIFA Family (as they did with the US in 1994, Japan and South Korea in 2002, South Africa in 2010, and Russia in 2018), but the rest of it sounds to me less like valid criticisms or concerns, and more a combination of peevishness that England weren't deemed capable of holding the event (which, given the bid came down to "We invented football, gimme gimme gimme", FIFA were right to say sod off - just as they did for 2006) and some EDL-level boneheadedness about Arabs taking over the world. Which they're not - because when the oil runs out, they;re screwed.
The sports hall at my school didn't have working showers - there's nothing worse than having to explain the reason you're ten minutes late to geography is because two dozen kids were ahead of you in the queue to use the single basin in the changing room toilet to get all the mud off...
1-ref conning dives and screams of pain 2-6ft plus players screaming and diving to the floor holding their face as if shot 3-4pm to 7pm talk sport or 6th former's on cider in delivery and content 4-woolwich pikeys 5-the pricing out of families from premier league football
Wrong. "The axial tilt is the reason we have seasons. It is also the fundamental contributor to weather. Without axial tilt, all surfaces of Earth would receive sunlight evenly, and Earth would be evenly warm on a day to day basis. But we must consider night and day. It would still get cooler at night... or would it? With the Earth being so evenly heated, we wouldn't have the polar ice caps. The extra heat would evaporate more water from the oceans, thereby creating more clouds, thereby increasing the greenhouse effect, thereby evaporating even more water from the oceans and so on - a condition known as a runaway greenhouse effect. The conditions on Earth would be comparable to that on Venus (minus the ammonia clouds and sulphuric acid of course). Completely veiled in cloud and uninhabitabley hot. The ultimate effect of this runaway greenhouse effect would be no liquid water on the surface. All the water would be locked in an incredibly thick atmosphere (hundreds of kilometers thick) exerting a surface pressure equivalent to the bottom of the deepest oceans. And yes - the temperature would be constant despite the mach speed winds in the upper atmosphere. There would be no weather."
OK, David Bellamy, smartarse... So we need that axial tilt to make sure we don't produce that hothouse effect and so our climate is temperate enough to sustain life. Thank you for the lesson Why are there no mice in Spitzbergen?
1)Not beating the first man on a corner, god that really winds me up! 2) following on from that free kicks that are over hit or don't beat the first man. 3) People over the age of 18 wearing football shirts around town. Football shirts should be for going to games or playing football in, not as a supposed badge of honour. I think Colin has said all the rest! ;-)
* FIFA dictating that San Marino, Andorra and the Faroe Islands qualify as countries, but Kosovo doesn't - pretty much because FIFA changed their rules regarding membership for the sole purpose of dodging a bullet when Gibraltar applied to be a member a few years back * People saying the Premier League is the world's most exciting league. It isn't. * Third kits. Why not do a better job of designing the away kit so it doesn't clash with teams who wear two-tone kits, of which there's at least half a dozen in the Premier League every season? * The belief that all Premier League fans are 5'6", judging by the legroom we're allocated * Sports stores in central London that stock shirts of various European teams (Barca, Real, Bayern, Ajax, Porto) but, Chelsea and Arsenal excepted, none of the teams within the Travelcard zone
Its a known fact our tilt is reducing. The future of this planet is quite dire, sun burning out, tilt straightening up, or hit by another object, one will happen eventually. The delicate balance of conditions we find ourselves in makes the chance of it elsewhere quite small imo.
