You're not. 1. The Spain team all game were doing the things that some of us would expect to be CORE competences of professional football. 2. Similarly their goals were nothing of real remark (you wouldn't say such goals would only ever be scored once every 100 games etc) . On #1. this seems to be a consequence of La Liga as a whole (it really came to me first-hand a decade ago watching a Spurs game) .
Even ignoring the xG stuff, that is a damning indictment of the England attack (if you had showed the stats "headless" without seeing any game in the tournament, how many would say those stats were those of England) .
Might have been a reasonable shout to make him captain for this coming season ...no, wait, I just heard about the singalong on the Argentine team flight
I'm quoting the Telegraph for the second time today. Not good. They claim that England will face competition from the USANT if they go for Pochettino. They're ****, though. Only problem could be the whole Falklands thing, if they actually go for him.
I can assure you that they're not getting any traffic from me. I do like to see the kind of **** that they're spouting, though. Know your enemy.
Javier Mascherano: "Argentina has no problem with racism." True. Thousands of former Nazi and SS officers would thoroughly agree that you have no problem with racism.
Look at the angle of the grass line that goes through the penalty spot. The "ruler" is wildly tilted from where it should be.
I wasn't totally convinced (nor was I calling for a replay) but you would hope the penalty box is more parallel to the goal line than the cut of grass. If the cut of grass is exact then the penalty area is a weird shape.
You can see the edge of the six-yard-box, the penalty spot with the grass cut through it and the edge of the 18-yard-box at the start. All three are parallel with the goalline, but the camera is between the edge of the box and the spot, so the lines go either side. It's about perspective. The lines on the pitch should all be parallel to each other.
Football can be a ****show at times, but the Olympic version has just raised the bar. Morocco went 2-0 up against Argentina via two penalties either side of the break. Argentina pulled one back fairly quickly, then put the ball in the net late on. Morocco fans invade the pitch, throw fireworks at the opposition and attack them. Match is suspended. Two hours later the equaliser is chalked off with VAR. The game is restarted to play the final 3 minutes. They play 17 minutes of injury time, but Morocco win 2-1.
I mean there's a more obvious example of the Olympic football being a ****show, given there's serving members of the IDF playing in the men's tournament...
