Off Topic International Break Thread

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BinghamSpur said:
Your comments strike a cord as I've been thinking/saying the same for a number of years now.

I do wonder if I'm looking at a different game sometimes
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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) .
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
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Club goals last season:
Kane: 44 goals. Watkins: 27 goals. Foden: 27 goals. Palmer: 25 goals. Bellingham: 23 goals.
Saka: 20 goals. Bowen: 20 goals. Gordon: 12 goals. Eze: 11 goals. Gallagher: 7 goals.

Just for comparison, Morata got 21, Yamal got 7 and Williams got 8.
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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) .
 
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.
 
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.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Look at the angle of the grass line that goes through the penalty spot.
The "ruler" is wildly tilted from where it should be.
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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.
 
SpursDisciple said:
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.
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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.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
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.
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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...
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
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.
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17 minutes of injury time?
They could have operated on the injury in that time.
 
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