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« Reply #40485 on: Friday, March 14, 2025, 09:02:01 » |
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It's almost always accidental. Usually when the standing foot slips into the ball. I think a retake would be fairer. |
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« Reply #40486 on: Friday, March 14, 2025, 09:06:00 » |
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The balls used in the UEFA CL have sensors apparently.
Picking up a miniscule movement is in the same category as an offside toenail for me i.e. not in the spirit of the game.
However, looking forward to the tech that will detect falling over that is outside of the laws of physics.
'Spirit of the game'. Like players feigning injuries, goalkeepers sitting down to allow a physio to come on so the manager can give team talks, constant shirt tugging in the box etc There is loads in football that is not in the spirit of the game, it's been that way for ages. The thing with the double kick/offside rule is that it's binary and should therefore be much easier to make the correct decision. How offside or how hard the double touch is irrelevant. |
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #40487 on: Friday, March 14, 2025, 09:58:58 » |
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'Spirit of the game'. Like players feigning injuries, goalkeepers sitting down to allow a physio to come on so the manager can give team talks, constant shirt tugging in the box etc
There is loads in football that is not in the spirit of the game, it's been that way for ages.
The thing with the double kick/offside rule is that it's binary and should therefore be much easier to make the correct decision. How offside or how hard the double touch is irrelevant.
Yeah, maybe spirit of the game wasn't the right phrase to use. Football was never a game for exactness & precision in the way that American football is or even rugby to a degree. Maybe it's better for VAR & technology to just look out for line calls, all of them, and leave everything else to the fallible human being with the whistle. Not much can be done about tactical feigning of injury but the resultant mass gathering on the touchline could be stopped if there was a will to do so. A stop clock would be the answer. Leave the tactical catch ups for when the game is eventually divided into quarters.  |
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« Reply #40488 on: Friday, March 14, 2025, 10:04:41 » |
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If the game is ever divided into quarters that’s me done with football!
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« Reply #40489 on: Friday, March 14, 2025, 11:06:11 » |
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Where it does rather fall over is that as it wasn't a clear and obvious error (or whatever the wording is) it probably should not have had the VAR getting involved. The cynic in me suspects there is not a cat in hells chance the same would have happened if it was a RM penalty in question.... |
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« Reply #40490 on: Thursday, March 20, 2025, 16:16:54 » |
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I see Swindon Greyhound trainers have been given notice of the track closing at the end of the year. Last meeting December.
Bulldozed for housing just like every other track Clarke Osborne has been involved with.
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« Reply #40491 on: Thursday, March 20, 2025, 16:40:53 » |
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I see Swindon Greyhound trainers have been given notice of the track closing at the end of the year. Last meeting December.
Bulldozed for housing just like every other track Clarke Osborne has been involved with.
Writing was on the wall when the speedway were forced out |
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« Reply #40492 on: Friday, March 21, 2025, 08:50:43 » |
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Is there any update on whats happening with Swindon speedway or is it just finished forever? I haven't been following.
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« Reply #40494 on: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 00:30:10 » |
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The absolute disappointment and anti-climax of the ''Good Watch'' thread  |
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« Reply #40495 on: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 08:46:46 » |
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The absolute disappointment and anti-climax of the ''Good Watch'' thread Why not start one? |
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« Reply #40496 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:48:43 » |
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« Reply #40497 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 11:21:29 » |
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Setting aside the fact that Barton is a violent bastard, the mitigating sentencing comments in this are plain odd... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj92k80m7llo
While he acknowledged Barton had "a record of violence", the magistrate said: "I am satisfied that it is not necessary to impose an immediate custodial sentence."
Mr Goldspring said a mitigating factor was that the couple remained in a "happy relationship" with a young child, adding: "That is not something I want to interfere with."It may be just me but I'm not sure how knocking your wife to the ground and then kicking her in the head constitutes a happy relationship.... |
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« Reply #40498 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 11:27:30 » |
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She refused to give evidence against him, it was a big part of the build up to the case (and several appeals about whether the case could even go ahead without her support).
Lots of abused women 'stand by their man' in a way that I can't say I personally understand. Hopefully it means there's been no repeat of the behaviour since and he's addressing his clearly abusive relationship with alcohol.
Alternatively it might just mean that the prisons are full and they have to find just about any possible reason not to send someone down.
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« Reply #40499 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12:50:47 » |
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He’s already got a couple of convictions for violent offences so im surprised he got a suspended sentence.
Reckons he is going to appeal it.
He’s a cunt.
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