I casually follow F1, as in I read articles on the races when I am at bbc.com reading about Arsenal. However, this season has been very entertaining and yesterday's race was the most entertaining. I really do need someone who is neither a Lewis fanboy or Max fanboy to explain everything that happened to me.
I haven't watched F1 properly since the Schumacher 1990s era - watched the highlights of this race and it seemed just a totally different type of racing to what I remember
I'm not so much pro-Max as anti-Mercedes, hoping someone will break up their dominance. Max is definitely the most aggressive driver on the track, he'll make the stewards give him a penalty before giving up a place 10 out of 10 times. I was pissed a few years ago when we went off track to stay ahead of Vettel in Mexico and refused to give up the position. I think Lewis is being a bit cheeky about the main incident, claiming he didn't know what Max was doing. Max was clearly trying to give up position, but in the one spot on the track that was the most advantageous to Max, where he could use DRS to take the spot right back (as he did later). I think Lewis knew this and didn't want to play Max's game, so they hit. If you listen to the main Sky commentator (David Croft) enough, he presents incidents in the best possible light for Hamilton. Martin Brundle is more fair, basically saying what he would do if he was racing. But Hamilton benefits from the pro-English media slant. And IMO, the stewards have been pretty bad for a while.
They've beaten the top three this season: City in the League Cup, both Liverpool AND Chelsea at home. They are for real...but let's see how they manage through January.
So Dortmund's Bellingham pretty much calls out the German FA for letting someone who was convicted for match-fixing ref their game v. Bayern, make some dodgy calls that led to Bayern's win...and they get salty about it? If I were the German FA I'd call that ref in and pray he didn't make any bet whatsoever.
So is Max going to just say ******** it and be so aggressive he takes them both out on Sunday, thereby winning the championship because he has the tie breaker?
Once again showing my age, I haven’t watched F1 since Jim Clark’s death in a crash on the race track.
Whoa, what a thought. But based on what little I've seen of Max's dirty moves, I wouldn't put it past him. Crazy.
i'm curious about their reaction. i mean, typically, that's an automatic fine. but if i'm bellingham's representative and BVB management, my argument would be all he said was a documented truth and nothing else.
apparently, spurs have 6 players (and 2 coaches) with positive covid tests which is a minimum of 10 days isolation and that, during the annual fixture clusterfuck is, apparently, 3 games missed. at least it ain't lasagna.
If I could wish that fate on anyone... That said, it could easily happen to us or any team in the league, at virtually any time, me thinks.
i'm sorry but this is utter bullshit. she got a yellow for taking down an asshole coming onto the pitch. referees need to start being able to justify some of their bullshit decisions and, more importantly, being held accountable for them. Sam Kerr could run through a brick wall I'm not convinced otherwise... pic.twitter.com/J6vQTRXHv6— Kelsey Trainor (@ktrain_11) December 8, 2021
The rule is for her own safety, which I get. But in some instances (here) you'd be fine with the ref pulling an old school Wenger and claim he/she "didn't see it."
For those of you who just haven't quite had your fill of disappointment from your team in the last week or two, I offer you this: Arsenal Women vs Barcelona KO in just 1 hour, at 2pm ET Streaming on Arsenal.com (supposedly) and/or Youtube/DAZN Up until very recently our gals were playing great and leading the league (still are, by a hair!), so I found them a refreshing and welcome refuge from our boys who've been lets just say "quite sub-optimal" for quite a long time now. Hopefully the women will return to good form soon. Just don't expect it to be today. We could very easily get spanked again by Barca, who might just be the best women's club team ever??
Villarreal throwing out a classic Emery second-half performance against Atalanta right now. Up 3-0, defensive shell, concede twice, continue sitting in. They literally just had a flat 9-man backline. Atalanta really should be level or winning by now. As shitty as Arteta is, I'm glad I don't have to root for this anymore.
As an Australian its offensive, usually bumps like that are how we greet people followed with a "g'day ********". How can anyone forget when Gough Whitlam welcomed the Queen to Australia in the the traditional manner of a shirt front, followed by picking her up and saying "you're alright mate" to complete the ceremony. On top of that, its a perfect executed bump in AFL. Would be waved play on. Getting carded for that is a bit soft.
FT: AWFC 0-4 Barca This idiom might not have quite the same ring when gender-shifted, but it was... "Women Against Girls" That said, we fought hard, right up until the end... didn't roll over at all. But with 26% possession, what can you expect? And but for another excellent performance from our keeper Zinzberger, it would've been rather worse. As with the men's team, the women got a sobering reality check about their level in the last 2 matches... the gulf in class between us and teams like Chelsea & Barca. Luckily, there aren't so many teams in that elite category so we still could do quite well this year, even if we don't win the trophies.