Thats equally stoopid, because I've likewise not seen that work on officials. Tirades are stupid, and so are player bïtching at the ref.
Today we are all Crystal Palace fans. Im out of town at a wedding, so pissed I couldn't watch live. As a kid living in England, Palace were my second favorite team, going from 4th division to 2nd in three years, largely because of their name. Still is the best team name in soccer.
I'm partial to anything with a Lokomotiv in it or oddballs like Newell's Old Boys or Real Salt Lake FC Deportivo Maybe-Not-So-United
Yeah, I love some of the South American team names. So many named after the neighborhood they were founded in or some other random name or even club they supported back in the old country. Some I like Bolivia's The Strongest Chile's Colo Colo Colombia's Millonarios Argentina's Ferrocarril Oeste
Another game 7 yawner to go with that basketball game 7 on the same weekend. I'm not sure what added value playoffs really have, especially the bloated variety (?) Just glad most futbol leagues have stuck to the double round-robin / league format to determine the champions and pretty much everything else. I mean, how dramatic was Serie A yesterday, Ligue 1 the day before and Eredivisie last week (or last several weeks)?
My interest there was to see if it would take until the last matchday of the season for Arsenal to secure a top 5 spot.
Wouldn't it just be Mammoths? Not like Fish or Moose Nah, that's just hearsay, based on what Maddie told Hattie. For all we know, she watched Fox News.
I thought mammoths was too easy. I mean why would you not have the s. It's like going Red Bull instead of Bulls. Makes no sense.
It's tue that refs don't like tirades and are not going to change calls based on them, but I think sometimes there is some value in those tirades. When I was playing if I saw our coach get on the ref when I thought (right or wrong) that the ref was being unfair to us it was to me a source of motivation. I remember one time back in college I thought we were being reffed unfairly, and our coach started complaining about the calls, and the ref stopped the game and yelled at him, "your job is to coach your team and my job is to ref the game. I let you do your job, so let me do mine" To which coach replied, "Then do it well". That last remark earned him a yellow card, but in some weird way I got some extra energy from that exchange, and I remember it to this day. Coach had our back. I've even seen it happen even in the pros, where players do get energized after their coach has their back and gets a yellow or a technical or whatever the penalty is in a given sport. Also as fans we are biased and we always think the ref is against us, so sometimes as a spectator I like it when the coach of the team I support stands up to the ref. And even as a neutral fan, there is some entertainment value from it, and sports after all is entertainment. So give me the Earl Weavers and the Billy Martins, and my old college soccer coach. I'm down with it.
I never paid much attention to the comments but when directed at a 13 yr old kid doing a u-10 match the line has been crossed.
Gary Lineker posted an image of a rat in a social media post about Zionism, so he’s out at the BBC after this weekend. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45219597/gary-lineker-leave-bbc-not-present-2026-world-cup 1. It kind of amazes me how in England, all the pundits whose political opinions I know are all lefty, like Phil Neville and Lineker. 2. How he thought posting a rat in a post having anything to do with Jews is mind boggling. To me it’s as obviously over the line as posting an image of an ape when taking about black people, an automatic firing. I am not deep in the context of England or Lineker so maybe within the context it’s not as brain dead as I’m imagining it.
He's 64 and headed the ball a lot.So there's that. Also,according to the right,it's the left that are antisemitic now.
I remember Pat Buchanan’s 1992 campaign, so it’s hard to wrap my head around this. The politics I grew up with and then our politics through my young and middle adulthood had anti Semites all on the right, not the left. That’s not true anymore. Much of the pro-Palestinian sentiment that is on the left is fair criticism of Israel, but some of it is anti Semitism. It bothers me. I don't have any idea how to change that. Neither does anyone else that I’ve seen. My position is that all bigotry is bad, not just bigotry against groups I don’t like. The left has fallen away from that.
if you’re already a shark, I’m not sure you need PEDs. You’re already the alpha predator. Doing steroids is kind of rubbing it in, no?