Michael Fisher

Grumpy husband and father, Norwich City, Harlequins and the Cincinnati Bengals

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@TalkNorwichCity Same reason Oscar got booked for being scythed down in area. The standard of officiating in this country, including the Prem, is substandard bordering on negligent 💩💩

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@TalkNorwichCity STATEMENT - Ben Chrisene is the greatest left back ever to play football

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@JamesPearceLFC The new format is just the euro super league revisited. Just the same teams constantly playing each other whilst the champions of smaller nations play endless qualifiers for the right to play teams that finished 4th or 5th. UEFA need to drop the Champions league name charade

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@JackReeveTNC This is grim, I hate football 😩😩

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@JackReeveTNC Exactly VAR is awful. How about actually training and producing a batch of officials fit for the name rather than hiding behind technology

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@pinkun VAR no but definately a much higher quality of actual referees. As we see in Premier league VAR just masks poor officiating

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@ChrisReevo @TalkNorwichCity Frustrating as West Brom are a poor side and were there for taking

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@TalkNorwichCity West Brom utter dog shite 1st half, got to be beating these

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup Shite, it’s a football match not a concert

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@RpsAgainstTrump Bloody laughing stock at the moment

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@SkySportsNews @Carra23 How much further up his arse you do want to go you corrupt bald c@@t

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@ChrisReevo Most important though can he play more then 20’seconds of football without being injured for months on end 🤣🤣

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

A professional sportsman if adequately hydrated pre game can run around in hot conditions for 50 minutes without dehydration. Stop the bollocks the WC hydration breaks are deliberate stops in play to appease TV companies with ad breaks. Utter commercial wankery 💩💩

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena.

Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen.

Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money.

Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

Anyone ‘high fiving’ at a football match ahould be given a lifetime stadium ban

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@ufouapam So disappointing again, it’s like at school when a friend promised they had porn to share but it turns out to just be be the underwear section of his Mums Freemans catalogue

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@ufouapam @AdamGoldsack So disappointing again, it’s like at school when a friend promised they had porn to share but it turns out to just be be the underwear section of his Mums Freemans catalogue

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

Game 1 of WC and first ridiculous red card and even worse explanation by ITV’s so called referee expert 😳😳

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@EnglishBob1 Watching this Arsenal side is the hardest pain in football !!

[Michael Fisher @CosmicSausage77]

@SkySportsPL How is it unprecedented Liverpool, City and United have all won league and European Cup doubles and that’s just amongst English clubs. PSG literally did it last year