So here we have an official at the World Cup in the US literally holding up the complete match with his arm in the air, not for injuries, not for football reasons,but because the TV network hasn’t finished selling their ads.
At this point, it’s not a match anymore, it’s a broadcast schedule with a ball occasionally rolling around.
A World Cup official stopping play mid-game so the broadcasters can finish their commercials.
Nothing says “beautiful game” like football taking orders from an ad break. It’s not a sport at that point,it’s a TV product with a pitch attached.
Imagine watching a World Cup match where the referee is told to wait because the commercials aren’t done yet.
That’s not football, that’s a glorified ad break pretending to be a sporting event.
Just some meaningless content between commercial slots.
Call me cynical but I don’t believe hydration breaks are anything to do with players wellbeing. They are all to do with America and commercial breaks. It’s 22C in that stadium. Any cooler they’d be stopping for a Bovril break to warm up. USA has Americanised the beautiful game.
I took my 5 year old son to a park yesterday.
As we arrived, scores of naked people (mainly fat old men) cycled directly past us at the entrance.
I don’t care what they ‘think their message is’… it is exhibitionism pure and simple. It shouldn’t be allowed.
I dread to think how many peadophiles were among the ‘adults’ doing this event yesterday, getting their kicks from children seeing their genitals.
It’s absolutely disgusting.
If you are a grown adult and you think it is ok for other people’s children to see you naked, you need to give your head a wobble.
@metpoliceuk@SadiqKhan this ‘event’ should be banned.
For decency reasons, I only recorded the ‘rear end’ of it (excuse the pun).
🤡🤡
@QualiaAddict@Landeur@Hilton15Hilton Sorry, only just saw your reply.
First off, well done you. Can I ask, how did you get them to a level where they were able to get GCSE passes, then onto A levels to get into Oxbridge?
Are you and/or your partner qualified teachers? I’m genuinely interested.
Shearer had a few digs at big Gabi during that match, which I thought was strange. Do I think he had a great game? No, but plenty of the Brazil team were poor. Marquinhos, Raphina, Bruno, Casemiro, Paqueta, Thiago all average, even Vini was but Shearer dug out Magalhães. Weird 🤔
Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
Paraguay are terrible. They have no idea how to defend the wide men.
On a side note, the crowd doesn’t sound like a football crowd. Almost like a schoolboy international match.
@QualiaAddict@Landeur@Hilton15Hilton This is my issue with it. Maybe useful if your kids have dreams of becoming arborists but not really a sound education for anything else. The authorities are on you if your kid misses a school day and yet they’re happy for home schooled kids to play with play-doh all day. Strange
@Landeur@Hilton15Hilton Out of interest, what does home schooling consist of?
Do you need to follow the national curriculum?
Do you need to hire QTS qualified teachers in all subjects?
Do you need to follow all 4 key stages with exams at the end?
@laythy29@Pedro240382 When we got done 5-1 at the Allianz in Munich, we met a lone Canadian Gooner on the train coming away from the stadium. He had flown in from Canada for that game. Proper hardcore fans.
@footballontnt@dadgooner Ipswich (h)
Hull (a)
Palace (h)
Fulham (a)
Leeds (h)
S’land (a)
Play ourselves into a bit of form. Then:
City (h)
United (a)
Liverpool (h)
Chelsea (a)
Villa (h)
B’mouth (a)
Then whatever order but Spurs (a) somewhere at the end of
season to win the title & relegate them 👍