WageringWar

Horses, sports, poker. Only the outcome stays the same.

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

England is now a Mediterranean country:

We have hot weather, a shit economy, and a good football team.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

@CharlieLister5 I thought that but look at the lower nostril. That's St Anton's snout.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

Starting to think I should just bet on races and not watch them.
That way, I'd merely know I've lost money on Cerulean Bay. I wouldn't know the manner in which I've lost money on Cerulean Bay.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

Ah, I understand it now. If my own experience is typical, it's because of the average backer's reaction when the horse goes out like a candle in the closing stages.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

Can't imagine the thought process by which someone chooses to name a horse 'Obscenity' (#Curragh 5.45) but there we are.

[Andy on X 🎸✈️🇬🇧 @andyw8924]

Note to @ITVSport - the England V Panama match starts at 10pm UK time. We don't need an hour and a quarter of waffle before that . 15 minutes would be plenty. Thank you.

[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

Rehydration breaks in football are nothing new. My beloved @QPR have been so shit in recent years, that I’ve often gone for a drink after 20 minutes.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

@bergkamp594 @_callumstone Sadly, that principle dies faster on X than 'Let's agree to disagree.'

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

@prodnose Sad moment in a game the other night when a slo-mo replay showed a dugout in the background with maybe four people with laptops on their knees.
Micro-management isn't just a corporate disease any more.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Ghana comfortable. Got us in their pocket. We seem stunned to have been so easily neutralised with no idea how to improvise a way out of it.
As usual, the strait-jacket of "process" might see us bumble out of another WC.
Oh for a few players who cut just loose and say "fuck it".

[ßen @BCAFCBH]

Having a hydration break in the pouring rain just minutes after a long stoppage where all the players took on fluids anyway.

What a fucking farce FIFA have created.

[. @TeeJay4132]

I withdrew all my money in my betting account because I thought Bacio result was going to get overturned and they were going to take the money back

Deposited it all back and they’ve frozen my account pending a phone call about affordability 😂

I fucking hate this industry

[Sam @FPLSportScience]

If Sean Dyche was doing what Emma Hayes is doing at the World Cup, you can guarantee that the same group of men who have been abusing her would be loving it.

"No touch screen, just proper football tactics, kept simple 👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿"

[Jack @JackLUFC1919]

Need her on MNF. This is what she can produce 20 minutes into a game in less than 2 minutes. Imagine the insight she could give with 1.5 hours and as much prep as she wants
Also hope this inspires/encourages other pundits/co commentators to actually start learning about the game and giving some proper tactical analysis

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

Just a quick reminder to the BBC & ITV commentators at the World Cup.
Listen to Harry Carpenter.
We need @CliveTyldesley back on our screens!
#WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup #BBC #ITV

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

I'd be interested to know how many horses win at #RoyalAscot having finished a 33/1 dead last in their previous outing.
Bravo Illinois. The crowning seal on a meeting that's usually a graveyard for me. But not this year.

[Selina j 🧚🏻🌙⚒ @OfSelina]

So @ITVSport referring to it as ‘the first quarter’ means they should never be allowed to broadcast another football match ever again

[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.

[WageringWar @WageringWar]

@PeterHamil73098 Didn't seem overly bothered about finding a gap but then I can't imagine any jockey not busting a gut at Royal Ascot. I'd be interested to know what others think.
I'm no horseman so v. reluctant to criticise jockeys but this puzzled me a little.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

All modern football shows can be put down to when I started 606 on the BBC in 1991.
The first irreverent, irrelevant fan opinion space on national radio. We ignored the big headlines to swap stories.
Until then fans, mad or ridiculous, had no authentic voice.