Arvind Hariharan

Astronomy, Astrophotography; Science; Math; FC Barcelona; and chocolate!

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

strong opinions, weakly held.

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

This WC final was a snooze fest. ARG was truly outplayed. Barcelona won.

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

"Spanish Soccer Created the GOAT. The Only Problem Is That He Plays for Argentina."
misleading headline: It was Barça not Spanish Soccer.
https://t.co/PphJmB6rry via @WSJ

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

🤡🤡🤡

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Is Messi playing?

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

Exactly how did the VAR replay confirm the touch? What about the chip in the ball?
Two suspicious offsides given against Croatia!

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

He’s always been in a league of his own.

[footballytics | change the ǝɯɐƃ @footballytics_]

#FIFAWorldCup📊
Always #Messi
After the group stage, the standout attacking profiles are not only finishers, but players who also create for others.
High xA plus strong xG/goal threat shows who is involved in both the final pass and the final action.
#ViniJR #Haaland #Albiceleste

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

@blackwhitengrey I've noticed that with my performance in different work environments :)

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

@blackwhitengrey It's not so much demotivation as atrophying of the mental and physical muscle when not not forced to exercise them enough.

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

@blackwhitengrey @Tim_Vickery While I agree with you, the general idea is that playing with high quality players forces you to up your game and conversely...

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

There will never be anyone like him ever again

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

And then the monkeys would starve because they’d realize there weren’t actually 1 trillion bananas, but only the promise of 1 trillion bananas that could be produced by a special banana tree that only the dead monkey knew how to grow.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
https://t.co/W97pq3FLYg

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Came as a star.
Leaves as legend.

Thank you, Robert Lewandowski, for every goal, every battle, and every magic moment wearing these colours. Culer forever. 💙❤️

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

Gonna finish 30 points behind the champions and finish behind Villarreal while Simeone earns more than any coach in the world and spends half a billion in 2 years.

"But how can we competeeee 😭😭😭"

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

Patetico de Madrid.
Why this club sticks with Simeone is beyond my understanding. World class squad (and budget) and nothing to show for it.

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

Simeone and Atleti’s terrorist football loses another final. Why they stick with this coach is beyond me. Loser mentality.
#CopaDelRey

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry on Barcelona Vs Atletico Madrid both-leg officiating controversy:

“I’m sorry, but what did I just watch over two legs? Because that’s not football, that’s decisions deciding games.

First leg, you send off Cubarsí for that? Minimal contact, the boy barely touches him and suddenly it’s a red card that flips the entire tie. Then you have a clear handball inside the six-yard box from Pubill, he literally stops the ball with his hand like he’s playing basketball and VAR just… goes quiet? How is that even possible at this level?

Koke is out there doing late challenges, off-ball stuff all game, no cards. Not even a warning. But on the other side, Eric García gets a straight red when Koundé is literally right there to cover? So now we’re rewriting the ‘last man’ rule as we go?

And don’t get me started on Olmo, pushed from behind, clear as day, no penalty. Then you count the fouls Atlético made… how many yellows? Zero? Come on. You can’t tell me that’s normal.

Then Ferran scores, and we’re talking about offside on a rebound situation? That goal should stand. Simple.

At some point, you stop calling it ‘bad luck’ and you start asking real questions. Because when every big decision goes one way, it’s not coincidence anymore. Barcelona didn’t just lose this tie… they were taken out of it.”

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

@sidlowe no talk about refereeing decisions all going Atleti's way across both legs?

[Arvind Hariharan @arvindh]

@ArchivoVAR @JosipFCB93 @grok please translate to English

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

—John Ruskin

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

The increasing recategorization of ordinary sadness as a form of sickness to be medically treated is like trying to stop people from burning by silencing their smoke alarms.

Or, as Theodore Dalrymple put it in Our Culture, What's Left of It: