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[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

japan again

[Jimmy Hosang @Hosang]

At this point, I might be worth £5m

[Pulaski Wallpaper @Pulaxki]

Any lip readers out there?

[Mark Granza @markgranza]

The problem here is 'legalism', not scientism. Forget whether the player's hair touched the ball or not. Here's what the offside rule was originally created for: a striker breaks through the defense early or purposely stays behind, finds himself with ten yards of open grass between him and the last defender and only the goalkeeper in front. The rule is one of the oldest in the game because the people who first played it saw something clearly unfair about it, i.e., an advantage that doesn't require skill to create, which, if allowed, would have made the game unwatchable. The problem is that over time people began to conflate the advantage aspect with the mechanics of detecting it, especially since TV programs in the 70s began showing slow-motion replays of gray-area calls over and over in post-match analysis to keep football fans endlessly arguing and their ratings high. This is how you get, for instance, cases in which a forward who times his run perfectly, catching the defender off guard (often running in the opposite direction) and then scoring, is still called "unfair" by other fans because his shoulder or nose or whatever was ahead when the pass occurred, despite the fact that if it would have been behind, if anything, it'd have given him even *more* time to score. It's the same thing that often happens in court. A law is written to stop a particular harm, then lawyers spend decades arguing over the exact wording until the very harm it was meant to stop gets almost forgotten and the letter becomes the law. Nobody watching Croatia's disallowed goal possibly believes that the Croatian player’s touch (even if it happened) created an advantage for his teammate. The ball clearly reaches the latter thanks to the (non-deliberate, thus irrelevant) deflection off the Portugal player. But nobody is thinking about the purpose of the rule anymore, only the technicality of its wording. Hence scientism, which is downstream of legalism in this context and eventually convinced the entire sport that it needed sensors inside the football to detect a hair touch because... why not?

[Josip @l3d1c]

Only a low IQ non-technical person thinks that a wireless sensor inside a ball with a shitty polling rate that is kicked around for hours is precise enough within low millisecond range to register a string of hair on the ball’s surface, yet magically immune to the pressure wave of someone missing it by 2mm and do all of this over the air in real time across hundreds of meters.

It's an accelerometer. It picks up vibrations and pressure changes from EVERYTHING nearby, even it hitting an insect in the air, then FIFA decides which spike counts as a ‘touch’.

[Foundring 🇺🇸 @foundring1]

The final stage of the technocracy is when they get you to deny what you can see with your own eyes. This is bigger than a sports game. This is a test to see what the general population will swallow. Turns out just about anything is possible. Dark times are coming.

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

on croatia’s disallowed goal yesterday, at what point has the advancement of technology in sports gone far beyond the intention of the rule at the time of its inception? how do we define at this point what the “right” call is?

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

underrated take on how we define what’s “right” in sports when the technology advances far past the inception of the rule. i think this is what the “spirit of the game” debate boils down to.

[First Things First @FTFonFS1]

“I do not like replay in sports... I don’t think it makes the games better.”

@getnickwright explains:

[TheCroatian @TheCroatian_]

“I think it’s one of the worst decisions at a World Cup ever.”

Well said. 👏

[ⓥ @100of35_]

This is difference

[Zito @_Zeets]

I knew it was rigged when FIFA stepped in to let that man play when he should have been suspended for three matches. Deferred two of those games under a one-year probation. Never seen anything like it before.

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

@BearsShowYo we agree

[Juan @socraticjuan]

I never wanna hear a Ronaldo fan talk about gifted penalties again in my life 😂

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

but wait, i thought penalties in the knockout stages don’t count? 😮

[MattyFC @MattyFC__]

SIUUUUUUUUUUUUU 🐐🔥

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

@_Zeets PR7

[Juan @socraticjuan]

Plays like shit, scores a penalty, gets bailed out by his teammates, collects the individual accolades, repeat.

Story of this guy’s career.

[𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢 @OfficialVizeh]

I mean he simply didn’t touch the ball

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

it never touched him… wow croatia got robbed

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

breaking news! according to ronaldo fans in 2022, pens in the knockouts don’t actually count!!! dramatic turn of events!!! still 1-0 to croatia!!!

[encebollado enjoyer @bennyimo]

if you want to play as a winger, this is what it takes.

[. @saundzo]

Are you an attacker that moans every week about ‘not getting service?’

If you are then ask yourself;

do you make yourself as available as Mbappe?
do you find multiple directions / angles to be found with?
do you earn your service?