Michael Mark

Trying to be a voice of reason.....passionate and knowledgeable about politics and sports. come for some sports talk, stay for the politics

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Friday at midnight in Toronto. Wait times:
-Sunnybrook: 9h46m
-Toronto General: 5h40m
-Sick Kids: 5h40m
-St. Michael's: 6h44m
We have got to do better than this. Source: https://t.co/n8snRQoomJ - @ERStat

[Michael Mark @michaelmark1]

@JeffreyHustle I almost forgot about this clown

[Michael Mark @michaelmark1]

@TorontoStar Did they have to use the picture of her from her appearance in the walking dead?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Obama: "Canada, that historical adversary of ours. It's your neighbour. It's a few minutes drive over the bridge. They are the nicest people. And somehow we've gotten them so mad because they're just constantly being abused and talked about. Talking about annexing their country, making it a 51st state."

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Watching journalists cover a BS flying Tesla car instead of the deaths of women and children in Ukraine because Starlink was slowed down is disgusting.

It's absolutely disgusting.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

The Ruben Amorim-Manchester United revisionism needs to stop. Even if Michael Carrick lost the next 17 Premier League games in a row, he would still have a better winning percentage than Amorim did (31.9%).

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

What Licha says is not controversial in any way shape, or form. Ineos and the Glazers completely -- BETRAYED --. the club during the summer. There is no other way to describe it. An absurd betrayal after Carrick working wonders to get the club into the CL.

No other PL club would ever consider going into a CL with zero depth at important positions. When you qualify for the CL, if you don't have sufficient depth -- you sign 7-8 players.

Its October and we don't have a left back. I am so sick of people blaming the manager and saying stuff like 'okey, the Glazers are not great, but the manager should still be able to do better'. No -- I can guarantee that no manager will do better. How can I be certain of that? Because we have seen it every single season the last 13 years.

[Jeff Veillette @JeffVeillette]

That’s closer to a wrestling move than a hockey play. Not particularly close to the play, and an injury caused. No penalty called is awful, officials should have at least an ounce of shame here

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’s insane to me that three years into a genocide, which Trump and the GOP have emboldened and escalated, and 7 months into an illegal war with Iran, some self-styled pro-Pal and anti-war voices are devoting so much of their posting time and energy not to opposing Trump or the GOP but attacking a Senate Democratic candidate who has pledged to oppose both, and was targeted by 30 million dollars of AIPAC attack ads, but said something they didn’t like in an out of context 30 second clip on Twitter.

What is wrong with people?
Why would you attack Abdul El-Sayed at this point in the race, while giving neocon pro-Israel, AIPAC-backed hawk Mike Rogers a pass? Do you actually care about helping people suffering in the Middle East?

FFS.

[💟Ole IS Right, Esq. @Ole_is_right]

@premierleague as an ardent viewer and lifelong fan, I am deeply concerned about the lack of transparency involving the Manchester City case, as the public has a deeply rooted interest in the appearance of propriety for your competition. Today's report coming from an anonymous source, rather than an official channel, seems to further undermine the PL's proffered position is as an appropriate entity for managing the (often untoward) actions of clubs. Perhaps this could be remedied by releasing a public-friendly version of the tribunal's opinion 😉

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

I still find it hard to believe that we have grown men in the media who evaluated this situation and determined it was United’s fault. Forget about their sub conscious bias that led them to this conclusion in the first place, the real crime here is how anyone with a functioning brain cell felt that one of the biggest sporting institutions in the world should allow a 15 year old to determine how the club is run regardless of the consequences to everyone else and expect that to work out well. How do these people have jobs?

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Three #MUAcademy players have signed professional terms with United.

Congratulations to Dante Plunkett, Fred Heath and Will Murdock �Three #MUAcademy players have signed professional terms with United.

Congratulations to Dante Plunkett, Fred Heath and Will Murdock �Three #MUAcademy players have signed professional terms with United.

Congratulations to Dante Plunkett, Fred Heath and Will Murdock 🔴

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

Kawhi Leonard is back. #WeTheNorth

[Michael Mark @michaelmark1]

Manchester United fans can be so ridiculous at times. we spent all summer lamenting at needing new full backs and lo and behold today our full backs were bad and together with idiotic VAR call, costs us the game

[Marc Stein @TheSteinLine]

League sources tell @JakeLFischer and me that Kawhi Leonard joined Raptors players in Miami for the aforementioned mini-camp but to this point is restricted to individual workouts because his verbally agreed trade from the Clippers back to Toronto has not yet been made official.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Manchester punches above its weight. From live music venues that rival cities twice its size to pubs where strangers become friends, here’s correspondent Andy Bruce’s guide to experiencing the city like a local: https://t.co/nC0TZ5xcfV

[Manchester United Die Hard Fans @DieHardUtdFans]

HERE WE GO !

United 🆚 Ipswich: the director's cut

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

About the Maguire handball and “goal” versus Ipswich today.

When VAR reviewed Harry Maguire's goal against Ipswich today, the officials were not asking whether Maguire handled the ball. He did.

That much was visible to everyone inside Old Trafford and everyone watching at home. The question VAR was actually asking is a completely different one, and understanding that question is the difference between following football and understanding football.

Under IFAB Law 12, a goal is automatically disallowed in two specific scenarios involving handball. The first is where a player puts the ball directly into the opponents' net with their hand or arm.

The second is where a player scores immediately after the ball has touched their own hand or arm, even accidentally.

Neither of those scenarios applies to what happened today. Maguire's shot struck Jacob Greaves and went in off the Ipswich defender. Greaves scored the goal into his own net. The moment the ball deflected off an Ipswich player, the automatic disallowance provision was off the table entirely.

The second thing VAR checked was whether Maguire's handling was deliberate, or whether his arm made his body unnaturally bigger in a way that gained an unfair advantage under the accidental handball provisions.

With his hands crossed in front of his chest in a defensive shape, the arm position was not unnatural. It did not expand his body beyond its natural silhouette. VAR confirmed both points and the goal stood.

This is actually consistent with a position IFAB has confirmed explicitly in its own guidance. If a player handles and the ball goes into their own goal immediately, the goal is awarded to the attacking team.

What happened today was a step further removed than even that scenario. The ball touched Maguire's hand, then his shot struck Greaves, then it went in. Two touches separated the handball from the goal. The automatic disallowance rule does not stretch that far and was never designed to.

Now I’m not sure if the rule or its application is right but I just wanted to clear it up.

My name is Ajoje and I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I talk about the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow me if you want to read more posts like this.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.