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Hoops posted:My friend's been doing that job (not Opta) for a living for a few months now, watches a ton of games from all over the world. I asked him recently if he had gained any insight about football from doing in-depth analysis on so many games all the time. He just shrugged. I imagine that he'd be so occupied keeping up with the game (drawing passes, identifying players, etc) that it'd be impossible to learn much. Something about not being able to see the forest for the trees.
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I imagine Opta has some backroom of analysis goons that actually do gain some insight into the game. The click-a-button grunt probably hate their job.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:I am loving stunned Toploader are still going, and are still milking that song. There was a brief resurgence in popularity due to Four Lions I think.
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tetsman posted:That reminded me of this. That's every single pitch I played on from u11s to u15s, including the slope.
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mikewozere posted:Is it Juventus who have that death-trap body of water near their training ground that a few people have died in? It's in their training complex, there's a man made lake. If Im remembering it right there was an incident when two of their U-15 players drowned trying to get a ball out of it. e: I was curious so I looked it up; it's right on the edge of their facility: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Juve...rin,+Italy&z=17 Gigi Galli fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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trem_two posted:That was interesting, I was always curious about how the Opta sausage is made. Fair play to the fella who set that all up but I'd end up shooting myself if that was my working day
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That would destroy my enjoyment of football. I can spend a Sunday watching football for 12 hours straight starting at 5AM and it's an awesome day, but if that was my work day I would hate it in no time. I think it's kinda like how people think being a game tester is a dream job when in reality it's tedious and lame.
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Crosspost from the South American thread: Nacional of Uruguay showed their new flag today against Toluca (MEX), it's 600X50 metres. 
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Hoops posted:My friend's been doing that job (not Opta) for a living for a few months now, watches a ton of games from all over the world. I asked him recently if he had gained any insight about football from doing in-depth analysis on so many games all the time. He just shrugged. I feel like Brian Clough would have loving hated Opta.
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Polidoro posted:Crosspost from the South American thread: I didn't notice it wrapping all the way up the sides at first. That's loving awesome.
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Bubble-T posted:I hope Torres wears that thing for a while and keeps scoring because I find the idea of him reviving his reputation as a masked, goal-scoring alter-ego quite amusing. I was calling him Zorres the whole match today. In the next FIFA update they should add the mask to him and boost his stats a huge amount for a while.
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Gigi Galli posted:I didn't notice it wrapping all the way up the sides at first. That's loving awesome. Yeah, the picture is kinda crappy but I couldn't find a better one, it covers three of the four stands completely. Here's a video of it coming down that shows it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhvcZvGgrOA e: You can see Peņarol's little flag in this other video, but it only covers two stands  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bUPw0bZzIU Polidoro fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Footballers literally fighting with Police, kinda funny, kinda not especially since I can't tell if that's a real gun being pointed at a player. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LfG7v5cjw This article gives a bit of background http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...es-8559962.html quote:Violent scenes in Brazil after Atletico Mineiro beat Arsenal overshadow Ronaldinho show in the Copa Libertadores
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Brighterday posted:Footballers literally fighting with Police, kinda funny, kinda not especially since I can't tell if that's a real gun being pointed at a player. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LfG7v5cjw That's for sure a real shotgun, maybe not shells but beanbag, but yeah, a real fire arm.
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They were rubber bullets. It was ugly. But that's South American football for you. People might remember a similar altercation between players and police at the last Copa Sudamerica. Although this one was certainly more severe and violent.
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The incident between Tigre and Sao Paolo? well that didn't happen on camera so we really couldn't know, the Tigre players said they were attacked by the police in the dressing room and the police said it was the other way around. They really should do something about matches between Brazilian and Argentinian teams.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/new-chelsea-kit-amazing-video-1813810   This is the greatest thing, Yves Klein would approve. e. beaten, bah gawd.
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cadfael posted:https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/new-chelsea-kit-amazing-video-1813810 
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To be fair, this picture of Juan Mata is legitimately incredible:
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onoflalks posted:They trying to tie in with Arrested Development coming back? I wonder if anyone has checked Eva Carneiro for blue handprints. 
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