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Syncopated posted:lol for real? yes 
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If we give every person in the world a World Cup then everyone will be employed at all times, thank you FIFA for solving all problems forever
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Panini sticker mobile game where the trade interface mysteriously doesn't work but you can spend $0.99 to get the last sticker you need to complete Ecuador
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May 12, 2022 16:18
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can't wait for my VAR Break Brought To YOu By Sprite to show me a 30-second Budweiser ad because the clock is fully stopped while Mr. Pixels draws the lines to see if Cristiano Ronaldo's dick and balls were offside and then the commercial takes too long so I don't even see what the ref's decision was but i do know that the decision was brought tome by American Express
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Jun 8, 2022 17:01
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ilmucche posted:I think the bbc posted how much average gametime there was for each team but I can't find it again I remember them doing this years ago and saying the lowest amount of real gametime they could find was that one Stoke-Villa match, you know the one
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Jun 8, 2022 17:06
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Vegetable posted:Would stopping the clock really make the overall runtime shorter? Football’s nice because it’s just 90 minutes, give or take. If you hit pause for every stoppage it feels like the whole thing can spiral out of control. Yeah this is a real problem to consider. In basketball they found recently that in close games the last two minutes of game time can take about half an hour to play because teams are constantly fouling each other and calling timeouts, which keeps stopping the clock after like 0.5 seconds of game time have elapsed. imo football should stay as-is for the game clock but refs should strictly enforce rules around timewasting. Yellow cards for everybody and don't be shy about sending players off for timewasting when they've already got a yellow.
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Jun 8, 2022 17:20
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nawilo_420 posted:This is not an issue in football because there are no timeouts op. There are still fouls, penalties, corners, offside calls, VAR, etc., and lol if you think they wouldn't take the chance to introduce timeouts at some point in the future as soon as it wouldn't affect the game clock. Also for all that we're all concerned about timewasting, one side having incentive to timewaste means the other side doesn't and gets on with it quickly. For example, if the clock is paused for every throw-in, then the team chasing a game in the 89th minute won't be taking throw-ins after half a second to get on with the game, they'll be waiting to get every player in the right position before chucking the thing. Stopping the game clock makes sense to solve some current problems with the flow of the game, but is likely to also introduce entirely new problems.
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Jun 8, 2022 17:43
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The NBA has a rule where if too many minutes pass in a quarter without either team calling a timeout then the refs call a timeout to show commercials.
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Jun 9, 2022 02:01
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Apparently UEFA pre-prepared their statement about "late fans" causing problems at the Champions League final well in advance in the expectation that if anything went wrong with their botch job rearrangement they could just blame the fans and walk away with their own hands clean.
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Sep 21, 2022 15:47
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Right from the start, the expansion to 48 teams was guaranteed to be a shitshow, but at least they didn't go with the absolutely horrendous 3-team group idea.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:27
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Pook Good Mook posted:Ya EA is going to sell a game called "Ultimate Soccer/Football 2024" or something and will put Messi on the cover and make nearly as much as they made with the FIFA name. EA still has the contract with the players' unions and the leagues. EA will make EA FC 2024 and it'll be the identical same game we all love to hate with all the licensing rights and FIFA will make janky trash where you play as the Merseyside Reds and can accelerate to infinite speed as long as you're running backwards
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Here's a simply incredible article about the 2022 CL final, digging into the incredibly close relationship between Ceferin and UEFA's head of security, and the way they've done their level best to blame anybody else but him for the security fuckups at the final because the guy is Ceferin's best friend. I'm not gonna quote the whole thing but here are some highlights:quote:Uefa has been accused of presenting “completely untrue” evidence to its own independent inquiry into the near-disaster at the 2022 Champions League final, to protect its safety and security unit – headed by the president’s best friend – from criticism. quote:Uefa appointed a panel of experts to review the debacle, and it concluded that Uefa had “primary responsibility” because it failed to monitor and oversee the safety plans and operation in Paris. However the panel said this failure was not principally the fault of the safety and security unit whose role is to oversee safety, but of Burkhalter-Lau’s events division, because it had “marginalised” the unit. quote:Burkhalter-Lau’s allegations raise further questions about Uefa’s culture under Ceferin. After the final, the Guardian reported on serious concerns about alleged cronyism in Uefa appointments, with Pavlica and four more of Ceferin’s associates from Slovenia appointed to key positions. Uefa denied the accusation of cronyism, saying they were all “proven professionals”. quote:Ceferin, a lawyer in Slovenia, and Pavlica, former head of personal security for the country’s former president Janez Drnovsek, have been friends for decades, and Ceferin was best man at Pavlica’s 2018 wedding. Shortly after Ceferin became president of Slovenia’s football association in 2011, Pavlica was given his first job in football, working for the association as a safety and security officer. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/25/uefa-accused-of-presenting-untrue-evidence-to-inquiry-on-champions-league-final-chaos
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I hate it all but the one ray of hope is that it would be funny if the sudden onset Saudi interest in football fades over the years to come and we end up with some kind of shitshow nightmare of a World Cup because they halfass everything.
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Oct 31, 2023 13:00
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Pook Good Mook posted:If it's possible, Saudi is even less welcoming to tourists than Qatar. Absolutely no one will be at this loving tournament.. the people who matter will be there (FIFA execs doing Looney Tunes eyes at a big bag with a dollar sign on it)
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Nov 1, 2023 02:06
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IFAB has said thanks but no thanks to the idea of blue cards and sin bins, but they're going to allow trials of a new time wasting rule where goalkeepers get eight seconds to hold the ball instead of six, but the ref will visibly count down the last five seconds on their hand so the goalkeeper, players, and fans can all see how much time the keeper has left. And if the keeper is still holding on to the ball at the end of eight seconds, the trials will let competitions trial giving a throw-in in line with the penalty spot or even a corner kick, since one reason refs don't call the foul for keepers holding the ball is that the rules say they should give an indirect free kick in the box and refs hate giving those because they're so chaotic, which is a shame because indirect free kicks in the box are great.
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Mar 2, 2024 18:28
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the sex ghost posted:Managers salivating at the opportunity to kick off at the ref in the post match for counting too slow or too fast The ref was eating a sandwich while counting... very disrespectful to a Premier League manager
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Mar 3, 2024 13:19
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quote:From 2024 the tournament will take place annually and will have 48 participating teams divided into 4 'mini-tournaments' of 12 teams each divided into 3 groups of 4 with the winners and best runner up qualifying to the MT semi-finals and the 2 winners qualifying to the final. The winner of each MT would qualify to a 'final four' tournament with 2 semi-finals, a third place match and a final to decide the FIFA U17 World Champions.[4] wtf is this poo poo lmao
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Mar 14, 2024 18:18
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ilmucche posted:Finally mini leagues are making it to u17 tournaments I would guess so. Also I hope everyone is prepared for the next ten years of stories about thousands of migrant workers dying on construction sites in Saudi Arabia that will make us all angry and spark zero positive change in the world.
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Mar 20, 2024 13:06
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Nuclear Spoon posted:it's very funny to me everytime "growing the game" is used with regards to football. it's football. the only thing bigger than football is earth itself which is also a kind of football growing the [size of the bank accounts owned by the people who manage the] game
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Mar 27, 2024 12:51
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Star Man posted:I really want to know how that works. Do you hire a household employee who lives in the penthouse and feeds and takes care of the cats? He had one apartment in Trump Tower for himself and another apartment in Trump Tower for his cats
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Mar 31, 2024 03:06
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Americans think their country doesn't have corruption because they legalized it and called it lobbying
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Apr 3, 2024 12:30
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Shrapnig posted:Football should always be played in a timezone that is conducive to me watching  the best tournaments are the ones that are approximately 6 hours ahead of my time zone, so that when I wake up there's football on and then the football stays on all day
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Apr 3, 2024 13:51
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I remember Australia complaining that their gifts of "a nice box of wine" to each committee member somehow couldn't compete with envelopes full of cash being slipped under hotel room doors
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sticksy posted:Feel very silly and naive when Blatter finally went down and I momentarily believed “surely it can't get dumber and more blatantly corrupt” and Infantino/FIFA have proved me wrong every day since Blatter was incredibly corrupt but he was at least incredibly corrupt in a funny way instead of a depressing way
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