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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXxqmAxDlYU It's football. Football is back, it's not March anymore. After three months of hiding in caves eating nothing but pies, both we and the footballers we know and love to hate have emerged, fatter and hairier, to resume the interrupted 2019-20 Premier League season.  We are all Harry de Bruyne now. When we left off three months ago the table looked like this:  The table still looks like that. Games will be in empty stadiums, there will be football basically every day for the next month until we're done or until every player in the league has the rona. June looks like this: Today:  Other days:    my bold prediction is that Liverpool will win the league, there I said it and now if we somehow do the most colossal fuckup in the history of organized sport you can all point and laugh at me forever. Marcus Rashford is a good lad who means well even though he plays for a bad club, gently caress the Tories, let's all watch football together, the end.
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June will be the month where Newcastle become the Big Club they’ve always been. Sleeping giant awakens.
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Jun 17, 2020 14:33
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Are they rubbing crowds over or what? What did they decide?
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I hope Liverpoo don't win but they will and I've made my peace with it
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Jun 17, 2020 14:38
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Fun things that can happen this week: If Man City lose tonight at the Arse and Liverpool win on Sunday at the Toffees, Liverpool will be your official 2019/2020 Premier League Mountain Dew Honey Mustard BBQ Sauce Champions (gently caress you Oliwan) No one can lock up any European places this week nor will anyone be relegated.
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Jun 17, 2020 14:47
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FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I would bet against that body finishing a marathon
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Bape Culture posted:Are they rubbing crowds over or what? What did they decide? Not universally at least. United have said there will be no dubbed in crowd noises at their games, but they will have signs and messages of support to caregivers and other COVID heroes in the stands. And of course Arsenal's games will be sound just the same as before. I really hope someone does pipe in some crowd noises from FIFA at some games, it would be amazingly bad.
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vyelkin posted:Football is back, it's not March anymore. After three months of hiding in caves eating nothing but pies, both we and the footballers we know and love to hate have emerged, fatter and hairier, to resume the interrupted 2019-20 Premier League season. I resent the implication that I wasn't fat and hairy prior to COVID-19.  In an already bizarre season/year, what's the weirdest thing that can now happen with the remaining games? Aside from a Spectacular Meltdown from Liverpool and they Let It Slip (again), maybe...
Also  Norwich City and BSE
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Jun 17, 2020 15:43
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sticksy posted:In an already bizarre season/year, what's the weirdest thing that can now happen with the remaining games? Some European qualification shenanigans if Chelsea poo poo up their League position but win the CL maybe (lol)
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Jun 17, 2020 15:48
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I'm pretty sure Coronavirus Antics are the only thing that can save the Villa who wants to buy Grealish
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Ah yes, it’s been three months since I’ve had to think about Arsenal being poo poo.
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pretty sure KJU would pass the owners and directors test if saudi arabia only fail on the piracy aspect. would be cool to be owned by a definite nuclear power imo holding out hope the official saudi arabia twitter threatens to 911 someone like it did canada after the takeover though
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I'm pretty sure Coronavirus Antics are the only thing that can save the Villa Dibs
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Jun 17, 2020 16:44
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vyelkin posted:The table still looks like that.  I'm looking forward to football, however I found that games without crowds are insanely boring most of the time.
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I'm cautiously optimistic about Villa, and that has never served me well.KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I'm pretty sure Coronavirus Antics are the only thing that can save the Villa Jack is probably off regardless 
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Jun 17, 2020 17:13
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Ryan Fraser apparently turned down a contract extension at the Mouth and will be ineligible to play after June.
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Is McGinn starting today
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Fixture list with some details on what you can see for free. first one's fridayquote:Wednesday, June 17
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TheBigAristotle posted:Is McGinn starting today Sure is! https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1273286764384354304
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CyberPingu posted:Fun things that can happen this week: Arse about to kick off a run of 10 wins to finish probably 3rd or whatever
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More atmosphere than the Ethiad
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sticksy posted:In an already bizarre season/year, what's the weirdest thing that can now happen with the remaining games? Jack Wilshere completes 90 minutes of football and/or breaks into a jog without some part of his body exploding with enough force to kill several other players.
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Looks like we've had our first non-rona weirdness of the second half of the season - ball blatantly seemed to be carried across the line by the Villa keeper but goal-line technology didn't notice (presumably because it's camera-based and can't tell where the ball is if it's in the keepers hands). e: https://twitter.com/thedannutt/status/1273311691649007617 goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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Jun 17, 2020 18:46
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Awesome Animals posted:I'm cautiously optimistic about Villa, and that has never served me well. i thiiiink they can keep him if they stay up but yeah he's 100% gone if they go down
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Looks like we've had our first non-rona weirdness of the second half of the season - ball blatantly seemed to be carried across the line by the Villa keeper but goal-line technology didn't notice (presumably because it's camera-based and can't tell where the ball is if it's in the keepers hands). Surely there have been instances of the ball going into the goal while the keeper has a hold on it at some point during the past few seasons of GLT across Europe, must be more to it than just that
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Players are rusty from not playing for a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if even refs are rusty too.
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Insurrectionist posted:Surely there have been instances of the ball going into the goal while the keeper has a hold on it at some point during the past few seasons of GLT across Europe, must be more to it than just that Nah it's a known flaw with Hawkeye systems (and presumably any other camera-based system) - if the keeper's hand (or any other player's body part for that matter) is touching the ball on the side away from the goal and obscures more than a certain percentage of it, the margin of error of the system goes right up because it has to make assumptions on where the ball is based on the bits of it it can see, and of course it defaults to no-goal if the confidence level isn't high enough.
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Vegetable posted:Players are rusty from not playing for a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if even refs are rusty too. Ref couldn't see it through the players, lino couldn't see it because of where the keeper's arm/shoulder was. Sky are saying that VAR should have flagged it and/or the ref could have asked to review it, though.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ref couldn't see it through the players, lino couldn't see it because of where the keeper's arm/shoulder was. Sky are saying that VAR should have flagged it and/or the ref could have asked to review it, though. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some dumb clause in the PL's contract with Hawkeye that says refs and/or VAR can't overrule Hawkeye.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Nah it's a known flaw with Hawkeye systems (and presumably any other camera-based system) - if the keeper's hand (or any other player's body part for that matter) is touching the ball on the side away from the goal and obscures more than a certain percentage of it, the margin of error of the system goes right up because it has to make assumptions on where the ball is based on the bits of it it can see, and of course it defaults to no-goal if the confidence level isn't high enough. Seems like this could be solved by allowing VAR to look at and potentially override if the confidence gets below a certain threshold then
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ref couldn't see it through the players, lino couldn't see it because of where the keeper's arm/shoulder was. Sky are saying that VAR should have flagged it and/or the ref could have asked to review it, though.
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Vegetable posted:Yeah I'm saying the ref in the VAR room is himself rusty Rusty to the point where he forgot what a goal is?
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I imagine one of the things they need to do is figure out when to intervene, and they really haven't been doing that for months. But yes I'm just making excuses for them. poo poo decisions.
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Insurrectionist posted:Seems like this could be solved by allowing VAR to look at and potentially override if the confidence gets below a certain threshold then Like I say, according to Sky (and I'm caveating that because they're loving terrible for not understanding how it works) VAR *could* have looked at it and over-ridden it. vyelkin posted:I wouldn't be surprised if there's some dumb clause in the PL's contract with Hawkeye that says refs and/or VAR can't overrule Hawkeye. Vegetable posted:Yeah I'm saying the ref in the VAR room is himself rusty These seem about equally likely though.
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blue footed boobie posted:Ah yes, it’s been three months since I’ve had to think about Arsenal being poo poo. They're unbeaten in the league for over 5 months...for a couple more hours.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Looks like we've had our first non-rona weirdness of the second half of the season - ball blatantly seemed to be carried across the line by the Villa keeper but goal-line technology didn't notice (presumably because it's camera-based and can't tell where the ball is if it's in the keepers hands). Ah, how could I omit VAR from my list of potential Rona Season gently caress-ups, smdh
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