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penalty!

come on slovakia

gg slovakia, had a great tournament

Last edited by SEREVENT (2010-06-28 08:49:42)

oh lol

brasillllllllllll

did sam khs after the loss?

they cancelled a double episode of corrie to play the match tonight

mikkel wrote:

nukchebi0 wrote:

mikkel wrote:

It's always the newcomers, the people who've watched a match or two, who come to offer their expert opinions on the matter as if everyone else is wrong. These people need to come to terms with the fact that, apparently, they just don't like the sport, and that it doesn't mean that the sport should change. These people will stop moaning as soon as the World Cup is over, and the rest of us can get back to watching quality football from the best leagues.

Protip: don't assume things. I like the sport, mostly - I just can't handle the pathetically antiquated officiating standards.

nukchebi0 wrote:

Regarding the cards, don't they restart the game from an injury with a throw-in because a team kicked it out? That should work for the requisite red card reviews.

I don't need to assume anything. You've made it painfully obvious that you have very little knowledge of the sport, and I think everyone is very aware from your pointlessly disparaging remarks about the sport that you do not like how it's played. You need to realise that you have no obligation to follow it, and that the vast majority of people who follow the sport are fine with the way that it is. This is like wanting an inward-opening door to open outward, and calling it names for not doing so. It isn't terribly bright.

I've made it painfully obvious I have little knowledge of the sport? How so? By correctly describing how play is stopped and started when injuries occur? Try harder in the future so you don't look like a stereotypically elitist European who thinks Americans don't understand their precious "beautiful game".

My pointlessly disparaging remarks have to do with the pathetic amounts of diving that occur, something I'll definitely use in my next intramural match but make for a laughable display from supposed professional athletes, and with the refereeing quality I've seen, which is, at least in international competitions, absolutely abhorrent. Please read what I write next time, instead of blithely assuming things that fit your skewed Europen conception of the world.

Last edited by nukchebi0 (2010-06-28 14:45:57)

textbook perfection goals? tevez's last for argentina is probably the goal of the tournament right there.

nubbychuk, stop typing in such "pathetically antiquated" prose, please. it's painful to watch.

nukchebi0 wrote:

mikkel wrote:

nukchebi0 wrote:

Protip: don't assume things. I like the sport, mostly - I just can't handle the pathetically antiquated officiating standards.

nukchebi0 wrote:

Regarding the cards, don't they restart the game from an injury with a throw-in because a team kicked it out? That should work for the requisite red card reviews.

I don't need to assume anything. You've made it painfully obvious that you have very little knowledge of the sport, and I think everyone is very aware from your pointlessly disparaging remarks about the sport that you do not like how it's played. You need to realise that you have no obligation to follow it, and that the vast majority of people who follow the sport are fine with the way that it is. This is like wanting an inward-opening door to open outward, and calling it names for not doing so. It isn't terribly bright.

I've made it painfully obvious I have little knowledge of the sport? How so? By correctly describing how play is stopped and started when injuries occur? Try harder in the future so you don't look like a stereotypically elitist European who thinks Americans don't understand their precious "beautiful game".

Not only did you not describe it correctly, but you also presented a case that doesn't fit with how what you were trying to describe is performed. Pointing out that you're commenting on changing the sport without having significant knowledge of it does not make me an "elitist European". It makes you a person who continually complains about that which he does not seem to understand.

nukchebi0 wrote:

My pointlessly disparaging remarks have to do with the pathetic amounts of diving that occur, something I'll definitely use in my next intramural match but make for a laughable display from supposed professional athletes, and with the refereeing quality I've seen, which is, at least in international competitions, absolutely abhorrent. Please read what I write next time, instead of blithely assuming things that fit your skewed Europen conception of the world.

It seems that I did read what you wrote, because it seems to fit with what I said. Terrific call on deferring actual arguments to some sort of preconceived generalisation regarding a place in which I do not reside. That's pretty irrefutable.

Uzikins, it's so nice to have your acerbic British wit back.

mikkel wrote:

Not only did you not describe it correctly, but you also presented a case that doesn't fit with how what you were trying to describe is performed. Pointing out that you're commenting on changing the sport without having significant knowledge of it does not make me an "elitist European". It makes you a person who continually complains about that which he does not seem to understand.

I described it incorrectly? I said that they use a throw-in because a team kicks it out to halt play. How is that incorrect? Please enlighten me, oh wise European soccer guru.

(In others words, you're wrong, don't look like an elitist European by assuming I have no knowledge of the game and misreading what I write.)

It seems that I did read what you wrote, because it seems to fit with what I said. Terrific call on deferring actual arguments to some sort of preconceived generalisation regarding a place in which I do not reside. That's pretty irrefutable.

I lamented the terrible officiating and diving, you interpreted that to mean I disliked soccer, and thus you didn't "read" what I wrote. I haven't seen anyone but Europeans of the sort I described making such errors in regards to American knowledge of soccer, and thus I concluded you were one yourself. It's not the most complicated reasoning, though I perhaps understand how it wasn't clear the first time it was written.

Edit: It was common knowledge you don't live in Europe right now, but unless you lied about your ethnicity earlier, you are still a "European".

Last edited by nukchebi0 (2010-06-29 00:18:24)

thought Graham Pole was an excellent Ref in the Brazil V's Chilé last night, the only real shocker besides the ref of the England V Germany game has been that Mexican with the slicked back hair. imo..

i could have done with you cropping the bottom half out aussie

go japan

whats acerbic mean

so apparantly thousands of fans bought plane tickets/hotel rooms for cape town, because not only did they think england would finish first, they'd get to the quaterfinals...

rule one of supporting england is never, ever over-estimate england