DJ_NUFC

Holy fuck. Imagine receiving that, growing up and reading it. I'd be a lifelong follower.

This. It's actually added so much to the game, especially with the potential to cutting out all the crap that defenders and divers have been getting away with for a century. Ultimately it's human fallibility and interpretation of laws that keeps letting us down, not a camera.

why isn’t he fucking diving?!

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No idea why people are blaming any of this on VAR at all. This decision was entirely about interpretation. So to blame the tech for simply providing flawed, faulty humans with multiple angles of footage from which to make a decision is like blaming white vans next time an incel gets behind one.

Still feel like his hands were headed in that direction before the ball even changed direction. f***, I just saw the 10th replay and I just realized the France player misses the ball immediately before it hits his arm. He didn’t expect it to come there, so his arm was naturally moving towards his side as he was landing. Hmmmm. Feels like 12 Angry Men, this. Haha very apt.

Still feel like his hands were headed in that direction before the ball even changed direction. f***, I just saw the 10th replay and I just realized the France player misses the ball immediately before it hits his arm. He didn’t expect it to come there, so his arm was naturally moving towards his side as he was landing. Hmmmm. what i just said Yeah after watching that I’m no longer 100% that’s a penalty. Literally a few seconds before I was 100% sure

Still feel like his hands were headed in that direction before the ball even changed direction. Fuck, I just saw the 10th replay and I just realized the France player misses the ball immediately before it hits his arm. He didn’t expect it to come there, so his arm was naturally moving towards his side as he was landing. Hmmmm.

Yup.

Have to be the fittest old men I’ve ever seen. Marathoners, the lot of them.

Yup. It’s hard on Perisic, I agree, but if the bar is set at hand moving towards the ball when it comes to handballs, he doesn’t make the decision easy for the ref.

FWIW, Croatia deserve to win this as France have been terrible, and ahead through an own goal and a controversial penalty.

Clear as day penalty. No idea what everyone is on about. His hand moves towards the ball. If that was a player who had done that against NUFC we’d all be seeing red. End of the day, you shouldn’t be moving your hand towards the ball in the area. It at least gives the illusion of being deliberate.

I'm the last person who takes life too seriously. Existence has been a joke thus far Edit: * a cruel, cruel joke.

The audacity of someone who supports a team who hasn't made a World Cup semi since all the way back in 2014 to post this

I don't disagree with this, for what it's worth. They've lacked grace in winning, and that's simply true. But it's not wrong to point out the negative impression there is of England as a whole from the coverage of our press, and no, not just pointing out they're tired, but they rest of it. It's coming home, it's our time, talks of the final, our destiny etc. Fair enough, I get it's us just trying to support our team, but it obviously rubs others up the wrong way. It has done for decades, this is no new phenomena. There it is. As a neutral and not an England supporter, I can attest to this. Since the draw was made, it's been non-stop "who are we playing in the final?" As if teams are just supposed to roll over and let England win because destiny / football's coming home. It's been so over the top on social media, in person and from some pundits, that it stopped coming across as anything but a sense of entitlement. If you're an opposition player, I can understand why it'd wind you up. Having said all that, Croatia should've been more gracious after their win. Sportsmanship seems to be dead in football these days. This was a massive in-joke man I didn't even realise it was an in-joke like, I thought others would have cottoned onto the fact that the entire country never actual believed we were definitely winning the world cup. I get that. I'm surrounded by friends & family who support England, so I really do. But even then it was fucking non-stop, so if I could get annoyed, someone who actually has lived in England and knows the culture (banter), imagine someone who barely speaks English and just sees this shite on telly, social media, etc. Reminds me of Fargo Season 2, where Ted Danson's character invents a new language because he believes all wars in human history have begun due to miscommunication, so maybe a better common language would fix all the issues plaguing humanity

I don't disagree with this, for what it's worth. They've lacked grace in winning, and that's simply true. But it's not wrong to point out the negative impression there is of England as a whole from the coverage of our press, and no, not just pointing out they're tired, but they rest of it. It's coming home, it's our time, talks of the final, our destiny etc. Fair enough, I get it's us just trying to support our team, but it obviously rubs others up the wrong way. It has done for decades, this is no new phenomena. There it is. As a neutral and not an England supporter, I can attest to this. Since the draw was made, it's been non-stop "who are we playing in the final?" As if teams are just supposed to roll over and let England win because destiny / football's coming home. It's been so over the top on social media, in person and from some pundits, that it stopped coming across as anything but a sense of entitlement. If you're an opposition player, I can understand why it'd wind you up. Having said all that, Croatia should've been more gracious after their win. Sportsmanship seems to be dead in football these days.

Its volunteered work. Nobody had to help out but they chose to. If nobody had shown up, the club would have had to sort it out by other means or not at all. You may find the optics endearing and something that reminds you of the 1800s, but for most of us, we just feel sorry for these fans who're being fooled by a new owner who seems hellbent on populist moves exactly such as these, and tweeting gleefully about his own importance. The Don has way too much in common with The Donald, if you ask me.

Yeah, the issue is that these fans have been taken for a ride by their club. The new owner should've treated the fans with some dignity and funded the seat-change himself or via a loan, or even a GoFundMe or whatever, but not relied on fans' actual labour.

damn son

The dildo brothers are having a laugh.

This is why Rafa is special. Within a couple of hours of the story breaking, he lays down the gauntlet. Now let's compare this behaviour to Pardew's... "Every player's fo saWe, innit, we can never rule out outgoings, we're not Soufampton or a sovereign power..."

Fair points. I hope we sign him permanently and Rafa helps him become a mainstay in the Brazil team.

Is it customary to get shirts with loan players's names and numbers on the back? You must be rich.

We can't even fucking qualify. It's never coming home. What if trump was still on office, would you want to ? Is this a serious debate for Americans? I don't care if a Pol Pot, Stalin, Idi Amin triumvirate is running my country. I still would want to win the World Cup. In the nineties, Abacha was executing dissidents and stealing billions from the coffers, while the country declined. Everyone still wanted to win. There is 100% chance America will make the semifinals in 2026, fwiw. You just know Trump will force the team to go to the White House and hold Jules Rimet aloft, "we have the best cup, biggest cup!"