Vinny Green Balls

We used to have decent goalkeepers

WTF?

Taking them a long time

This fucking ref would cause a parents’ brawl at an under 10 AYSO girls game

Cops America refs must have been picked straight from 1990s Concacaf qualifiers

I see Uruguay is filled to the brim with cunts again. At least some things don’t change.

Mike desperate to break the Berhalter curse

But at least there was some level of vetting. Citizen journalists throwing shit against the wall while never setting foot there were much much worse. People still call what happened in Libya a coup orchestrated by the U.S. while accusing those of us who were there of being CIA operatives because we didn’t witness anything remotely like that. but back to Gordon

I witnessed their editorial standards in Benghazi. Although they weren’t bad at all,there was often speculation based on rumor that they justified with “purportedly” they quickly jumped to the conclusion that the Abu Salim massacre site was found outside Tripoli, when it was very tenuous to begin with. Their vetting was compromised by either the fact that everyone was erroneously reporting I, or the attempt to break the story before anyone else. The editors and their headlines are usually much more egregious with this than those who actually reported it though tbf

I’ve come across a lot of serious puzzling bullshit in my line of work.

It’s not a big historical slip up at all, but it illustrates how even the BBC has helped spread bullshit stories (less than others mind you). And no one bothered to ask why a Serb would be eating a sandwich in Sarajevo in 1914. Sandwiches weren’t a thing there back then. Strangely it’s almost exclusively British and American news that still reports this on retrospectives, despite the source likely being that novel.

That’s likely how it happened. The archduke had the route changed but the driver got confused and took the old route back. It was after a failed attempt earlier. The car as not supposed to turn on the original route. Princips was stationed there in case the first attempt didn’t go through.

I cited a 2003 bbc novel in my first post (a few posts before what you quoted), which I assume that you didn’t read. For some strange reason, both the BBC and American news sites cited the sandwich story since that novel came out, which is the first time a sandwich was ever mentioned. Smithsonian did an interesting investigation into it. I found it when I was listening to a BBC News audio walkthrough of Sarajevo when I was there for a festival in 2018.

He’s certainly the most overrated now. He has so many tongues in his asshole in the media that it looks like a painting in Clive Barker’s bedroom.

Peter Schmeichel diplomatically pointed out Ronaldo’s narcissism.

Just a dreadful tournament overall

I generally hate commentators, and this is why.

How do you know that? Oh yeah, your classic assumptions. Based on very little. You demonstrate that you don’t know much about anything, but your head is stuck straight up the asshole of Dunning-Kruger. Clown.

We’ll get to see Ronaldo cry in the next round

Jesus Christ. Given 1882’s track record, if the BBC reported the opposite, he’d argue about its unreliability

And football journalism is the absolute pits. It’s all based on speculation and dodgy sources but treated as gospel. I would have been proscribed as persona non grata if I was as unreliable in my documentary work.

Once again they go with a story from a Brazilian novel from 2003 when it comes to the event that started the Great War.

Given my experiences with the BBC I wouldn’t exactly trust some of their sources, and not just because of what I outlined above.

And I’ll remind you that the BBC actually claims that Gavrilo Princips was eating a sandwich before he shot the Archduke Ferdinand…this despite the only source being a shitty Brazilian novel from 2003, and despite the obvious fact that it would be unlikely that a Serb was eating a sandwich in Sarajevo in 1914. Given that and things like their reporting on Israel, they have had a pretty checkered track record in reporting over the last two decades.

We may have offered him. We may not have. Liverpool may have approached. Liverpool may not have had. So let’s assume the absolute worst.