Massive cockpunch to pressure washing north facing patios with uneven slabs. My initial conscientious cleaning has now turned into ‘fuck it that will do’.
Next year I think I’ll hire a fucking flame thrower.
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BBC News - World Cup 2026: Goalkeeper tactical timeouts banned - BBC Sport
So many cockpunches…
Keepers for this shithousery
FIFA for introducing new rules for the World Cup - even if they’re good rules, this is not the time for experimentation
FIFA again for rules that prevent management input during the game. Let’s be grown up here, tactics are an important part of any sport, so why not have a two minute pause in every half for fluids, tactics and adverts? Everybody wins.
Actually FIFA need loads more. Fuck FIFA.
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You’ve been talking to that Donald Trump again haven’t you ?
Football (the one where the ball is moved mostly by the foot) is meant to be, as far as possible, continuous. Uninterrupted. Dynamic. Improvisational. Responsive to everything else that’s happening on the pitch and to pretty much nothing that’s happening off it (pace the chanting fans). The players use their ‘football brains’ to create flowing movement. All this is what makes the game beautiful.
American ‘football’ is a different game. The people on the pitch are just bit-part players. They’re all supposed to be doing what they’re told with a view to executing someone else’s plan. Most of the time is spent working this plan out, then adjusting the resources to match it and communicating it to everyone involved. That allows plenty of time for the fans to eat/drink the world’s worst hot-dogs/beer, chat to friends and family, amuse themselves by playing with their phones, queue for the bathrooms etc etc.
I don’t want any footballers to stop the game unless they’re so badly hurt that they can’t safely continue. If they need a drink or a chat or a bit of a lie down or some mentoring by their management then fine. They can leave the pitch and their team-mates can continue without them. Otherwise they’ll just have to make sure they’re properly hydrated before each half and that they pay attention to any planning then.
Just my two penn’orth of course.
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Tell that to the goalies. And the players. And the managers. And whoever came up with VAR.
They wanted 4 quarters in the USA 94 wc
Just for more ads of course
FIFA are telling the goalies on my behalf. The players will be next (Mosquera yellow-carded for time-wasting on Sat). Managers can indeed stretch dead-ball time with substitutions, but that’s all, and only so many times. VAR should get 30 secs per ‘incident’ to overturn the official, otherwise his/her mistake can’t be clear and obvious.
I was at Wembley a fortnight ago and they had a drinks break. I mean, it was fucking hot, just an obvious thing to do. The USA will also be quite hot.
It’s not really reasonable to expect the same rules and approach as the 1960s - then players were playing up to the age of 50 as running was mostly optional. Now players are doing a start-stop half marathon. Being fitter doesn’t mean you can do that without water.
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They’re choosing to do that. Running so fast you have to interrupt everyone’s enjoyment because you need a drinks rest is one option. Pacing yourself so you can keep going to the end of the half without stopping is another. They result in different games.
I went to the end of my street a few years ago to see the European women’s cycling tour actually race through Didcot. In fact they weren’t really racing because, courtesy of OCC’s dreadful road maintenance, there’d been a huge crash just before they got to the town. So the race was stopped and restarted in the town centre. In the short break the women all ran into the local shops to use the toilets. They needed a pee. You could argue that the race should be stopped every few miles because, let’s face it, people need to pee. But that’s not the game. Cyclists are free to stop if you want to, and footballers should be free to go off for a drink if they want to, but if they stop then they have to catch up with the ones who haven’t so the women, and I guess men too, often pee on the move. That’s the game. It keeps moving.
This.
Watch any of the cycling races and if they need a piss then they stop and have one. The race doesn’t stop so they can catch up.
I can’t remember which WC, but there weren’t any refueling stops. However, when there were stoppages (fouls, etc) the England team were thrown water, gels, etc.
They don’t always stop…
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Troo also
Venue right now. The fucking card machine is fucked. Who pays cash these days? Ffs.
ISWYDT 
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If only I was that clever 
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Cycle road race etiquette is such that if ayone goes up the road during a general pee stop, the peloton bosses will ensure they spend time examining ditches over the next few days.
Cockpunch to the football thread escaping from it’s own (ignored) thread.
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Fuck off, no it doesn’t
I didn’t see anything in that video that justifies the level the police are being blamed for this.
Politicians throw the police under the bus and let the public blame them, you spineless cunts
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Cockpunch to prostate cancer from me and Bob. He was first diagnosed in 2007 so he has been putting up a good fight.
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One of the truly great voices of radio - hope he gets to soldier-on for a while longer yet 
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FIFA (again)
So FIFA are introducing “cooling/water” breaks 
in every game but have now banned refillable water bottles for the fans.