Pffft. I fall over and get hit in the head all the time. It's easy.

Huh. I was thinking that he must be embarrassed to have tripped and gotten hit in the head with the ball like that, with the whole world watching. It's a good thing that net was there, or the ball could have rolled all the way under the bleachers!

Thanks! Actually, I don't have an issue with all of that, and agree that by this rule the goal was onside regardless of the deflection. I was responding more to the bit about what is customarily determined to be a 'deflection' rather than a deliberate strike by the defender. Again, I believe you about how it is…

That's bizarre, if that's really how they interpret it (which I have no reason to doubt you about). It seems like an identical situation to a defender attempting to clear the ball and mis-striking it...systematically deciding that such scenarios create an unfair advantage for the offense seems pretty arbitrary to me.

Well, I'll forgive you if you can tell me the geographic location of the nearest macaroons to my sofa.

Hm....The Even More Indomitable Super-Lions?

So that means you were lying before. Now I can't trust anything you say. Also, Cameroon makes me think of delicious macaroons, and it makes me hungry.

Wasn't it deliberate when the Cameroonian defender jumped up and deflected the ball with his head?

GOD DAMN YOU MARCEL!!!

That's actually a common misconception among casual fans. It's called a 'crab dribble,' and its perfectly legal.

Brilliant! I will be using this tactic every day.

Also, can you trick a breathalyzer by farting into it? HAHAHA! Fuck, I am so charismatic right now.

It's amazing enough that alcohol makes me so much more charismatic, but can it really also make me better looking? If so, I may start drinking it around other people.

Brazilians are always getting waxed in the box, so the referee was probably just playing the odds.

You've never heard of "playing God?"

That's your problem right there. It's not going to be a very effective deterrent if you build the wall out of Mexicans.

I really wish you had told me about this earlier. *sigh* My life...

What you have to realize is that football is a very physical game, and they could call holding on literally any play. What I'm mad about is all the moving screens that weren't called.

Perhaps, do you have actual bodyweight stats to look at? I did a quick search for recent state-by-state bodyweights, but everything i found used BMI. It's a much more useful measure for public health, if you give a shit about that, but it doesn't quite work for our calculations here. Still, eyeballing the BMI…

The Saints did take a pretty effective territorial piss all over the fleur-de-lis by not having any other components to their branding. And you're right that it shouldn't be hard to incorporate it, if they must, as a more subtle element.