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Not actually in the laws of the game, which actually say he doesn’t even have to make contact with Aguero. It’s “trips or attempts to trip” or “kicks or attempts to kick.”

In 30 years did you ever read the the laws of the game?

What, you expect them to know how a knockout tournament works?

From Scotland? Cretin.

Yeah, just went a little scattershot in defense of danonymously, didn’t realize your place in this. I was just responding to TotalFuckingHomer whose argument that “hoist” is archaic is bizarre given that so is petard, and Shakespeare, for that matter. May as well argue danonymously should have written, “Blown up with

I don’t mind corrections; I mind the incorrections.

The verb is “hoise,” not hoist. (Edit) I didn’t make my point here clearly, which really should just be it’s a quote, and all this talk about archaic forms, etc., is irrelevant.

Man, very little works me into a fury faster than incorrect corrections!

Yes. It’s a typo. You’re just dead wrong and don’t know it.

A petard is a fucking bomb. How can one be hoisted by a bomb? It’s a different word. Stop correcting people wrong.

Hoisted? Complaining about the articles? Not understanding the function of a semicolon. Christ. Keep working on that messageboarding.

No. It’s hoist.

When I saw these responses I figured they would be about hoist, but these are even better than I anticipated: putting the articles back in, complaining about the semicolons in a sentence that is a textbook example of where they should be used? Tragic miseducation.

Because they hadn’t heard of them. (Not a dig at Spurs.)

I don’t know whether to be surprised or not that only one other person commented about that.

The rivalry is fun. God it’s one of the last fun, classic football things left to us. Let’s not complain about supporters exercising it.

LCFC won’t be able to play on the counter against many of those teams, and some will be coming alive as they attempt to escape the drop. Not being a naysayer; look at where Leicester’s losses have come. It’s going to be uncomfortable for awhile. I felt very strange a few minutes after today’s win, when it sunk in that

“They’ve never been closer to the title or this far above all the EPL’s traditional power teams this late in the season.”