Ha, well I think you’re kidding yourself that the mass of Asian football fans - for example - who follow the elite world class European leagues are going to tune in for games like New Zealand vs Uzbekistan. The shitter games already get shit crowds and TV audiences. Call it what you like - but fans who are pretentious…

Nope. This is not the United Nations. The WC should absolutely be a pretentious elitist event. As a flaming leftie I believe sport is one of the few places where such elitism should occur. It’s about quality.

No way. Each game is different - it should only be about wins or losses. In such a low scoring sport, there are small enough margins of error for teams to lose out in gut-wrenching fashion, without granting access to best runners up based on goals. This method ruined the last Euros for me - with the eventual winners…

Yup, I was gonna use the same example as to how he could be telling the truth.

I think this article is not supposed to be taken so seriously, but my first reaction to it was similar to yours....how about the western leaders who deserve a pen to the neck in an interview?

I live in NZ and am from one of those Island nations - I must love football more than either cos I don’t think any of the teams in Oceania deserve to be in the WC finals.

I think it’s just when the smoke engulfs the field, and when smoke bombs, flares and firecrackers are hurled towards the pitch to intimidate the players, that refs stop matches.

Sorry for late reply - I think putting damage to 125% instead of 200%, is nerfed compared to I think how hardcore in BF4 (which I loved) had 50-60% health.

Yep, I came here to say this as well. I’d rather watch a team of no-names fail playing entertaining footy, than watch successive teams with “stars” play shite tactics that always fail.

But why do you think you have to be conflicted? You can support her, enjoy her previous work, and think the special was nothing special.

It’s a judgement call to a point and if anything after the latest tweaking a few years ago, it tends to favor the attacking team - but it would have been an objectively horrible decision had he called it offside for Iniesta in this situation. He was no where near the play.

I’m in the same boat as the OP - doesn’t 4 years get the message across enough?

I get what you’re saying, but I’m still getting enjoyment out of it. My main gripe was how they’ve implemented Hardcore mode - which is all I wanted to play in BF4...they totally nerfed the mode in BF1.

You see, whether I agree with you or not on your subjective assessment on the humor in your examples, you’re articulate enough to provide a breakdown and explanation for your sense of humor.

This is where it makes me think he might actually just be naive/ignorant. Someone has already said this in this thread, but in society today it’s really easy to forget antisemitism when the more standout bigotry is against other minorities. And the “laughing at poor people” thing is something that is also easy to miss…

I think there is also a lot of plain old ignorance - it’s easy to see bigotry against colored people because that’s the bigotry of our time. I’ve heard random teenagers I know here in New Zealand make off the cuff Jew comments - these are teenagers living in a society that has not great incidence of antisemitism, but…

Yup - Liverpool lack the creativity to adapt when they can’t play their football, and they still need a good mix of creatively and solidity in defense.

...or be a Saudi Arabian or Egyptian....

And also that it’s perhaps not yet the time to resort to violence, no? Plenty of other ways to resist before it gets to that.

It fucks me off that the people living in such fear that they agree with the ban, will have no empathy for your friend because they’re chickenshit scared of a extremely small chance (way smaller than most of the ways of dying they are exposed to in the US) of a terrorist attack from this quite ridiculous selection of…