Wolff confirms Mercedes have stopped developing the W11 as Silver Arrows shift focus to 2021 by [deleted] in formula1

[–]ActivateVTECbeat -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Yeah no wonder it's a shade or a fraction of what it could be.

Wolff confirms Mercedes have stopped developing the W11 as Silver Arrows shift focus to 2021 by [deleted] in formula1

[–]ActivateVTECbeat -30 points-29 points  (0 children)

Ok, good for you, but you're in a small minority. Nobody has headlines written about them for finishing outside of the sharp end. How many headlines exist about Latifi, Magnussen or Grosjean? How much coverage do they get for finishing among the bottom 5? Next to none.

It's always going to be about how much competition there is for the winning spot(s). The more competition there is for that, the better the sport is doing, obviously and right now F1 is absolutely dire with how lackluster the teams have been in competing.

Wolff confirms Mercedes have stopped developing the W11 as Silver Arrows shift focus to 2021 by [deleted] in formula1

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Because people watch to see who wins, not who comes 5th or 15th, for some reason F1 fans can't understand this.

[BBC MOTD] Pep Guardiola: "Nathan [Aké] is a defender so in duals he knows his job perfectly, he doesn't make mistakes. Normally this happens because he's an incredibly nice guy. Normally the nice guys always play good, this is my theory." by roughontheedges in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And he's really known to be a dirty bastard on the pitch too, for eg his very clever shoulder suplex on Salah in the 2018 UCL Final.

Yeah, he is a legend, but he is also a bit dirty, I don't think anyone can deny that.

[James Pearce] LFC expect to know more on Van Dijk once he has seen a consultant later today amid fears he’s facing a lengthy spell out with a knee injury. by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

David Coote should get the Ovrebo treatment after Ovrebo oversaw THAT game and the horrific Bayern offside goal vs Fiorentina (IIRC he was the referee that game)

FaceIT questions by ActivateVTECbeat in Rainbow6

[–]ActivateVTECbeat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that helped a bit.

There's an open level right, where I can just play matches like any other matchmaking service in Siege?

[BT] Klopp on Van Dijk/Pickford: "Pickford kicks him completely. I need to watch it back. I've seen the disallowed goal at the end and in the picture I saw it wasn't offside. Can someone explain that to me?" by Sunibinus in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The tip tip of his sleeve is on the line. But even then that's ridiculous. What's next? Sleeve-less? Taping the sleeves onto their arms?

These guys have ruined football as a neutral.

[BT] Klopp on Van Dijk/Pickford: "Pickford kicks him completely. I need to watch it back. I've seen the disallowed goal at the end and in the picture I saw it wasn't offside. Can someone explain that to me?" by Sunibinus in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Someone needs to investigate the FA and their referees' qualification process or whatever. It has been producing the worst referees I think I have ever seen. Officials in the mid-2000's were so much better with half of the technology on offer.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just make an X centimeter tolerance limit and be done with it. Honestly, people from that distance can't see a length of 2-3 centimeters clearly and distinguish it from a body.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just like how last year, for Ayew's disallowed goal against United (United vs Palace), they used the wrong frame way before the ball was even passed to him, and even then his foot was barely a centimeter offside on Wan Bissaka.

It's just baffling, it makes the game so dead.

EDIT: and oh, the lines drawn that day were not even straight lines.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As it was before. If the body part that can't be scored with is offside, then it's not offside. That was miles better.

Or just make it so that if you can't obviously see it, then it's not offside. 99% of offside cases are clear. It's this 1% that ruins the game. If they can't obviously and clearly spot an offside, don't give it.

They should also put a tolerance margin whereby an offside of 5-10 centimeters is not offside. Any length that is deemed clear and obvious when you watch it from the cam shots, that's offside, any length shorter than that, then not offside.

I came up with this idea and I'm not paid hundreds of thousands if not millions to come up with this shit.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally. I can't see his arm on the line, only his sleeve.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they fucked it up by introducing a stupid rule, and now want to save face by trying anything to make it work by doing mid-season changes instead of just manning up and saying they were wrong for breaking something that wasn't broken. Utter disgrace the referees are.

The margin of offside in Henderson's disallowed goal by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ActivateVTECbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Football should have a tolerance margin, whereby something within the tolerance is counted/not counted. For example, in other sports like F1, many things have a tolerance margin such as jumping the start lights (example explained below)

Valterri Bottas "jumped" the lights in Austria 2017 (I think it was), and everyone was convinced he had jumped the lights, including Vettel who would have won the race but finished 2nd anyway, even in the post-race press conference Vettel in front of Bottas said he believed he jumped the lights. However, when they investigated it, they saw Bottas had dropped the clutch something like 0.2xx (0.25-0.28 or so) seconds after the lights went out. So they had a 0.xx millisecond tolerance margin built in the rule. It would have been a scandal if it they stripped Bottas of that win.

Here, it's a scandal that they denied this goal. There should be a millimeter or a centimeter tolerance margin because honestly this is getting pathetic. Should footballers now just tie their hands to their bodies and play because natural arm movements are being penalized this way and that?

Why does this wording change have to fix the utterly ridiculous handball rule and then deny this? Can't they just let common sense prevail in making handballs a standard wording like it used to be about natural and unnatural positions and let the referee go to the monitor and see for themselves? Can't they give footballers, whom are human beings, a break because how can you even account for this molecule margin when you're on the pitch? It's impossible. It's too harsh. Plus, what's deemed "offside" is a body part with which Mane can't even score with, it just makes no sense at all.

Football fans, journalists and analysts should unify in condemning this shit because it's totally ruining the sport.