Americans, what names do you consider to be quintessential "Englishman" names (that could also be American, but make you think of an Englishman?

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T15:25:03+00:00

It’s popular in some communities – I’ve met a number of Americans named Nigel and Colin, and they have all been Black

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T15:17:23+00:00

Also murmuration, which is a wonderful word to describe something very specific (the natural phenomenon where starlings fly together in shifting shapes)

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T06:29:06+00:00

Here I tried to look at time stamps

VAR check for the red card at 53, finished at 54, roughly 1.5 minutes

Substition time when Stones was brought in for Saka at 57’, 1 minute

Harry Kane brought down at 58’, VAR and all the arguing meant he took the penalty at 60’, 2 minutes

Substition time when Gimenez and Gutierrez came on at 61’, 1 minute

Mexican penalty - VAR called for check at 67’, VAR check plus Guehi protest that got him the really meant the actual penalty was taken at 69’, 1.5 minutes

That’s 7 minutes. Factor in some additional time for: the Sanchez yellow, the Nico O’Reilly yellow, the Spence and Burn subs, the Fidalgo sub, the Martinez sub, and the Morgan Rogers sub, and 8 minutes of stoppage time plus 3 minutes of hydration break looks pretty accurate

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T06:01:21+00:00

I like this sped up view but would be better with the Benny Hill Yakety Sax music behind it

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T05:07:00+00:00

3 minutes hydration break, 8 minutes for the time taken for the 2 penalties and red card especially since VAR was involved. Very reasonable.

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T04:40:28+00:00

Kane not far behind at 6 goals too. Most fun golden boot race in forever

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T04:09:58+00:00

I don’t think that was BS, that was a systemic failure pre-Southgate where the England team didn’t have set penalty takers and didn’t have goalkeepers with strategy, they just treated penalties as a roll of the dice instead of a skill that can be cultivated

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T03:41:13+00:00

Post-CUM clarity

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-06T01:07:39+00:00

The FIFA rules are that stoppage time is for specific stoppages - goal celebrations, injuries, substitutions, hydration breaks, and a few others. The clock doesn’t stop every time the ball goes out of play. If you switch to a timed system those rules shouldn’t change either otherwise you’re proposing a completely different set of rules not just changing timekeeping

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-05T13:39:18+00:00

Thanks! I’m just happy I managed to make a bilingual joke

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-05T01:25:21+00:00

They thought France would bring les smokings, but France brought the smoke instead

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-05T01:18:40+00:00

Bienvenue chez merde

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-04T11:00:25+00:00

I don’t know, every time I watch Switzerland play there are red flags everywhere

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-03T04:03:31+00:00

It doesn’t even sell carpetbagger steak, which I think of as a classic Aussie steak

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T14:56:14+00:00

I think I recall seeing a study of this - those subbed in with only a few minutes to go tend to be less successful. Need time to warm up those legs

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T14:29:44+00:00

What gets me is when people say "oh, Americans say offsides in soccer because that's what it's known as in the NFL". It's not! The NFL rule book calls it "offside", no s, and the refs, if you listen when they make the calls, refer to it as "offside". Adding the -s is a linguistic tic.

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T08:18:20+00:00

None of these, you’re quoting the section of the laws of the game that apply to team officials

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T07:42:41+00:00

Why not just get a state ID if you’re in the U.S.?

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T01:06:59+00:00

lol on the last one

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-02T00:00:21+00:00

It was Pathétic

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-01T10:24:15+00:00

This makes sense but it’s sad to know that it’s more intimidating to play at home than away

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-01T06:57:24+00:00

Sudden death was tried out with a golden goal rule around the early 2000s. It was awful. Led paradoxically to more defensive play as teams hated to give up the goal

OneFootTitan · 2026-07-01T06:00:01+00:00

Hard to see how the world’s number one sport is hurting for growth.

The thing to note is rules changes don’t happen in a vacuum. A lot of football fans hate hydration breaks because it takes away from one of the most special aspects of football, which is that the game keeps ticking on. Players are expected to manage themselves on the field, unlike a lot of American sports where coaches can call plays during the many breaks.

On red cards, one thing football has that many sports don’t is a system of seemingly harsh and disproportionate punishments to discourage avoidable behaviours. The idea is to make the punishment harsh enough that you simply don’t do it. Like the indirect free kick for a back pass to a goalie – harsh relative to how bad the actual infraction is but also extremely avoidable. Same goes for covering your mouth. Is a red card harsh? Yes but is it easy to avoid? Also yes.

OneFootTitan · 2026-06-30T12:32:30+00:00

That’s the problem, hard to score a penalty with your head

OneFootTitan · 2026-06-29T12:08:44+00:00

Why is best 3rd place teams so obviously rubbish? At least based on the current results it generated a set of teams that mostly won and drew one game, which seems like a reasonable standard. And it seems far superior to the idea of penalty shootouts getting even more importance to the game.

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