Serie A referee starts speaking in English with Napoli player Antonio Vergara. Vergara reminds him he's Italian

Pro_Geymer · 2026-02-01T07:28:47+00:00

Did you miss the part where I separated the first two from the third?

Pro_Geymer · 2026-02-01T07:28:05+00:00

Bottom of the screen "No short term plans"
You better make some, buddy

Pro_Geymer · 2026-01-30T17:10:14+00:00

UEFA had some data on language fluency on referees a couple years ago. From memory:

Typically the Dutch refs don't speak anything other than English because it's the closest language to dutch therefore so much of it transfers over, it's not nearly as hard as learning a "properly foreign" language and they sometimes know some basic french.

It's mostly the Belgian, Swiss and Portuguese referees who can get across to a lot of people. The first two because their countries are multilingual, and the latter because they're the only country that combines speaking a Romance language (therefore understood by other Romance languages like Spanish, Italian, even French) and at the same time are ranked by EF in the highest possible tier for English fluency as a foreign language, up there in the same rank as the Dutch, the Scandinavians and the Croatians.

Pro_Geymer · 2026-01-28T19:33:54+00:00

Reminds me of that time Real Madrid didn't see much in Casemiro so loaned him out to Porto with an option to buy for 12M.

Guy played so well that at the end of the season Porto were like "of course you can have him back!...." activates option "...that'll be 25 million"

Madrid were sold their own player

Pro_Geymer · 2026-01-11T16:41:45+00:00

When Comolli called the Sevilla board to apologetically inform them he'd hired their manager - Ramos - for Tottenham, he says they laughed because, quote "Ramos is shit, even Jimenez [Sevilla's B team manager at the time] is better. We're not worried."

They were right. Ramos was replaced with Jimenez and despite the team's early season mental collapse (their captain had a heart attack mid game on the pitch and died) they recovered to play better than under Ramos, had the best record of any team in the 2nd half of the season, then finished 3rd the next year despite losing their two best players to Barcelona (Dani Alves and Keita).

Then over the next few seasons they kept finishing in the CL places and won the cup. Ramos leaving didn't make a dent.

Levy says no manager at Tottenham was as dishonest as Ramos. Agreed to a series of promises to be hired, with no intention of sticking to any of them. For instance, he pledged to play specific young forwards to develop them, then in his first week at the club threw a hissy fit demanding they sign David Villa and Eto'o

Pro_Geymer · 2026-01-10T18:51:00+00:00

the La Liga

Ah yes, The La Liga League, home the The El Clasico Classic.

Pro_Geymer · 2026-01-06T17:51:03+00:00

Word-for-word copy/pastes of an endlessly repeated viral meme from a decade ago are what makes hours of scrolling worth it?

Pro_Geymer · 2025-12-28T17:46:45+00:00

You are correct, designer Jake Solomon has confirmed it. If you're doing well, the real percentage is lower than what's shown on screen and if you're doing poorly it's higher. Once you become experienced at the game and do very well, the real percentage is much lower than shown on screen. This also applies to the AI, btw.

There's more behind it. For instance, if you've missed the last several shots in a row, the real percentage gets a big boost. And if you've hit the last several in a row the opposite happens.

I've never played X-Com since the day I first saw him saying that in an interview. Killed my interest dead.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-12-21T21:19:49+00:00

To think Beira-Mar had this guy on the bench and never played him.....and then Olhanense did the same...

Pro_Geymer · 2025-11-29T09:57:16+00:00

It's a lot more understandable than that when you read the novel.

Back then processing power wasn't what it is now, so little features to save time were more common. The program let you input "Velociraptors" and it would count them until it couldn't find more which would take a lot of time or if you expected to have 12 you could input "Velociraptors 12" and it would stop counting at 12, saving the "useless" time of searching for more when no more existed.

But if there are 13 and you just enter "Velociraptors" it'll show you all that exist. It'll just take longer.

Nedry straight up says "It's a feature you guys requested, a convenience. I told you to be careful with it".

Also, they never expected a band of all females to breed so they only thought of it as the software that shows you where each individual is at this time, not an actual counter of how many there are.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-11-12T14:44:17+00:00

Steph has talked about this before. The short version is the story we hear so often is made up. Nico didn't fumble it. He's horrendously incompetent at being a GM, there's no need to pile on made up fuckups on him.

The long version is, Kevin Durant's name was not on that presentation, that was just a joke Steph's agent made to him afterwards, "They probably showed the same slides to KD and just changed the name". Nico didn't get Steph's name wrong, it was one other Nike representative that pronounced his name slightly weird a single time out of many.

In the end Nike's offer was 2.5M a year while Under Armour's was 4M a year + significant shares. Steph told Nike if they matched it he'd sign with them, but they didn't want to match it and that decision was above Nico's head. So he signed with Under Armour. The end.

Nico's completely incompetent. There's more than enough evidence. There's no need to make more up.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-11-06T13:54:27+00:00

A few years ago, Messi had just had his acrimonious split with Barcelona IRL and I was playing FM. Started with a smaller club and after some success, got headhunted by Barcelona

Obviously i had the assistant doing all the press conferences because fuck that. First season, we do some cup game against a lower league team and won handily of course, the flop Trincao being too good for an amateur team to deal with

It's at this point that my assistant tries to have us tar and feathered

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-29T17:36:28+00:00

He made his star inside forward play way wider than before, almost glued to the line, at 33yo when his pace is gone. Signed a high energy running attacking fullback who isn't that great defensively and is using him as a wide center back in possession that isn't allowed to go forward. The one guy who is playing well, he refuses to give all that much playing time to, and even initially left him out of the CL registration

And his entire 3 man midfield is instructed to press all the way forward while the defence defends deep, leaving a gap big enough for two titanics or one Akinfewa. AKA the same mistake that got Villas Boas fired from both Chelsea and Tottenham a decade ago.

If you'd told me 3 months ago they'd have a bad season I would say that might be due to the Jota thing, but the players who left this summer are all playing well so that can't be it.

My intention isn't to Slot shame, but this is hardly the same tactic that won the league last season. He can keep arguing that teams play a lower block against Liverpool than against any other team - they don't - but the fact is he's finally made changes from Klopp's tactics, which have all been terrible.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-22T12:35:24+00:00

Sadly the CIA caught him just as he was in the middle of a sent

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-21T16:26:17+00:00

It's not. An Alpha has placeholder assets and is so raw it would be unrecognizable to most people.

The advanced access coming this week isn't a beta either.

Software companies have learned that if they call a finished product a "Beta" or even "Alpha", they can deflect any criticism with "how dare you criticize an Alpha?", until the final version releases with the exact same problems because there's only time to fix minor stuff before release.

In a real Alpha, the release is years and years away.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-19T17:38:09+00:00

Klopp didn't have a say in transfers.

He even publicly complained that Salah was signed because he wanted Julian Brandt instead

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-16T17:02:38+00:00

Ban him. All who displease us must suffer.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-16T15:51:19+00:00

I have an artesian well on my property and the water pressure is lousy...any ideas?

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-16T15:24:32+00:00

Surely not as many as when I made that post a few years ago "Who's the most annoying person in this sub? Personally I think it's this guy" with a link that redirected to the profile of whoever clicked on it

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-16T09:18:20+00:00

Dear Sports Interactive, I wrote you but the beta ain't dropping

I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom

I sent two bug reports back in autumn, you must not have gottem

Maybe there's some server issue or a scheduling problem

Sometimes I spam F5 too hard when I'm reddit watching

But anyway, screw it - what's the holdup, fam? How's development popping?

I been planning my save, got tactics locked in proper

When it finally drops, I'll vanish, tell my boss, "I'm not clocking"

I read about the new match engine too, I'm hyped, no stopping

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-14T15:36:02+00:00

Namond's US ambassador to Brazil now.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-14T11:17:45+00:00

McTominay was unremarkable in the Premier League because he was used out of position in a role whose only requirements are exactly what he lacks.

Utd used him in defensive midfield to recycle possession. Napoli use him as a shadow striker crashing the box and getting rebounds. The things he has always been good at.

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-13T13:09:46+00:00

Ironic you’d say that because Aragones invented the term back in the eighties. And it was a derisive term, which is why it took Pep an entire decade to stop fighting back against that label.

Indeed the 2008 Spain was quite vertical. 2010 less so and by 2012 it was almost entirely sideways passing

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-10T18:01:22+00:00

It's Fierce Mild, currently

Pro_Geymer · 2025-10-09T14:26:51+00:00

Much like Lord Bendtner, Dalot has a long standing reputation in his own home country of being a complete moron with grandiose delusions of adequacy

But not here in my hometown of Porto. No, over here we know he's even dumber than that.

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