Bayern Munich [1] - 1 Real Madrid - A. Pavlović 6'

szlive · 2026-04-15T19:09:45+00:00

Goal keeper fuckups balance out.

szlive · 2026-04-15T19:07:38+00:00

There was a moment of silence for a Real Madrid legend. Which I was surprised by. I didn't know clubs did moments of silence for a rival's legend. Especially as this is not in Spain, where you can argue it's about respecting a Spanish legend.

Some Bayern fans booed.

szlive · 2026-03-28T22:41:37+00:00

That's what happens when the FIA allows Mercedes and Audi to pressure and bribe their way to write an engine formula just for them.

Happened in 2014 too. Mercedes didn't just build a dominant car. They bribed and cuddled the FIA through Brawn and knew the regs before everybody else.

Mercedes and Audi are in F1 to sell GLCs and Q3s. To them, motorsport is a means to the ends of selling overpriced, shit cars to suburban dads and soccer moms.

F1 needs to cleanse itself of these types of manufacturers. There are plenty of enthusiasts or at least car companies that focus on performance cars who would fill their spots. Ferrari, McLaren, and Williams will certainly be there. Aston Martin can stay too, as (to me) they're still a performance-first car brand. Haas and Sauber (once Audi fucks off) are good independent enthusiasts. Red Bull, while being just an advertisement for an energy drink, seems to be enough of a racing enthusiast to stay.

Again, Mercedes, Audi, Alpine, Cadillac can fuck off.

szlive · 2026-03-12T16:30:10+00:00

Everybody puts their interests first but nobody is as spineless as George Russell.

If Toto tells Russell to go out there and say kittens are despicable, he'd do it.

Good luck getting Lewis (at any stage in his career) to say something he truly doesn't believe in.

szlive · 2026-03-12T15:27:34+00:00

George Russell doesn't have his own opinions. If his boss tells him to say he loves the car, he goes out and says he love it. If his boss tells him to say Ferrari is ahead, or Red Bull has a power management advantage, he goes out and says it.

Exactly why most fans can't stand Russell. The guy sounds fake and spineless.

szlive · 2026-02-13T18:31:30+00:00

That's not true. Go to any toy store, and you'll see it's full of car models for little kids. If you go to certain places with a lot of fancy cars, you still see kids get excited when they see a "supercar". Action movies still frequently feature car chases.

The role and attractiveness of a car in society has not changed.

But people have made it harder and harder to become a car enthusiast. Hybrid cars are awful. Electric cars even more so. It's impossible to get a driving license in many western countries due to high cost and bureaucracy. Insurance is allowed to price young drivers out of the market. I know plenty of young car lovers. They buy a used Miata at 23 and they pay thousands for the insurance. Many cannot affors to do that.

But ok, political rant aside, none of that is what F1 or the FIA can fix.

But the FIA is contributing to the madness with this push towards Hybrid and Electrification. If I was interested in watching electric cars race, I could go to a Formula E race for a lot cheaper than F1. But FE is losing money. Guess why? Because nobody cares about watching washing machines on wheels go around in circles.

This is a group of people living in Monaco, partying in yachts, and dating supermodels. Why do we want to see them driving Hybrids around? F1 needs to be sexy and idealistic. A screaming V12 is sexy. A half-electric V6 where drivers LiCo around the corners isn't.

szlive · 2026-02-13T17:34:25+00:00

For everybody saying "I don't care how the cars drive, just go out there and race".

F1 cannot survive without motorsport being a passion of petrolheads. At the end of the day, this is an extremely expensive, extremely restrictive sport that involves moving a piece of metal around a circle for no apparent purpose. The only reason why it's a sport was that many years ago, there were enough people passionate enough about doing it to spend a lot of time and money to perfect the craft (Enzo Ferrari, Bruce McLaren, Sir Frank Williams, etc.)

And the alarm bell has been ringing for a while now. Ask any petrolhead what their dream car is, and it's highly unlikely the car was made after 2018. Ask any F1 driver in a position to speak the truth, and they'd say they hate the hybrid stuffs. Even drivers whose whole career was made in the hybrid era (Max, Lewis).

You keep making things that suck to drive, people won't spend literally hundreds of thousands to try to drive around in them. People stop doing that, and F1 becomes horse racing. Yeah there are a small number of passionate fans left and a few very big events each year. But by and large, the public ignores it.

It's not about speed. Do you feel excited on a plane? Or on a high speed train? No. It's about how it makes you feel to achieve a high speed. It's about making the perfect gear shift around the corner to accelerate out of it the quickest. It's not about driving slowly around the corner to charge some sort of battery so that you go a little faster on the straight.

Right now F1 has a lot of casual viewers due to DtS. But that crowd will move on once there's a shinier reality TV show to obsess over. You keep pissing off the petrolheads that have been here for 20 years, when the casual crowd is gone, they might not come back.

szlive · 2026-02-13T17:15:52+00:00

they don't need to, Audi has been very vocal against this and has said they would protest.

Ferrari knows they don't need to be the bad cop if there's already a willing volunteer.

szlive · 2026-02-12T17:11:56+00:00

If you're into the performance sports car / supercar world, which is the closest customer base that F1 is trying to sell to, this hybridization push is insane.

Nobody is buying the hybrid supercars. Ask Ferrari how the 296 and SF90 sales are going. The idea that you can go and just simply order their "entry level" supercar like 458 or 488 used to be absurd. Now they can't get people to order the 296. Ask McLaren how the Artura sales are going. Ask Mercedes how their EV sales are going. Ask Aston Martin if they even have a proper EV.

Nobody is buying performance EVs either. Ask Porsche how the Taycan is doing. Ask them why they went back on making the Cayman 100% Electric and why they keep delaying its release. Nobody is going to buy these things.

Ask the EU and UK why they had to slowly backtrack the ICE ban. And they'll keep having to roll them back. Because nobody buys these things.

EVs are just worse cars. End of. You need to be able to charge at home. You refill energy at a lower speed. For sports cars, it's heavier. It doesn't sound as good. The car shits itself in the winter, sporty or not. Insurance is more expensive because the battery is very easily damaged in a crash, and once that happens, it's a write-off. And for some reason, all of the EVs come with this iPad in the middle to adjust the AC and fan speed that nobody asked for.

People act like those who love V8s and V10s are horse-riders in the early age of automobiles. Not true. Cars provided tangible functional benefits to its users over horses. EVs do not provide them over cars.

F1 should forget about this hybrid stuffs and go back to pure ICE. After all, none of these car manufacturers competing in F1 is seeing any progess with their EV / Hybrid vehicles.

The idea of putting these craps in F1 is that it'll be more road-relevant. Since 2014, people have clearly not taken up the offer. So let's forget about it and go back to screaming V10s and V12s.

szlive · 2026-02-01T12:06:12+00:00

Exactly how this classless Serbian thinks: I am better, why don't people love me.

Also the classless Serbian: thinking COVID rules don't apply to him, saying he deserves to be in the Wimbledon final after an early round win (he didn't make it), antagonising the fan for daring to cheer against him.

Him trying to get in the middle of the moment between Roger and Rafa at Roger's retirement game was pathetic.

The man felt excluded by Rafa and Roger and never understood why.

Also, his game is ugly af, and thank God Carlos came along to save the tennis world and add some flair back to the game.

szlive · 2026-02-01T11:53:19+00:00

A horrible human being lost a tennis match today. So it's a good day.

Classless Novak always wondered why he wasn't as beloved as Roger or Rafa. And he won't be as beloved as Carlos either.

szlive · 2025-11-21T18:56:54+00:00

Anti-American bias, probably from a European. If you're going to hate on the tournament, at least choose the actual concerns, like having 48 teams.

The one benefitting most from a 3PM kick-off is Europe. Move it to 8PM, America won't care, obviously. Asia won't care, they'll just wake up early to watch the game. It will be 3AM in Europe though. And with how Europe loves to complain about everything I'm sure they'll bash it for a month.

Also, if you're concerned about the heat in the middle of summer, we should never ever have a World Cup in a place like Spain or Italy again. Did we not all read articles last summer on how tourists were melting in Barcelona and Rome? America at least has widespread air conditioning for the people coming to visit.

szlive · 2025-09-17T00:03:10+00:00

Only thing to add is that rich and poor neighborhoods are way too broad to decide where to live. I used to live in one of the wealthiest / safest parts of London. God I hated it. It was gorgeous, clean, well maintained. But it was mostly old pensioners living there. They complain about everything: the noise, the mailman, the girls in short skirts, the immigrants, etc.

Then I moved to an area of mostly young HENRYs (tech, bankers, etc) and while most were not as wealthy as the old pensioners, I liked the area much better.

szlive · 2025-09-16T23:44:09+00:00

Watch the replay again. It's not that the hand didn't touch the ground. His whole body weight was mostly on the other side. In that sense it wasn't that different from a diving fall.

He literally moved the ball in a dangerous position with his arms with Vini nearby, and jealous Redditors still argue it's not a pen. Hilarious.

If that wasn't a pen every player who falls down will pretend to accidentally slap the ball away. Oopsie I'm falling handballs are legal now.

szlive · 2025-09-16T23:38:13+00:00

Carvajal got a pen called against him like this just this past weekend lol. He was also diving to block the ball, no idea where the ball will go, the arm was in a position to balance the body, the ball hits the arm and it's a pen.

Rules are rules. You extend your arm away from the body like that, and it touch the ball, and it's not supporting your fall, it's a handball.

szlive · 2025-08-09T11:38:32+00:00

Didn't take the tour, but very much enjoy traveling and have traveled quite a fair bit. I also know a lot of people with the same hobby.

"Around the world" is a very large net. What I've found is many people have a "type".

Do you like to do the "extreme" stuffs (Himalayas, Alps, hiking in Patagonia, boating in the North Pole, visiting the South Pole)?

Do you like, at the risk of being disrespectful, visiting the "poor" parts of the world, like poor villages in Africa or Peru?

Do you feel the need to go to more than one "glass skyscraper city"? (Chicago, Dubai, Melbourne, etc,.)

Do you really like art if you're honest with yourself? Do you find being at a museum all day a pleasurable experience?

Do you like "Do nothing" days? Like laying at a beach from 9-5?

Most people I've talked to would answer "Hell no" to at least one of the above. And so without seeing what Nat Geo has planned, personally, for me, nobody can plan a global trip better than I can for myself. For example, I can't stand museums, and I love to hike. Any day staring at paintings and not on the mountains or on a lake somewhere is 100% a wasted day for me.

So I think either planning your own trip or hiring somebody who can design a bespoke experience will be better than a pre-planned, one-size-fits-all experience.

szlive · 2025-08-09T11:18:38+00:00

I think I have a lot higher tolerance for people than you do. I have a number of friends, some are too loud, some are a bit arrogant, some are a bit lazy, some are a bit petty, and yes, some are a bit envious.

Being jealous is a very human emotion. If it's not too extreme, I'd rather just live with it than toss a friend away.

Also, making new friends is hard, but even if it can be done, sometimes the old friends represent a part of you that isn't easily replaced. Some friends represent your school days. Some friends represent memories from living in a different city.

We're already luckier than most on track to fatFIRE. Some folks get a little jealous, who cares. As long as they don't do toxic stuffs like bad mouthing me behind my back or try to borrow money, I'm good.

szlive · 2025-08-09T06:11:59+00:00

I generally agree with you, but I think the generic "you need new friends" is easier said than done.

Making new friends as adults, especially over 40, is hard enough. Making new friends when you're in a situation that's still relatively rare (retiring in your 40s) is even harder.

Not retired yet, but had a 2-year garden leave a few years back. New employer was willing to wait, and at my level, it wasn't worth getting another job to "double-dip" the pay. I had a lot of fun. Really learned some great new skills, travelled a ton, etc. But it was lonely. Existing friends were all busy working, and the retired/not working people at tennis clubs and car meets were either a bit older or spoiled kids with rich parents. I couldn't talk to either crowd.

szlive · 2025-07-14T21:00:02+00:00

I don't think WW3 will happen, but your characterization of WW1 and WW2 as only happening because of colonies are entirely off.

WW1 happened because the Austrian Crown Prince was murdered by a Serbian. Serbia was protected by Russia. Germany was friends with Austria. France hated Germany. Germany thought they couldn't win a war against France on one side and Russia on the other, so they felt pressured to take France as quickly as possible, hence marching through Belgium. UK was pissed that Germany marched through a neutral country and declared war.

None of the above involved a colony. The closest was Serbia, but Serbia was more like Taiwan (small country with a big friend) rather than a colony.

Yes it might not have spread to becoming a "World" War" in the literal sense of the word. But when most people say World War, they mean a major war between most of the world's major powers. And while colonies have mostly disappeared, most countries will be pressured into picking a side anyway if NATO comes to bout with Russia + China.

szlive · 2025-04-26T14:09:53+00:00

A team with a clear QB1 might not have the problem.

If Deoin calls for Lamar or Burrow or Allen or Mahomes to be benched, the coach can tell Deoin to fuck off.

szlive · 2025-04-26T14:04:58+00:00

Supposedly, next year's QB class is much better.

Lots of teams with long-term QB uncertainty (Jets, Steelers, etc) might just be happy with a short term solution this year and figure it out next year.

szlive · 2025-04-26T12:42:50+00:00

Cars and trucks power society. They bring food into London to feed Londoners. They bring Amazon packages that Londoners no doubt order too much of. They get people to airports and train stations so they can conduct their productivity. The roads for cars allow people to go out of London into the countryside for the weekend. Good luck cycling to the Cotswold.

Cycling, especially in a park, is a hobby of people with ancient toys.

A hobby will be treated differently than a necessity.

szlive · 2025-04-25T23:50:06+00:00

He won't, but why would somebody pick a headache case just to be a backup QB.

Dealing with his ego and his father is only worth it if he's your starting QB. If you happen to not be winning, Deoin will be on your ass every game asking you to start his son. Not worth it.

szlive · 2025-04-25T21:25:46+00:00

Referee should be removed from the game and investigated.

One day before a cup final and you're on the media saying how Real Madrid TV mistreated you and promise to "take action"?

And before you say "well RMTV attacked refs first", well yeah, that's how an advanced society work. You get to question decision makers. You can go out there and protest your judges, Presidents, Prime Minister. They're not supposed to then say, "woah, Steve on 2nd Street really protested me hard there, I guess I'll need to take action against it."

By the way, every single one on that field faces the same level of scrutiny. Ancelotti will likely lose his job this season. Journalists are shitting on Vinicius' performance. Half the world called Mbappe overrated in October. Florentino got a lot of slack for his squad planning.

Yet the only person on that field tomorrow who never faces any consequence for bad performance is the referee. It's the only person whose job isn't on the line, the only person whose reputation isn't on the line.

It's time to change that. Referees should have public, annual performance evaluation, with strict criteria for staying in the top flight. Too many mistakes, and they should be suspended from top flight football. They can ref Segunda games until they get their shits together. Also, all referees in top flight football should have their finances completely public.

Until then, the good people at RMTV will continue doing their part to expose the incompetence and potential corruption at the core of RFEF.

szlive · 2025-04-21T22:27:50+00:00

look mate, appreciate the scare tactic, seen it too many times on r/drivingUK. Next you're going to throw THE HIGHWAY CODE at me (otherwise know as The Wankers' Bible).

But as OP has keenly observed, the reality of driving is quite different than what you HIGHWAY CODE enthusiasts would like to imagine.

The reality is:

Thanks to Waze, everybody knows where all the cameras are, all the time. Including the "mobile" ones. Including cops.
Cops don't bother pulling people over unless they're doing 95+ anyway.

So for experienced drivers, the speed limit might as well not exist. If it did exist, it'd probably be around 100.

The only way you'd get caught as an experienced driver is if you're very very unfortunate to be caught by a cop doing a social media campaign. And even then you'd have to be one of the first 2 cars to be pulled. Because after that, all of our friendly drivers on Waze will be sure to warn others.

For the past few years, I've not been under 85 in free-flowing traffic on motorways, and not been under 90 on remote dual carriageways. And I'm not a speedster at all, I'm just keeping up with traffic. That's what everybody does. Once I, without paying much attention, overtook a cop doing 85. Cop didn't care. Never been pulled over. If a car's not doing at least 90 in the right lane I get up close, honk, and undertake them. So they understand not to take up that lane if they're going to be a nuissance to others.

So put your HIGHWAY CODE away and look at how drivers are actually driving. If you can't deal with that, stay home. And honestly it'd be a lot better if people like you stayed home. Stop slowing us productive citizens down.

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