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Yeah does not surprised me based on what I was told.

I have a friend at work whose uncle worked for the Royal security team and he confirmed that Andrew was (and still is) a horrible and despicable man. He also added that the same can be said of Fergie and the daughters.

J'ai trouvé ce début de course super intéressant et plutôt surprenant. J'entends dire que Norris se plaint, mais je pense que c'est plutôt lié au fait que MacLaren ne domine plus. On a vu de la fiabilité, des dépassements de fou, de l'action. A voir au prochain GP.

Injuries? Again? FFS

Also looks like a lukewarm Arsenal performance today also?

Not watching... How was Dowman?

J'évite Sky en Angleterre car je ne supporte pas les commentateurs. Donc Canal+ c'est top pour moi

Très bien relevé par Canal+ sur ce coup.

Il faut dire que dans mon esprit un peu naïf, je ne m'attendais pas à une domination aussi grande de Merco. Pour la course à voir mais il est clair que j'attends une domination énorme de Mercedes. Pour le reste, à voir en course...

IOC and Fifa: "It is time to welcome Russia back into the sport family".

it’s mad how misdiagnosed this is. it’s not an issue of a lack of quality; it’s an issue of a surplus of quality. all PL teams are too good, and they are too well coached. it creates tight, cagey games.

good players executing well coached mid blocks and low blocks = find another way = set pieces

Use the same rules as in basketball forcing the players to be in the box of a given amount of time....

Solving the low blocks is the toughest challenge of football by far

I have no issue with the idea of making scoring easier. I would generally accept this view. But in the meantime I am mindful that set pieces are becoming more important in nowadays football and the league is, in general, reacting to it.

Completely agree with this point. It is clear that in a world where scoring is tougher, the set pieces are becoming another weapon for the clubs to find another edge.

Philippe, le foot, et pas mal de gens autour semblent juste s’enfoncer doucement dans un mélange de ridicule et de pathétique, comme si tout le monde glissait sans même s’en rendre compte.

Cricket I do not watch and cannot comment. But both games are stop and go so easier to implement.

I cannot see how that will work. I am genuinely dubious because other sports which are well ahead of the curve with regards to VAR like rugby for instance have not introduced it. I cannot get my head around it and how this would benefit the game.

This system or rule appears to me as maximum interference for uncertain to inexistent benefits. Seems absurd to me.

Football government body should focus on what matters rather than trying to solve an issue that does not exist.

Also, a challenge system assumes you can point to a single moment and say, “That’s the incident.” How and when does that work in football?

I have seen it applied in rugby, albeit at the discretion of the video referee not the coach.

Football isn’t built on discrete “plays” that can be neatly isolated and rewound. It’s a fluid, evolving system.

A manager could use this system to freeze the game at a moment that tactically suits them, break momentum, take a tactical "time out" disguised under the desire to "seek justice"

The idea sounds tidy in theory, but once you place it inside the actual ecology of the sport, it becomes intellectually incoherent.

Manager challenges don’t fit football because the sport’s entire logic depends on uninterrupted continuity, and introducing selective, manager‑triggered stoppages would distort that logic more than it would refine it.

Football is already being stopped far too often. VAR feels more like a drain on the flow of the game than any real improvement. Until the system is properly trained and consistently applied, adding even more stoppages is absurd.

Sort out VAR first and forget about what is a terrible idea. Football does not need this.

That seems such a bad idea... A really bad idea.

How was the game? Did not watch, was travelling back from France.

I have always liked him but was not entirely sure about his move to the big league... He was a second round so I guess the scouts had doubts too.

Thanks for sharing, might spend more time watching the Knicks from now on.

I am also jealous that you have seen Wemby a lot more than I ever had.

Diawara is a unit eh? Quite a modern player with quite a bit of development in him. Needs to work on his shoot though.

Incredible scenes in France... At Marseille airport and every EU passport holders are asked to show that they have a legitimate right to go to the UK. What's weirder about it, this new rule is mainly for the dual citizen but it seems to impact everyone independently.