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The Importance of Sport (NEW CONCEPTS)
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Brighton 20 shots Crystal Palace 3 shots.

Result Brighton 1 Crystal Palace 2

Just another explanation of why football is the world’s most popular sport
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You Are The Ref

A penalty incident is being considered by VAR while play continues. Possession changes hands and back again. The original team now scores. VAR comes back with a It's a Pen verdict. 'No goal,' says the defending side, 'we have to go back for the pen.' 'Oh no,' say the attackers, 'we are playing advantage.' 'No way,' says the defence, 'that was nullified when we got the ball.'

What do you say?
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Atletico Madrid 0 Chelsea 1

Atletico, you are so old-fashioned. No press, no playing out from the back. No wonder you're top of the Spanish league. This Thomas Tuchel seems a frightful little tick but you can't argue that Chelsea are not a ton better than under the noble Sir Frank. Memo to Hudson Odoi and Mason Mount: we've got a superabundance of talent for the summer Euros, don't complicate Southgate's task, he's a waistcoat of very little brain. Memo to VAR: if you're gonna take three minutes over a verdict, don't be surprised if the crowds never come back. Memo to Suarez: is slyly pinching Rudiger's thigh the best Suarizm you can come up with? Time to retire, old chap.
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What is the point of playing a test match when Joe Root is turning it square at lunchtime on Day Two? And nobody is even expressing surprise. We've got two tests to play there. At the Narendra Modi stadium. Can you imagine a test venue called the Boris Johnson Arena? Honestly, these Indians. No sense of tradition.
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Your team will press whilst they are yet to win a trophy.

Once they win, they reap the benefits as, whilst they are winning, you do not need to press as hard. You have respect. If you are a goal up you can allow the opposition to play just a bit. You can still counter. If you are equal, so what, you probably win.

Once the opponents figure you out, you are not pressing any more, they will come for you. You ask your players to press, they won't, they are winners, they will not answer your call to press. They are stars not workhorses.

It's a cycle.
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Or is it that the absence of fans has stopped them working as hard? It just doesn’t seem worth it to press when no-one notices apart from your shiny-toothed manager, and he wants out of Liverpool as soon as poss anyway
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Liverpool are pressing less, home and away, even when they are behind. Its part of a cycle. They won't match the pressing game of say Leeds.
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Did you know the Champions League is sponsored by the biggest criminal enterprise in human history? No, not UEFA, Gazprom. Other candidates for the title will be gratefully considered, but it would be highly appropriate even if Gazprom is merely Europa League.
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Huawei certainly have the right sort of credentials, but they are already in a global partnership with a premiership team.
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Is that Newcastle? Huawei the lads. No, wait, they're Aramco, aren't they? The Premiership are still trying to work out whether Mohammed bin Salman passes the fit-and-proper person test. Thank God we're Emirates, junior league villains. At least we're not Jewish. Now there is a worldwide criminal conspiracy. Apart from our owner, I think he is.
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No Jew has never been called Stan. Plus he married a Walton
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You're absolutely right. They're masters of disguise.
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Let me re-phrase. At least we're not Spurs. Which reminds me, my chief rival on tonight's Friday Night (Already) Family Zoom Quiz is a maniacal Tottenham fan (is there any other kind?) and I am thinking up ways of putting him off his stroke by bringing up last night and last Sunday. It has to be subtle, he will be prepared for me just screaming vulgar abuse. Saying nothing will most likely put him on edge ... waiting ... always waiting.

Nah, I'd prefer to lose the quiz and scream vulgar abuse.
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No Jew has never been called Stan

What about Stanislas Lem? In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Mind you, that may not be true, they stick together, don't they?

But to get back to sport, I have on my boxtop flag-up list 'Pilsudski' in case a TV prog/film comes up about this interesting character, an interwar Polish dictator, since you ask. And all I get is Polish football matches being played in the Joseph Pilsudski stadium. Typical Poles. Glorify a fascistic dictator, why don't you? Narendra Modi, eat your heart out.
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Kamara demands Uefa action over alleged racist remark (Guardian)

This is proving to be quite significant. Not least because we grown-ups have actually been allowed to know what the alleged remark was, not always the case. "You're a fucking monkey, you know you are." The first thing to say is that the alleged remarker, the Czech Ondrej Kudela, is to be commended on his knowledge of what is quite a specialised English idiom. A bit old fashioned now so maybe it is current on the continent. Verdict: could have. The case for the prosecution follows.
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