Nerf

Lucky deflection off Kane

Or perhaps not just yet...

I reckon that's Top 4 for us, Spurs and Utd officially sealed then.

1 minute ago, Adam es Tranquilo said:

There's four teams in the draw, very few different possible outcomes. Hardly a cause to get the tin hats out.

To get the teams, order of tie, and very date of the fixture? There's an 8.3% chance of them randomly getting all that right.

3 minutes ago, 9 to 5 said:

I would definitely take Blather at his word. Definitely. 

Well, exactly. We already know the entire sport is corrupt, doesn't take much convincing that it extends to the other governing body.

1 minute ago, stokerino said:

The odds of that happening in a draw containing only four teams are hardly astronomical, mind.

1 in 12, but given it appeared on Roma's website itself, seems highly suspect. Given Blatter has claimed they do it, certainly lends credence to the idea.

Can't believe the leaked Roma/Liverpool draw from yesterday actually came true, right down to the home/away divide and date of the second leg.

Not even sure you can call the heated balls theory a conspiracy anymore.

2 hours ago, Colly said:

The amusing thing is that someone (I think Gerrard) felt it had come off the Premier League badge on Kane's arm, so while I'm well aware it's impossible I would have been very impressed if they'd gone "Yep, it's yours. Handball. 1-1". Following which Kane would be forced to sacrifice his child. 

Eh, it's not really his daughter anyway. He just rocked up at the hospital and said "that one's mine."

19 minutes ago, Adam es Tranquilo said:

The time of the match is irrelevant, a foul is a foul in minute 1 or minute 95. You can see why it's a foul, and certainly Vasquez is about to score when the contact comes, so Buffon should spent more time telling at his own team for being inept in defence in injury time rather than the referee.

Eh, emotion is itself irrational. What he did was wrong but it's hard to really condemn too harshly.

29 minutes ago, MadJack said:

How anyone can side with Buffon over this is ridiculous to me. He's in his face, screaming at him. Just completely lost it.

I don't think anyone has taken his side? Just explored how/why his reaction was what it was.

12 minutes ago, Gazz said:

I'm not talking about a straight red card though, I'm talking about a booking, which you will still get for denying a goalscoring opportunity and since Benatia had already being booked, it's a sending off.

Oh, I dunno, then. Presumably Oliver subscribed to the same line of thinking that a second yellow would be too harsh.

To add, scenes like you saw with Buffon are probably symptomatic of the lack of transparency with referees. Governing bodies are obsessed with keeping everything under wraps, but occasionally we get snippets like Lee Mason pretty much admitting he's guessing as he goes along, or Mark Clattenburg boasting that he wouldn't give decisions to a team if the fans had given a hard time, or whatever. Stuff like that adds up, subconscious resentment begins to form, and then it inevitably boils over.

I think a large part of the ridicule is the fact that he's trying to sell out his own teammate for personal glory of what is, at best, a dubious claim. Had he been disputing an own goal, that's one thing, but the way he's gone about this demonstrates he's not a team player. If I'm Eriksen, I'm walking into training and thinking he's a right knob, as I'm sure Lineker would if he sourced some news for the BBC or something and a colleague tried to claim it was his idea.

Spurs fans aren't helping their case either, acting as if there's some conspiracy or that people are "obsessed" with them. No, people are laughing about something in the news, which is only news because Harry Kane himself made it news.

8 minutes ago, Gazz said:

They got away somewhat lightly, surely Benatia should have been given a second yellow for denying a goalscoring opportunity.

The rules changed, didn't they? A penalty was deemed harsh enough in those instances.

God bless the FA for saving his daughter's life.

Still bemused as to how VVD winning the ball clean then Sterling lashing out with studs to the face is somehow a foul and yellow card for Virgil, but can't really complain about decisions tonight...

2 minutes ago, Baddar said:

But no City player played the ball?

Doesn't apply, does it? Pretty sure the keeper has to be behind the ball no matter what.

Anyway, have I mentioned how much I fucking love half time?

Pep's properly going for it. Equal chance they do us 6-0 as there is he's played right into our hands.

1 minute ago, MDK said:

I'm tempted to go for 4-1 City

I would be okay with this result.

Herrera is such a knob.

Thank fuck the Cult of Jose seems to be coming to an end.

23 minutes ago, MadJack said:

They do, Pep's just one dimensional and can't or won't adapt to the best way to beat Liverpool.

That's a myth. We've had one of the best defensive records in the league since October, and VVD has further improved it tenfold.

10 minutes ago, Lineker said:

I really don't have a side in this fight

You're right there

11 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

I thought it'd be clear my image was purely in response to Nerf & in no way aimed at any other Liverpool fan on here

Yeah but he's still a prick.

11 hours ago, ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster said:

Son needs to sort out his dislike of Lamela.

I mean, you can't blame him, Lamela is a prick.

5 hours ago, Lint said:

Health does regenerate on its own though

I meant the system from previous Far Cry games which has been replaced by limited medkits. Hence why a larger health bar is necessary ASAP.

23 minutes ago, Kaney said:

Is there any specific best order to do things per region? I think someone said do the story missions first then side missions for more money but is it safe to do the outposts and silos etc after you've liberated an area? I've heard some people end up missing one or 2 missions because they did stuff in a different order and it skipped stuff.

Well, two regions deep and I discovered that getting Resistance Points from outposts, loot trucks etc and thus forcing the boss encounter more quickly actually makes some story quests unavailable, so for Jacob's region I'll be tackling just the story missions and doing the rest afterwards.