Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[gho3st]

Ronaldo to Bale in the dressing room

Even though Di Maria missed that Penalty

 

[Randy Marsh]

wow, just flicked over to the Madrid game.. Marco Reus da gawd gonna knock them out. Did Di Maria miss a pen too?

 

[Jax]

Ronaldo's furious with these bums

 

[yoyoyo1]

Chelsea's good fortune happened at the perfect time, was just thinking to myself how comfortable PSG had it just passing around. Bam goal and all of a sudden the crowd are in it, Chelsea players rushing towards goal and PSG can't stall anymore. Interesting stuff.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

See, and perhaps I'm missing something, but how much of that is pre-orchestrated and pre-determined? How precisely do they script things? I'm under the impression that everything is scripted, even the twists and turns, the failures in strategies, the things that don't quite payoff.

And if they are scripted, there's no payoff. It's artificial and because of that artificiality it's decidedly inferior to other sports. In other sports there's scripting to a point (gameplans, strategies, plays) then there's genuine improvisation that either fails or succeeds.

And it's entirely possible that I'm thinking of wrestling incorrectly. When I think of it being scripted, then I start thinkin of it as theater, a drama, but then you get into murky waters in tryin to define wrestling. It's not a sport in how we consume and think about televised sports, it's not a scripted tv drama. So I dunno

Perhaps my inability to categorize or define what pro wrestling is is why I don't get it.

It's all "scripted". As I said, it's performance art. The audience is the only part that isn't of the machine. Being upset that wrestling is scripted is as odd as being mad that James Bond isn't actually employed by MI6. It is a scripted tv drama. Completely. It's not a sport. The WWE's name for it is the best explanation. It's sports-entertainment. It's Rocky and Raging Bull and The Hurricane and Never Back Down and Bloodsport live.

 

[Grams]

The crossbar has to have a dent in it

 

[Sinnerman]

unlucky again

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

crossbar twice

 

[thernbroom]

Cavani so rubbish

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

dortmund hit the post

 

[gho3st]

How u miss that?

 

[Yayo Toure]

I forget which Arsenal fan it was that said they wouldn't want Klopp because this years collapse at Dortmund has been wegner-esque..

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

madrid look like they are in shock

parked up heavy

edit: Casillas is saving madrid right now

 

[Grams]

Breh Dortmund can't buy the third

 

[ridge]

Mkhitaryan doing his best Giroud impersonation