Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

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UEFA will do it's best tomorrow to make sure Athletico and United don't go through, and of course, I suspect Madrid and Barca will conveniently avoid each other in the semis

Barca is playing so shyt, refs can only manipulate so much. I have faith that Simeone has the master plan to beat barca by multiple goals.
 

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Madrid can't score without Ronaldo....men lie women lie numbers don't.
 

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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.

And that's where my next line of thinking was going. If it's a tv drama then do we compare it to other tv dramas with a straight face? And I think it's very hard to do so with a straight face. And if you can't hen that begs the question, why waste your time on such nonsense?

And I say that as someone who doesn't even really have a grudge against piffle drama and nonsense on television.
 

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The last 4 games between Barca and Atletico have been draws.

You would think Atletico is due for at least 1 win against them?
 

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And that's where my next line of thinking was going. If it's a tv drama then do we compare it to other tv dramas with a straight face? And I think it's very hard to do so with a straight face. And if you can't hen that begs the question, why waste your time on such nonsense?

And I say that as someone who doesn't even really have a grudge against piffle drama and nonsense on television.
I don't see why you'd have to compare it. It seems like your hang up is reaching for a definition. A proper one for what wrestling is would require more hyphens than a new genre pitchfork is inventing. My grand uncle describes it as his soap opera. Same canned acting, but the stunt-work is a million times better and the actors are doing their own.

I mean, that's the thing. If you WERE to just look at it as a TV drama, as many points as you'd take away for 99% of the writing and plots, you'd have to give twice as many back for largely seamless, often cutting edge, non-special effects aided, real-time action sequences that the show promotes itself for anyway.
 
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