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Ryder tweeting again.

But the only time that it stops a goal being celebrated is when there's been an obvious, possible infraction in the lead-up to it. My problem isn't with the concept, it's with the implementation - as things stand, there's a 30 to 60 second period of limbo-like weirdness. It just needs some theatre around it. Here's what needs to happen. When a goal goes in that there needs to be VAR intervention for, the VAR dudes in their little room press a button. A huge "BEEEEEOOOOUUUUUU" noise sounds in the stadium, and the floodlights turn a low-level RED. That's it. The stadium is in INFRACTION TRACTION. The players and the crowd have to stand stock still and silent as if on pause. Like on The Cube when everything goes in super slo-mo. Only one man moves. The referee approaches his little telly. Once he gets to it, he presses a button to start his replay. At the same time, the timer music off Countdown starts, signalling 30 seconds to a decision......ding ding digging da ding ding digging da ding......dum dah dah DUM DAH DAH DI-DAG DOO-DAH DIDDLEE-DOO-....he presses the relevant decision button and a big voice of god announces it "GOAL!"......"PENALTY!......."FREE KICK". Pyrotechnics go off around the touchline, lights come back up and the crowd and players react accordingly.

Ffs man, he put it in extra large red type to catch Rafa’s attention

https://twitter.com/StewartTweets?s=09 Comedy gold

A great draw for Swizterland against favs Brazil. I was thinking of moving to Switzerland, I know nowt about the country, but the flag is a big plus.

It was a great, entertaining game, but neither of them...won, both conceded 3, Ronaldos first two were as a result of terrible defending and terrible goal keeping. Portugals centre backs were terrible as well, both got roasted by costa, completely on his own for his first. France were poor, argentina, germany, uruguay even have been entirely unconvincing, no big team has shown up and shown themselves to be in control and ready to make the tournament theirs yet.

I hope you do. 3 notifications when I logged in there of you quoting my posts 13 hours ago. 2 of them now deleted

Of course there was absolutely no pushback from Marr on the fact that leading economists believe that there will be no Brexit dividend at all.

Plus they should have to take Joselu back.

If we want a fat lazy attacker with a good left foot, Ben Arfa might come back

Not sure what's wrong with just having those full kit wankers in the grassing booth giving the ref instant advice. No idea why he has to go up to the tv on wheels to have a look at something that multiple touchers have already told him is a penalty.

I know what HMHM means like, it's slowed down the instant joy of a goal going in while we process that extra bit of uncertainty. I feel like you can see it in the players too sometimes. Maybe it's just teething problems.

Have you considered that you might be Teen Wolf?

Nah, I've been self-employed and driven most of my adult life so I've done alright career-wise (though I'd likely have done better sober). I have always been a functional alcoholic, rarely drinking before evening. My sparkling personality has cost me a few relationships but not the drink. That is related though - I was self-medicating Bipolar for a long time and once I got properly sorted there I eventually figured out I didn't need it any more. As to how bad it was - I'd have a bottle of whiskey most nights for the last few years. Before that, it was two/three bottles of wine a night (wine cheaper than diesel when I was in France!). That all culminated with me ending up in a coma for a couple weeks in 2015 and left me with (miraculously only) an insulin resistance that makes me functionally a diet-controlled diabetic. I should by all rights be dead, should be on permanent dialysis, should be brain damaged (shut up ) but am somehow the fittest I've ever been. I'm reticent to give advice because I'll obviously end up projecting my experience on to you to some extent but personally, I can't have just one/three/five and leave it so it's all or nothing for me. Few will have the problem to the extent that I ended up with but if you're blacking out a couple nights a week then I think you're right to ask questions. That (and a couple other similar comments) did set off a few alarm bells when I read it fwiw. It does suck to have to quit completely but I reached a point where I decided I'd rather never set foot in a pub again than continue this nonsense. And no, I gave up for a couple years in my mid-twenties, so not my longest period dry. From that, I can tell you that spending time in pubs sober is fucking awful (for me at least). I've also had a few weeks here and there where I've not touched a drop, so being able to say that isn't necessarily your get-out-of-jail-free card because as you have probably worked out by now, I had a bit of a problem. Hopefully, that can all serve as a warning to others and I've been pretty lucky. Feel free to PM me about any of it. Good luck with it, you giant fanny.

I like Mitrovic and it's a shame that he won't be a success at Newcastle under Benitez, but if it's a straight choice between the two; Rafa or Mad Mitro, it's not a choice at all.