Football

[IceCreamMan]

Watching wolves Everton game. Wolves player Andre stood up to the ref. Should have been immediate red I reckon. Only got a yellow. Lucky lad. FA need to punish him more. 

[justinafrika]

VAR takes a second to look at Nunez's potential red card.

He scores. 

Then he gets the softest penalty you'll see all season and VAR didn't even bother to review it.

Awarded a penalty every 1.3 matches.  Oppo red card every 1.6 matches.  uXG the highest in the league - unexpected goals 2.83.

Very strong case for Livarpool's player of the season:

 

PS.  And I haven't even mentioned van Dijk getting away with 5 nailed-on red card offences.

Edited 10 hours ago by justinafrika

[justinafrika]

A packed 46K Nelson Mandela Bay stadium for the Kaiser Chiefs vs Stellies FC Nedbank Cup quarterfinal yesterday.  My first work assignment, since getting back up to clinical practice speed, after retiring at 50 ten years ago was to run the stadium med centre ops (not the on-field response).

We saw at least a fifth of all spectators barging their way in from near the end of the first half through two gate-busting stampedes twenty minutes apart despite a large SAPS presence.  Bust heads and faces, bust shoulders, bust limbs, dozens of cases of teargas exposure and respiratory difficulty, thankfully no deaths.  That was nuts.  How is this still happening?

Edited 1 hour ago by justinafrika

[RoddieJ]

1 hour ago, justinafrika said:

A packed 46K Nelson Mandela Bay stadium for the Kaiser Chiefs vs Stellies FC Nedbank Cup quarterfinal yesterday.  My first work assignment, since getting back up to clinical practice speed, after retiring at 50 ten years ago was to run the stadium med centre ops (not the on-field response).

We saw at least a fifth of all spectators barging their way in from near the end of the first half through two gate-busting stampedes twenty minutes apart despite a large SAPS presence.  Bust heads and faces, bust shoulders, bust limbs, dozens of cases of teargas exposure and respiratory difficulty, thankfully no deaths.  That was nuts.  How is this still happening?

I'm surprised.... that you are surprised! 

I hope for your sake and sanity, that you get used to it, and soon...

Good luck Bud. Stay strong.

[IceCreamMan]

Inexplicably I have now lost 9 bets in a row. What are the odds on that I wonder. 
 

still up 95 quid for the season but could have been so much sweeter. 

[IceCreamMan]

2 hours ago, justinafrika said:

A packed 46K Nelson Mandela Bay stadium for the Kaiser Chiefs vs Stellies FC Nedbank Cup quarterfinal yesterday.  My first work assignment, since getting back up to clinical practice speed, after retiring at 50 ten years ago was to run the stadium med centre ops (not the on-field response).

At least a fifth of all spectators had barged their way in from near the end of the first half through two gate-busting stampedes twenty minutes apart despite a large SAPS presence.  Bust heads and faces, bust shoulders, bust limbs, dozens of cases of teargas exposure and respiratory difficulty, thankfully no deaths.  That was nuts.  How is this still happening?

I still remember watching the Ellis park game. 😪