@gaitanalyst They built an airstrip to extract the pilot. Insane!
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Jörgen Svanström
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It may have little bearing on the war itself but it's hard to think of operational-level dominance greater than finding and extracting a downed pilot in the middle of a hostile country. I guess kidnapping a head of state.
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@SimplyUtd @DaleJohnsonBBC Maguire’s contact was also minimal, but crucial.
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@McFlybowy Sweden played well enough when it mattered and Poland did not. What do you mean unfair?
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Poland got 17 points in their group before the playoffs then go out to a side who finished bottom of their group with 0 wins.
Sweden only got into the playoffs because of performances in the Nations League 2 years ago. What a shambles
In addition, Sweden qualified to playoffs after playing in NL against Slovakia, Estonia and Azerbaijan. To compare, Poland played against Portugal Croatia and Scotland, 3 nations which qualified to WC by taking 1st place in elimination group. This system is totally unfair.
The Game is gone.
Sky Sports Football@SkyFootball
Viktor Gyökeres sends Sweden to the World Cup with a LATE winner against Poland! 🤯
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@nqatpod It’s going to be even more difficult to call for the assistant ref with this, so I would expect more VAR decisions. The defenders cannot get a good overview so will inevitably play lower. Ridiculous rule change. I am not sure this solves any real problem.
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Absurd proposal that’ll obviously give attackers so much of an advantage that defences will have to drop deep to reduce the space. Resulting in more defensive setups. If Wenger wants to reduce VAR controversy just fucking cancel VAR don’t ruin the game.
Ben Jacobs@JacobsBen
🚨 The Canadian Premier League will conduct a 'daylight offside' trial in cooperation with FIFA when its season starts on April 4. The trial is led by FIFA and approved by IFAB. It is designed to favour attackers. 🗣️ FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger: "This is an important pilot. By testing this new interpretation in a professional competition, we can better understand its impact, including in terms of improving clarity and the flow of the game and promoting attacking play. "We look forward to analysing the results of the trial phase. We thank the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Soccer Association for their willingness to support FIFA with this pilot and for providing their competition." An attacking player will be considered onside if at least one part of their body that can legitimately be used to score in line with (or behind) the second-to-last defender. A player will only be ruled offside if there is a gap – or daylight' – between themselves and the defender. In effect, attackers must be fully beyond the second last defending player to be penalised. FIFA add by "introducing a clearer visual threshold, the trial is aimed at restoring a greater attacking advantage and boosting the flow of matches."
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@HerrHusis @Panshiri_M Dock ironiskt att han som serb drar det kortet. Självklart traumatiskt som 10-åring att behöva fly givetvis.
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@SplendorEternal Maybe I misunderstood your post but isn’t this more of an example of ressentiment or slave morality from his side?
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@shanaka86 For someone to get the Yuan, something needs to be sold to the Yuan holder. Iran then has to buy something and the seller needs to want to be paid in Yuan. Supply and demand of Yuan need to be balanced to avoid exchange rate changes. Not sure China wants the volatility.
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BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan.
Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters.
This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth.
Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining.
Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper.
The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military.
The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar.
Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@ShangguanJiewen @thomaschattwill How did they get their Yuan?
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This definatively marks the decline of the US empire and the beginning of a new world order.
Donald Trump has achieved the Petro-Yuan.
Nations paying for oil in Yuan are granted safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
India just did so.
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Chay Bowes@BowesChay
So it begins. Indian oil tanker was allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz after paying for the oil in Chinese yuan.
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@Lea_EFC No one is complaining about the Evanilson call and red for Maguire. The complaint is that Amad didn’t get a penalty.
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❌ The Manchester United fanbase didn’t complain when they were awarded this ridiculously soft penalty and red card against Crystal Palace a few weeks ago.
😭 Cries of robbery when it goes against them
🤫 Silent when they get lucky
Double standards
Kara@UTDKara
Bruno Fernandes is asking the right question if you didn’t give a penalty on Amad Diallo, then why give one for Bournemouth? Just watch both incidents and tell me how one is given and the other isn’t. Referee is from Liverpool 😳🤷♂️ x.com/KMedia001/stat…
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@AntonPutte @Jalkemo Impedes an opponent with contact är ju t.ex att använda båda händerna för att putta någon. Hur hård putten ska vara är ju själva tolkningen. Det är ju det som gör det subjektivt och skapar problemet här.
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@NOTLFCJ__ ”A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences:
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holds an opponent
impedes an opponent with contact”
Amad was clearly impeded and held. To label it soft only creates more problems. I think PGMOL needs to enforce the laws more strictly.
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This is what there’s outrage over ffs not even Arjen Robben goes down from that level of contact
𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐚@CantonasMind
I still can’t get over how this isn’t a foul on Amad Diallo. How on earth does this repeatedly happen to Manchester United??? x.com/LowResReplays/…
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@AntonPutte @Jalkemo ”A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences:
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holds an opponent
impedes an opponent with contact”
Truffert hindrar Amad genom en knuff med båda händerna. Så det är helt klart clear and obvious error. Tolkning som soft skapar problemen.
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@Jalkemo Yes, det hade vart en såkallad ”soft” straff på Amad och då skall inte VAR kliva in enligt bestämmelser.
Medans det fortfarande är en såkallad ”soft” straff på Evanilson ska fortfarande VAR inte kliva in enligt bestämmelser.
Det är alltså domarens bedömning i realtid som står.
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@SwedishRumble @FA_PGMOL The problems arise when you allow small infractions rather that enforcing the laws of the game strictly. That creates the grey area and now it’s out of control. It’s clear that the Amad push and pull isn’t allowed but as soon as you include force as a factor it becomes unclear.
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The big problem @FA_PGMOL has is how today the modus of every defender in the PL when dribbled past — is to pull down the attacking player. It doesn’t matter if you are in the penalty area or if the attacker is in alone on goal.
In other words — the “tactical foul” — is committed even in situations where you give up a penalty and/or a red card.
Why are defenders doing this? Teams and players acts in a way that pays offs. Commit 5 fouls like this, and you give up 1-2 penalties and red cards — and you probably prevent 2-3 goals.
And it is clearly the reason for why the PL in 25/26 only is about set pieces and there is a record number of 0-0 games.
This evolution has been driven by Arteta and Pep who have teams that are extremely smart with the tactical fouls. They are disciplined and don’t commit fouls when their defense breaks down — but every time someone breaches their defense by beating a player 1 on 1 — it’s stopped with a foul. Since they get away with it everyone else is starting to follow suit. And the Mings, Tarkowskis and Maguires of the league is having a renaissance.
A Amad Diallo skips past defenders 6-7 times per game. 6-7 times per game, he is hauled to the ground by the defender. And he draws on average 0.7 fouls per game.
UEFA’s official twitter channel asked this week — if you could make a team of XI with only one player, who would it be? I think Valverde was most commonly mentioned. But seriously — in the PL, in the way it’s reffed by PGMOL — a team with 10 Dan Burns would be unplayable, right?
Fabrizio Romano@FabrizioRomano
🚨 Bruno Fernandes: “I know it's tough for a referee to give two penalties to the same team in the same match… …but I don't understand why one foul is a penalty and the other isn't”. “The foul on Amad is a PENALTY”.
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@Jon_Mackenzie That replaces one subjective call with another and only moves the grey area, rather than take away from it. A big problem is that we allow for breaking the law up until a point rather than enforcing it more strictly. That creates the grey area in the first place.
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To be clear, this is precisely what VAR wants to avoid. It rather wants to ask the Q: has the referee made enough of an error here to overturn?
We can argue about that as a functional process but the whole point is that PL don't want the game to become entirely tech-officiated.
S.@Goatzelll
@Jon_Mackenzie Maybe I'm naïve. But I think the question the VAR should be asking is "do I think the Refs got it wrong" and that's it. Instead, they ask that question and then ask "But is it wrong *enough* for me to intervene." And what that means could vary wildly official to official
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@TGill28395 @UnitedStandMUFC This is further proof that the Amad incident should have been a penalty as well. Inconsistent refereeing and Maguire is correct.
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🗣️ Harry Maguire on Instagram:
“So soft but that's where football is at atm and I should know better. You would think both decisions would reach the same outcome.
"We will be back after the break. Safe travel home reds, your support has been unbelievable” #mufc
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@Jon_Mackenzie I don’t think anyone expects VAR to say to the ref, you didn’t call the last incident so this shouldn’t be called either. What people are asking for is consistency and quite frankly both Amad and Maguire were clear penalties and not grey area. This is the inconsistency.
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This is something the general public just don't seem to have grasped with VAR. Perhaps PGMOL should have communicated it more clearly?
Dale Johnson@DaleJohnsonBBC
It's always possible for two seemingly similar incidents to have opposite outcomes. On-field call carries weight. If a ref does not give the Amad pen that is supportable. Giving the Evanilson spot-kick is supportable too. That's the subjective laws and VAR for you.
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@DaleJohnsonBBC If it’s not there for consistency, there’s no point to VAR at all for these situations.
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On Amad and Evanilson penalty situations.
Both might or might not have been penalties.
They are subjective, in the grey zone.
So on-field decision stands.
VAR's role is not, and ever has been, to create consistency of decision making.
Each is judged individually.
#BOUMUN
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@sampilger If VAR cannot provide us with more consistency even within the same game it should be dispensed with in these situations.
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The foul by Maguire is a penalty but the foul on Amad isn’t? The referee and the slackers at VAR are having an absolute shocker.
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@mikaaelk Om inte VAR kan lösa den här typen av subjektiva bedömningar så är det ju faktiskt meningslöst. Bara att ta bort för sånt här. Evanilson förstärker ju mer än vad Amad gör. Helt sjukt!!!
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