El Zen

Ref has lost the plot.

Football!!!!

2 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

And just like that I'm back in. Less of a handball than the one we didn't get a penalty for but whatever.

You can’t score with your arm. 

Practically begging for that with the sloppy passing from the back.

C‘mon boys! 

1 hour ago, Rds1983 said:

4kg of muscle mass is a lot to lose in only a few months, there's probably some water/fat in there too. I'm assuming that you're not completely inactive and you're still up and about?

The muscle should come back pretty quickly when you start lifting again. If it's just one hand with damaged fingers, try jumping on machines and just using the good hand.

A few tips and journals are linked in the below if anyone is interested:

https://jeffnippard.com/blogs/news/how-fast-do-you-lose-muscle-when-you-stop-working-out-how-to-avoid-it

"You can prevent muscle loss through training (even minimal bodyweight workouts) and diet (eating at maintenance calories and consuming sufficient protein)"

Yeah, I’ll qualify it a little bit and say it’s probably a bit of water weight too as I’ve not been taking my creatine while I’ve been away from the gym.

I’m back in light training now, though, and back on the shakes, so I’ll hopefully start regaining a bit of mass soon. 

6 hours ago, Rds1983 said:

You lost 4kg when not exercising? I usually put that on whenever I stop working out.

Yep. Losing those 4kg is a bad thing, though. I was at my ideal weight and all I’ve lost is muscle mass. 

On 13/02/2024 at 15:08, El Zen said:

Turns out the fractured finger needed surgery. Had the op yesterday and likely won’t be allowed any kind of lifting or a decent workout for a couple of months still. Going to have to do some heavy duty work in April and May now. 

Lost 4kgs

New football season is fast approaching here in Norway, and I’ve got my brand new pair Originals ready. I went for a pair of black Handball Spezial, a timeless classic. 

48 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

We Villa fans are still bitter about the Young dive or the Van Persie goals. 

As far as I can tell people have always talked about these things. 

Not even close to the way we’re talking about it today. Every f***ing half-contentious decision is analyzed to death. 

1 hour ago, Mic09 said:

Honest question; do you not feel that an exaggeration such as 'a version of the game I don't recognise' is not helping the anti-VAR sentiment?

I get the faults of the current system, I watch a lot of football. But it's a game we still recognise - it's a game we experienced for the last 3-4 years. 

It's not tragic, the end of the world, taking the spirit of the game away. 

Just ask a QPR fan if they wished there was VAR yesterday - even if it meant they waited 3 minutes for a decision. 

The problems with VAR are ALL down to referees. That is the problem, the referees. 

 

I don’t feel it’s that big of an exaggeration, to be honest. Celebrating the moment of a goal scored is the pinnacle of the football experience, it’s what the game at its core is all about. VAR takes that away from me. 

Before, we might discuss a refereeing decision at length if it was particularly scandalous. Now, refereeing decisions seem to be all we ever talked about. VAR has reduced the way we talk about and discuss the game to endlessly looking at lines on a screen and still-frame photos of arms in various angles. 

I hate it. I hate what it’s doing to my game.

3 hours ago, villa4europe said:

I dont like that though personally, taking English football as the example VAR doesn't work because of PGMOL not because of the technology, if we scrap VAR we're still left with the same problem of them being shit and probably also the accusation that they never wanted VAR in the first place so purposefully operated it in a way that negatively impacted the game until it was scrapped 

That's where my opinion of PGMOL is, in the gutter 

Refereeing mistakes will always happen as the rules are (intentionally) open to interpratation. Even then, I’d still rather have mistakes and keep the game I love, than no mistakes and a version of the game I don’t recognise. 

Thus far, the voting members of 6 out of 32 clubs in the top two divisions in Norway have voted to scrap VAR. 3 have voted to keep it, leaving 23 yet to vote on it at their AGMs coming up over the next couple of weeks. 

We might not get it done this year, and the FA is lobbying pretty hard to influence the vote in favour of VAR and they seem to control the smaller clubs with small fan scenes, but sooner or later we will get rid of it. 

On 03/03/2024 at 04:46, sharkyvilla said:

Back then, was that actually offside?  I thought there had to be 'daylight' between the players to be offside.

I don’t think that’s right. It was technically offside. 

On 03/03/2024 at 01:20, Mark Albrighton said:

Probably worth acknowledging that VAR overturned the incorrect offside flag for Ollie’s second goal.

You can still hate VAR and want it to be burned in the bin and then thrown in the sea. That’s all fine.

But if you’re playing fair, it’s only right to note when it’s stopped a **** up.

Nope. I’m firmly against it, and even when it’s right, it’s still a grotesque infringement on what I love most about football. 

Hard to beat 12 men. 

Emery not too pleased with our defensive movement.

Phew.

5 minutes ago, Nicho said:

What you breaking then? 

TV probably

Throw this away and I’ll break something. 

Ref might as well have been wearing all white first 13 mins.

Boy, that’s a sexy goal.

Probably not a popular opinion here, but Legia’s TIFO yesterday was f***ing fantastic.

Just put the whole damned thing in Room 101 and move on with the game we used to know. I hate what football has become after the introduction of VAR. It’s never going to work like its proponents want it to, and the game has become an absurd mess of milimeters, lines on a screen and rules nobody understands anymore. 

2 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Really thinking people need to go off Twitter. I feel more and more like I shouldn't be on there. I keep thinking Musk is going to be bought out, but no. Anyone else twitterconflicted?

It’s full of absolute rubbish, but for Norwegian football discussion and news, it’s by far the best option for me.