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  1. El Zen
    I’m definitely feeling it. The mortgage bill alone is now eating north of 60 per cent of my take home salary every month.
  2. El Zen
    I was meant to be over for the Palace game, but couldn’t afford to fork out the total cost for plane tickets, hotels etc. That’s something I’d normally be able to do at least twice a year, but now I wasn’t even close to being able to cover the cost without dipping into my savings.
  3. El Zen
    Made it uncomfortable, but for long periods we played them off the pitch. Deserved to win.
  4. El Zen
    Everywhere. I hate it. Absolutely hate it.
  5. El Zen
    Congrats, @StefanAVFC. So happy for you, mate. The more serious I get with my new GF, the more I realise I’m gonna have to do all of this again. Or rather, I get more and more certain that I want to do all of this again. Crazy.
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    I’m not sure I’d want a 25 yard screamer in to the top corner being called offside because of a player being off out by the corner flag. But broadly speaking, I agree, if you’re close to the ball, you’re active. This used to work just fine with very little cunfusion. What an absolute mess we’ve made of this game.
  7. El Zen
    I’d argue it has made it worse through still frame photos and slo-mo, where you can find «handball violations» out of context. And the problem with the offside rule isn’t so much the lines, as how we’ve suddenly redifined the whole rule to protect the refs, to the point where nobody understands the rules anymore. Not even the refs.
  8. El Zen
    Football refereeing, with or without technology, will never be perfect, never be entirely objective, never black or white. The rules of the game must be applied through a lense of subjective interpretation. Football will never be entirely «fair», referees’ decisions will always be debated and questioned. You try to achieve the unachievable by taking away the most important ingredient in football as a spectator sport: spontanious emotion. Not only that, the introduction of VAR has resulted in a reinterpretarion of the rules, to the point where they’ve become almost meaningless. I have no idea what handball is anymore. I have no idea if something is offside anymore, except the most clear cut cases. It’s become absurd, and it’s all we seem to talk about on a monday now. Scrap it!
  9. El Zen
    Hah! Try Norway
  10. El Zen

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    El Zen replied to Tom13's topic in Villa Talk

    Wait. This is the internet? I’m disappointed. I thought the internet would have lots of naked women, instead all I get is moaning and fish puns?
  11. El Zen
    Because I want to have the best possible conditions to create a good atmosphere when I’m a travelling supporter, and because I want as much atmosphere in the stadium as possible. It’s much more fun to sing against an away stand in full voice, it makes me up my own game. I firmly support fans’ right to support their team as best they can, and giving them the best possible conditions to do so, home and away. That solidarity needs to exist across alliegiences. Ultras liberi.
  12. El Zen
    Travelling fans should have the best conditions possible. It’s what we would want when we travel.
  13. El Zen
    Several clubs have drums in England now. I’m sure I’ve seen two-poles too. And no banners allowed? Why?
  14. El Zen
    Is this true? If it is, it’s a complete embarrasment.
  15. El Zen
    Everything is wrong with video refereeing in football. It would be shite even if it worked perfectly, and it doesn’t even work at all. What it takes away in terms of spontaneity is enough to bin it for me, but the pragmatic argument is that it can’t possibly work the way its proponents idealise, because football refereeing will always be subject to human error and subjective interpretation. Always. VAR makes football worse. Far worse. I want it sent straight to room 101 where it belongs.
  16. El Zen
    Scrap VAR.
  17. El Zen
    Scrap it, scrap it, scrap it.
  18. El Zen
    STFU and take my money. I love it.
  19. El Zen
    I hate to come across as a fairweather fan, but I just can’t find the will to watch the Yankees this season. Such an unexciting team to watch, such a poorly constructed line up. No World Series since 2009, Brian (Cashman, GM,) it’s time to go (and it has been for a long time.)
  20. El Zen
    As legendary Norway manager Egil Olsen would always say, I reckon we have a fair chance.
  21. El Zen
    Too easy this Europe lark, innit?
  22. El Zen
    That I have not. Sounds like it would make for a rather unpleasant beer shower.
  23. El Zen
    Literally three of my favourite things in the whole world, that.
  24. El Zen
    I can teach history so the surviving population remembers life before the apocalypse. I can make simple wooden constructions, like a flower beed or a pretty dope treehouse. I can make relatively poor attempts at humour, poetry and literature. I can make babies.
  25. El Zen
    AIK won the Swedish league in 1998 scoring 25 in 26 games.
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