WD40 720 Posted February 17, 2022 Masi removed https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60418716 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sgncfc 1,253 Posted February 17, 2022 F1 has been a "sport" dominated by cash for a lot longer than football. Their problem is that developing their "sport" is pretty much impossible. It's just cars racing around a grid, after all. Give them all the same car with the same resources and we'd see who the best driver was, but that's not going to happen. So it's a bit like wondering whether Man City, Liverpool or Chelsea will win the title. Namely, if you don't support any of the cars with the most money, who cares? It's extremely boring and has been for 30 years or so. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fiery Zac 1,066 Posted February 17, 2022 4 hours ago, WD40 said: Masi removed https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60418716 Are they going to retrospectively award the race and championship to Hamilton? Didn’t think so. Was and still is a complete joke. Last game of the season, we need to avoid defeat to stay up. A loss will see us relegated. We start fantastically and are then surprisingly 3-0 up with only 5 mins to go. The parade has been organised, our new £20million ‘one for the future’ 15 year olds contract sorted, the new scampi prices finalised and delias statue sculpted. Then, suddenly Michael Oliver stops play theatrically to take a telephone call from the Premier League. They instruct all 11 of our players off the field to be replaced by a random selection of fans from the snake pit, and RvW. Spurs are allowed to make 11 subs of their own, but players from around the world have been flown in specially for them to choose from. VAR announce on the screen ‘Norwich penalised for lack of sporting integrity and not giving it a go - sponsored by talksport’ Goals from Mbappe and Haaland leave the game level with 30 seconds to go. Then Mr Hannibal Suarez goes down in the area because Drunken Mctakintheknee’s belly gets in the way of his teeth. Mr Oliver dances to the spot and awards the pen, whilst VAR assistant Mike Deanotherules reviews the incident for 0.5 seconds before confirming the spot kick. RvW saves the pen and is the Barclay hero until he takes the proceeding goal kick and scores an own goal. Thus Norwich are condemned to relegation with Oliver overheard telling Dean Smith at the end “that’s competitive football for you”. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WD40 720 Posted February 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, Fiery Zac said: Are they going to retrospectively award the race and championship to Hamilton? Didn’t think so. Was and still is a complete joke. Last game of the season, we need to avoid defeat to stay up. A loss will see us relegated. We start fantastically and are then surprisingly 3-0 up with only 5 mins to go. The parade has been organised, our new £20million ‘one for the future’ 15 year olds contract sorted, the new scampi prices finalised and delias statue sculpted. Then, suddenly Michael Oliver stops play theatrically to take a telephone call from the Premier League. They instruct all 11 of our players off the field to be replaced by a random selection of fans from the snake pit, and RvW. Spurs are allowed to make 11 subs of their own, but players from around the world have been flown in specially for them to choose from. VAR announce on the screen ‘Norwich penalised for lack of sporting integrity and not giving it a go - sponsored by talksport’ Goals from Mbappe and Haaland leave the game level with 30 seconds to go. Then Mr Hannibal Suarez goes down in the area because Drunken Mctakintheknee’s belly gets in the way of his teeth. Mr Oliver dances to the spot and awards the pen, whilst VAR assistant Mike Deanotherules reviews the incident for 0.5 seconds before confirming the spot kick. RvW saves the pen and is the Barclay hero until he takes the proceeding goal kick and scores an own goal. Thus Norwich are condemned to relegation with Oliver overheard telling Dean Smith at the end “that’s competitive football for you”. I think you’ve got that spot on other than Michael Oliver would go over to the pitch side monitor to ‘sell it’ and get more screen time for himself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
john in exile in leeds 4 Posted February 17, 2022 Oh ! That's wonderful. Thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SwearyCanary 1,179 Posted February 18, 2022 7 hours ago, sgncfc said: F1 has been a "sport" dominated by cash for a lot longer than football. Their problem is that developing their "sport" is pretty much impossible. It's just cars racing around a grid, after all. Give them all the same car with the same resources and we'd see who the best driver was, but that's not going to happen. So it's a bit like wondering whether Man City, Liverpool or Chelsea will win the title. Namely, if you don't support any of the cars with the most money, who cares? It's extremely boring and has been for 30 years or so. 100% right. I really detest the ‘best driver’ debate. It’s completely indeterminable until every other variable is stopped. Same car, set up exactly the same, with exactly the same tyres, etc. OR use one manufacturer per track, at least the paint job will vary weekly. The season before last when the rookie steps into a Mercedes first race and is winning by a mile but the team somehow ‘accidentally’ put on the wrong tyres and he missed out. Of course they did, nothing to do with how much it’d discredit the integrity of the sport and call into question the ‘achievements’ of the ‘worlds best driver’. I’m running out of inverted commas. Such a complete tinpot ‘sport’ it makes a mockery of competition. I bet their fans would love a drum sweary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shefcanary 2,448 Posted February 18, 2022 9 hours ago, SwearyCanary said: 100% right. I really detest the ‘best driver’ debate. It’s completely indeterminable until every other variable is stopped. Same car, set up exactly the same, with exactly the same tyres, etc. OR use one manufacturer per track, at least the paint job will vary weekly. The season before last when the rookie steps into a Mercedes first race and is winning by a mile but the team somehow ‘accidentally’ put on the wrong tyres and he missed out. Of course they did, nothing to do with how much it’d discredit the integrity of the sport and call into question the ‘achievements’ of the ‘worlds best driver’. I’m running out of inverted commas. Such a complete tinpot ‘sport’ it makes a mockery of competition. I bet their fans would love a drum sweary It's a team sport really. The driver is inconsequential .......🤔 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
