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  1. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Fair points. They all take immense talent though. Those two and breaking.
  2. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Yeah I am not saying it doesn't take loads of skill and it surely has loads of worth. I could never do it and when I have seen it in films etc it looks brilliant. I just never thought of it as a sport. I guess it's one of them sports where it's demonstrative ie it's down to subjectivity of the...
  3. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Horatio doesn't respect gymnastics :(
  4. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Is its name actually 'breaking'? Or do they think it sounds like less of a sport if they call it breakdancing? I didn't even know it was in the Olympics til a month or so ago.
  5. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Yeah, it's just that sports favour men almost every time. Some other realms of society favour women. I still believe women should be very supported in sport, though. The elite women in track for example are still better than 99 per cent of men as most men aren't elite either.
  6. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    Yeah. I still think women are closer (relatively speaking) to men in sports like track and field and swimming, than football. Not close, as I believe the top 500/1000 men could beat the number 1 woman in track. But I feel they'd have better chance than a woman's team playing against a men's...
  7. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    If it was up to me I'd go back in time and make the metric system the only system that ever existed. Like I said above, imperial is stupid because different units and names make up new units and names. With metric if you know how long a metre is you know how long 100000000 metres is in...
  8. Maradona37

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Bit harsh wasn't it.
  9. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    You guys probably know they call the 1500m the 'metric mile'. That's because there are 1609 metres in an imperial units mile.
  10. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    What can I say? We are a very strange and insular little country. Rods and chains - sounds like a BDSM party.
  11. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    Exactly, we agree. You need to win the bulk of those games to do well in the league. It is the nature of a 20 team league. II was just saying it's very possible they slip up in their easier start, much more so than if Arsenal, Liverpool, or Man City were playing those teams in that order. I am...
  12. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    No idea, I wasn't around to create the system. Though some days like today I feel like I was.
  13. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    This is a furlong
  14. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    Yes I know. But my point is they make more mistakes than other big teams in the much more frequent games against 'easier teams', and that's large part why other teams get more points come the end of the season. There's also the fact that United are better against high lines and the lesser teams...
  15. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    The trend will be that yes, but they'll likely slip up in enough of them for it to affect their league position. Man City are so good at beating the lesser teams and that's why they accumulate so many points in general. Let's hold fire and wait and see with United. I already said I am biased...
  16. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    You know what football is like though - the easiest games 'on paper' sometimes turn out to be massive banana skins. United especially have fallen victim to that with all their hammering against 'small clubs' over the years.
  17. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    I still think United will struggle. I have said so since Ferguson left and not been proved wrong yet. But I acknowledge I am very biased as they're my most hated club in the world.
  18. Maradona37

    Summer Olympics Paris - 2024

    A stone is 14 pounds. I know that a stone is about 6kg give or take but it still doesn't feel natural to think of body weight in kg or height in m. Just the way I have been brought up. Imperial system is stupid though because it relies on differing type of units whereas metres become km, grams...
  19. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    If United had won it I'd have said it's just a pre-season friendly, doesn't mean anything, all about fitness. But since City won it and United are on the wrong end of it I am gonna paint it as an important competitive game that sets you up for the season. Football is great like that - you can...
  20. Maradona37

    Premier League 24/25

    I think you and I talked about it before. It's engrained into their club. Obviously they played more progressive football under Ferguson, but they've always essentially been a counter-attack team. They'll never be able to play like Barca or Man City as it's not in their identity or ethos as a club.

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