when your Argentinian friend’s last name is Heinrich

*France watching the TL quietly come to support them.*

Semi-finals: France vs. Spain England vs. Argentina + the refs

After the past three games you couldn't pay me to root for Argentina

Simulation is bad & should be punished very severely using VAR, I was told, just 40 minutes ago 🤔

I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

What a joke

imo argentina has been wiping players out in that situation all game, embolo tried to preempt it and even stuck his leg out and made contact. it's a dive, but it's also the result of the referee letting argentina clatter into swiss players without punishment.

A reminder that no team gets more fouls before getting a yellow than Argentina. And its not particularly close.

I don't really have a problem with either Embolo yellow but by the same standard Argentina should have had between six to fourteen yellows in the first half and they had zero

Whenever Argentina plays its always 11 v 15

No ref would give a second yellow for flopping - this exposes the fact second yellows are different from other yellows. They always have been.

Argentina shouldn't be in the tournament at this point but FIFA doesn't benefit with Switzerland in a semifinal

oh gee, another VAR that results in a huge boon to Argentina

lol they couldn’t overturn Switzerland’s goal so they just basically manufactured a yellow card for the Swiss and now they’re forced to play down a man. I mean, that’s an extremely bad look for FIFA.

VAR desperate to get Argentina into the final

Goal overturned to a foul on an Egyptian player in their own half

The Swiss hate any deficit.

Goooooooooooooal

Cristian Romero is a terrible footballer and the entire reason I root against Argentina

Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

Pickford doing pure sh*thousery as he usually does

If this is the case, Haaland is Loki and he's still out on the field and took the form of someone else to lure England into a false sense of security.

Miami weather is hard on frost giants

Haaland off? Bold.

Not a pen

Booooooo

This announcer saying this should be a yellow!? The guy was in the air and Bellingham's foot came up to his.

Unsurprising given Norway's social democracy

But Trump demanded, DEMANDED, that they announce that its open

Shoving in the chest: Foul Shoving in the back: Dueling

That was wonderfully fun chaos

sorta feel like Haaland gets the Shaq effect a little where people foul him and it doesn’t get called because he doesn’t move and then he fouls them just a tiny little bit and they go flying

Oh, there is a foul and offside

I didn't know people other than Haaland were allowed to score for Norway

Yeah, this is a massive massive problem. Trump and his cronies are creating slush funds that will give them far more money than anyone who wants to challenge them.

RØW RØW RØW YØUR BØÅT

Ro!

Boss, they're leaking about the leaks.

This is one reason why Star Wars (IV-VI) comes off better than (I-III).

As if I need more reasons to pull for Haaland

Thought this was a soccer post. It is not.

Just had a difficult review for a good journal. I found the argument to be persuasive if limited to a narrow literature, but not within my field as a whole. Have any of you had a review like that, and if so, how did you handle it?

Spoke to an editor of a good social science journal who reported submission volume is now 400% higher than during Covid. He entirely blames AI.

A lot of people ask me "How on earth could you write a book" Part of the answer is simply: I take the time to write. It takes work.