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Yea, I don't agree. Kane looked to see where Gabriel is, backed into him and then swung his elbow around at head height. He didn't jump and use arms for leverage, didn't make any attempt to play the ball, didn't do anything to gain an actual advantage other than backing into him, just took a swing at his head with his elbow. Sure, I guess you can say taking out the player behind you with an elbow to the throat/jaw is gaining an advantage but come on. It was so obviously deliberate.

That was my interpretation too. And you heard it from Hiromatsu to Buntaro when he said "now you understand what it's like to be denied". It's clear she still wanted to die, just not with Buntaro.

Yea, this isn't me. I feel the scenes, get the characters and felt the pure pain that Buntoro felt in that moment. I also felt Toronaga's pain at Hiromatsu. This show hits me in all the right spots, an adaptation of a beloved book that just hits all the right marks. I cannot stress how much I love this show.

I've watched that penalty call 100x now and it's a clear 50/50. Whatever it was called on the field is the way it would go. Saka throws his leg yes, but Neuer steps and extends his leg into Saka's path. I still firmly believe that if that was Bruno, Kane or any other generic white guy, he'd get the call. As for the penalty shout against Arsenal, this is the one time when a ref used some common sense. They clearly weren't doing anything for advantage, no clue what they heard on the field and it would have been idiotic to call something like that in a CL game when it clearly wasn't intentional in any way. The worse call was Harry Kane not getting a red for purposely looking at Gabriel before intentionally slamming his elbow into his throat.

record or not, that team is beatable and we play well away.

My takeaway from that game is we can win in Munich and should. So on we go.

I wish Saka just shot it and none of this would matter. I’ve seen Kane get that penalty 20 times but never seen Saka. So just shoot it instead.

Worst half we’ve played since Fulham. Defense in shambles.

I assume there will be turnover at Liverpool following Klopp. The first manager after a club legend generally has a tough time, especially if people move on. Next year will be very interesting for them.

Doku should have been a penalty. Difference with ours is touching ball was incidental as Jesus was beating him, ball was near Jesus and he was through on goal as Lamptey went through him and took out his legs. A bit different than the Doku one.

He’s not but Wan Bissaka didn’t actually touch him and all of the contact was generated by Elliot wanting the penalty. As I’ve seen us NOT get calls in very similar situations because of trailing legs or defenders kicking out but not touching, I can say it’s very soft and I’m surprised VAR didn’t spend 5 minutes looking at the angles as they do every single Arsenal penalty. Hell yesterday, NBC spent 5 minutes questioning Jesus penalty and he was literally taken out. Just thought it was interesting when you see that angle, no VAR looks and every Arsenal penalty over analyzed.

Still need to win out and our run in isn’t super easy plus CL. More turns to come.

Pretty weak penalty. He actually never touched him and Elliot’s trailing leg hooked him. I’ll take the dropped points but have no idea how VAR didn’t even spend a second on it like they do every Havertz tackles. https://x.com/nonewthing/status/1777009151543013715?s=46&t=S9IqtHPqFubF4uuPMeayuA

Caught some highlights of the Arsenal game yesterday. What a team we have been in 2024. 10 wins, 1 draw, 35 goals for, 4 against, 4.98 xg. 5 straight away game clean sheets. Next closest defensive record is city with xg over 12. 4 months of pure bliss as a fan. Also, Kai Havertz has been immense since he’s become our starting CF. £60m well spent.

I had some good friends and they were willing to write some of my essays / poems and college entrance essay in return for in game things I did for them or use of my account (my character had a very strong PVP reputation) or other things. It was helpful... I slowed down playing significantly in 2002. I started WoW in 2003/2004 and haven't played a MMORPG or anything like it since. Way too much of a time sink.

Memories. I played a ton of AC in high school. Played a bit of WoW after that in college and never really played a multiplayer game again like that. AC was special, what a community. If it wasn't for some of the people I met, I wouldn't have done as well in high school or gotten into the college I got into.

Yea, same. Even if we don't win this year, it's been an absolute blast. Best football we've played in a long time. I would love to beat Bayern to at least keep CL alive. Just fun to be in the running.

I just think it's easier said than done to win at City. How many matches have they lost there this year? Last? Maybe one? I'll take the point and keep from getting battered like we did last year in the run in. We did have a few moments that we could have taken better and if we did up the intensity of the press earlier, think we'd have had a few more, but not going to complain too much.

I'll take the point. Liverpool has to be happy with that result.

This game feels a lot like the game at Emirates. Keep it close, limit City looks on goal and play counter. City might have possession but they didn't have an open play shot for like 40 minutes. At some point they'll bring on Martinelli and inject some pace which may change the game.

He's talking about Odegaard's handball when he slipped due to the pitch being massively overwatered as a way to slow us down.

Such a bullshit penalty. Shouldn’t be rewarded for stepping in front of a guy in middle of mid clear and not even attempt at the ball.

Eh it’s ok. They’re just replacing them with 77m Gvardiol and 65m Ruban Dias. Last year when we played them without Saliba, we replaced him with 0 minutes at Palace Rob Holding and earlier this year we played them without Saka and Jesus and with Eddie up top. Injuries happen but City always has a 60m plus replacement waiting in the wings. This game, Gabriel, Saka and Martinelli haven’t trained in 3 or more weeks so who knows if they’ll be fit and even if they are, good to go. Everyone always comments on other injuries when we face teams but ignore ours.

The finale was pretty good and the Flood was scary as fuck. I'm super curious to see where all this goes. I played the games growing up but only multiplayer. I never had the patience as a kid to play a game all the way through like I do now. I have no real allegiance to the characters/storyline so this totally works.

I second that! Pliny the younger is delicious.