Football The 2012 / 2013 Season Thread
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A slightly mental explanation of the rules (bold bits are the bits that actually talk about the game). Different pitch config, though:
It appears that the first person to come up with the idea of 3-sided football was Asger Jorn, who saw it as a means of conveying his notion of trialectics - a trinitarian supercession of the binary structure dialectics. We are still trying to discover if there were any actual games organised by him. Before the LPA organised its first game at the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School in 1993, there is little evidence of any games being played. There is, of course, the rumour that Luther Blissett organised an informal league of youth clubs which played 3-sided football during his stint at Watford in the early eighties. Unfortunately, our research has found no evidence to support this. Nevertheless, Blissett's name will probably remain firmly linked to the 3-sided version of the game, even if in an apocryphal fashion. The key to the game is that it does not foster aggression or competitiveness. Unlike two-sided football, no team keeps a record of the number of goals they score. However they do keep a tally of the goals they concede, and the winner is determined as the team which concedes least goals. The game deconstructs the mythic bi-polar structure of conventional football, where an us-and-them struggle mediated by the referee mimics the way the media and the state pose themselves as "neutral" elements in the class struggle. Likewise, it is no psycho-sexual drama of the fuckers and fucked - the possibilities are greatly expanded! The pitch is hexagonal each team being assigned two opposite sides for bureaucratic purposes should the ball be kicked out of the play. The blank side is called the front side. The side containing the orifice is called the backside, and the orifice is called a goal. Should the ball be thrust through a team's orifice, the team is deemed to have conceded a goal - so in an emblematic fashion this perpetuates the anal-retentive homophobic techniques of conventional football whereby homo-erotic tension is built up, only to be sublimated and repressed. However the trialectic appropriation of this technique dissolves the homo-erotic/homo-phobic bipolarity as a successful attack will generally imply co-operation with the third team. This should overcome the prominent resistance to women taking their full part in football. Meanwhile the penetration of the defense by two opposing teams imposes upon the defense the task of counterbalancing their disadvantage through sowing the seeds of discord in an alliance which can only be temporary. This will be achieved through exhortation, body language, and an ability to manoeuvre the ball and players into such a position that one opposing team will realise that its interests are better served by breaking off the attack and allying themselves with the defending team. Bearing in mind that such a decision will not necessarily be immediate, a team may well find itself split between two alliances. Such a situation opens them up to the possibility of their enemies uniting, making maximum use of this confusion. 3-sided football is a game of skill, persuasion and psychogeography. When the ball goes out of the play on the frontside, a throw-in is conceded. This is carried out by the team whose frontside it is, unless they had last touch. In that case the throw in is taken by the team whose goal is the nearest. When the ball goes out of the play at the backside, the defening team has a goal kick, unless they had last touch, in which case a corner is taken by the team whose goal is nearest. The semicircle around the goal functions as a penalty area and it may be necessary to use it for some sort of offside rule which has yet to be developed.
It appears that the first person to come up with the idea of 3-sided football was Asger Jorn, who saw it as a means of conveying his notion of trialectics - a trinitarian supercession of the binary structure dialectics. We are still trying to discover if there were any actual games organised by him. Before the LPA organised its first game at the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School in 1993, there is little evidence of any games being played. There is, of course, the rumour that Luther Blissett organised an informal league of youth clubs which played 3-sided football during his stint at Watford in the early eighties. Unfortunately, our research has found no evidence to support this. Nevertheless, Blissett's name will probably remain firmly linked to the 3-sided version of the game, even if in an apocryphal fashion. The key to the game is that it does not foster aggression or competitiveness. Unlike two-sided football, no team keeps a record of the number of goals they score. However they do keep a tally of the goals they concede, and the winner is determined as the team which concedes least goals. The game deconstructs the mythic bi-polar structure of conventional football, where an us-and-them struggle mediated by the referee mimics the way the media and the state pose themselves as "neutral" elements in the class struggle. Likewise, it is no psycho-sexual drama of the fuckers and fucked - the possibilities are greatly expanded! The pitch is hexagonal each team being assigned two opposite sides for bureaucratic purposes should the ball be kicked out of the play. The blank side is called the front side. The side containing the orifice is called the backside, and the orifice is called a goal. Should the ball be thrust through a team's orifice, the team is deemed to have conceded a goal - so in an emblematic fashion this perpetuates the anal-retentive homophobic techniques of conventional football whereby homo-erotic tension is built up, only to be sublimated and repressed. However the trialectic appropriation of this technique dissolves the homo-erotic/homo-phobic bipolarity as a successful attack will generally imply co-operation with the third team. This should overcome the prominent resistance to women taking their full part in football. Meanwhile the penetration of the defense by two opposing teams imposes upon the defense the task of counterbalancing their disadvantage through sowing the seeds of discord in an alliance which can only be temporary. This will be achieved through exhortation, body language, and an ability to manoeuvre the ball and players into such a position that one opposing team will realise that its interests are better served by breaking off the attack and allying themselves with the defending team. Bearing in mind that such a decision will not necessarily be immediate, a team may well find itself split between two alliances. Such a situation opens them up to the possibility of their enemies uniting, making maximum use of this confusion. 3-sided football is a game of skill, persuasion and psychogeography. When the ball goes out of the play on the frontside, a throw-in is conceded. This is carried out by the team whose frontside it is, unless they had last touch. In that case the throw in is taken by the team whose goal is the nearest. When the ball goes out of the play at the backside, the defening team has a goal kick, unless they had last touch, in which case a corner is taken by the team whose goal is nearest. The semicircle around the goal functions as a penalty area and it may be necessary to use it for some sort of offside rule which has yet to be developed.
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lol k i get it
For a moment I was thinking someone had applied DAoC to Football after watching one too many stale football matches. And as there's no portal keeps but 1 playing field, I guess that would be NF DAoC, not OF.
But seeing how the first game was played well before DAoC was even out, I guess I was wrong.
But seeing how the first game was played well before DAoC was even out, I guess I was wrong.
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Haven't read this yet but figured I'd throw it here anyway;
http://www.arsenalreport.com/editor...eglect-arsenals-injury-problems-investigated/
http://www.arsenalreport.com/editor...eglect-arsenals-injury-problems-investigated/
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The Ramsay curse continues 
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/ml...dies-22-year-old-midfielder-mls-columbus-crew
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/ml...dies-22-year-old-midfielder-mls-columbus-crew
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Arsenal have spent millions on figuring that out and the consensus seems to suggest that keeping the player able to play at our tempo as often as we ask them too is the problem. And they say no CL qualifications this year will help as our season starts later.
The Arsenal report also says that we do not get more injuries than other teams though, we have been unlucky with bad unavoidable injuries but by the numbers our level of injuries is on a par with the rest of the league. But our squad does not have the quality in depth of other teams.
The Arsenal report also says that we do not get more injuries than other teams though, we have been unlucky with bad unavoidable injuries but by the numbers our level of injuries is on a par with the rest of the league. But our squad does not have the quality in depth of other teams.
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That is where the second part becomes important where our Doctors do not think we get more injuries than other teams. It is just our replacements are not at the same level as those they replace which is why it looks like we are harder hit.
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Nah. It'll be shit.
Just like the whacky pool tables which died a death about a decade or so ago:
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http://www.backpagepress.co.uk/news/blog/team_tonton/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Annoyed. Injury may well rule me out of this match.
Annoyed. Injury may well rule me out of this match.
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For breaking a US law, whilst doing something totally legal in England?
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We have a load of sanctions v Iran plus we are signed up to the EU and UN sanctions - what exactly do you think Iran were secretly buying with these transactions?
Iran are an enemy state and to conspire to supply them with arms/equipment is surely treason - it would send a good message to hang the lot tbh - the money people think themselves above all laws.
Iran are an enemy state and to conspire to supply them with arms/equipment is surely treason - it would send a good message to hang the lot tbh - the money people think themselves above all laws.
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What they did is legal in England. Therefore no bad. If Standard Chartered have broken English or EU law then fine. But they haven't.
American interference is not an isolated case. For example: How about Cuba?
The US has made it illegal for US companies to do business with companies from other countries that do business with Cuba. Their legislature is overreaching. They're passing laws in the US that are designed to interfere with business in the rest of the world.
The yanks can fuck off.
American interference is not an isolated case. For example: How about Cuba?
The US has made it illegal for US companies to do business with companies from other countries that do business with Cuba. Their legislature is overreaching. They're passing laws in the US that are designed to interfere with business in the rest of the world.
The yanks can fuck off.
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Under £15m for Cazorla reportedly. Bargain.
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I'm not on about the US - their actions are illegal here too - http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1084127310
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Banking services are restricted for listed individuals - not Iran as a whole.
It's not illegal in the UK.
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We got Cazorla for that price. LOL.
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get a separate thread, and Scouse, read the part US transactionsBanking services are restricted for listed individuals - not Iran as a whole.
It's not illegal in the UK.