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56 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Bit of a random anecdote here. 
 

I’m watching the World Cup from a hotel room in China. I thought there was something weird about the Chinese coverage… something about the camera angle, and the editing, But couldn’t quite put my finger on it… now it’s just clicked…. they are trying to avoid shots of the crowd because they aren’t wearing masks! ??

Whenever there’s a goal scored, the camera view changes to an overhead view of the pitch from far out, as not to capture the hoards of celebrating maskless reprobates. There also seems to be a 30 second delay from the live feed. This country is so wack.

 

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12 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Like this?

 

Haha yes. The mass demonstrations here have been fueled by the World Cup, as local people can see that they are the only country in the world still living under brutal Covid restrictions. Another reason why football is the best game in the world!

Anyway, great to see a game with lots of goals in it! 

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1 hour ago, Wanderingred said:

Bit of a random anecdote here. 
 

I’m watching the World Cup from a hotel room in China. I thought there was something weird about the Chinese coverage… something about the camera angle, and the editing, But couldn’t quite put my finger on it… now it’s just clicked…. they are trying to avoid shots of the crowd because they aren’t wearing masks! ??

Whenever there’s a goal scored, the camera view changes to an overhead view of the pitch from far out, as not to capture the hoards of celebrating maskless reprobates. There also seems to be a 30 second delay from the live feed. This country is so wack.

 

Knock at the door incoming 

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14 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Yep indeed. In other news I have my flu jab booked for during the Eng v Wales game so it is now guaranteed to be a thriller.

Turn up way early and they’ll fit you in. That’s what I did for my covid and flu jab that was booked at 4pm when City played Watford.

The receptionist just said to tell them that I was booked in later that day. No problem at all.

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I see Klinsmann is getting torn apart for his comments about Iranian "culture" of gamesmanship. He made very similar points as the post about "latinos" on here - also said they wouldn't have got away with it with a european ref.

In fairness, I assumed he meant footballing culture and not sure it was meant about Iran as a "culture" outside of football - although he's hardly one to speak about sportsmanship, cheating, conning refs.

Not sure you can tarnish all people from one particular country like that though. Not all Germans cheat and dive like Mr Klinsmann did.

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26 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Turn up way early and they’ll fit you in. That’s what I did for my covid and flu jab that was booked at 4pm when City played Watford.

The receptionist just said to tell them that I was booked in later that day. No problem at all.

Thanks, I might try that. Perhaps England will do that too, turn up.

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