Chris2K

THAT'LL DO!

Very biased, but the current rule is that is a clear penalty. Using common sense then the referee's probably right to not even allow VAR to check it, but common sense isn't part of this. Frustrating so far, particularly with Insigne and Berardi frequently opting for the spectacular instead of the best option, but the positive is that we're dominating. Watching Chiellini bombing forward will never not be great.

Great header, greater save. I've seen penalties given for less than that as well.

Forza Azzurri. And yay, I get to complain about kit choices in the very first game! Red and blue, those known clashing colours.

Pirelli's initial investigation into two instances of a tyre in the exact same position on the car exploding without warning on almost the exact same number of laps old on the exact same part of the circuit is that they were "caused by debris". Sure.

Ah, the Perez/Vettel/Gasly podium everyone predicted before the race. Come on Crofty, this isn't "Aston Martin"'s first podium. This exact same team won six races ago, they just have a different name. In all this excitement and happiness, let us not forget how utterly dreadful Valterri Bottas was this weekend. He's becoming a waste of the second Merc seat. Great that Perez can go to all three teams to celebrate, his sister team, the former team (that he saved from bankruptcy) and his current team.

Oh. Bye Lewis.

We need more of the team/FIA radio channel, it's always very interesting. I kinda hope they don't start again to give Checo the win and Seb third. And here's Max at full Basil Fawlty mode:

Good lord there goes Max.

Well there's the safety car you were waiting for Lance. Scary that the tyre can fail like that though, especially at that speed with everyone going down the straight behind.

Would sure be cool if we had a qualifying not being abruptly ended by a red flag to create a huge anti-climax some point soon. Should be a great race tomorrow though, the top four teams are ridiculously close to each other. Everyone keeps swearing in the interviews

Ah, the inevitable batting collapse. No pandemic can get in the way of that tradition.

Oh absolutely. In the leagues around here the amount of spending on players, usually former county players looking for a payday, is insane. One spends £35,000 a year (for playing and coaching) on someone who barely played a game for Gloucestershire, others spend over £50,000 on their entire team, often paying for them to travel from hours away to play in a village that has a population of under 100. But they also win the league, so it works I guess. I should note that the league has no prize money. It's not even just players either. Before I quit because social anxiety is fun, I got £20 a game for scoring and team managing, meanwhile the same club as the 35k player was paying their scorer £100 a game, plus petrol and food/drink expenses. If it gets to that level, it's gone mad.

Devon Conway played against the team I scored for over a decade ago. One of our players made 293, he made 8, but only one of them has a test century on debut. Jack Leach was also in the opposition, took 0-78, and got reverse-swept for 6 four times in a row. https://corsham.play-cricket.com/website/results/1305373

Just to add to the pain, it seems Netflix were following McLaren at Monaco as well. I can already imagine what the DTS episode is going to be like.

I mean if he had stopped just one of the previous 11, he wouldn't have missed the deciding penalty...

Even this shoot-out feels laboured. How the hell did Shaw's even have enough pace to cross the line, let alone not get saved?

Yikes, the non-legendary cats are just the sound a cat makes and an actual breed of cat that hasn't even had its spelling changed. I wish I hadn't started looking into how lazy they are now.

I mean, Gen 1 had a seahorse Pokémon called Horsea, a humanoid mime called Mr. Mime, and a pigeon Pokémon called Pidgey. It's not really a new thing. I haven't mentioned how fantastic new Pokémon Snap is, it's everything the original game was times a thousand. The amount of replayability is off the charts, something the first game really didn't have, and the amount of different courses is a real surprise. They keep throwing variants at you even after the main story is finished. It's also a perfect game for VR if they ever decide to go that way.

I believe we sold the trophy cabinet to pay the European Super League fine.

Happy that Kane and Bale scored in what I assume will be their last game, but this has been a depressing season for a number of reasons.

What a crazy day this is.

8th this time next year will be considered a success, so there's always that to hold on to.

The Sainz/Norris bromance remains one of the best things in the sport.

Something fun from Reddit, because it's something to look at during the procession: Hamilton spent 1 year alongside his 1st teammate (Alonso), 2 years alongside his 2nd teammate (Kovalainen), 3 years alongside his 3rd teammate (Button), 4 years alongside his 4th teammate (Rosberg), and is in his 5th year (and probably last) alongside his 5th teammate (Bottas). Meanwhile, Lando laps Ricciardo. Ouch.