Russia v Saudi Arabia

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Just now, Ya Bezzer! said:

These football related adverts are fantastic.  Can't wait to see each of them 639 times over the next month.

This. It’s even spread into all sorts of other shit. I accidentally watched the first 10 minutes of that nature programme with Michaela Strachan and it was 10 mins of football/nature cliches and puns. Fucking awful.

Anyway.

[the_bully_wee]

Surprised, and delighted, to have learned that Mark Clattenburg sounds like Michael the Geordie of I'm Alan Partridge.

The game itself has been glorious in its dreadfulness. I'm an enormous fan of the two bungling, Make-A-Wish centre backs for Saudi Arabia, along with their budget version of Marcelo. A side with any sort of pedigree would be dishing out a proper mauling here.

[Herman Hessian]

17 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

What about a cold winter night in Nizhni Novgorod?

[AyrshireTon]

1 minute ago, the_bully_wee said:

Surprised, and delighted, to have learned that Mark Clattenburg sounds like Michael the Geordie of I'm Alan Partridge.

The game itself has been glorious in its dreadfulness. I'm an enormous fan of the two bungling, Make-A-Wish centre backs for Saudi Arabia, along with their budget version of Marcelo. A side with any sort of pedigree would be dishing out a proper mauling here.

Like Germany did to them in 2002?

[IainMorton]

Why are the home fans singing “Ar-gen-tina”?  

[Cumdog35]

Saudi number 8 is not a good football player

[GordonS]

 

52 minutes ago, ali_91 said:

Sure the linesman have directives to not flag if the decision is tight. Absolute nonsense though. If you think it’s off then flag ffs.

If it's marginal then it's better to let it run and check after. If you're wrong, no harm done. But if you flag and were wrong, you've cost someone a goal.

31 minutes ago, Zetterlund said:

I heard today they were in the top 10 when awarded the tournament in 2010. Don't remember them ever being that decent.

They were 13th in December 2010.

12 minutes ago, jagfox99 said:

It is...in Moscow!

How can it be 7.45pm in Moscow and 4pm here? 

[AyrshireTon]

Unless I’ve missed something whilst my stream has been lagging, there hasn’t been the usual “and England could meet either of these teams in round....” comments.

[the_bully_wee]

2 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said:

Like Germany did to them in 2002?

If they approach the Uruguay game like they approached the first half of this one, I can definitely see them taking a right bodying, not unlike said game. They kept on losing possession in really innocuous circumstances, often when the full backs had bombed forward, and left themselves hugely exposed. They deserve credit for trying to push forward, play high, get the ball down and play football, but it's suicide really given the standard of player they've got at their disposal.

[Cumdog35]

We are still waiting on the first 66 reference too, suprisingly.

[booj1893]

Saudi's number 5 is possibly the worst player I've ever seen at an international tournament

[Ya Bezzer!]

Saudi Arabia beat Timor 10-0 in the qualifiers.  

Just think about that for a second.

[sjc]

1 minute ago, Cumdog35 said:

We are still waiting on the first 66 reference too, suprisingly.

Has Clive Tyldsley lost his voice?

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Nobody been racially abused yet?

Hats off to Russia.

[IainMorton]

2 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

Saudi Arabia beat Timor 10-0 in the qualifiers.  

Just think about that for a second.

What is a Timor?

[Herman Hessian]

5 minutes ago, GordonS said:

How can it be 7.45pm in Moscow and 4pm here? 

Prior to the invention of clocks, people around the world kept time using some type of instrument to observe the Sun’s zenith at noon. The earliest time measuring devices used either the Sun’s shadow or the rate in which water runs out of a vessel. The pendulum clock was developed during the 17th century – these clocks were sufficiently accurate to be used at sea to determine longitude and for scientific time measurement in the 18th century.

In 1764, English horologist John Harrison, discovered that a clock could be used to locate a ship's position at sea with extraordinary accuracy. A new Longitude Act, known as the Act 5 George III, followed in 1765. Chronometers, which measure time accurately in spite of motion or varying conditions, became popular instruments among many merchant mariners during the 19th century.

Still, even after developments regarding longitude, many towns and cities set clocks based on sunsets and sunrises. Dawn and dusk occur at different times but time differences between distant locations were barely noticeable prior to the 19th century because of long travel times and the (lack of) long-distance communications. The use of local solar time became increasingly awkward as railways and telecommunications improved. Time zones were therefore a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to be approximate with mean solar time.

American railroads maintained many different time zones during the late 1800s. Each train station set its own clock making it difficult to coordinate train schedules and confusing passengers. Time calculation became a serious problem for people travelling by train (sometimes hundreds of miles in a day), according to the Library of Congress. Every city in the United States used a different time standard so there were more than 300 local sun times to choose from. Railroad managers tried to address the problem by establishing 100 railroad time zones, but this was only a partial solution to the problem.

Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced on November 18, 1883. Britain, which already adopted its own standard time system for England, Scotland, and Wales, helped gather international consensus for global time zones in 1884.

Various meridians were used for longitudinal references among different countries prior to the late 1800s. However, the Greenwich Meridian was the most popular of these. The Greenwich Observatory's reputation for the reliability and accuracy in publications of its navigational data was one factor that contributed to the Greenwich Meridian’s popularity. Moreover, the shipping industry would benefit from having just one prime meridian. Many people informally recognized the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian prior to the International Meridian Conference in 1884.

Sir Sandford Fleming was one of the key players in developing a satisfactory worldwide system of keeping time, according to sources such as the Canadian Encyclopaedia. He advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that in accordance with established time zones. He also helped convene the International Meridian Conference in 1884, where the international standard time system was adopted.

The International Meridian Conference at Washington DC, USA, adopted a proposal in October 1884. The proposal stated that the prime meridian for longitude and timekeeping should be one that passes through the centre of the transit instrument at the Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom (UK). The conference therefore established the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the world’s time standard. The international 24-hour time-zone system grew from this, in which all zones referred back to GMT on the prime meridian.

The main factors that favored Greenwich as the site of the prime meridian were: Britain had more shipping and ships using the Greenwich Meridian than the rest of the world put together (at the time). The British Nautical Almanac started these charts in 1767. The Greenwich Observatory produced data of the highest quality for a long time.

Interestingly, many French maps showed zero degrees at Paris for many years despite the International Meridian Conference’s outcomes in 1884. GMT was the universal reference standard – all other times being stated as so many hours ahead or behind it – but the French continued to treat Paris as the prime meridian until 1911. Even so, the French defined legal time as Paris Mean Time minus nine minutes and 21 seconds. In other words, this was the same time as GMT. France did not formally use to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as a reference to its standard time zone (UTC+1) until August in 1978 (Sheen, cited in Brannel Astronomy, n.d.).

Standard time, in terms of time zones, was not established in United States law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The act also established daylight saving time in the nation. Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law, with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) having the authority over time zone boundaries.

Many countries adopted hourly time zones by the late 1920s. Many nations today use standard time zones but some places adopt half-hour deviations from standard time or use quarter hour deviations. Moreover, countries such as China use a single time zone even though their territory extends beyond the 15 degrees of longitude.

Given a 24-hour day and 360 degrees of longitude around the Earth, it is obvious that the world's standard time zones have to be 15 degrees wide, on average. Some sources claim there are 24 standard time zones, while others say there are 25 time zones. The perspective of the number of time zones depends on the definition of a time zone versus the International Date Line. The world also has non-standard time zones.**

**[Unusual Time Zones or Non-standard time zones: There are some countries and regions that follow unusual time zones. Many of them are in increments of a half hour, different from the usual hour difference you normally see. People traveling to and from areas of the world that use unusual time zones may become confused or have trouble discerning the local time.

A great example of this is in India, where despite only being a half an hour different from Coordinated Universal Time the time difference appears much larger. See our description of time zones in India below for a better explanation.

Locations that use non standard time zones include India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Newfoundland, Regions of Australia, Venezuela, Nepal, Chatham Islands, and the Marquesas Islands.

Time Zone In India

Oddly enough, despite its vast size, all of India uses one time zone. They observe the Indian Standard Time (IST) which has an offset of thirty minutes from Coordinated Universal Time. As an example, at 12:00 AM in an area using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it is 5:30 AM in India. India does not observe Daylight Saving, so the same time standard is used year round.

Time Zone In Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka adopted Indian Standard Time -- used in India -- in April 2006. This means they use a standard time with an offset of thirty minutes from UTC. See the description of India's time zone above to better understand the time difference between this time zone and Coordinated Universal Time.

Time Zone In Afghanistan

Afghanistan observes Afghanistan Time (AFT) and it has an offset of UTC + 4:30.

Time Zone In Iran

Iran uses Iran Standard Time (IRST) during winter months and Iran Daylight Time (IRDT) during summer months while Daylight Saving is active. Iran Standard Time is designated as UTC + 3:30, and Iran Daylight Time is designated as UTC + 4:30.

Time Zone In Myanmar

Many cities in Myanmar -- which is located in Southeast Asia -- use an offset of UTC + 6:30.

Time Zone In Newfoundland

Newfoundland in Canada uses Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) which has an offset of UTC - 3:30. During Daylight Saving, the area switches to an offset of UTC - 2:30.

Time Zone In Australia

There are some areas of Australia that observe a non-standard time zone.

The Northern Territory, a town called Broken Hill in New South Wales, and South Australia observe Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) and it has an offset of UTC + 9:30. However, during Daylight Saving South Australia and Broken Hill switch to UTC + 10:30.

Daylight Saving is not used in the Northern Territory so they remain on the same time standard year round.

Lord Howe Island uses an offset of UTC + 11 during the summer. In the winter, after Daylight Saving is over they set the clocks back a half hour (UTC + 10:30).

Eucla and nearby towns use UTC + 8:45.

Norfolk Island recently changed from + 11:30, but now uses + 11:00. The Cocos Islands use UTC + 6:30.

Time Zone In Venezuela

Venezuela observes the offset of UTC - 4:30. This is because Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President in 2007 decided to permanently move the country's time backwards by a half hour.

Time Zone In Nepal

Nepal is fifteen minutes ahead of India's time zone. That means, when it is 12:00 AM in Greenwich -- at the Prime Meridian -- it is 5:45 AM in the greater Nepal area and Kathmandu.

Time Zone In the Chatham Islands

The Chatham Islands -- located in New Zealand -- observe Chatham Standard Time which has a forty-five minute offset from Coordinated Universal Time. It is the only area that uses such an alteration.

The offset is labeled as UTC + 12:45 during winter months and UTC + 13:45 during summer months when Daylight Saving is active.

Time Zone In the Marquesas Islands

The Marqueses Islands -- located in the French Polynesia -- observe Marquesas Time (MART), and that is nine and a half hours (9:30) behind Coordinated Universal Time].

that's the basic gist of it all - HTH

[AyrshireTon]

Just now, IainMorton said:

What is a Timor?

Something that Scotland would scrape a 0-0 draw with, probably.

[Broomhill Ultra]

The referee appears to have a hairstyle but no hair.

[sjc]

3 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

Saudi Arabia beat Timor 10-0 in the qualifiers.  

Just think about that for a second.

That's on par with Scotland knocking out WC94 3rd Placed team, Sweden in the qualifiers and going on to be scudded 3-0 by fucking Morocco!

[Cumdog35]

Saudi's are trying to play nice football but the problem is they are just technically absolute guff and can't pull it off.