Round of 16 | Switzerland vs Italy | Germany vs Denmark

What a wanker Michael Oliver is, by god.
 
diarm said:
I agree with you that clearing the stadium here was the right call.

The US is very different though, in that a lot of your stadia don’t have a roof.
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Correct, many do not.

They do have giant metal light fixtures though, which according to Afonso here should render all lightning harmless
 
Who is this twat still going on about the lighting when the match is going on? Definition of needing to win the online argument at all costs.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
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This is where he was playing. Sorry but this is not a 80m high metallic superstructure.
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Off topic but that looks like the Old Meadowbank in Edinburgh.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
Explain *how* please.

Lightning targets over a 100-500sqm radius upon direct point of elevation downwards that has the highest electrical potential. V = kg⋅m2⋅s−3⋅A−1 to specifically calculate that.

can you explain how it's physically possible for a non-metallic actor (a human) with a minute amount of mass compared to say, a giant metallic structure (the top of the stadium).

This is literally proven with a Tesla coil. You can stand in a middle of an artifical electronic storm and watch as the lightning strikes around you but it will actively avoid you because the other objects around have so much more electric potential.
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Please just stick to military stuff.
 
not a good game imo. Germany have the ball, but bar that Schmeichell save, it's all mistake after mistake so far.
 
i reckon i seen oliver and foden outside co-op, trying to get grannies to buy them cigarettes.
 
calodo2003 said:
Here's some more..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/whnt.c...f-lightning-at-outdoor-football-stadiums/amp/

Dork out with your physics, bro. I'd rather be safe. Been through too many lightning strikes just above my head to learn not to trifle with it.
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https://www.researchgate.net/public...and_Determination_of_Possible_Striking_Points

Here's a paper literally proving it's impossible for you to be hit at ground level when theres a superstructure next to you.

Literally impossible.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
Explain *how* please.

Lightning targets over a 100-500sqm radius upon direct point of elevation downwards that has the highest electrical potential. V = kg⋅m2⋅s−3⋅A−1 to specifically calculate that.

can you explain how it's physically possible for a non-metallic actor (a human) with a minute amount of mass compared to say, a giant metallic structure (the top of the stadium).

This is literally proven with a Tesla coil. You can stand in a middle of an artifical electronic storm and watch as the lightning strikes around you but it will actively avoid you because the other objects around have so much more electronic potential.
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Somebody of an expert background or more realistically, a group of experts, will have had a health and safety consultation with the authorities and event organisers on what to do in the event of a Lightning storm, stopping play for a period of time being the outcome.

Yet you suggest Nah!!…just play on :lol:

what’s your background too go against the experts in regards too what’s safe
 
Oliver is the worst referee in history. I don't know how he gets to officiate such big games.
 
Commentator and I groaned at exactly the same time Rasmus nudged that forward with his chest.. Dreadful.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
Explain *how* please.

Lightning targets over a 100-500sqm radius upon direct point of elevation downwards that has the highest electrical potential. V = kg⋅m2⋅s−3⋅A−1 to specifically calculate that.

can you explain how it's physically possible for a non-metallic actor (a human) with a minute amount of mass compared to say, a giant metallic structure (the top of the stadium).

This is literally proven with a Tesla coil. You can stand in a middle of an artifical electronic storm and watch as the lightning strikes around you but it will actively avoid you because the other objects around have so much more electric potential.
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Fact is that’s facts don’t particularly matter when it comes to these sorts of things. Yes they are in an elevated stadium with lightening rods, which makes players on the pitch being struck by lightening a near impossibility. Then there’s the fact that in a lightening storm you have a less than 1 in a million chance of being hit by lightening under normal circumstances, and a 1 in ten million chance of being killed. Yes, there’s a much greater chance of a player suffering a cardiac arrest from natural causes or a head collision causing serious injury or death. But…..safety, rules etc….

Not something to get worked up about. Game will be better not being played through hail etc.
 
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