Bad Language During Football On Sky

[Disgruntledgoat]

Another thing that annoys me.....wise up you blerts. No one is reading your lips.

I always wonder about this... is there a thriving lip reading community out there?

 

[Khalekan]

They are though.

There have been stories published and players punished based on lip-reading. Suarez and John Terry notable examples.

In the Terry case, he was adamant that he hadn't said what he'd allegedly said. We all have our views on that, but let's assume for a second that he was truthful about that - I could understand why players choose to cover their mouths.

Yes, good point.

That isn’t the same thing as what we see with these fellows covering their mouths prior to taking a free kick or a throw in, though.

There is no one reading their lips, deciphering their words and getting a message through to the opposition defence in order to thwart them, all in the space of thirty seconds or so.

The Suarez and Terry incidents, and indeed the Holgate/Firmino spat, were retrospective and forensic inquiries into very serious allegations of illegal behaviour in which TV footage was scoured with a fine tooth comb over a period of days and weeks in order that lip reading experts might be able to decipher their words.

They sure didn’t do it in less than a minute.

 

[Deleted member 38674]

They sure didn’t do it in less than a minute.

Perhaps not from the stands to the players in less than a minute, but they can absolutely feed information from the stands to the bench in that time.

It would be entirely possible and plausible for clubs to hire professional lipreaders in the stands watching - that then feed information back to the team throughout the game and at half time.

What information they could garner and how vital that could be, who knows. It may be simple stuff like players communicating their intentions prior to set pieces, switching positions or even discussing future tactics while walking off the pitch at half time.

Knowledge is power and all that.

Imagine being someone like Kean and hearing at half time that some annoying, no-mark centre back like Coady or Mings had just walked off the pitch bragging to a teammate about how easy you were to mark and that he hadn't given you a kick. Even something as seemingly insignificant as that could light a fire in a player.

 

[Khalekan]

Perhaps not from the stands to the players in less than a minute, but they can absolutely feed information from the stands to the bench in that time.

It would be entirely possible and plausible for clubs to hire professional lipreaders in the stands watching - that then feed information back to the team throughout the game and at half time.

What information they could garner and how vital that could be, who knows. It may be simple stuff like players communicating their intentions prior to set pieces, switching positions or even discussing future tactics while walking off the pitch at half time.

Knowledge is power and all that.

Imagine being someone like Kean and hearing at half time that some annoying, no-mark centre back like Coady or Mings had just walked off the pitch bragging to a teammate about how easy you were to mark and that he hadn't given you a kick. Even something as seemingly insignificant as that could light a fire in a player.

Would these be be very sharp eyed multi lingual lip readers sat in the stand,,,.or would a team playing EFC for example have Italian, French, Icelandic and Spanish lip readers sprinkled round the stands so all angles are covered, seeing what information they could glean?

 

[jaycee]

Would these be be very sharp eyed multi lingual lip readers sat in the stand,,,.or would a team playing EFC for example have Italian, French, Icelandic and Spanish lip readers sprinkled round the stands so all angles are covered, seeing what information they could glean?

Kopites,they know every language and terms of endearment

 

[Deleted member 38674]

Would these be be very sharp eyed multi lingual lip readers sat in the stand,,,.or would a team playing EFC for example have Italian, French, Icelandic and Spanish lip readers sprinkled round the stands so all angles are covered, seeing what information they could glean?

Player cams are commonplace. I've recruited multi-lingual lip readers in the past, they're definitely out there.

 

[Papa Shango]

There was a testimonial on Sky once, It was a derby one and Mo Johnston was playing for liverpool for some reason. The ground was quiet and the microphone just picked up clear as day "dad, Kate's farted!"

Makes me laugh to this day for some reason.

 

[Kurt.]

I always wonder about this... is there a thriving lip reading community out there?

It’s something I do when watching woman’s beach volleyball to be honest

 

[Eggs]

....bit surprised, never really heard bad language at footy.

 

[larbert toffee]

....bit surprised, never really heard bad language at footy.

When I was a kid I used to see my local priest at Goodison, I asked him why he never wore his dog collar, he said if he wore it the fans round about him might think twice before swearing and he would never have wanted that.

 

[Frang]

*covers mouth and types ...

**(inappropriate language removed)


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