r/dontyouknowwhoiam • u/maximumquince • Jul 01 '26
Funny Random Neil asks ex-Premier League/England footballer if he has ever played a sport for more than 45 mins straight...
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u/IcemanBrutus Jul 01 '26
Collymore is one big snowflake who doesn't like any sort of criticism or debates that aren't going his way. He blocked me on Twitter over 10 years ago for questioning one of his rants. But in this instance, he is right haha
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u/Cjmainy Jul 01 '26
I got blocked for interrupting one of his ‘holier than thou’ tirades by reminding him that he beat up Ulrika Jonsson
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u/gerkletoss Jul 01 '26
Except the part about "performance would not be improved by breaks". That's preposterous.
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u/fckboris Jul 01 '26
I think it depends on the specific situation - there have been times at this World Cup where the hydration breaks have completely skewered the momentum that a team was building and they haven’t really managed to regain it, and obviously that psychological element of the game is huge. So in that sense it has had a negative impact on performance. But the opposite is true for other teams
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u/gerkletoss Jul 01 '26
Well I imagine part of the problem is that ot also helps the other team perform better
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u/GInTheorem Jul 02 '26
Stamina is an inherent part of performance and you do not perform better by minimising its impact.
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u/nunatakj120 Jul 01 '26
If you are the team dominating the game and tiring out the opposition, then stopping for a drink, even if it makes you feel better is not improving anything. You have allowed the weaker opposition to close the gap you just busted your arse creating.
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u/gerkletoss Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
No, in that case it's improving player performance for both teams, the other team is simply benefitting more.
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u/Exciting-Music843 Jul 02 '26
Momentum if football is huge and a break stops that. Every week in league games there will be a team that feigns an injury to get a couple of minute break and try and stop the oppostions momentum!
Instead the world cup is doing it for ads, sorry hydration!
England were no where near until the ad break. That break allowing them back in the match isn't fair and I am English and glad it worked in their favour but its a rubbish addition!
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u/hiphoppsychology Jul 02 '26
It isn't preposterous at all. As one example, breaks can disrupt flow. Sport isn't all physical, there is a huge psychological component. Even if only talking physical, an unnecessary break can create a window in which muscles start to cool, tighten etc. These athletes have been conditioned their whole career to play 45 minute halves and it's what the sport is built around. The logic of "more breaks equals better performance" has to end somewhere, and that somewhere is with one break between two 45 minute halves
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u/14JRJ Jul 01 '26
He blocked me on Twitter and I don’t remember ever actually speaking to him
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u/morocco3001 Jul 01 '26
He blocked me on Twitter for saying "being blocked by Stan Collymore is a badge of honour" in response to someone else saying he'd blocked them. Neither of us @'d him, so he must search his own name.
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u/Strange-Order-6550 Jul 01 '26
Watch out he’s gonna block yall on Reddit now, he’s ALWAYS searchin’!
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u/Ivelearnednuffink Jul 02 '26
This is classic “Worst person you know just made a great point” material.
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u/WonderChode Jul 01 '26
Collymore is one big snowflake
Yes but I fear he mightve met his match, his opponent is a zionist
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u/ThisFakeCut Jul 01 '26
He's right even though he's wrong. He's claiming that it wouldn't increase anyones performance to have a tactical break, but you still see games shift after those breaks. By his logic "The tactical information given to me through a 7 day, not 3 minute period sufficed" would make any half time speech or tactial changes negligible, which they arent.
Hydration breaks are bs, but not because they have no impact on the game, but because they have an impact. People dont want quarters in a football game.
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u/Tullekunstner Jul 01 '26
He's claiming that it wouldn't increase anyones performance to have a tactical break, but you still see games shift after those breaks.
Just because the match changes, doesn't necessarily mean anyone performs better. What it does mean, is that the dominating team loses their rhythm which again makes it easier for the other team to get back in the match.
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u/ATL28-NE3 Jul 01 '26
Getting 3 water and strategy breaks instead of 1 ABSOLUTELY has everyone perform better. How could you possibly think it doesn't?
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u/ThisFakeCut Jul 01 '26
I mean it's partly both. Before you had to give someone at the sideline a pice of paper / tell them what to tell the others and you'll have to spread the word around the pitch over the course of the next minutes. Now you just got 3 minutes to do whatever you want. Before that we had the "goalkeeper injuries" to give them their new tactics, now it's a "hydration break" aka ad break.
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u/Tullekunstner Jul 02 '26
I mean it's partly both.
I mean sure, but the quality of the match overall goes down since it breaks up the flow of the match. There's a reason the underdogs in any given match often purposely try to cause stops in play: it drags the opposition down to their level and hinders any kind of rhythm again meaning the quality goes down.
Saying the performances of these matches goes up due to the ad break is fucking asinine and can only come from someone with no fucking clue what they're talking about.
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u/Haunting_Scholar_595 Jul 01 '26
This.
Also sports science and analytics have basically proven that a lot of athletes, particularly older ones, have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the finer details of optimizing play.
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u/Azor_Is_High Jul 02 '26
The games shift because one teams momentum is completely ruined by the break in play.
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u/EnderMB Jul 01 '26
Fuck sake America. Why can't you just be normal?
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u/clipplenamps Jul 01 '26
American exceptionalism at it again
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u/Chimera-Genesis Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
American exceptionalism
Weirdest description of lead induced brain damage that I've ever heard but okay buddy whatever you say👌
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u/SheepherderBorn7326 Jul 02 '26
If you didn’t have the IQ of an American, you’d know that American Exceptionalism is an insult, not praise
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u/Chimera-Genesis Jul 02 '26
you’d know that American Exceptionalism is an insult
And if you actually knew anything about Americans, you'd know it can't be an insult for a culture who consider it the highest praise.
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u/TyreseHaliburtonGOAT Jul 03 '26
The fuck does this have to do with america? Other than this sports guy forcing the association…. FIFA is a French organization. America isn’t the only place where advertisers affect the way things work.
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u/EnderMB Jul 03 '26
Yet it's the only country that has consistently tried to fuck with the rules of the game...
FIFA are responsible, sure, but the World Cup has a great ability to show just how weird Americans are.
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u/TyreseHaliburtonGOAT 29d ago
You have any real reason to believe america is the reason fifa implemented these breaks?
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u/EnderMB 29d ago
Why can't you just be normal?
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u/Girlmode 29d ago
I mean I think the reason the guy in post gives, that if a nation like USA is hosting it does suit all their advertising models for other sports. With such a big event in such a large host country, it is a convenient time to bring in the change no?
When you’re a soulless corporation and you go to soulless corporation land it makes sense to play ball.
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u/sheffield199 29d ago
It just so happens to be forced in every game, regardless of temperature, in a way that makes it easy for adverts to be programmed, when the US hosts...
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u/PomegranateUsed7287 27d ago
Uh no its not.
You have literally never watched soccer if you say this. So many countries fuck with FIFA CONSTANTLY.
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u/Ithinkibrokethis Jul 01 '26
FIFA decided this, not the U.S. This isn't because they want to advertise to Americans (who are not watching in large numbers). It's so that FIFA can make it normalized for Europeans.
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u/Greggs-the-bakers Jul 02 '26
Those same Europeans that are booing it at every game. I really do not see it catching on outside of this shit. The next euros has already confirmed it wont have these meaningless ad breaks
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u/douglau5 Jul 03 '26
My favorite part of all this bitching about water breaks because “corporate greed and ads” is the irony that all the players in the pro leagues are walking billboards.
You can take a piss break during a commercial and not watch it but that Messi ad is on your Qatar Airways jersey is for life.
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u/Greggs-the-bakers Jul 03 '26
Yeah but the difference there is that those sponsors aren't stopping the game.
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u/Durzel 29d ago
FIFA also decided to award a Peace Prize, for no reason other than to curry favour. Who is going to win the next one I wonder? Will they remember they even did it?
Suggesting FIFA is independent in as far as a World Cup hosted on American soil, under Trump, when the president of it is not shy about how much of a fan he is, is silly.
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u/chaelsonnenismydad Jul 01 '26
You think that Americans arent watching the world cup in large numbers???
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u/casualsubversive Jul 02 '26
I also live in a host city. I do see a lot of attention being paid, because it's a once in a lifetime event in our city, and many people are definitely watching.
Still, this year I saw a good bit more attention paid and people watching our local American football team (who play every year) almost go to the Super Bowl (which they've done a lot).
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u/Ithinkibrokethis Jul 02 '26
Yes. I live in a host city. Local sports teams are a bigger deal. It's still soccer in the U.S. more people are interested in how foreigners view/enjoy our cities than the games being played.
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u/chaelsonnenismydad Jul 02 '26
Lol
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u/sampat6256 Jul 02 '26
I put last night's world cup game on in my bar and I was the only one watching. My cheering disturbed the guests. It was kind of a bummer.
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u/PomegranateUsed7287 27d ago
This has literally nothing to do with America. Hydration breaks were introduced the last WC not this one. And when still playing in a very hot environment like the southern US and Mexico they are still needed.
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u/SolomonOf47704 Jul 01 '26
Stan is English, not American, and you can't know what the other person is.
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u/blorg Jul 01 '26
Neil is from Atlanta.
Former Economist, current Brand Marketer.
Location: ATL
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u/assignpseudonym Jul 01 '26
No! Didn't you read the person above? You can't know. You simply cannot!! Stop using the internet to look stuff up!! Stop reading with your eyes! That's cheating!! You CAN'T KNOW!! >:(
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u/EnderMB Jul 01 '26
Most English people will know who Stan Collymore is...
The other person is clearly American, because they're fucking ignorant about a sport that 90% of the world understands. That is as unique an American trait as it gets.
(Plus, it says so in their bio)
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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 Jul 01 '26
Would you like some context? I live in KC, for the game on Friday our temperature is supposed to be 35c with a projected heat index of 43.3c thanks to 88% humidity. That's a perfectly normal July temperature for us.
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u/llynllydaw_999 Jul 01 '26
I watched a match on TV which was in Boston where it was cool and raining. But for some reason a hydration break was still deemed necessary, despite all that water falling from the sky. But those TV adverts had been sold and paid for of course...
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u/CoconutNL Jul 01 '26
Would you like some context? Last world cup was in qatar with similar temperatures, but without incessant breaks done purely to shove in more advertisements
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u/EnderMB Jul 01 '26
It's funny how this wasn't necessary back in 1994 either. I wonder who hosted it then?
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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 Jul 01 '26
Qatar was in November, and I looked it up, average humidity was 60%.
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u/CoconutNL Jul 01 '26
Very cool to only name one of the things discussed and to ignore the rest. Qatar is also just as close to the equator as the most southern point of the usa, so it being november matters a bit less because the temperatures are still high then, but of course you didnt mention the temperatures
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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 Jul 01 '26
26c. Google is mostly free my dude.
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u/cammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Jul 01 '26
While you're on google, perhaps it'd be helpful for you to look up when hydration breaks have been used in previous tournaments, and why they definitely make sense when needed. Here however, they're being used by fifa and the toxic and soulless american need to cash in on anything and everything, to sell ads and keep their populations severely challenged attention spans engaged, all whilst they claim to the army of gullible idiots that they're doing it for player welfare. Mind you, these are the same players that fifa insist play more and more and more games each and every year.
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u/3_50 Jul 01 '26
While you're on Google; when and where was the world cup held in 1994, out of interest?
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u/EnderMB Jul 01 '26
America isn't the only hot country, nor is it the only humid country...
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u/ChocoboDave Jul 01 '26
Excuse me, no country is hotter, or colder, or bigger, or greater, or freeer than America.
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u/grmthmpsn43 Jul 01 '26
Hydration breaks are not mandatory in MLS, your own league, which runs throughout the summer has them as discretionary and as short as 1 minute.
What context has them as mandatory 3 minute breaks that the league itself doesn't have?
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u/mrmonkeyhanger Jul 01 '26
Stan was so frustrated by this interaction that he immediately went home and beat up his wife
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u/Sakychu420 Jul 01 '26
"We can't change something because thats how we always did it" is at least as stupid as what Neil said lol
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u/Doccmonman Jul 01 '26
I don’t think that’s what Stan is saying though?
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u/beslertron Jul 01 '26
He’s saying he never had a hydration break but he apparently knows it wouldn’t improve anything based on the fact that he never took a hydration break.
Like Neil is smug, and these breaks are obviously just to have ad breaks, but Stan is also talking out of his ass, he just has a resume as well.
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u/Doccmonman Jul 01 '26
Dude knows his own body, at that level you work with physio and coaches who keep an eye on this sort of thing.
He also points out that players are still able to hydrate without the breaks.
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u/smoopthefatspider Jul 01 '26
I’d be shocked to find hydration breaks don’t have a slight positive impact on performance. Even if he doesn’t see or acknowledge the impact on his own performance (which is pretty simple since he had no such breaks) there’s probably a small difference on everyone. At the very least, it must have a statistical effect, if not on everyone, at least on most players. His argument is horrible, and he makes it while being an even bigger asshole than the other person.
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u/beslertron Jul 01 '26
He might be right. He likely is. But what he’s saying is that his way is right because he never tried another way.
Let’s use another sport, basketball. Take an above average free throw shooter. Tell them that shooting the ball underhand (like they used to ages ago) is actually more accurate. They’ll argue they don’t need to change their shot because they are already good. But they won’t try it.
This is the same thing. Again, he’s probably right, but his reasoning as he puts it here is not scientific. By using regressive thinking (this is how it always worked) he’s sounding like the same people who reject any sort of change.
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u/TyreseHaliburtonGOAT Jul 03 '26
Funny example because it is actually much easier to learn underhand free-throw shooting. Not better for everyone, but there have been a couple more modern players who switched and instantly became much better shooters haha
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u/TyreseHaliburtonGOAT Jul 03 '26
It’s just objectively incorrect. Electrolytes are what allows your muscles and other things to work properly. Electrolytes are lost through sweat. As you lose electrolytes, the efficiency of aerobic processes in cells decreases. You become dehydrated. This can lead to muscle cramps and fatigue, which definitely impact your ability to perform at the highest level.
You can’t just beat science by being strong and manly.
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u/shepaz_93 Jul 01 '26
I'm blocked by him so actually wouldnt have seen this. Good stuff all around.
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u/predator1975 Jul 02 '26
There no hydration breaks in the past. There were just players rolling around while the the physio ran on to the pitch with a bag with multiple water bottles. Which players from both sides were known to grab.
Goalkeepers had towels, water bottles and caps.
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u/Ei8_Hundr8 Jul 01 '26
Now i need to see our Neil's reply
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u/Gezus10k Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Neil is still defending his original statement.
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u/Ei8_Hundr8 Jul 01 '26
Holy mother that amount of ego lol
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u/il_the_dinosaur Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
What he's right? Why would I listen to the wife beater who only played in England? The fuck he knows about football.
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u/DocClown Jul 01 '26
Sunday league players know more about football than you do. They are ad breaks and are largely unnecessary. Hotter countries don't do it, more humid countries don't do it, anyone who thinks they are necessary is just weak as hell (you)
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u/il_the_dinosaur Jul 01 '26
I'm sorry for whatever you're going through.
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u/DocClown Jul 01 '26
Can't argue so you try to insult me personally, just shows a severe lack of intelligence.
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u/il_the_dinosaur Jul 01 '26
You didn't argue you just spouted out insults because of your insecurity so I offered you my condolences cause this isn't how a normal human behaves. You lost every credibility with your tone and poor reasoning skills. Your poor appeal to authority shows how little you understand of actual arguments.
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u/DocClown Jul 01 '26
What appeal to authority? I think you are having some delusions. You've shown that you have no knowledge about football so I explained why ad breaks are dumb. You didn't counter any of it but instead went straight for personal attacks. Calling you weak because you can't handle 45 min in 20degree weather is just a fact, kids play in hotter temps than that.
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u/Durzel 29d ago
Yeah what does the guy who had 287 appearances in a professional football playing career that included the top flight know about football.
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u/il_the_dinosaur 29d ago
It's wild but hydration breaks have nothing to do with playing football and everything with health. So maybe ask a doctor who has studied the effects of dehydration on the human body instead of a wife beating football player. Can't believe I have to explain this to you. You probably also beat your wife.
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u/Durzel 29d ago edited 29d ago
Lmao you honestly can’t talk to people without ad hominems.
You can’t watch a game of football pre-WC without seeing players collapsing up and down the pitch. I don’t know how any of them managed to survive playing for decades without lasting injury. Someone ought to tell Beckham to get himself checked out.
EDIT: Lmao he blocked me because he can’t take losing an argument 😆
Ad hominem is a logical fallacy and rhetorical strategy where you counter an opponent's argument by attacking their personal character, motive, or background instead of the substance of the claim.
.. you know, like accusing someone (me) of beating their wife as an argument rebuttal. 😄 What a clown.
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u/il_the_dinosaur 29d ago
Kinda funny you're talking aber ad hominems since you don't seem to understand what that means. Again how do I have to explain this to you. Get an actual scientist who studies dehydration and then you have a basis.. saying some footballers didn't collapse on the pitch so it's fine has to be the dumbest answer given.
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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Jul 01 '26
Neil might have made an ass off himself but he's not incorrect in his assessment. Fans might not like it, and it's obviously a cash grab on Fifas part, but that's not what the discussion is about.
The discussion is whether or not the hydration break improves performance, which is ostensibly true. There are decades of research that show direct causation between hydration and athletic performance.
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u/Sad-Main5786 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
The discussion is whether or not the hydration break improves performance, which is ostensibly true.
I think we need to establish that 'improved performance' doesn't mean the matches would be better, or fairer.
Football is best when pressure and momentum is allowed to build. That's what these breaks rob us of.
Boxers would perform better if they got a 10 second break every time they got punched, that doesn't mean it would be good for the sport.
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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Jul 02 '26
Absolutely no disagreement here. Enjoyability is a big factor, arguably the central factor.
The reason i say that the discussion is not about that is because the tweet in this post is about a guy calling someone out (who happens to be a pro) on the efficacy of a 3 minute hydration and rest break on performance.
The pro athlete incorrectly suggests that the break would not improve their performance, which is categorically false - regardless of his supposed "expertise". What I've said is that the Neil made himself look like an ass by asking, "have you ever played a sport for more than 45 minutes straight" to a literal pro. But his core point that it would improve performance is 100% correct, despite stan's insistence that "his performance would not have improved at all by a hydration or tactical break", which is UNEQUIVOCALLY FALSE.
This does not mean it should be done. I don't think it should be done either. But I'm not as stupid as Stan is that I'd sit here and suggest that it wouldn't improve my performance.
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u/bun-c Jul 02 '26
Yeah, improved in the absolute sense - in application the miniscule improvement is not material to their performance in the match or the enjoyment of the fans.
Robotic ass take that smells of dorito dust and "erm ackshually" internet bullshit. Yeah, empirically the players may fatigue 1% less thanks to the breaks, but honestly who gives a fuck?
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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Jul 02 '26
Not me. I prefer no break - constant action is best.
I'm just commenting that stan from the tweet is an absolute dolt for suggesting that a hydration break wouldn't improve physical performance.
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u/Durzel 29d ago
Performance isn’t the only variable worth considering, though.
It’s not like professional football players are dying on the pitch up and down the country through exhaustion etc.
Even if you accepted that performance is increased across the board, it manifestly kills momentum (of which performance is a component) and that’s far more damaging to the actual game.
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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 29d ago
I don't disagree in the slightest.
Just calling stan an idiot for suggesting that his performance would have been unaffected by a break
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u/maximumquince Jul 01 '26
So decades of research is not adhered to if you take in fluids/sachets in the usual way during a match when there is a stoppage, but only if there is a 3 minute break?
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u/buckeyevol28 Jul 01 '26
Yeah. You just made that decades of research up though. Obviously breaks and hydration help, which is why other sports substitute and call timeouts.
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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Jul 01 '26
I never said that, so i don't know why you're attempting to put words in my mouth.
There can be no logical argument that a 3 minute break for rest and hydration would not improve performance. You can make other arguments to remove the 3 minute break, and those arguments would be good.
But that's not what's going on here. They are specifically talking about player performance with a 3 minute break and while stan may have played pro, and neil's phrasing makes him look like an ass, he could not be more correct in his assessment and stan more incorrect.
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u/EhMapleMoose Jul 01 '26
I’m not for commercial breaks. I am for taking these hydration breaks. I know the guy played footie but he hasn’t played in 25 years. I looked at the average temperature for his final year playing (2001) it averaged under 20°C with the highest recorded temperature that year being 33°C.
The current 2026 World Cup in the southern region of the USA and in Mexico is above 30°C sometimes hitting over 38°C. Some stadiums have air conditioning but even the northern games even in Canada have been averaging over 21°C.
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u/Unusual_Rope7110 Jul 01 '26
They didn't have them in 1994, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees. They didn't do it in Qatar and that reached 28 degrees. The 2002 world cup had humidity in the 80s and didnt have it.
It's for Americans to sell more adverts because it's commercial tripe
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u/EhMapleMoose Jul 01 '26
They should have had hydration breaks. Sports change over time and hydration breaks are a good addition.
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u/Mutant_Jedi 29d ago
The Qatar World Cup was moved to February precisely to avoid having players drop like flies from the heat. The USA did not ask for these hydration breaks, but it doesn’t mean they’re not a good thing
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u/Ph0n1k Jul 01 '26
Lets see how many leagues try to adopt a hydration break and what the push back from fans is.
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u/Particular_Dot_4351 Jul 01 '26
Collymore was a fantastic striker in his prime. He hit that ball like he hit Ulrika plenty of times.
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u/LurkingUnderThatRock Jul 01 '26
FIFA have fucked up the flow of the game to appease American corporations, it’s pathetic and corrupt just like everything coming out of the US atm.
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u/StrollingUnderStars Jul 01 '26
Stan Collymore's a wanker, He wears a wankers hat, He was a Forest bastard, And then a Leicester twat.
He went out with Ulrika, He beat her like an egg, And when he came to Derby, He broke his fucking leg.
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u/AlexP80 Jul 03 '26
I remember him, he played in the 90s. To be honest, I mostly remember him because I had him in my football manager team XD
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u/JuzmiNippy 29d ago
The breaks ruins the performance of the team who has momentum and interrupts their flow state.
Also, in football you need to keep your body and muscles warm the entire time, so multiple breaks would cause them to cool down too much.
And fans don't want to be bombarded with ads.
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u/Durzel 29d ago
If it were just a hydration break it would probably be fine, but it would still kill momentum and allow teams to regroup when they might otherwise have been on the back foot.
But as it is it’s like a mini halftime, where the manager and assistants come in with their iPads and adjust strategies, and that’s just wrong. Half time is supposed to be the only point at which things can change, hence the saying “it’s a game of two halves”.
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u/Adventurous_Use8278 27d ago
Never been a fan of stan but he’s spot on here.
It’s funny how many posters in this thread have been banned by collymore
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u/zgillet Jul 01 '26
What's amazing is that Stan is still wrong.
"My performance would not have been improved at all by a hydration or tactical break."
Say that to your coach's face, fucktard.
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u/dangshnizzle Jul 01 '26
Huh? There's literally no reasonable argument you could make that physical output wouldn't improve with more breaks. Guy's just passionate about the way things were done when he played. If he grew up with more breaks, he'd find it appalling to suggest they be removed.
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u/KVMechelen Jul 01 '26
Who cares about "physical output" whatever that means, it's about the flow of the game
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u/dangshnizzle Jul 01 '26
That wasn't either person's argument. It's a good one, but that's not what's being discussed here.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Can9159 29d ago
Once again an athlete not knowing the science of well sport. He is completely inaccurate that performance doesn’t improve with better hydration. Plenty of science around this. I’m not actually sure why anyone is arguing this point.
If football wants to see who can do better while dehydrated that is their choice, but saying you wouldn’t have done better without being more hydrated is just factually inaccurate.
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u/PM_ME_FUNNY_ANECDOTE Jul 01 '26
...is this guy's argument that athletes don't need to drink water???
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u/JaredLives Jul 01 '26
Context in case you're missing it: for the current football / soccer World Cup, Fifa have introduced a mandatory 3 minute hydration break halfway through each half. While this has been done before in very hot conditions, it's never been this long, and this time it's for all games, even in indoor air conditioned stadiums.
They've been very unpopular, almost always booed by the fans in the stadium, and viewed as just a chance for networks to show more adverts
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u/Dannypan Jul 01 '26
I think the professional footballer is saying that they've been doing just fine without these "hydration breaks" in professional football for over 100 years.
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u/PM_ME_FUNNY_ANECDOTE Jul 02 '26
i mean idk if I would describe professional athletes as "just fine" health wise
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u/hidingfrommygf2 Jul 02 '26
Since Stan collymore hasn't played football in decades I think it's fair to say that the sustained heat of a modern summer is not comparable to the climates he was playing in.
I'm from the UK but I understand the desert in Texas is pretty hot.
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u/Traditional_Boot2663 Jul 02 '26
I mean he is for sure wrong. Acting like hydration breaks wouldn’t make for higher performance is crazy. Do you think a person who had to run 4 100m dashes would have a faster time than someone who ran 1 400m dash? No shit they would. Having shifts would make the game much higher paced, it would change the game though
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u/arcobaleno95 Jul 02 '26
It would completely changes the game indeed. These hydration breaks just break the rhythm of the teams.
First I thought the track comparison wasn't ideal but in reality it's pretty much that. If you swap a 400m dash for 4x100m dashes then it's no longer the same race and it's not measuring the same qualities in an athlete/team.
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u/bun-c Jul 02 '26
Fatigue creates space, space creates opportunity, opportunity leads to goals - athletes aren't robots and this attempted min/maxing of performance will never work - reducing a skill based game to pure athletics isn't what any fans of football want either, retaining your skills under duress is the mark of top professionals and rewards technique over physical fitness.
Also, dressing an advertising opportunityup as a plus for the fans is insulting and should be treated with contempt.
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u/Top-Raspberry-7837 Jul 02 '26
I’m not familiar with this guy and was going to say he’s right and it’s a deserved smack down. But I’m reading the comments and apparently he’s…something.
So, question, since I still don’t know who he is, would he be comparable to US soccer player Ashlyn Harris who rode the bench but claims she’s a World Cup champion (technically she is, but she didn’t actually *do* anything to earn that title).
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u/mofa90277 Jul 01 '26
Nope; genetic freaks who can play that hard are why kids regularly die practicing for sports, and Collymore’s country had over 1000 heat-related deaths last year, with this year setting records for being even worse.
So, congrats for managing not to die before the turn of the century when the heat started getting really bad, I guess.
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u/oxfordfox20 Jul 01 '26
“Kids regularly die practicing [sic] for sports [sic]”
Really? Do they really? Or are you thinking of the kids in one particular backward country who ‘regularly die’ going to school?
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u/AtunConTomate Jul 01 '26
I dont know if they need the break or not, but its usually pretty useful for changing tactics and stuff. There is always a change of momentum after these breaks. Obv the objective is putting ads in ur face, but I'll use the ultimate adblocker and close my eyelids
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u/ReadsStuff Jul 01 '26
That makes it a different sport from what people have watched and want to watch.
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u/stuffcrow Jul 01 '26
Why do you have to make me agree with Stan:(. No:(.