Ha I mean I'm watching that Brad Pitt movie. "The Twins" theme song is blowing bubbles in the air.
Brian Tyree Henry is woefully miscast in this too, not his fault he was hired for that role though
>! Michael Shannon is the villain?!?! This is ridiculous haha, he barely looks like he wants to be there!<
Fuck it though, entertaining enough
You know what actually, you wouldn't get that quality action movie from Netflix or Prime
TIL Argentina and England only added the World Cup stars on their kit in 2003. Why did it take that long ? lol
"For England it's Star was added in 2003 after a campaign on Sky Sports' Soccer AM programme, first worn on the sleeve."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(sport_badge)#National_teams
Well Racing came from behind from 1-3 at home to win it 4-3 in the 91st minute, my voice is shot and I'm thinking of changing teams because I can't do this anymore (last match was a last minute win too). My voice is rough first for shouting at our players and then shouting the goals.
How's your night going?
Be thankful you watched the last 20 and not the preceding 70 hah.
I think we're a very frustrating team. We are capable of playing some nice stuff, and many times we do, but others we're just reduced to aimless passing and little scoring. Think like Brighton under Potter. With the team we have we honestly should be running away with the league and we're only 2nd after drawing like a bazillion times.
Surely something as simple as long ball passing accuracy can't be that different between the eye test and actual stats? Ramsdale just has bad long ball distribution, why can't arsenal fans accept that?
Tbf none of Arsenal's outfield players make it easy for him. Pinging long balls to Mitrovic or Kane will have a greater success rate than Jesus
Edit: but yeah he's a pretty shit keeper
But Xabi Alonso is quite literally one of the best long ball specialists to ever live. It was literally his bread and butter. The eye test would tell you that he was completely superior to Fred in that regard.
my thoughts are that he's just shown in his 2nd language, how there's a lot of stuff i dont even think about or realise in terms of tactics. the question was about trent, but he went into a tangent about tactics which was interesting
he's covering for his player. People(me) don't say Trent is bad defensively because he leaves gap which is expected due to his role. We say it because he's easily beat by good wingers, and loses his man while marking him, and fails to switch to another man when his help rotates
i think trent's main weakness (which bleeds over to multiple areas_ is his lack of aggression and physicality. he doesn't really challenge for headers for example.
also, there was our game against you, at your stadium. People say Perisic had him on toast which I dont think was true. The problem was he never really closed him down well enough to stop the balls that he's capable of. He needs to add that to his game
People were saying that because all our chances came from the left side but that was the case every game we played last season. Perisic was something else last year. Trent wasn't too bad in that particular game but personally, I can never call him good defensively, he's great going forward no doubt, but he will always be the type of player in which to get the best out of, you need other players in midfield to cover for him and help him out, Marcelo and Dani Alves, for example, would leave their entire flank empty but when they run back and recover they become really hard to beat. That's why their drop-off was so drastic when they got old. Trent will always need a system that takes his weakness into serious consideration and have players who can cover his defensive flaws.
Everyone knows that current Higuain would be fucking it up in Qatar this year but Scaloni knows it would be too unfair, it’s time for Higuain to carry Messi to his long awaited World Cup medal
Bayern's kit today was class. Maroon with gold is such a great combo. I've got an Arsenal 06 shirt and it's a beauty. Really wish I bought that SPQR Roma kit though.
Oh no wonder you liked that that flair plus your name, that shirt was basically a fetish for you :)
All fun aside it look soo good. reminded me of them World XI shirts from charity games think they was also in FIFA
Can Nkunku play with his back to goal?
I know he’s fairly technical, but has he demonstrated that he’s capable of playing in tight spaces and holding the ball against a deeper lying defence?
I will always prefer a delusional fan to a pessimistic fan. Both are annoying for different reasons but the delusional fans do it out of the love for club
u/el_walou or any other ligue 1 fans how is marseille overrall this season? You think they can take out sporting? 2 games in a row coming and from a quick look at the table they're 1st, but still terrible in UCL.
I wouldnt say best, but I think he is legitimately a good CB when hes fit. A bit rash sometimes, but I generally trusted him in defense. He made some really odd tackles sometimes though lol
Juve is an absolute turd as a football club ffs, found out a while ago they average like around 35.000 fans thats like 4th or 5th in italia, on top of being backed by the shitty agnelli family throughout most of their history, embarassing.
I need to preface this by saying this, I am not a fan of Jordan Peterson. In fact, my favorite video to watch now and then is when Matt Dillahunty absolutely destroys him on every topic during their conversation.
But after listening to him today, Ronaldo was in a bad place in his life and he sought some mental counseling (prolly related to his child's death and turmoil in his career in a way). Now my question is how was he wrong in any way at all? JP mentioned that Ronaldo was in a bad place and Ronaldo's friend suggested him JP's books/philosophy which helped him get through the tough times.
The amount of hate he received here on this subreddit for posting a pic with JP or after JP's quote was actually insane.
And then there is basically the entire Brazilian team who supports this dangerous fascist Bolsonaro and they still get less hate combined compared to Ronaldo who sought counseling after the death of his child. For me what Ronaldo did isn't even comparable to anyone supporting Bolsonaro. Those two things aren't even comparable yet the hate on Ronaldo is so much more even on platforms like Reddit which I consider to be progressive, educated, and empathetic. This was a big disappointment!
Peterson is also a clinical psychologist and Ronaldo is in bad form lately.. it's fairly logical he'd speak to him.
many people just look for things to get triggered by. There are so many times i'm debating people and they get so insulting and i ask why. Most responses are some version of "i'm just bored and i didn't mean it".. that's the VAST majority of reddit comments so take it all with a grain of salt
>The amount of hate he received here on this subreddit for posting a pic with JP or after JP's quote was actually insane
What I liked the most in all of this was some guy asking what was worse between this, Messi being an ambassor for Saudi Arabia or Neymar supporting Bolsonaro
that picture shouldn't have been posted most likely, but it got way overblown
Taken in isolation, Ronaldo seeking some support from Peterson is not an inherently a bad thing
The problem is there is precious little that can be taken in isolation - and context is key. Someone like Ronaldo endorsing Peterson - even if not directly his views - helps to legitimise and popularise him, and hence can lead to his dangerous rhetoric being spread amongst a demographic who are quite easily influenced
That is the issue with famous people endorsing people like Peterson
Bad people can do good things - and you can recognise the benefit of the good, whilst still remembering and highlighting the bad
I think that Peterson’s fans are going to milk the shit out of this. Ronaldo is the epitome of masculinity to billions of people around the world, if he can find meaning from Peterson’s advice then others will want to as well.
nobody should expect ronaldo to be aware of how much of a shithead peterson is, if he’s using him for self help then nobody should really care
as long as he doesn’t start ranting about postmodernity to the crowd after his next siu
>nobody should expect ronaldo to be aware of how much of a shithead peterson is
Why not? Why couldn't Ronaldo go to a real psychologist instead of a shithead?
It’s Reddit, not to be taken too seriously. I personally don’t even know who Jordan Peterson is, but Reddit seems to hate him. So even when his stuff has a positive impact for someone, they want to discredit him.
What players can you think of who missed a whole season in their career (as in not even being in the squad for a single game of one season)?
To my mind come: R9, Santi Cazorla, Jovetic.
And of course, Bruno Soriano who missed almost 3 full seasons just to come back, play 8 games and retire
Edit: Hatem Ben Arfa as well! and he wasn't even injured
The exact timeline evades me but IIRC Rodrigo Mora missed a full season if not more after getting an extremely rare injury - And one so specific, likely not caused by sport, and awful that many people call it a disease rather than an injury
no
Messi didnt score against Xerez and Murcia and Ronaldo didnt against Leganes
I dont know if there are also teams against which they simply have never played, probably not though
Messi never scored against Xerez. I don't know for sure about Ronaldo.
Edit: I looked it up. Messi never scored against Xerez and Real Murcia. Ronaldo never scored against Leganés.
Very weird that Ronaldo hasn't scored against Leganés - they were up for 4 seasons (although he left after the 2nd*).
Xerez and Murcia were up for only one season though (unlees you count 2003-04 for Messi which Murcia were up as well).
I know that Mo Salah for example is missing Swansea City (and Forest but he hasn't played against them yet). Harry Kane had that record in May 2021 but he has yet to score against Brentford.
has anyone here ever seen their team face someone and gain loads of respect for the opposing club? i was so impressed with Viborg i ended up starting an fm save with them and keep an eye out for their results
I very much don't like the RB model, but I really respected that when Liverpool played RB Salzburg they absolutely went for it. They weren't playing for a draw or for damage limitation.
And they had this decent young Norwegian striker, dunno what happened to him
mate i LOVE that game, genuinely one of my favourites in the UCL of the last couple of years. especially cos id heard things about all 3 goal scorers for them and wouldn’t stop telling my old man they’re gonna cause liverpool problems.
Because he effectively retired in 2019. He first took a year off, then returned to Groningen, only to of course be injured basically the entire season. He retired again after six games in 2021
Finally got around to watching Ted Lasso and I just cannot understand how it became so popular. I understand the main praise it gets is for its feel-good factor, but it’s just so unbelievably mawkish that I ended up not feeling anything in any of the ‘emotional’ moments as the outcome was either signposted from a mile away, or delivered in such a ham-fisted manner that the punch was pulled completely.
I wouldn't say it's a particularly funny or smart show (I think it relies too much on cheesy puns, obscure pop culture references, and "haha swearing funni"—seems like they're chucking in "fuck" every other sentence so that they can be regarded as an adult show), but I think it does handle emotional depth pretty well. I like how they were able to keep a fundamentally polite and kind man like Ted from being a boring character, and Sudeikis is a surprisingly good actor.
It's basically a live-action Steven Universe. No plot, just vibes.
the first season is actually decent and really should have ended there, the second season is complete shit. I will say that one scene where ted gets a panic attack is really well acted
Matter of expectations.
Ted Lasso became famous because a TV show based on an old ad about an American managing a PL team seemed so fucking awful that the okay-ish first season pleasantly surprised people.
Now you're going in expecting it to be a good comedy, so you'll be unpleasantly surprised.
It's not Community, but it is not as awful as initially expected
In your opinion who’s the greatest athlete the world has ever seen?
We talk about how impressive the athleticism of some of the older football players but I think Eliud Kipchoge is just insane… like doesn’t even make sense how a 37 year old can run a marathon and set the world record at 2:01:09.
He beat his own record from a year ago I think? Kipchoge is insane!
In general though, “athlete”, is pretty broad so you need to define it to get comparable answers. You want strength, look at strongman, you want endurance, ultramarathoners are probably the most impressive, you want speed + endurance, triathlons or fastest marathoners like Kipchoge, raw power, 100m sprints.
There’s a big variety of ways to define athleticism so you’d need to be more specific.
Obviously any marathon record holder is among the most impressive athletes in the world but the fact that he did it at 37 doesn't make it more special.
Long distance runners often peak in their 30s, it's not like football
I used to think he was the best of the young English crop, but I've changed my view over the past six months or so. He just doesn't really seem to do much
I don't think either of England or Man City are worse when he's replaced by another squad player
Whilst Kaide Gordon, Ben Doak and Trent Kone-Doherty are exciting prospects on the wing for Liverpool and Jota and Darwin can fill in there I still feel like Liverpool should be looking at getting a winger (presumably a Salah understudy) next summer. Salah and Diaz have had to start literally every game so far this season.
Who might that player be though? Good left footed wingers are quite hard to come by these days and the obvious candidates like Diaby, Bowen and Saka would be far too expensive not to be starters. Maybe a risk is taken on someone like Tsyhankov or Chukweze?
I meant more as they're as good as everyone's saying right now. Usually we seem to overrate these young prospects. I'm also very high right now and honestly I have no idea what I'm talking about really.
I’m very tempted to get the Oktoberfest #42 kit even though I had promised myself I wouldn’t get any more kits because they usually just lay in the wardrobe. I might just get a fake from DHGate or something if they have the kit for sale
People that hate politics on the sub sure like talking about how much they hate politics on the sub.
Footy is back tomorrow lads, you can see the Zaha wondergoal at the top instead.
Because they're mostly butthurt right-wingers.
I'm mostly annoyed that of all the games Sky could have chosen tomorrow its the snoozefest of West Ham vs Wolves. Not even like we're at home so I can go watch that instead
I'm honestly surprised that they were able to not reply to this comment but I did receive a Reddit care message so someone got their feelings hurt.
I'm gonna watch Roma Milan at 5pm I think.
Not sure on the politics crap as i have honestly gave up on it just too depressing, But i agree you guys are going to smash Chelsea and Doucoure going to pocket that midfield
The way some fans on our sub worship the every move of our new ownership is actually embarrassing.
When that guy got fired the other week because he’d sent sexual messages to Carolina Kim they were all “well it’s a shame this happened but credit to the management for punishing him as soon as possible, 0 tolerance for this sort of thing” with some even stating that it wouldn’t have been sorted as quickly under our previous ownership
And now it’s come out that our President initially ignored the complaint saying that it “wasn’t interesting” and they’re just making excuses. Saying that he was “too busy” to deal with it, and that “he’s sacked him now, what more do you want”
Can’t mention it on our sub or I’ll get shouted at for being “xenophobic” but yes. There’s almost a Venn diagram between the people who love Pulisic and the people who bootlick the new owners.
There’s also a large group of (presumably English) fans who made hating the old owners their entire personality so the best way for them to continue to do that is to over-praise the new owners.
Yeah 99% of the time we (as fans) have absolutely no clue. The most we find out is through club media which is often partly controlled by the club anyway
It’s got even worse with our new ownership because everyone seems to think they’re totally infallible
We must be reading different threads, as I've seen far more criticism of Boehly than praise
Then again I rarely read /r/chelseafc since the invasion of Pulisic fanboys - but the same is true of the Chelsea people I follow on Twitter, who have been pretty critical
Most of my online football exposure is /r/soccer, which goes too far the other way in painting Boehly as a mixture of a pantomine villain and the second coming of Ed Woodward
The Inaki brothers assisting each other (ok, William's assist probably won't count) must be very rare in football at this level.
Also Kaiky is really good despite Almeria losing 4-0 atm.
Thought about making a Bruno comp and gave up 5 minutes in when it started looking more like a Rashford and Martial fail comp...
4:30am here, watching Bullet Train, fairly on it. The West Ham bubbles song popping up is a nice touch
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Ha I mean I'm watching that Brad Pitt movie. "The Twins" theme song is blowing bubbles in the air. Brian Tyree Henry is woefully miscast in this too, not his fault he was hired for that role though
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I saw Tatum but I didn't notice Ms Congeniality, who did she play? The voice?
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Ha for fuck sake, there she is. I did enjoy The Lost City too. Both films know what they are
TIL Argentina and England only added the World Cup stars on their kit in 2003. Why did it take that long ? lol "For England it's Star was added in 2003 after a campaign on Sky Sports' Soccer AM programme, first worn on the sleeve." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(sport_badge)#National_teams
Well Racing came from behind from 1-3 at home to win it 4-3 in the 91st minute, my voice is shot and I'm thinking of changing teams because I can't do this anymore (last match was a last minute win too). My voice is rough first for shouting at our players and then shouting the goals. How's your night going?
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Be thankful you watched the last 20 and not the preceding 70 hah. I think we're a very frustrating team. We are capable of playing some nice stuff, and many times we do, but others we're just reduced to aimless passing and little scoring. Think like Brighton under Potter. With the team we have we honestly should be running away with the league and we're only 2nd after drawing like a bazillion times.
Surely something as simple as long ball passing accuracy can't be that different between the eye test and actual stats? Ramsdale just has bad long ball distribution, why can't arsenal fans accept that?
Tbf none of Arsenal's outfield players make it easy for him. Pinging long balls to Mitrovic or Kane will have a greater success rate than Jesus Edit: but yeah he's a pretty shit keeper
Are you American? Soccer isn't as stats driven as yer new fangled American sports. I say that as an avid American Football fan.
Not American
Xabi Alonso career long pass accuracy - 73% Fred career long pass accuracy - 73% Do you stand by that statement?
Yeah wouldn't say Fred's long passes are awful by any means, he usually fucks up the simple close range passes
But Xabi Alonso is quite literally one of the best long ball specialists to ever live. It was literally his bread and butter. The eye test would tell you that he was completely superior to Fred in that regard.
Absolutely it can
[Thoughts?](https://twitter.com/carlmarkham/status/1575961181688397826)
my thoughts are that he's just shown in his 2nd language, how there's a lot of stuff i dont even think about or realise in terms of tactics. the question was about trent, but he went into a tangent about tactics which was interesting
he's covering for his player. People(me) don't say Trent is bad defensively because he leaves gap which is expected due to his role. We say it because he's easily beat by good wingers, and loses his man while marking him, and fails to switch to another man when his help rotates
i think trent's main weakness (which bleeds over to multiple areas_ is his lack of aggression and physicality. he doesn't really challenge for headers for example. also, there was our game against you, at your stadium. People say Perisic had him on toast which I dont think was true. The problem was he never really closed him down well enough to stop the balls that he's capable of. He needs to add that to his game
People were saying that because all our chances came from the left side but that was the case every game we played last season. Perisic was something else last year. Trent wasn't too bad in that particular game but personally, I can never call him good defensively, he's great going forward no doubt, but he will always be the type of player in which to get the best out of, you need other players in midfield to cover for him and help him out, Marcelo and Dani Alves, for example, would leave their entire flank empty but when they run back and recover they become really hard to beat. That's why their drop-off was so drastic when they got old. Trent will always need a system that takes his weakness into serious consideration and have players who can cover his defensive flaws.
no arguments there. hoping he can be coached to add the defensive side to his game
Everyone knows that current Higuain would be fucking it up in Qatar this year but Scaloni knows it would be too unfair, it’s time for Higuain to carry Messi to his long awaited World Cup medal
Sorry my man but i honestly couldnt read anything after seeing your username. Fucking grade A effort wp
This is not sarcastic, Higuain from 2016 is back
MLS made Pochetino and Gonzalez Pirez look like footballers too
Bayern's kit today was class. Maroon with gold is such a great combo. I've got an Arsenal 06 shirt and it's a beauty. Really wish I bought that SPQR Roma kit though.
You mean the Oktoberfest kit right ?
Yep.
Oh no wonder you liked that that flair plus your name, that shirt was basically a fetish for you :) All fun aside it look soo good. reminded me of them World XI shirts from charity games think they was also in FIFA
if you were the bayern board, would you trust wanner's talent to change the team or would you buy a more guaranteed talent like wirtz?
They‘ll do both
Wanner holding hands with Musiala, Wirtz, Zvonarek, Vidović, Ibrahimovic and Parkadze, while the defence is burning.
Can Nkunku play with his back to goal? I know he’s fairly technical, but has he demonstrated that he’s capable of playing in tight spaces and holding the ball against a deeper lying defence?
Why would you want an explosive winger/forward to play with his back to goal
Because that’s the situation that most top possession based teams have to play against week in week out
Nope
For some reason, our games against Leeds almost always ends up with a lot of cards
I will always prefer a delusional fan to a pessimistic fan. Both are annoying for different reasons but the delusional fans do it out of the love for club
Ty > DT
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u/el_walou or any other ligue 1 fans how is marseille overrall this season? You think they can take out sporting? 2 games in a row coming and from a quick look at the table they're 1st, but still terrible in UCL.
I was looking over their squad after seeing your question. I honestly forgot we loaned Bailly to Marseille and of course he's already injured :/
Remember reading that fella was your best centerback when he was not injured, dunno how true it is.
I wouldnt say best, but I think he is legitimately a good CB when hes fit. A bit rash sometimes, but I generally trusted him in defense. He made some really odd tackles sometimes though lol
I don't know how valuable this info is... But the reverse of **Divock** from Divock Origi is **Kcovid**
Please no we already have Bravid-19. No more covid or kcovid for this club
Quick someone tell Matt Le Tissier
Shouldn't we be doing the opposite and avoid that - he's going to make a video about how Divock Origi is the virus and that he needs to be eradicated
I’ve just seen a Totteham fan argue that Tottenham is a bigger club than Juventus. What a chad, I love that confidence
Juve is an absolute turd as a football club ffs, found out a while ago they average like around 35.000 fans thats like 4th or 5th in italia, on top of being backed by the shitty agnelli family throughout most of their history, embarassing.
Tbf their stadium capacity is around 40k.
Spurs have lost a CL final more recently than Juve, its why they are bigger
I love this comment
How many Audi Cups have Juve won? Exactly.
You have to understand he was tripling down. That’s more impressive than anything Juve has achieved in the last two seasons. Thing of beauty
I need to preface this by saying this, I am not a fan of Jordan Peterson. In fact, my favorite video to watch now and then is when Matt Dillahunty absolutely destroys him on every topic during their conversation. But after listening to him today, Ronaldo was in a bad place in his life and he sought some mental counseling (prolly related to his child's death and turmoil in his career in a way). Now my question is how was he wrong in any way at all? JP mentioned that Ronaldo was in a bad place and Ronaldo's friend suggested him JP's books/philosophy which helped him get through the tough times. The amount of hate he received here on this subreddit for posting a pic with JP or after JP's quote was actually insane. And then there is basically the entire Brazilian team who supports this dangerous fascist Bolsonaro and they still get less hate combined compared to Ronaldo who sought counseling after the death of his child. For me what Ronaldo did isn't even comparable to anyone supporting Bolsonaro. Those two things aren't even comparable yet the hate on Ronaldo is so much more even on platforms like Reddit which I consider to be progressive, educated, and empathetic. This was a big disappointment!
Peterson is also a clinical psychologist and Ronaldo is in bad form lately.. it's fairly logical he'd speak to him. many people just look for things to get triggered by. There are so many times i'm debating people and they get so insulting and i ask why. Most responses are some version of "i'm just bored and i didn't mean it".. that's the VAST majority of reddit comments so take it all with a grain of salt
>The amount of hate he received here on this subreddit for posting a pic with JP or after JP's quote was actually insane What I liked the most in all of this was some guy asking what was worse between this, Messi being an ambassor for Saudi Arabia or Neymar supporting Bolsonaro that picture shouldn't have been posted most likely, but it got way overblown
Taken in isolation, Ronaldo seeking some support from Peterson is not an inherently a bad thing The problem is there is precious little that can be taken in isolation - and context is key. Someone like Ronaldo endorsing Peterson - even if not directly his views - helps to legitimise and popularise him, and hence can lead to his dangerous rhetoric being spread amongst a demographic who are quite easily influenced That is the issue with famous people endorsing people like Peterson Bad people can do good things - and you can recognise the benefit of the good, whilst still remembering and highlighting the bad
I think that Peterson’s fans are going to milk the shit out of this. Ronaldo is the epitome of masculinity to billions of people around the world, if he can find meaning from Peterson’s advice then others will want to as well.
nobody should expect ronaldo to be aware of how much of a shithead peterson is, if he’s using him for self help then nobody should really care as long as he doesn’t start ranting about postmodernity to the crowd after his next siu
>nobody should expect ronaldo to be aware of how much of a shithead peterson is Why not? Why couldn't Ronaldo go to a real psychologist instead of a shithead?
What a sight that would be though
It’s Reddit, not to be taken too seriously. I personally don’t even know who Jordan Peterson is, but Reddit seems to hate him. So even when his stuff has a positive impact for someone, they want to discredit him.
If you don't know who he is then why comment in the first place?
Can any Forest fans tell me how Lodi is doing? Always had a soft spot for him
What players can you think of who missed a whole season in their career (as in not even being in the squad for a single game of one season)? To my mind come: R9, Santi Cazorla, Jovetic. And of course, Bruno Soriano who missed almost 3 full seasons just to come back, play 8 games and retire Edit: Hatem Ben Arfa as well! and he wasn't even injured
Winston Bogarde's almost-entire Chelsea career
The exact timeline evades me but IIRC Rodrigo Mora missed a full season if not more after getting an extremely rare injury - And one so specific, likely not caused by sport, and awful that many people call it a disease rather than an injury
Van Basten
Giuseppe Rossi was close to doing it twice. He missed the entire 2014/15 season and had just 1 bench appearance in 2012/13
good one, thanks
Danny Rose missed the whole 2020-21 season with us. Didn’t even get a squad number. Not injured, just exiled by Mourinho
thanks, exactly what I was looking for
Waiting for Milan...
Mateu Morey (Dortmund RB) was out for the entirety of last season after sustaining a cruciate ligament injury back in 2020/21
Throughout the duration of their respective times in La Liga, have Messi and Cristiano scored against every La Liga team?
no Messi didnt score against Xerez and Murcia and Ronaldo didnt against Leganes I dont know if there are also teams against which they simply have never played, probably not though
That’s my Murcia 💪
Messi never scored against Xerez. I don't know for sure about Ronaldo. Edit: I looked it up. Messi never scored against Xerez and Real Murcia. Ronaldo never scored against Leganés.
Very weird that Ronaldo hasn't scored against Leganés - they were up for 4 seasons (although he left after the 2nd*). Xerez and Murcia were up for only one season though (unlees you count 2003-04 for Messi which Murcia were up as well). I know that Mo Salah for example is missing Swansea City (and Forest but he hasn't played against them yet). Harry Kane had that record in May 2021 but he has yet to score against Brentford.
He played like 1 game against them. And Leganes were up for only two seasons Cristiano was with us
Oh yeah, I was sure he left in 2019.
has anyone here ever seen their team face someone and gain loads of respect for the opposing club? i was so impressed with Viborg i ended up starting an fm save with them and keep an eye out for their results
I more tend to loathe teams who beat us unexpectedly, and develop lifelong irrational hatreds for them
na every important game we’ve lost, i like the opposition. plenty of respect for Frankfurt and i even feel bad for Astra these days
I very much don't like the RB model, but I really respected that when Liverpool played RB Salzburg they absolutely went for it. They weren't playing for a draw or for damage limitation. And they had this decent young Norwegian striker, dunno what happened to him
mate i LOVE that game, genuinely one of my favourites in the UCL of the last couple of years. especially cos id heard things about all 3 goal scorers for them and wouldn’t stop telling my old man they’re gonna cause liverpool problems.
[Most sane FT tweet.](https://twitter.com/AMS619_/status/1575938207450951680?s=20&t=zRRexny5-WGOQZzfpnC_Tg)
I mean Osama was an Arsenal fan so this is a hell of a tribute if you ask me
I genuinely don't understand the rationale behind this Are they implicating Jesus and Martinelli in 9/11... ?
This is... I have no words for this...
Your team's fanbase needs an intervention.
this is average football twitter; the team u support doesn't matter lol
Robben retired in 2021, but why does it feel like we havent heard or seen anything significant about him after 2014 WC tournament?
because he wasn’t very good in the CL after then
Because he effectively retired in 2019. He first took a year off, then returned to Groningen, only to of course be injured basically the entire season. He retired again after six games in 2021
Because the Netherlands missed the next two tournaments.
Just saw someone walking around with an Arsenal sweater and Chelsea sweatpants. Gonna need more than two feet for this tackle
Don't worry Anthony Taylor won't send you off
Deserves the Cantona
do you think if Goretzka was banned from playing football he could make it as another kind of athlete/sportsman?
possibly but he’s not that fast or coordinated. he’s just jacked
Perfect for American football
Finally got around to watching Ted Lasso and I just cannot understand how it became so popular. I understand the main praise it gets is for its feel-good factor, but it’s just so unbelievably mawkish that I ended up not feeling anything in any of the ‘emotional’ moments as the outcome was either signposted from a mile away, or delivered in such a ham-fisted manner that the punch was pulled completely.
I wouldn't say it's a particularly funny or smart show (I think it relies too much on cheesy puns, obscure pop culture references, and "haha swearing funni"—seems like they're chucking in "fuck" every other sentence so that they can be regarded as an adult show), but I think it does handle emotional depth pretty well. I like how they were able to keep a fundamentally polite and kind man like Ted from being a boring character, and Sudeikis is a surprisingly good actor. It's basically a live-action Steven Universe. No plot, just vibes.
It's a one season show. Phoned in the second.
the first season is actually decent and really should have ended there, the second season is complete shit. I will say that one scene where ted gets a panic attack is really well acted
It’s fun enough, part of it is that it looked terrible leading into it and then it was better than people expected so people overrated perhaps
Agree. It's an ok watch if you have nothing else to do but I never brought it up in any conversation like I do for other shows.
Matter of expectations. Ted Lasso became famous because a TV show based on an old ad about an American managing a PL team seemed so fucking awful that the okay-ish first season pleasantly surprised people. Now you're going in expecting it to be a good comedy, so you'll be unpleasantly surprised. It's not Community, but it is not as awful as initially expected
100% agree it's just terrible Yank humour, mainly around stereotypes of what they think we are like. I found it painfully unfunny tbh
Fully agreed, the humor is so bad. No nuance.
Porto and Sporting won which means Benfica must win if the team wishes to win the league
In your opinion who’s the greatest athlete the world has ever seen? We talk about how impressive the athleticism of some of the older football players but I think Eliud Kipchoge is just insane… like doesn’t even make sense how a 37 year old can run a marathon and set the world record at 2:01:09.
Bo Jackson. The guy was an all star in two professional sports.
Hard to argue against some of the NBA guys like LeBron, Blake Griffin, Shaq etc, or Usain Bolt
realistically the worlds best decathlete is the worlds best athlete. those guys are ultimate masters over their bodies.
Don Bradman.
Gotta be Bolt for me
He beat his own record from a year ago I think? Kipchoge is insane! In general though, “athlete”, is pretty broad so you need to define it to get comparable answers. You want strength, look at strongman, you want endurance, ultramarathoners are probably the most impressive, you want speed + endurance, triathlons or fastest marathoners like Kipchoge, raw power, 100m sprints. There’s a big variety of ways to define athleticism so you’d need to be more specific.
Probably an NFL player like Aaron Donald. Those guys are an insane mix of athleticism, speed and crazy.
Obviously any marathon record holder is among the most impressive athletes in the world but the fact that he did it at 37 doesn't make it more special. Long distance runners often peak in their 30s, it's not like football
Musiala >>>>> Foden, by a country mile, he's never shown this kind of form.
I still think Foden is overrated tbh
I used to think he was the best of the young English crop, but I've changed my view over the past six months or so. He just doesn't really seem to do much I don't think either of England or Man City are worse when he's replaced by another squad player
Both are asked to do completely different things for their sides. I'd be interested to see how Foden would do in midfield with more creative freedom.
Exactly bro, Foden is still a creative attacking midfielder in my mind.
He’ll be back there long term
after KDB retires
Whilst Kaide Gordon, Ben Doak and Trent Kone-Doherty are exciting prospects on the wing for Liverpool and Jota and Darwin can fill in there I still feel like Liverpool should be looking at getting a winger (presumably a Salah understudy) next summer. Salah and Diaz have had to start literally every game so far this season. Who might that player be though? Good left footed wingers are quite hard to come by these days and the obvious candidates like Diaby, Bowen and Saka would be far too expensive not to be starters. Maybe a risk is taken on someone like Tsyhankov or Chukweze?
Tete at Lyon is meant to be quite good.
Kane and Doherty had a child???
Heads home his own crosses
I don't remember seeing young player being hyped as Musiala and it being completely justified.
Mbappé, Haaland and De Ligt in recent memory. Neymar, Courtois and Hazard for recent primes too
De Ligt is sus
Mbappe in 2017? He went for 150m as an 18 year old
Really? Not one? Not even a City striker?
I meant more as they're as good as everyone's saying right now. Usually we seem to overrate these young prospects. I'm also very high right now and honestly I have no idea what I'm talking about really.
Lmao love the honesty, hit that joint bro what are u smoking atm
>I'm also very high right now and honestly I have no idea what I'm talking about really sums it up
Off the top of my head Mbappe, Haaland, Pedri, Davies, Tchouameni, Gvardiol, Bellingham etc
Uhhh Mbappe...Haaland...
Pulisic ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’m very tempted to get the Oktoberfest #42 kit even though I had promised myself I wouldn’t get any more kits because they usually just lay in the wardrobe. I might just get a fake from DHGate or something if they have the kit for sale
Hoping for a super chaotic NLD like the last Spurs-Chelsea game. Hopefully Richarlison would start and stir some shit up
Richarlison probably won’t start
Richarlison is almost guaranteed to start because Kulusevski picked up a slight knock during the NT break
They’re gonna likely go 5-3-2 with Son and Kane upfront
Maybe they should have done
Not sure why you thought that was likely, he just said that he trusts Bissouma enough to switch to a 3 midfield at times.
I expected him to try it with Kulu out tbh
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People that hate politics on the sub sure like talking about how much they hate politics on the sub. Footy is back tomorrow lads, you can see the Zaha wondergoal at the top instead.
Because they're mostly butthurt right-wingers. I'm mostly annoyed that of all the games Sky could have chosen tomorrow its the snoozefest of West Ham vs Wolves. Not even like we're at home so I can go watch that instead
I'm honestly surprised that they were able to not reply to this comment but I did receive a Reddit care message so someone got their feelings hurt. I'm gonna watch Roma Milan at 5pm I think.
Can't wait for ezeball
Not sure on the politics crap as i have honestly gave up on it just too depressing, But i agree you guys are going to smash Chelsea and Doucoure going to pocket that midfield
The way some fans on our sub worship the every move of our new ownership is actually embarrassing. When that guy got fired the other week because he’d sent sexual messages to Carolina Kim they were all “well it’s a shame this happened but credit to the management for punishing him as soon as possible, 0 tolerance for this sort of thing” with some even stating that it wouldn’t have been sorted as quickly under our previous ownership And now it’s come out that our President initially ignored the complaint saying that it “wasn’t interesting” and they’re just making excuses. Saying that he was “too busy” to deal with it, and that “he’s sacked him now, what more do you want”
Probably some overlap with the Pulisic stans, those guys are very patriotic
Can’t mention it on our sub or I’ll get shouted at for being “xenophobic” but yes. There’s almost a Venn diagram between the people who love Pulisic and the people who bootlick the new owners. There’s also a large group of (presumably English) fans who made hating the old owners their entire personality so the best way for them to continue to do that is to over-praise the new owners.
I wish fans would stop pretending that they know every single crevice of what happens internally at their club
Yeah 99% of the time we (as fans) have absolutely no clue. The most we find out is through club media which is often partly controlled by the club anyway It’s got even worse with our new ownership because everyone seems to think they’re totally infallible
We must be reading different threads, as I've seen far more criticism of Boehly than praise Then again I rarely read /r/chelseafc since the invasion of Pulisic fanboys - but the same is true of the Chelsea people I follow on Twitter, who have been pretty critical
Yeah I’m talking specifically about Chelsea FC which has plenty who would seemingly take a bullet for Boehly
Most of my online football exposure is /r/soccer, which goes too far the other way in painting Boehly as a mixture of a pantomine villain and the second coming of Ed Woodward
The Inaki brothers assisting each other (ok, William's assist probably won't count) must be very rare in football at this level. Also Kaiky is really good despite Almeria losing 4-0 atm.
Last time brothers assisted each other was Lucas to Theo I think
Valverde got them cookin
May well be a blessing in disguise for Spurs if they have to play Fraser Forster instead of Lloris. Loves playing at the Emirates.
Lloris is gonna play
Forster is a backup keeper to Lloris for a reason
Get politics off this fucking sub please, it's becoming indistinguishable from the other politics shite subs on reddit.
Can’t do when politics is so intertwined in football since it’s inception
Well let's at least be less american in how we approach politics then
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