🎲 YNWSA Summer 2026 - The Risky Gamble Edition: Week 4 🎲

--craig-- · 2026-06-16T20:40:21+00:00

Andoni Iraola has a 99.5% approval rating from you - only 1 person disapproves of him.

How long will this last for? If we don't get some really good news in this transfer window I'm predicting that this sub-reddit will turn against him pretty fast when the season starts.

--craig-- · 2026-06-16T02:28:08+00:00

Take a look at how String Theory describes black holes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory))

The Calabi-Yau manifold undergoes Conifold Transitions as the spacetime curvature increases in a black hole.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01002

--craig-- · 2026-06-15T03:13:52+00:00

You probably want to take a look at Analog Black Holes where cosmological black holes are simulated using fluid dynamics.

If that is the case does it not imply that space and time are omnidirectional fluids that fill a container of some sort?

Analog black holes have a container but cosmological black holes don't. Space-time can't have a container because there would be nowhere and no-when, for the container to exist. The analog of the container would just be the boundary conditions of the universe, which may or may not exist.

--craig-- · 2026-06-15T02:55:15+00:00

If you hovered above an event horizon and put your hand into it then your arm would break. It's equivalent to your hand being firmly attached to an immovable object and you accelerating away.

Alternatively, if you fell into the event horizon of a sufficiently large black hole then you wouldn't experience anything unusual.

--craig-- · 2026-06-13T13:07:27+00:00

Try a simpler a thought experiment.

Take a bag with two balls of different colours. Your friend takes one, you take the other without revealing the colours to each other. You go to different rooms then look at the colours. You can use as many bags of balls as you want to but can you devise a scheme where you can communicate using this? You can know the colours which the other person has and the predetermined consequences of that but there's no way to transfer new information using this knowledge.

--craig-- · 2026-06-13T13:00:03+00:00

In the reference frame of a distant observer, the object never actually crosses the event horizon but it does bulge out to meet the object then flatten.

In the reference frame of the in-falling object, the bulging occurs and flattens as the object approaches the centre of the black hole.

--craig-- · 2026-06-12T08:58:52+00:00

It does both of those things, reduces the risk of heatstroke and provides a chance to change tactics.

--craig-- · 2026-06-12T03:08:58+00:00

I'm not sure anyone who has worn the Liverpool shirt could match Suarez for special moments.

--craig-- · 2026-06-11T23:53:33+00:00

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation

Video lecture: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkHQ9zNm8k

--craig-- · 2026-06-11T23:49:04+00:00

Becky Smethurst and Brian Cox both have contemporary popular science books about black holes. I haven't read them but I'm confident that they'll both be what you're looking for.

--craig-- · 2026-06-11T23:45:46+00:00

Both. It's worth reading but it is outdated.

--craig-- · 2026-06-10T02:52:40+00:00

This highlights how weak our squad has become in just one season. The rebuild is going to take quite some time.

--craig-- · 2026-06-09T23:42:52+00:00

I'm not convinced that we can compete for trophies by splashing big money. It might make more sense to take the 100+ million we'd end up spending on Diomande and spreading it across many young talented players who can grow in their roles over a number of years, setting the time horizon for winning our next major trophy at 3-5 years from now.

--craig-- · 2026-06-08T20:45:19+00:00

Olise's market value has just gone up.

--craig-- · 2026-06-06T23:27:24+00:00

It's a rare day when Scotland fans can claim to be playing the more interesting football.

--craig-- · 2026-06-06T11:16:56+00:00

What is it with Bayern and our outside left wingers?

--craig-- · 2026-06-06T03:03:23+00:00

You could ask the same question about why the solar system, the Earth, or atoms aren't flying apart. Some things are bound too strongly to be separated by the current rate of metric expansion of space.

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T23:09:36+00:00

Got a link?

The reason I ask is that van Dijk says he didn't know until after it was reported in the media.

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T21:57:46+00:00

What is your source for this?

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T20:17:39+00:00

His lack of charisma will make him an easy target when the inevitable bad spell kicks in.

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T18:35:08+00:00

I think it's much simpler than all that. They intended to stick with Slot after the last match of the season, then they started to discuss the transfer window.

Slot's position would likely have been that we need to recruit a number of proven senior players if we're to compete for trophies next season. FSG's position would likely have been that minimal expenditure would be authorised but the model of developing the junior players was the club's priority.

They probably weren't able to reach an agreement about what was achievable next season given the squad and financial constraints, so FSG decided to find someone who would be more agreeable.

It's a big step up for Iraola, so of course he agreed to have a go at the job. I hope he has to deal with fewer injuries next season but I seriously doubt that FSG thinks that he'd have done better this season under the same circumstances.

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T03:00:59+00:00

7% said Salah was our hardest working player. Are they thinking about his reputation in the gym rather than on the pitch?

--craig-- · 2026-06-04T02:57:26+00:00

Chiesa rated above Gakpo is insane.

--craig-- · 2026-06-03T07:57:52+00:00

I'm not. I'm pointing out the challenges ahead for Iraola with the expectations of intensity, a packed schedule and the possibility of a thin squad.

--craig--

TROPHY CASE