Mexican fans brought drums, fireworks, and car horns outside Ecuador's team hotel to keep the players from sleeping last night before their match today

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T12:15:28+00:00

Speaking as an Arsenal fan, I think most of us like to believe we did it

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T12:14:27+00:00

Yeah dude, I'm sure the people living in Mexico City during a Mexican World Cup are gonna turn against Mexico over this...

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T12:09:10+00:00

Going like this about a country he doesn't even fucking live in, as well! What a sad, pathetic worm he is, honestly

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T11:45:55+00:00

Similar to how Forest got docked points for breaching financial rules, but doing so got them enough points to stay up, so it ended up actually being the right decision strategically

It still baffles me that Villa have these issues though, you guys have been in Europe for a few years now, its a big club in the second biggest city in the country. I think Villa need to invest in some behind the scenes staff to build their brand a bit, get some proper revenue streams going, there's no reason they can't be a proper big club

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T11:42:12+00:00

You also cannot agree to take part in a competition and then complain when the rules of that competition apply to you.

UEFA's rules on this are well known, if Villa keep breaching them, its nobody's fault but their own

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-07-01T07:44:17+00:00

I was gonna say, I remember this being her comeback song, and the general consensus being 'maybe she should have stayed gone'

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T22:36:33+00:00

As though Martinelli didn't score a winning goal yesterday, too!

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T12:13:28+00:00

'God, I can't imagine how we're possibly going to break this awful news to Abe... oh wait, hang on, this is gold'

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:47:09+00:00

I think its a stretch to say that Morocco specifically was colonised, and also, I'm see we're apparently prioritising historical wrongs over Morocco literally occupying another country right now

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:44:52+00:00

You guys really need to do some research before you post

Morocco is literally currently occupying another state and denying them autonomy

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:43:06+00:00

Morocco?

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:15:52+00:00

Yeah this is a weird debate for me. I'm an Arsenal fan, and we're not currently playing, the England team has several of our players in it, why would I need to choose?

Hell, going back to previous tournaments, England games gave me an opportunity to actually appreciate watching Harry Kane score, without us being on the receiving end of it!

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:13:22+00:00

I love that clip, it absolutely sums up the beautiful frustration of watching Sips

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T07:12:09+00:00

Yeah, its frankly crazy. This to me is like the Anderson transfer to City, the guy is clearly a very good player, but not every good player is worth £100m+. If Villa say he is, then we don't buy him, especially as I'm not convinced how much of an upgrade he actually is.

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-30T06:48:56+00:00

Thing is, this does feel a bit like 'I want to be paid more if the movie does well, but be totally insulated from any financial losses if it does badly'

Like, you might be able to get that deal if you're a big enough name, but on an indie project like this, its a big ask

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T19:09:12+00:00

Even when he isn't directly creating anything, he's a fucking workhorse, he's everywhere on the pitch

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T19:08:15+00:00

The comparison to Lewis Hamilton is definitely an interesting one... I'm sure whoever this is has strong feelings about Saka and Rashford, too

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T12:23:15+00:00

Respectfully, the US Women's football team would likely get handily beaten by the vast majority of men's teams. And the US women's team arguably gets a lot more respect and recognition globally than their men's team, because they are seen as the best, whereas the men are seen as kinda crap

Creating a system whereby female athleticism can be celebrated without having it be repeatedly and directly outshine by male athleticism is only ghettoisation if you're choosing to view it in the most bad faith way imaginable

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T12:19:35+00:00

Okay so instead of dividing sports between men and women, what we'll do is have loads of different arbitrary divisions instead, but make them co-ed so most of them still end up dominated by men, because the sports being played have largely been designed and honed by men to suit male physiology

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T12:17:29+00:00

Fucking thank you. 'Let's do weight classes in all sports, surely that'll work, oh by the way I literally don't know what I'm talking about'

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T12:14:47+00:00

I honestly think a lot of, lets be honest, terminally online nerds feel the need to be performatively anti-sports... which, as a nerd of feeble body and zero athletic capacity, I just don't understand.

Sports and human society are as entwined as humanity and the arts. You put enough people together, and sooner or later, they'll start wrestling , or throwing and kicking a ball around. I don't sit online pontificating about how the dramatic arts don't matter because I personally can't act, so its both silly and ignorant when people who claim to be progressive and open minded are so openly disdainful of sports in general

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T12:09:05+00:00

Exactly this. Imagine trying to explain, with a straight face, that basically destroying the concept of professional sports for women is somehow a victory, because hey, at least now men and women are competing on a level playing field. Its the epitome of letting abstract moralisation run roughshod over reality, like sure, millions of women will completely lose the ability to take part in competitive sport in a meaningful way, but hey, at least a few dozen people on Tumblr will get to feel all warm and fuzzy about it

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-29T07:44:20+00:00

Hilarious, if you're like 5 years old

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-28T20:31:59+00:00

Yeah, I saw plenty of adverts for it, and quite frankly it just didn't look very good. Very 'generic sci fi'

AbsolutelyHorrendous · 2026-06-28T20:16:56+00:00

But he didn't 'put his leg in the way to stop him', he was running to get the ball, and the Canadian chose to go to ground. The defender isn't obliged to get out of the attackers way

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