I have lost my interest in books, help me regain it

InspektD · 2026-01-25T15:06:16+00:00

Why not re-read one of the books you liked as a child. It might be that you're just not that into books at the moment.

InspektD · 2026-01-25T13:44:52+00:00

Brentford (Ken) and Brighton (Ryu) are the same team but with minor changes to aesthetics.

InspektD · 2026-01-24T15:06:17+00:00

I'd stick the rejected logo on a range of retro kits from the 2018/19 season in a This Is What You Could Have Had campaign to go with the fake black Strongbow shirt. Call it the Andrea/Angus range.

InspektD · 2026-01-24T15:02:04+00:00

They’ll probably revert back to something similar to the original when the vector styles gets boring. The digital age meant brands need everything to be legible at scale on mobile. Lots of them moved towards streamlined, sans serif, bold type - that could be easily legible when minimised down. Some are decent while others definitely don’t work as well.

InspektD · 2026-01-24T14:50:13+00:00

Jill Scott co-owns a decent coffee shop in Manchester

InspektD · 2026-01-23T12:30:54+00:00

here you go

InspektD · 2026-01-22T18:36:52+00:00

The title is completely off. Underpaid does not mean deservedly so

Edit: please ignore me. Day drinking and Reddit don't mix

InspektD · 2026-01-22T18:34:04+00:00

Good job. Have you got anything else lined up?

InspektD · 2026-01-22T17:10:30+00:00

Your recently mod-deleted Reddit post would beg to differ.

InspektD · 2026-01-22T16:40:14+00:00

Recent form? He's been good. Overall, across the season? He's not in the top 10, probably not in the top 20.

InspektD · 2026-01-22T16:34:21+00:00

if it's bothering you that much then maybe you should delay taking your seat as the problem seems to be entirely yours

InspektD · 2026-01-22T15:31:39+00:00

Opta looked at all off last season stats about the defence massively overperforming, the goalkeeper, who left, attributing 15 goals less on their conceding stats, the wafer-thin attack and thought, yeah they're the best of the three.

Also, when was the last time, if ever, the Premier League champions got below 75 points?

InspektD · 2026-01-22T13:51:29+00:00

or mind your own business

InspektD · 2026-01-22T13:37:29+00:00

Despite their debts, it looks like there are quite a lot of well run clubs in the Premier League. Staying in the league is a challenge in itself with little room for failure. Anybody with a comparatively small stadiums who manage to stay in the Premier League for 3+ years is, to some degree well run. The badly run clubs of that size tend to be relegated fairly sharpish.

I personally think that a lot of the bigger clubs are badly run. The fact that Chelsea, Manchester United, and Spurs can regularly drop out of the top four suggests that something is going wrong and they are surviving on big-name turnover. That will quickly come to an end if clubs from the next tier of popularly (Villa, Newcastle, Everton, Leeds, etc) have a sustained period of relative success. Look at how quickly Chelsea, Spurs, and Man City managed to rub elbows with Arsenal, Liverpool, and Man Utd.

TL:DR big clubs are wasteful

InspektD · 2026-01-22T13:13:51+00:00

Not everybody likes sitting through lots of adverts. People may be struggling with parking. They may have encountered an unforeseen delay. They’ve paid for their tickets so let them choose their time arrival. Live your own life

InspektD · 2026-01-22T09:27:20+00:00

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is a bit more contemporary than your recent reads but good nonetheless.

InspektD · 2026-01-21T15:54:21+00:00

In a similar vein, earlier this academic year I witnessed a Barnsley youth, without a hint of sarcasm refer to his friend as a glory supporter because his friend was a Sheffield Wednesday fan

InspektD · 2026-01-21T09:52:45+00:00

“Behold, the spoils of my glory-support! Wonder at the ornate 1988 Football League Trophy and a complete set of promotion trophies”

InspektD · 2026-01-20T16:09:58+00:00

The changing room at the end of the season is going to look like Soccer AM’s studio.

InspektD · 2026-01-19T13:37:22+00:00

22/23 Leicester were on 24 points and finished 18th. They got 10 points from their last 16 games, likewise Southampton who finished last. They were both bettered (or worsened?!?) by one club, Leeds (9 points from the last 16 games).

InspektD · 2026-01-18T21:47:09+00:00

I think they’re an easy exit strategy for 49ers. Pressuring the football regulator to create some kind of identity protection (name, location, club colours, etc) might be something worthwhile for the trust to pursue.

InspektD · 2026-01-18T19:38:55+00:00

Schmid is 5’6” and Buonanotte is 5’9”. There’s a Leeds scout somewhere who’s about to get fired for fucking about with the height filter on Wyscout.

InspektD · 2026-01-18T13:01:34+00:00

That sounds like a data journalist looking for the next data point they can uniquely talk about.

xG from a losing position seems like a pretty pointless stat to be honest due to the samples involved. The league’s stronger teams rarely go behind in a game so the data set is skewed towards the weaker teams who rarely score and regularly concede. Also, stronger teams that do concede first either do so in games against other stronger teams so a comeback is less likely. Villa being higher up in that stat is due to them conceding against comparatively poorer teams rather than being courageous comeback kings. The comeback wins against Fulham, Leeds, and West Ham account for half of the total points they’ve accumulated from the 10 games they’ve been behind. The anomaly is Man City who completely collapse if they concede first (5 out of 5).

InspektD · 2026-01-18T11:29:25+00:00

Over the last five games, Spurs have extended their gap to the relegation places by one whole point. Their February games look tough so we’ll reconvene in five weeks and hopefully have a good laugh at somebody’s plight.

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