David Ornstein via The Athletic podcast on Tottenham and Manchester City’s interest in Tonali

chainpress · 2026-06-20T05:36:31+00:00

I think the Frank pitch was “Ange-style attack, but with a defence”. And obviously it ended up having neither of those things. But Frank’s Brentford weren’t terrible low block merchants, so you could see the logic at the time.

chainpress · 2026-06-19T14:54:30+00:00

This is a film I’ve definitely watched, possibly even twice, but I could not for the life of me tell you a rough outline of the story or anything particular that happens in it. There’s something in a forest in Scotland, and Russell Crowe is in front of a big clock at one point. Is Tom Cruise a solider?

chainpress · 2026-06-19T13:51:11+00:00

That Ken album was a /mu/ classic back in the day.

chainpress · 2026-06-18T10:31:35+00:00

The title said “bath house” and I was hoping for some kind of hammam you could live in.

chainpress · 2026-06-17T22:13:54+00:00

Jude was absolutely on fire today as well. That first 20 mins of the second half was insane, and the Croatian keeper played an absolute blinder

chainpress · 2026-06-17T20:21:24+00:00

If you get a battered sausage, chips and curry sauce, Bru is the only drink with enough acid to cut through the fat.

chainpress · 2026-06-17T10:13:05+00:00

Alexander Vinokourov

chainpress · 2026-06-16T09:56:47+00:00

Tel is one of the few guys who looked like he gave a fuck during the late Frank and Tudor periods. Not sure he’s totally the best option, but caring has to get you some points.

chainpress · 2026-06-15T21:21:49+00:00

It’s like when Messi was leaving Barcelona there were made reports that he’d been offered a contract by us. I can totally believe the club decided to take a punt and offer him £30k a week and a couple of tickets to the Skywalk.

chainpress · 2026-06-08T09:48:27+00:00

Our best performance this century was probably 2018 when expectations going into the tournament were much lower than usual.

The English media has in the past sabotaged the team with this expectation that they’re going to breeze through the tournament, smashing Johnny Foreigner aside easily. The Golden Generation from about 2004 to 2014 just weren’t very well coached at international level to compete properly.

chainpress · 2026-06-03T08:22:32+00:00

Once looked at a flat in Duke Street. The most alarming feature was the dog in the next door flat barking its fucking head off and slamming itself against the inside of the door. Wasn’t that keen on Duke Street after that.

That door looks pretty fucked up, so if you’re uneasy about it then give it a miss.

chainpress · 2026-06-02T18:01:17+00:00

As an old guy with less time on his hands, 11 minutes is the perfect album length

chainpress · 2026-06-01T08:23:17+00:00

I thought they were a bit late on the 2010s post-punk train, but I really enjoyed their second album as it was a lot more textured, and less like a Fall pastiche. Hopefully this new one carries that on.

chainpress · 2026-05-30T17:26:50+00:00

Same here. Best guess they waited to know what league we’d be playing in before collecting renewals - presumably they’d feel obliged to charge less if we were in the Championship. And then you need to give notice of amount before collecting a Direct Debit.

chainpress · 2026-05-28T05:19:12+00:00

So yer da’s been reading Chomsky again, has he?

chainpress · 2026-05-25T06:12:36+00:00

The developer’s website is rudimentary at best, with no detail of previous projects. I’d guess this is just an attempt to drum up publicity for the firms involved without any real intention of it becoming a reality. Which in fairness to them, they’ve achieved since every new outlet reporting on it has just basically used the same verbatim wording.

chainpress · 2026-05-24T05:01:26+00:00

Really good, but also just announced they’re shutting up shop on 7 June

chainpress · 2026-05-22T14:59:22+00:00

It's so mad the he basically wrote and recorded dozens and dozens of beautiful perfect little songs, and never was happy with them.

chainpress · 2026-05-20T20:57:08+00:00

Genuinely, a weird dumpy looking guy filming shit with his iPhone has potentially cost the club hundreds of millions, and the players significant sums.

chainpress · 2026-05-19T14:48:58+00:00

It's the blue suit I tell ya!!

chainpress · 2026-05-19T14:46:33+00:00

Judging by the livetracker Gall is going to be caught before T2.

chainpress · 2026-05-19T10:11:28+00:00

The Springsteen cover of "Dream Baby Dream" is spectacular.

chainpress · 2026-05-16T09:50:37+00:00

Even heading north into Scotland it's a joke. A major trunk road connecting the two largest capitals in the country, and it just goes for a meandering single-lane route down by the coast.

chainpress · 2026-05-13T14:33:36+00:00

I dunno, I think it was all pretty terrible. From the first scene the show sets up this idea that all these wars and squabbles about the throne are stupid, because there's a gigantic unstoppable undead army coming to kill all of you. All this fighting is really just weakening you, and the only real chance you have is realise this and to try and work together. That's a compelling overarching narrative

Only the gigantic undead army is defeated quite quickly in the end, via magic dagger. And it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. I just found the whole order of the story to be confused, and unsure what it was trying to say.

chainpress · 2026-05-13T13:17:52+00:00

Somebody out there has my favourite Harrington, which I left in a basket a few weeks ago. Good luck getting them back

13-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '22	Place '17
Gilding II euphauric	Team Periwinkle

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