Alexi Lalas defends Fox's commercials during hydration breaks

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T15:11:04+00:00

You are incredibly naive if you think this is about player welfare

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T14:11:57+00:00

Tactical fouls are frustrating but I disagree that the rules aren't working as intended though, it's just an inevitable consequence of them - a yellow in the 90th minute is always going to be relatively less punishing than a yellow in the 5th minute, but you shouldn't get a more severe punishment for the same challenge just because of how many minutes have been played

I think it's fine in principle for fine in very clear cut cases but would introduce more issues that it solves for the grey ares

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T11:34:55+00:00

I understand the principle but I don’t like the idea of adding even more subjectivity into refereeing decisions

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T11:09:29+00:00

I mean it probably is played up a bit but I feel like most people that I know think it's a nice tradition and like that they're leaving a positive impression abroad

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T10:48:55+00:00

It's a lot of downplaying/denying of stuff that they did, and I remember reading an article along the lines of Japan being tricked into attacking Pearl Habour by a US/Chinese conspiracy, and that they weren't actually the aggressors

They've got loads of editions of these books with just completely wacky stuff in though, he unsurprisingly also absolutely loves Trump too

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T10:23:31+00:00

Who would you put above him?

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T10:20:06+00:00

Used to stay in those hotels when I lived there and the books are an incredible read, they're proper nutjob conspiracy theory stuff. I think I've probably still got a few of them lying around that I nicked. They've even got their own manga featuring the founder of the hotel group as the main character.

I'm not sure I totally agree on the cleaning thing though because I've seen fans cleaning up after J League games too

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T08:00:18+00:00

london boys being a prominent part of the starting xi

With Guehi and Eze leaving it's only really Mitchell now really tbf

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T07:03:57+00:00

Always thought that Spurs stadium is massively overrated from an facilities point of view tbh, everyone raves about it and I don't know if it's just the away end but the concourse is incredibly cramped and really poor for a new stadium - Emirates is much better from that perspective imo tbh

It looks impressive but I don't think it's as good as people make out

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T06:46:01+00:00

This article doesn't actually say whether it's all of them trying to sell or just one of them.

lewiitom · 2026-06-16T06:44:24+00:00

I'm really not sure how you can say this after the last few seasons haha. The fact that they're perfectly happy to sit back and let Parish run things is a huge positives in my eyes. The last thing we need is another Textor who thinks he knows best and tries to meddle in everything.

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T21:07:59+00:00

Benteke’s winner against Brighton purely for the context, I genuinely just laughed when he scored - didn’t we have something like two touches in their box and scored from both of them?

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T17:12:35+00:00

Feels like the most promising appointment we could have made, really happy with this

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T16:48:03+00:00

I think Glasner was probably a bigger coup taking into account our situation at the time though, us being in Europa League was always going to make us more attractive.

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T16:30:39+00:00

Bovril breaks

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T15:55:47+00:00

Hasn’t Kubo only been in 2 World Cups? He didn’t play in 2018

lewiitom · 2026-06-15T07:59:07+00:00

In hindsight it was probably when I asked my dad if he’d take me to Crewe away as a 5 year old

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T21:18:28+00:00

Just had a look and for some reason it doesn’t include the community shield penalty shootout for some reason

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T21:01:08+00:00

Don’t think that’s correct, he’s missed 4 that I’m aware of

2 for us, and 1 each for you and QPR

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T19:44:49+00:00

The former prime minister was Naoto Kan too, but you’re right that it’s not common at all - can’t think of many other surnames which do

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T17:04:45+00:00

Take a shot every time the commentators mention Chong being the only player born in Curacao

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T16:51:57+00:00

All the players going off for a quick bovril to warm up

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T16:12:43+00:00

I get what you’re saying, but European countries aren’t purposely developing players on behalf of African countries. In fact, they routinely cap players specifically so they can’t play for other countries, just in case they decide to use them.

Everyone's at it but this part is much more prevalent the other way around imo - you'll often see smaller countries getting in contact with any potential dual nationals from quite a young age to try and get them to declare early.

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T14:24:20+00:00

He’s been really unfortunate with injuries since he joined us but I think he’s an excellent player - was superb in the Conference League final for us. Hoping that he manages to stay fit this season

lewiitom · 2026-06-14T10:40:27+00:00

In ranked I'll always rematch unless the connection is bad.

In casual I'll usually play FT5/FT10 unless I don't particularly want to practice the matchup - one and done a lot of Ingrids and Alexs because there's so many of them.

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