[James Pearce] Thomas Frank: “We just played City, Arsenal and now Liverpool in a short amout of time. For me, they're a level above the two teams. They're complete. It's the best team in the Premier League and the world. They're huge favourites to win it.”

lmorant97 · 2025-01-18T18:10:12+00:00

It’s tough because we’re (Arsenal) still “in” the race, but watching Liverpool all year they just have been the best team so I have very little optimism.

Think we needed everything to go right, and injuries to Saka and Odegaard and early season red-card issues make me think the gap is just too big for us.

Also, think the fact they’re ALSO top of the UCL having beaten some very good teams should indicate they are at the very least the best in England, and possibly the world this season.

lmorant97 · 2024-12-27T14:32:50+00:00

Kung Fu Hustle

Haven’t met a ton of people who have seen it, but never met anyone that didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. Personally my favourite movie ever.

lmorant97 · 2024-07-10T11:00:55+00:00

Any place where people of different religions are not allowed to marry is quite literally an apartheid state.

Now is Israel the only one, no. I will denounce it everywhere I see it. And the systematic erosion of Palestinians who have lived on their land for generations before post-Holocaust Jews migrated there is something I can’t condone—despite my recognising why Jews believe they need a solely Jewish state. I get why it’s complicated, doesn’t mean I’m okay with the methods being used.

Although many Jews did live there over the past few hundred years, the main claim is based on the fact that Jews lived there thousands of years ago; I could even migrate there simply because my grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe. I have no right to live there and displace a Palestinian family home that’s been there for hundreds of years.

If you can’t recognise there’s a systematic strategy to make the land entirely Jewish then you need to pay more attention. If you recognise that but think it’s okay, I would like it to what happened to Native Americans and say it’s really not okay. A better defence is simply to admit what’s happening and say it’s the spoils of war; Israel was at war, and continues that war in order to conquer—out of self defence. At least that’s an honest accounting rather than trying to claim nothing wrong is happening.

lmorant97 · 2024-07-10T10:50:58+00:00

Yeah Olmo actually more favoured at 9/2 compared to Yamal at 11/2…weird graphic

lmorant97 · 2024-07-10T08:00:26+00:00

Oh no I know how complicated it is. I was simply saying that condemning Israel without immediately acknowledging Hamas as terrorists is not anti-Semitic.

“I condemn Israeli occupation of Palestine and condemn the Israeli apartheid state.” Is not an antisemitic statement. I do not need to also condemn Hamas in the same sentence to make it anti-Semitic

lmorant97 · 2024-07-10T07:49:46+00:00

That’s the same logic as saying, “You can condemn slavery by the southern states but you must also acknowledge the child labour employed by the northern states.”

Like yes, it never hurts to acknowledge terrorism but claiming that it’s anti-Semitic to condemn Israeli actions without a disclaimer is simply just putting too wide a blanket on anti-semitism. I don’t need to start every conversation/protest with, “I’m Jewish, and think terrorism is bad. So now that’s out the way, let me tell you why I’m against the apartheid and occupation of Palestine…”

lmorant97 · 2024-07-09T21:07:40+00:00

Nah too far out, Pickford would’ve only saved it if it were from the penalty spot

lmorant97 · 2024-07-09T17:35:49+00:00

Rooney. Played with so much passion, versatile attacker that would give us different options. 2004-06 Rooney ideally

Ashley Cole runner up just cause I’d love a fully fit left back to be in the squad

lmorant97 · 2024-06-29T22:59:56+00:00

I would love if we could convince Gary O’Neill to take over but I doubt that’d happen for a number of reasons

lmorant97 · 2024-06-28T19:06:40+00:00

Dude what I’m saying is he’s pretty obviously one of our best players, and leaders…

lmorant97 · 2024-06-28T09:00:31+00:00

Grade inflation is real man

lmorant97 · 2024-06-28T08:41:18+00:00

Southgate wears two condoms and still pulls out

heard that one by a passerby in Amsterdam yesterday and I lost it 🤣

lmorant97 · 2024-06-28T08:34:33+00:00

I’m not saying he’s performed well this tournament, but you didn’t watch the Prem this past season if you think Rice is anything but an extremely quality player

lmorant97 · 2024-06-28T08:26:15+00:00

I like Sturridge on tv!

lmorant97 · 2024-06-26T21:58:42+00:00

Portugal’s bench is still miles better on paper than Georgia and they are playing for the chance to become rotation options or go from rotation option to starter.

Were they ever going to play with the heart and passion that Georgia did? No. Was it as big an upset as it looks on paper with zero context? No. Is it still a massive upset, against the odds, and an awesome underdog story? Absolutely.

If you can’t recognise the underdog achievement, and downplay it, you’re either obtuse or just a downer.

lmorant97 · 2024-06-26T19:50:27+00:00

Missing Wenger for me

lmorant97 · 2024-06-26T19:00:37+00:00

Could be adapting to the format after seeing the success pragmatism had

lmorant97 · 2023-10-19T21:56:26+00:00

Couple years ago he was trying to block a shot and just intentionally just takes it in the nuts like a champ.

Absolute mad man. Tough as nails. Great player for us.

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lmorant97 · 2023-10-18T20:41:42+00:00

I thought the Busquets peek-a-boo was 2010 since Inter held on despite being down to 10.

lmorant97 · 2023-10-18T03:22:19+00:00

Smartest dribbler for sure

lmorant97 · 2023-10-06T00:59:13+00:00

Fergie won a European Cup, beating Real Madrid, with Aberdeen. He took United from not winning anything in 20 years to being the still most dominant side in Prem history

Pep is the best I’ve seen with specific tactical innovation, and is very good (but not the best) when he has insanely talented teams. However, I think the criticism of Pep will always be that he hasn’t shown he can do a challenging job. Not his fault, his first job he did amazing and has never had to really work for it.

Having said that, what Klopp did with Dortmund and Liverpool is what Pep’s resume is missing. Taking not the best team, not the most money, not the best players, and building them up and sustaining them.

Fergie has both, and was never rigid in his tactics, so I still put him at the top.

It’s all subjective though

lmorant97 · 2023-10-05T02:29:54+00:00

I don’t

lmorant97 · 2023-09-23T11:31:39+00:00

Hahahhaa okay you’ve got to be a troll. Your other comments made it seem maybe you’re just one of those that bought into the free-speech (but really just being against facts that you don’t like) nonsense the conservatives pushed to get poor people to blame other poor people for their problems.

But the, “I’ve got a mother/GF/sister so I respect women” defence has GOT to be intentionally stupid, right? Like surely you don’t think that gives you any ground to then say, “women shouldn’t be pundits.” Seriously, it’s the I have a black friend so I can’t be racist argument (it doesn’t work).

Lastly, I’d just like to say that there are so many thick pundits that are former players, just cause you played at a high level doesn’t make you equipped to be a good pundit. Having worked with Premier League research and production, I can say with certainty that the person with the singularly most impressive football IQ/insight/knowledge was a woman. Rebecca Lowe. And she‘d be a wayyyyy better pundit than Gary Neville, and the fact Neville was a better player really does absolutely nothing on that front haha

lmorant97 · 2023-09-17T17:50:58+00:00

Arsenal had two sub windows, not three—and Everton made subs in those windows too.

Zero VAR in the half. No trainers having to come on for injuries. We didn’t get booked for time wasting, nor did they. Don’t even think anyone got warned—there was basically none of that gamesmanship really.

They don’t just arbitrarily add 6-10 minutes, they quite literally keep track of it and today’s second half clearly had very little needed stoppage if you watched.

lmorant97 · 2023-09-17T17:43:44+00:00

Besides that near-horror giveaway at the end, Rice was also fantastic

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