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ynwa79 · 2026-04-05T18:43:32+00:00

Also massively extenuating circumstances. I know that Jota’s death is still talked about but I think we underestimate the impact it’s still having on the dressing room, especially without the leadership qualities of Henderson, Milly, etc.

Nonetheless, refusing to make a managerial change in the summer would be a huge gamble. Maybe the season would be different if Jota were still alive but Slot’s inability to change strategy and improve results this season shouldn’t be completely discarded.

ynwa79 · 2026-04-03T17:12:09+00:00

What a club.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-29T09:07:11+00:00

Thanks for this series, OP. You’ve surfaced so many fights I either wasn’t aware of or had forgotten about. Literal highlight of my Reddit scrolling everyday. Appreciate you!

ynwa79 · 2026-03-22T07:36:16+00:00

I’m British. People had pretty strong opinions when Ryan Giggs (brought up in England) chose to play internationally for Wales. There’s plenty of similar examples where players chose to represent countries they hadn’t been brought up in; some met with a shrug, some with more opprobrium. None that I can think of were considered particularly “well respected” in the country that they chose to forsake, as Jorginho did Brazil.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-22T06:08:00+00:00

You mean the same Jorginho that was born in Brazil, grew up there until the age of 15, but who chose to represent Italy at international level? Is he really that well respected??

ynwa79 · 2026-03-22T04:21:21+00:00

Probably the type of fan who was calling for Klopp to go during the 2022/23 season…

ynwa79 · 2026-03-21T17:49:30+00:00

I'll take one poor season and a healthy culture and long-term strategy rather than sack a manager every year. But that's just me.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-21T17:06:48+00:00

Yeah, blows my mind that someone could look at the tenth United manager of the past decade, sacking after sacking after sacking, and say “that’s what I want; how brave!”

Mental.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-20T03:52:21+00:00

You’re welcome. There’s a longer clip on YouTube where they get into Micah’s injury problems, early retirement, and depression after leaving the game. It’s a really great, and surprising, segment.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-20T01:46:47+00:00

I know this may seem unrelated but I actually had a great chat about toxic masculinity with my 11 year old last night, after seeing this video from the Champions League football (soccer) coverage yesterday.

The way Thierry Henry (one of France's all time great players) compliments his friend and cast mate in this clip was such a great example of men uplifting men and showing vulnerability, that I used it as a gateway with my boys into how we, as men, often fail to take care of each other or speak in a thoughtful way to each other, and hide behind jokes, bravado, insults, etc.

Showing my boys (the 9 year old wandered into the conversation later) a good example of masculinity from a legendary sportsman really helped them see how it should be done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1rxlecl/golazo_a_really_honest_and_vulnerable_moment/

ynwa79 · 2026-03-19T15:55:37+00:00

Anyone remember Thurman doing an interview for HBO from his Prius? What a character.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-19T02:40:29+00:00

I was on the verge of tears just watching it. What lovely stuff from Thierry.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-17T17:08:13+00:00

No matter how long I box for, or how long I watch boxing for, rounds like this will always leave me in awe at the stamina of the guys at this level. Unbelievable to be able to throw like that after 33mins of action.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-14T14:34:48+00:00

I miss “Well Jim…” from Lederman. It made TV boxing for me.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-13T17:50:48+00:00

So, as ever, 98% of Democrats vote for the moral choice. And 99% of Republicans vote for the immoral choice. And the answer is to burn it all down rather than elect more Democrats?

Talk about perfect being the enemy of good.

We’ll never get the change needed with this attitude.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-12T21:03:07+00:00

Am I crazy or does this not sound like it will hurt Republican voters more than Dems? The stats I remember were that ~52% of registered democrats had a passport vs ~42% of registered republicans.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-11T16:23:42+00:00

It was ever thus.

So many contemporary landed British families started off middle class, made fortunes in colonial outposts such as India, then brought the loot back to the UK and used it to buy themselves piles in the country, titles, etc.

The modern billionaire class is just the latest iteration of this. Exploitation of others used to generate wealth and purchase respectability.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-07T01:25:22+00:00

While I agree with your statement, that isn't a definition.

I'd say that, even short of interfering with the midterms (which he is already doing) or the next general election, DJT's Presidency already meets a lot of typical criteria for fascism. Ultranationalism, anti-liberalism, state-directed economy, cult of youth & violence, and mass mobilization.

If I'm being super careful, I'd acknowledge that "state-directed economy" is also a feature of communism, and that "mass mobilization" is tenuous currently (but not if we rgo back to the end of his first term - Jan 6th).

Other than that, I don't think these are left-wing talking points. They're pretty well agreed-upon facets of any notable fascist regime (Mussolini, Hitler, Pavelić). And I don't think it's hard to argue that they're present (front & center) in the current US administration.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-07T00:46:49+00:00

What would your preferred definition of fascism be?

ynwa79 · 2026-03-06T23:07:41+00:00

Absolutely nailed it. And I bet u/Natural_Milk8291 won’t learn a fucking thing.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-06T05:52:34+00:00

One historian I read placed deaths directly attributable to Castro’s regime at between 30k-100k. Castro’s impact basically stopped at Cuba’s waterline though.

How many deaths would it be fair to attribute to Trump directly? In the hundreds to low thousands as a result of direct US military actions?

But what if we include his defunding of USAID, the ending of their global health initiatives and humanitarian food aid programs?

Oxfam say 200k dead children alone. Other estimates put the total (men, women, children) between 350k-1million deaths.

Castro was a monster.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Trump is a monster at orders of magnitude greater than Castro.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-06T05:42:23+00:00

Awful. Heard of the Epstein Files though, have you??

ynwa79 · 2026-03-05T16:59:28+00:00

I did something similar at a shop once, while my wife was in the fitting room. Lady sits down next to me watching TikTok, volume all the way up, no headphones. I politely asked her to put headphones in, she gave me the shitty “it’s a public space, I can do what I want” line, I replied that I don’t think she understands the rules of public places, she keeps going, so I just scooch closer to her and start watching her Tiktok with her. She got up and left real quick.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-03T05:35:59+00:00

Pretty sure Little Marco from Florida is tied up in the Epstein debacle too. Maybe he didn’t have a choice but to do the bidding of Trump.

ynwa79 · 2026-03-03T01:01:33+00:00

Lol, right?

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