Do you understand the aura and skill it takes to order in French, in Paris, and have the waiter not immediately revert to English?
This is like when Ronaldinho had the Bernabeu on its feet applauding him.
Truly the greatest to ever do it.
Fucking why?! Its a train. It runs on rails. Why is this being treated like some impossible engineering problem that we just can't solve? Why is this country so fucking useless?
BREAKING: Chelsea have been handed a suspended one-year ban from signing first-team players, a nine-month ban from registering academy players and given a £10million fine from the Premier League relating to breaches of financial rules during Roman Abramovich's time as owner.
Wolves going down with a fight and a song. “One-nil to the Championship.” Very good from Wolves fans in embarrassing Villa. Wolves will lose players in the summer - Santiago Bueno will inevitably be sought after, so will Joao Gomes and Mateus Mane, probably others. Ladislav Krejci’s obligation-to-buy loan will be made permanent but then?
Wolves fans will make sure they don’t lose the fighting spirit – which they will need in abundance in the Championship jungle - but it needs Fosun to show real leadership - and shrewder recruitment. You can't keep selling key players and expecting to survive.
Wolves sold so much talent, £300m+, in past three years. Ruben Neves, Matheus Nunes, Pedro Neto, Max Kilman, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Matheus Cunha and Jorgen Strand Larsen (even with his drop in form while distracted). They never replaced them with sufficient quality or experience. (Not only Fosun, Vitor Pereira also at fault). So much in football comes down to strong, savvy leadership, on and off the field. Wolves need more of it. #Wolves
“I do not think this is a moral thing for you to do...”
Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.
#Newsnight
@LiamKeen_Star A squad with a real lack of quality in every important aspect of premier league football. No passers, no dribblers, no speed, no set piece takers. Not a single player opposition teams fear. Spineless.
@MrRyanLeister If Toti sets foot on that pitch next week as our captain it’s an absolute disgrace. I have never seen a performance like it, forget the footballing side that was bad enough, but constsntly walking, hands on hips, head down. Embarrassing.
I had absolutely no idea just how fragile Mo Salah's ego was...
He's been playing poorly for some time now - has been arguably Liverpool's worst player this season - and as a result he's been put on the bench.
That's football.
That's elite-level sport.
This is the time to knuckle down and earn your money, not go nuclear on the manager, the media and the club.
What a sad and sorry ending this is to Mohamed Salah's Premier League career.
Egyptian King? No chance.
Egyptian Princess. Now that's more fitting.
“you said you were only in this fight because of other peoples failures: do you think today was an example of that?”
max: “another one, yeah. i don’t think today was about [mclaren] playing too fair today, just missing a whole pitstop opportunity.”
There’s genuinely nowhere you can go with this squad of players.
You can’t sit deep and counter.
You can’t press high.
You can’t play in behind.
You can’t build through the thirds.
We’ve tried slinging balls into the box.
How the fuck have we managed to get into this position?
I’m not sure I’ve seen a PL team with the lack of quality this team has. There is no way you can battle week in week out and expect to get many results.
I have a brilliant idea: Since there's a lot of this sort of thing to be done, we could all get together and elect a couple of dozen leading local people (a "Council'), put them in charge of this kind of work, and levy a tax ('Council Tax') on households to defray the expenses.