The Time Heist accidentally created Doctor Doom
In Endgame, Tony and Cap stole 4 vials of Pym Particles from 1970. The Infinity Stones were returned, but those particles never were.
Imagine Hank Pym blamed Howard Stark for the theft. S.H.I.E.L.D. turns on him. Howard and a pregnant Maria are forced into exile, hiding in the mountains of Latveria.
Their son grows up with Tony Stark's genius, but without the Stark fortune. No Avengers. No Iron Man. Just a lifetime of resentment toward the heroes who destroyed his family before he was even born.
Tony Stark's face. Tony Stark's mind.
Victor von Doom.
With the World Cup underway and 26/27 kits leaking daily, I figured I would start posting my 27/28 kit predictions. Please remember these are VERY early predictions based on what limited knowledge I have (including templates)
So let's start with #Arsenal and #RealMadrid
Ah, the 2022/23 season, my fellow Gooners.
What a ride that was.
Let's relieve it, shall we?
From the first whistle to the last, Mikel Arteta’s young side served up football that made the Emirates pulse like it was the old Highbury days reborn. Beautiful, fluid, relentless – the kind of stuff that had us dreaming of the title for the first time in years. Jesus linking it all, Zinchenko inverting like a magician, Xhaka reborn as a goal-scoring dynamo, Saka and Martinelli tearing down the flanks… pure poetry in red and white.
We came into the campaign buzzing after a solid fifth the year before, but nobody outside the Marble Halls really believed we’d go toe-to-toe with the big boys (I didn't, to be fair).
Then the new boys arrived: Gabriel Jesus from City, all swagger and clever movement up top, and Oleksandr Zinchenko, that left-footed wizard who turned our build-up into something silky and unpredictable.
August hit and we were off like a rocket. Wins flowed: Nottingham Forest smashed 5-0, Liverpool taken down at Anfield? No, wait, we lost that one narrowly, but the response was ferocious.
By the time the leaves started falling we were top of the table, playing football that made you lean forward in your seat. Quick combinations, high press, players rotating positions – Arteta had them pressing, passing, huffing and puffing, and progressing like a well-oiled machine.
Jesus was dropping deep, creating space for the wingers; Martinelli was a blur on the left, Saka a constant menace on the right with those cut-ins and whipped crosses. Ødegaard pulling strings as captain, and Granit Xhaka… oh mate, what a transformation. From midfield anchor to box-crashing goal threat – nine in the league, seven assists, the man was everywhere. And we were learning to love him again!
We led the Premier League for 248 days.
248!
Best start in club history for a while. 26 wins, 88 goals scored – equalling records, third-highest points tally ever at 84.
London derbies won, United put to the sword in dramatic fashion, Brighton dismantled. The football? Fluid. Incisive. Joyful. You’d watch highlights on a loop, marvelling at how far we’d come from the dark days. Saliba and Gabriel a wall at the back, Ramsdale confident between the sticks. The kids – our academy spine – growing into men right before our eyes.
But football, eh? Cruel mistress. The World Cup break disrupted rhythm, injuries bit (Jesus missing key months hurt), and that final stretch… we ran out of steam. Three wins from the last nine, slips against City, Brighton, the lot. City, relentless as ever, pipped us.
Second place, though – Champions League football secured after too many years away. A breakthrough season, no question. We went from outsiders to genuine contenders, playing football that had the whole country talking about “Arsenal again.”
Jesus with his link-up and movement, Zinchenko inverting and unlocking the left, Xhaka surging forward like a new man, Saka and Martinelli terrorising full-backs week in, week out – those lads had us believing.
We dreamed big, and while the trophy didn’t come, the hope did. Arteta built something real. Something sustainable – something ours. Make no mistake, it was a slow but sure, painful process. We had to be patient.
Bring on the next chapter, because that season? It tasted like the start of something massive – that culminated in lifting the title after 22 yeats just a few days age. Up the Arsenal. COYG.
Why do FIFA hide behind drinks breaks to give American fans an advert. Is their attention that bad they can’t focus for 45-mins at home
The game is 2 x 45-min halves, not 4 x 22.5 minute quarters
FIFA (supposedly) has rules for broadcasters during World Cup hydration breaks.
Fox broke them during the very first game, and even missed match action showing commercials...
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Both went for similar transfer fees
Both English
Both into the last year of their respective contracts
The £105M DM who’s poor technically just won the Premier League where far more technically, gifted players haven’t
So far you haven’t provided any valid reason as to why Rice’s transfer is so bad
Arsenal since signing Rice
Season 1: Most goals scored by an Arsenal team in a PL season EVER. 2nd highest points tally by an Arsenal Team EVER.
Season 2: Most goals scored in the UCL by an Arsenal team EVER. Most wins in a UCL campaign EVER. First Semi Final in 16 years. Closed Real Madrid’s roof
Season 3: Premier League CHAMPIONS for first time in 22 years. UCL FINALISTS for the first time in 20 years.
“Decline”
Arsenal since signing Rice
Season 1: Most goals scored by an Arsenal team in a PL season EVER. 2nd highest points tally by an Arsenal Team EVER.
Season 2: Most goals scored in the UCL by an Arsenal team EVER. Most wins in a UCL campaign EVER. First Semi Final in 16 years. Closed Real Madrid’s roof
Season 3: Premier League CHAMPIONS for first time in 22 years. UCL FINALISTS for the first time in 20 years.
“Decline”
Bayern Munich paid £86.4m despite Harry Kane having only one season left at Spurs
You’re also forgetting Man City bid £90M for Declan Rice which was rejected
When two or more clubs decide a player’s the missing piece to win major honours, the selling club holds the leverage and a bidding war can push the price well beyond what his contract length alone would suggest