Coach Eric Poulter

MacArthur High School Girls Soccer Coach, USSF B

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

When Marcelo Bielsa became Leeds United manager in 2018, he asked a simple question: how long does the average supporter have to work to afford a match ticket?

After learning the answer was around three hours, Bielsa gathered his players and assigned them an unusual task.

Instead of training, they spent the next three hours picking up litter around the club’s training ground.

The exercise wasn’t meant as punishment. Bielsa wanted his squad to understand the effort, sacrifice, and hard work that ordinary fans put in to support their team.

By spending the same amount of time doing manual work, the players were reminded that every ticket purchased represents hours of labor by loyal supporters.

The story became one of the most famous examples of Bielsa’s unique leadership style and his deep respect for football fans.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.

A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.

Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.

You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.

Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.

The lunch was never the variable.

The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.

A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

Fork found in kitchen

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

Girona were absorbed into city group and used as a funnel for city to avoid ffp regulations. Hopefully this serves as a warning shot to clubs.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Girona and Mallorca are relegated from La Liga on the final matchday 📉

Girona were playing Champions League football just last season, and Mallorca have La Liga’s second top scorer this season in Verdat Muriqi (23).

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Since Marie-Louise Eta became Union Berlin's interim head coach:

-Became the first-ever female coach to win a match in Europe's Top 5 Leagues
-Got her second win today in dominant fashion in her final match
-Ensured Union Berlin's Bundesliga survival

What a job she's done 👏

[𝐸 @CuleFermin]

none of the accounts who posted about her first loss are posting about this , it was never about Union it was all about hating on women just for a bunch of interactions🤦‍♂️

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

"Means of production" are resources that have been claimed with force and violence, not created.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Why is it always "seize the means of production" and never "create the means of production"?

[John Pascarella @JPSoccerCoach]

Is practicing swimming strokes on the floor a realistic training environment for learning how to swim in a pool? Then, why would coaches believe that training without opposition or in an environment that lacks competition is game realistic training for soccer? Please explain....

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

Happy May Day

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

tip for younger reporters: point your camera at the thing that’s happening

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

@totermolio Daniel Agger

[Sami 🇹🇷🦇 @SamiRmcf15]

Union Berlin won 2 games in 2026 we never saw tweets like this. She managed only 2 games. It's sad how she's being treated by these disgusting pages. I just looked at the quotes it's full of misogyny.

[gam @mbafraaude]

Xabi llegó con 3 códigos de disciplina: Que llegasen puntuales por la mañana a los entrenamientos, que no saliesen la noche anterior a los partidos y que por favor prestasen atención solo 30 minutos a los vídeos tácticos de preparación al rival.

Los pesos pesados vieron esto como “demasiado exigente” y subieron a la oficina de Florentino a quejarse. Florentino habló con Xabi para que bajase la mano dura un poco y la respuesta de Xabi:

“Lo siento, no sabía que había venido a educar a una guardería de niños”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Klopp

[Davis Mattek @DavisMattek]

Atlas Shrugged is so bad and poorly written that the Simpsons parody of it didn't even have to change any of the names, plotting, or inherent philosophy to make it funny

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

@trouble_man90 When salesmen dont make sales, it's the customers fault. I am a smart businessman.

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

@neeratanden Now do one on Neera Tanden

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

@Eyesandvibes I mean, he did say what he thought the problem was and acted like he wanted to challenge usys infrastructure... you know, before not doing anything like that and selling out to Saudi Arabia

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

@coach_kevin_m I've had a lot of practice with my old u-19s with only 6 showing up in the spring 😅

[Coach Eric Poulter @Coach_E_P]

Why are soccer clubs having tryouts in April?!