Gianni Infantino’s vulgar, grasping, Italian-Swiss corruption really does make one long for the halcyon days of Sepp Blatter and his elegant, refined, German-Swiss corruption.
A chat with Tim Cocker about why and how he bagged Pro D2 broadcast rights. One of my favourite stories of the season.
🚙 Opted to buy them over a family car
💻 2,500 concurrent viewers
🎤 First-ever commentaries
🥚 Bringing EggChasers enthusiasm
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🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗: At 19 years and 136 days old, Kenan Yildiz becomes Juventus' youngest goalscorer in Champions League history ahead of Alessandro Del Piero, who was 20 years and 308 days old.
#UCL
I’ve seen players get scolded by their own supporters after a heavy loss, but Cagliari’s Flamingo mascot being subject to this dressing-down after a 4-0 loss to Napoli has absolutely finished me
New York City paid Mckinsey $4m to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash bins are better than leaving garbage on the street.
The deck is 95-slides long and titled “The Future of Trash”.
Some highlights:
▫️The official term is “containerization”, which is the “storage of waste in sealed, rodent-proof receptacles rather than in plastic bags placed directly on the curb.”
▫️Two main types of containerization: 1) individual bins for low density locales; 2) shared containers for high-density.
▫️NYC needs to clean up 24,000,000lbs of garbage a day
▫️Containerization has only become the norm worldwide in major cities in the past 15 years.
▫️New York City first considered containerization in the 1970s but never conducted a feasibility study until now (Mckinsey’s sales team has been dropping the ball)
▫️Key considerations for container viability:
• POPULATION DENSITY: NYC has 30k residents per square mile (more dense than comparable big cities)
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Few places to “hide” containers due to history of infrastructure development.
• WEATHER: Snow creates challenges for “mechanized collection” in the winter.
• CURB SPACE: Mostly taken up by bus stops, bike lanes, outdoor dining and fire hydrants.
• COLLECTION FREQUENCY: NYC needs to double frequency of pick-up for estimated speed of trash that bins would accumulate.
• FLEET: A new garbage truck will needs to be designed to collect rolling bins at scale.
▫️ The proposed solution (literally garbage bins and shared containers) covers 89% of NYC streets and 77% of residential tonnage.
▫️The three case studies — because you gotta have solid case studies — are Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona.
▫️There is a slide called “Why containerization matters” and three reasons are “rats”, “pedestrian obstruction” and “dirty streets” (the 21-year intern that did this slide billed at prob $10k an hour is my hero).
The study is actually pretty interesting.
I have no idea if $4m is a rip-off to learn that “yeah, we should put garbage in bins so rats don’t eat it” but I would have happily done it for 10-20% of that budget (and come to a similar conclusion).
On this day, 64 years ago, at Congo’s independence ceremony, Patrice Lumumba gave his famous speech denouncing colonialism. Less than seven months later, he was assassinated.
I'm not saying an Italian club winning the #UEL is overdue but since Parma's win in 1999...Parma went into administration and bankruptcy in separate decades, the cup changed its name, 1 beaten finalist no longer exists, Sevilla won it 7 times & 9 of Atalanta's squad weren't born.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Dan Ashworth email blunder opens door to tapping up probe
📧 Ashworth sent message to NUFC account revealing secret exchange with incoming Man Utd chief Omar Berrada (on Man City gardening leave) BEFORE formal approach
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