Ethan Blake

"When he slashed deep into the Ancient Tome with his bronze labrys, light bright as the Sun beamed out. His body filled with vast joy, then disintegrated."

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@ThatG4m Pele

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@FootballFactly Messi is at the top and it’s not close

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@_offside18 Modric

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@MattWalshBlog Sicario
Apocalypse Now
Children of Men
Mean Streets
The Departed
Z
Ran

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

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Always listenable

[Josh Rainer @JoshRainerGold]

Buena Vista Social Club really just made one of the greatest albums of all time and became legends, refused to elaborate, and left

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

That would be amazing

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@MatrixPrime_ It's called hypergamy and it will always exist, always has.

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@venom1s Wow I never thought hypergamy existed, like forever…

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

Oh no! Another week or two of World Cup games 😱

Count me in 🔥

[Soccer Thoughts @_SoccerThoughts]

Everyone is crying about a 64 team World Cup. This doesn’t look that bad to me. Top two go into the round of 32. What’s the problem?

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@_onlyscott Di Maria

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@LegacySiu David villa

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Very cool

[Samyaza Speaks @SamyazaSpeaks]

The Indo-European Experience

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@Boomerang_Kidd @pureMetatron He still can, open source

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@ThatG4m It’s Messi at the top and it’s not even close

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@_onlyscott

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

England manager should have never gone to a low block defensive with 25 min left only up 1 goal.

What was he thinking??

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

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[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

This Spain–France game makes everyone understand one thing, elite midfield will always beat elite attack.

People are obsessed with front threes, goals and individual brilliance, but football has never stopped being a game controlled from the middle of the pitch. An elite attack can only be as dangerous as the platform behind it. If your midfield cannot progress the ball consistently, escape pressure, control transitions or dictate the tempo, then even the world’s best forwards will spend most of the game isolated, feeding on scraps. That’s exactly what happened today.

This is why history keeps repeating itself. The teams that dominate eras are almost always the teams with the strongest midfield, not necessarily the strongest attack.

Spain had Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets. Real Madrid’s three-peat was built on Kroos, Modric and Casemiro. Manchester City became the best team in Europe because they controlled games through Rodri, De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva. Even Barcelona’s MSN only reached their highest level because Iniesta, Busquets and Rakitic gave them complete control of matches.

People often think football is won in the boxes, but before the ball reaches either box, there’s a battle for territory, possession and control. That battle is fought in midfield.

An elite midfield doesn’t just create chances. It decides the rhythm of the game. It decides whether the game is chaotic or calm. It decides where the ball is played, when attacks begin, how quickly transitions are stopped, and whether the opposition’s stars even get enough touches to influence the match.

That’s why you’ll often see world-class attackers disappear in big games. It isn’t always because they had a poor performance; it’s because the midfield behind them lost control. No striker, winger or No. 10 can consistently dominate when every touch comes under pressure, every pass arrives late, and every attack starts 60 metres from goal.

People say goals win games, but midfields create the conditions for goals to happen.

You can have Mbappe, Haaland, Vinicius, Salah or any elite attacker. If the opposition controls possession, wins second balls, dominates the centre, and dictates the tempo, those attackers become passengers for large parts of the game.

That’s why, if I were building a team from scratch, my biggest investment would always be in midfield first. Elite attacks win moments. Elite midfields win matches. Over the course of a season or an entire tournament the team that consistently controls midfield usually ends up lifting the trophy.

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

No mistakes pure class

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

Rodri vs France

Reupload

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@BeatinTheBookie I mean he won it in 2018

[Ethan Blake @EthanBlake_LTL]

@ploughmansfolly Rodri played great too