Kingmooch 💙🤍 #enicout

TTID… levy sold Kane… #stopexploitingloyalty… #coysdaniel

[Kingmooch 💙🤍 #enicout @Kingmooch]

COYS, Daniel

[Stop That Titi @StopThatTiti]

Westway!!

[Irish Football Pics @irish_pics]

Chris Hughton & Alan McLoughlin at Italia 90.

Hughton’s t shirt 👏🏻

[dank @cptdankkk]

Draymond Green says basketball is no longer a poor kid's game: “It's a rich kid's game”

“I didn't learn how to do a proper individual workout till I got to college. Growing up I'm going to hoop. Where's the nearest run. Drop me off, I'll play all day. That's what we did. We hooped all day. I think there's a huge benefit to that because you just learn to see the game”

“It's different when somebody just putting you in a position to tell you to do this move. How do you use your creativity? How do you learn if somebody just say do this? How do you know what your game is if you never tap into it and just figure it out”

“I think there's a time and place for a trainer and I think with where the game has gone, you need those resources in order to be successful”

“I feel like basketball used to be a poor man's game. Poor kids played it. We were poor. We had nothing and it was our way out. Basketball is not a poor kid's game no more. Basketball is a rich kid game”

“The days of seeing LeBron James from Akron, Ohio, from a single mom, those days are numbered. Because if you don't have the resources these days, you can't make it. But that’s also why you don't see as great basketball as you did before, because there's no imagination”

“Everybody's doing the same thing, playing the same way. I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers. You just become a carbon copy of somebody else the trainer created”

[PFA @PFA]

The ever-impressive Eric Dier. A future manager in the making? 🤔

Watch him mic'd up live in action on his UEFA B Licence, coaching the AS Monaco academy.

[Nathan @NathanAClark]

oh hellllllll yes dude

[Talking THFC @TalkingTHFC]

PALHINHA BOMBA! 💣🇵🇹 #thfc

Well, ish. Class chat. What a guy.

My first day on holiday in the Algarve with the family.

To my amazement, who do I bump in to in my hotel? João Palhinha!

Couldn't believe it.

Chatted for a while about last season and asked the obvious, "Are you staying?"

JP: "I would like it, yes."

Me: "How's it going?"

JP: "Negotiating. Lazy."

Me: "Lazy? From Spurs?"

JP: "Yes."

Me: "Trying to get the price down with Bayern?"

JP: "yeah, yeah. [Pointed at his brother - his agent??] We will see."

Cba to write out the whole chat, lol. Can tell he was keen on sticking around. Both laughed about tight ol' Tottenham trying to get his price down. Loved the Van Hecke signing & was super proud to have helped kept us up. Proper COYS no matter the outcome. 🤍

(It was suncream, ok?)

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Michael Elgort @just_whatever]

This person in the video has built a regression model on Lionel Messi’s (@TeamMessi) longevity and scoring ability and according to it Messi is about 8 standard deviations away from the curve (8 sigma). It is so rare in one tailed probability that the chance for someone like Messi to appear in this world is 1 in 1.61 quadrillion meaning Messi is virtually impossible and mathematically infinitesimally rare

To understand how small a 1 in 1.61 quadrillion chance is, compare it to this: Powerball Jackpot gives you a chance of winning the lottery with roughly 1 in 292 million chance. You are about 5.5 million times more likely to win the Powerball jackpot on a single ticket than to see an 8-sigma event

For comparison you can see image with @Cristiano Ronaldo in the next post, who is also an outlier, but the chance of seeing someone like him is way more likely

[Paul McGrath @Paulmcgrath5]

32 years ago today Ireland V Italy Giants Stadium ⚽️🇮🇪

What an honour to have played in a World Cup

#thenandnow
#jacksarmy

[ITV7 Football @itv7football]

'I ******* said Muller!' 😡

The latest edition of ITV7's with @WeAreTheOverlap did not disappoint 😂

[Ada Cotugno @ada_cotugno]

I giocatori dell'Inghilterra vanno a salutare i tifosi e loro rispondono cantando Wonderwall. Sono tutti emozionati, ma Bellingham è proprio su un altro pianeta

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

9 - Harry Kane has the most knockout stage goals of any European player across the UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup in history (9).

Capable.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Hat-trick in the German Cup Final

Goals home and away against PSG in the UCL semis

Goals home and away against Real Madrid in the UCL quarters

14 in 13 in the UCL across 2025/26

33 in 38 UCL games for Bayern

Goal in the Euro semi v Netherlands

Goal in the Euro R16 in 2024

Scored v France in the World Cup QF

Scored v Senegal in the World Cup R16

Scored v Germany in the Euro R16

Scored 2 in the Euro QF

Scored in the Euro SF

Is England’s all-time top scorer with 81 in 115 appearances, 28 goals clear of Wayne Rooney in 5 fewer appearances

The fastest player to 100 goals in Bayern Munich history

Has won a World Cup Golden Boot

Has just scored 64 goals for Bayern in a single season

Stop this.

[Giuseppe Latorraca @GiuseLatorraca2]

Di lui, Cruyff disse: “Se fosse nato in un paese povero in Brasile o Argentina,con la palla come unica via d'uscita, oggi sarebbe riconosciuto come il più grande genio di sempre".
Beati voi che siete troppo giovani per averlo visto vincere con la Juve. Oggi compie 62 anni.Auguri!

[George Sessions @GeorgeSessions]

Genuinely crazy that the two English people to ever achieve this feat were both born in Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, attended Chingford Secondary School and played for Ridgeway Rovers 🤯

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

¡¡EL FÚTBOL TIENE MEJORES HISTORIAS QUE EL CINE!!

✅ En 1994, Alfie Haaland, Goran Sorloth y Erik Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.

✅ En 2026, Erling Haaland, Alexander Sorloth y Kristian Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.

Padres e hijos representando a su país en el torneo más importante que existe. El círculo se completó, señoras y señores.

FÚTBOL EN LA SANGRE.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Stanley Kubrick demanded 70 takes from actors. He let this medically discharged Marine improvise.
In 1985, R. Lee Ermey stood on a film set in England with nothing but memories and a voice that could cut through steel. He was not supposed to be there. Not as an actor, anyway.
Stanley Kubrick had hired him as a technical advisor for Full Metal Jacket. The role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was already cast with a trained professional. Ermey's job was to teach actors how drill instructors actually behaved.
But Ermey had spent years watching Hollywood get it wrong. He approached Kubrick with a request that bordered on audacity.
"Let me show you what a real drill instructor sounds like."
Kubrick was skeptical. This was a director who shot scenes 40, 50, sometimes 70 times until they were perfect. He controlled every word. Every gesture. Every breath.
But he agreed to watch.
Ermey positioned actors in formation. The cameras rolled. And he began screaming.
For two hours, he unleashed a torrent of creative, devastating verbal assault. Stagehands pelted him with tennis balls and oranges to simulate chaos. He never flinched. Never broke rhythm. Never repeated himself.
Because he wasn't acting.
He was remembering.
Ronald Lee Ermey had enlisted in the Marines at seventeen after a Kansas judge gave him a choice: jail or the military. He chose the Corps. From 1965 to 1967, he served as a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, breaking down civilians and rebuilding them as Marines.
In 1968, he deployed to Vietnam for fourteen months.
Then injuries ended his career. Medical discharge. Twenty-seven years old. No college degree. No plan.
He drifted to the Philippines, enrolled in university using his GI Bill, and stumbled into film work as a technical advisor. Small roles followed. A helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now. A drill instructor in The Boys in Company C.
But nothing that changed his life.
Until Kubrick watched those tapes.
The director saw something no acting class could manufacture: authenticity so complete it became art. Ermey had produced 150 pages of original insults. His intensity never wavered. His knowledge was absolute.
Kubrick made a decision almost unheard of in his career.
He fired the original actor. He gave Ermey the role. And he allowed him to improvise more than half of his own dialogue.
Stanley Kubrick, the perfectionist who demanded endless takes from every performer, needed only two or three takes from a former drill instructor with no formal training.
Because you cannot fake what is real.
When Full Metal Jacket premiered in 1987, Ermey's performance became instantly iconic. Real drill instructors said it was the most accurate portrayal ever filmed. Veterans said it triggered memories they had buried for decades.
Ermey earned a Golden Globe nomination. He went on to appear in over sixty films. He voiced Sarge in Toy Story. He hosted military programs on the History Channel.
But he never forgot his brothers and sisters in uniform.
In 2002, the Marine Corps awarded him an honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant, making him the only retiree in Corps history to receive that recognition. He spent years visiting troops overseas, supporting veterans, and keeping the military spirit alive.
R. Lee Ermey passed away on April 15, 2018. The Marine Corps called him a great American and an even greater Marine.
Think about that journey.
A troubled teenager from Kansas. A drill instructor. A combat veteran. A medical discharge. Odd jobs in foreign countries. And then, at forty-three, convincing one of cinema's most demanding directors to trust him with creative freedom.
He did not succeed because he pretended to be something he wasn't.
He succeeded because he refused to be anything else.
That is not a Hollywood story.
That is a Marine who improvised, adapted, and overcame, all the way to immortality.