Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.
The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?
Aged 34 years and 320 days, Virgil van Dijk is the second-oldest outfield player in Liverpool's history to play 100% of possible minutes in a league season, behind only Tommy Lucas in 1930-31 (35y 224d). #LFC
So match day home fans are boo-ing, travelling Kop leaving early, more and more on social media saying it has to end, Gerrard speaking out, the likes of Joyce and Pearce slating things, now the playing speaking out or liking posts that do
Surely this has to end, and pretty fast.
There is now serious consideration being given to changing the head coach at Liverpool. It would require an admission higher up that things are beyond repair, but the question is at least now posed, it would also mean a reshuffle above the head coach at the director level.
If you are a Hearts fan you would be feeling like you have been robbed blind. An extraordinary VAR intervention/invention to ensure Celtic stay in the title race. An absolute travesty that football has let officials have this level of influence over match outcomes.
It talks to just how dreary and detestable Arsenal's brand of football is - led by a manager who is massively dislikeable - that they're making the vast majority of neutrals root for the biggest gang of cheats in the history of English football.