Aaron West

I build digital bridges. Driving ⚽️ culture in this country since 09. @DavidsonCollege alum. Views are mine & yours in the future. Email: [email protected]

[FUTA @futaspor]

🇭🇹 🇵🇱 Haiti Milli Takımı, Dünya Kupası’nda giyeceği resmi formalarına Polonya bayrağını ekledi.

Bu bir tasarım hatası değil, iki halk arasında yüzyıllardır süren dostluğun sembolü.

1802 yılında Napolyon, Polonya Lejyonları’ndan binlerce askeri Haiti’deki köle ayaklanmasını bastırmak için adaya gönderdi. Ancak birçok Polonyalı asker, özgürlük mücadelesi veren Haitililere karşı savaşmayı reddederek onların safına geçti ve Fransız ordusuna karşı birlikte mücadele etti.

Haiti’nin 1804’te bağımsızlığını kazanmasının ardından ülkenin ilk lideri Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Polonyalılara vatandaşlık verdi ve onları anayasında “Avrupa’nın Siyahları” olarak tanımlayarak büyük bir onur gösterdi.

Aradan 200 yılı aşkın süre geçmesine rağmen Haiti, Polonyalıların dayanışmasını unutmadı. Bugün futbolcular formalarında taşıdıkları Polonya bayrağıyla, özgürlük uğruna verilen ortak mücadelenin hatırasını yaşatıyor.

[Aaron West @oeste]

every single olivia miles highlight i see looks like a 5 year veteran, 4 year all star player 🤣🤣

[Minnesota Lynx @minnesotalynx]

HAD HER LOST. 😱

[Aaron West @oeste]

cole palmer stealing the ice cold celebration from morgan rogers, trademarking it, then not making the world cup squad where rogers can show it off is delicious irony to me

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

England players hitting their trademark celes during their World Cup photoshoot 🥶

[Aaron West @oeste]

gonna be wild seeing chris wood in a real madrid shirt

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 @JLSanchez78: "I'm telling you: the €150M player is A BOMB, A BOMB, A BOMB.

It's SO UNEXPECTED.

When they told me his name, I was frozen in shock."

[total Barça @totalBarca]

🚨 Jules Kounde has brought a PlayStation 1 to the French camp 🇫🇷

[richard @richard_normal]

ruining your first home finals game in three decades up 2-0 so the worlds fattest pedophile can nod off in a private box >>>

[MLS Gone Wild ⭐️ @MLSGoneWild]

Sebastian Berhalter with the NASTY elastico nutmeg!

#USMNT

[Aaron West @oeste]

tbf if you ever been to chicago when it's sunny you would move different too

[Aaron West @oeste]

chicago crowd got sebastian berhalter moving like ronaldinho, this is crazy

[Aaron West @oeste]

not sure what was better, that antonee robinson strike or the crowd pop when it hit the back of the net

[Aaron West @oeste]

@Ben_Mattinson_ @karthikadhaigal

[Aaron West @oeste]

spain are toying with england, this is wild

[Aaron West @oeste]

patri guijarro is insane. what a player

[Aaron West @oeste]

@connector102 @meagsaysthings yeah you can gfy, goodbye

[Aaron West @oeste]

world cup preparation in the US is so funny. the concept of mo salah and the egyptian national team in cleveland, ohio is ridiculous to me.

[Aaron West @oeste]

imagine listening to the opinions of someone on an art form like football and they don’t even listen to music. not even shitty music. just talksport lmfao. no wonder bro is so damn miserable constantly

[The Good, The Bad & The Football @goodbadftblpod]

Paul Scholes NEVER listens to music! 😳🎶

[Aaron West @oeste]

@HopSkipBeats it’s not funny, but you strike me as someone with a fantastic sense of humor about the situation so i’m gonna allow myself to laugh at your behest lol

[Aaron West @oeste]

i’m crying cuz why did cherki crouch like that? he’s a step below, he wouldn’t block anyone if he completely stood up lmaaaaoooooo 😭

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

L’équipe !

[Aaron West @oeste]

smiling through it all, can’t believe my life

📸: @CCupo

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.

[Aaron West @oeste]

this the first time i’ve said this about a cop, but he was in the right.

[New York Post @nypost]

Cop arrested, fired for allegedly pointing gun at fellow officer who microwaved fish at police station https://t.co/DkE9a4Vx4h

[Aaron West @oeste]

stumbleupon, easily

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?