Max Dowman has been presented with ๐๐๐๐๐ Guinness World Records! ๐
๐ฅ Youngest player to appear in the UEFA Champions League, aged 15 years and 308 days
๐ฅ Youngest goalscorer in Premier League history, aged 16 years and 73 days
๐ฅ Youngest player to win the Premier League, aged 16 years and 144 days
Three records before turning 17. What a talent. ๐
SAN SIRO MIRACLE! ๐ด๐ค vs ๐ต๐ด
On February 20, 2013, AC Milan shocked the world by defeating Barcelona 2-0 in the Champions League !
Allegriโs tactical setup shut down prime tiki-taka, while goals from Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari sealed an iconic night in Milan!
14 years ago today, JAY-Z took the subway to his Barclays Center show and sat next to 67-year-old artist Ellen Grossman in a moment that went viral ๐
"Are you famous?"
"Yes. Not very famous, you don't know me. But I'll get there someday."
๐ต๐น Ronaldo Has Become a Parody of Himself
๐ Narcissism: an excessive preoccupation with oneself, accompanied by a craving for admiration and an inflated sense of one's own importance.
Iโm not diagnosing Cristiano Ronaldo. Iโm describing behaviour.
And his extraordinary 1,740 word tantrum provides quite the case study.
This entire saga began because a 41 year old footballer was told he might play 30 minutes for Portugal and then didn't. Jorge Jesus changed his mind during a match. Ronaldo considered this betrayal worthy of a manifesto.
Then comes the truly extraordinary part.
Ronaldo reveals that a document was prepared detailing what Jesus should say publicly. Among the proposed lines was an apology for warming up someone of the "stature of Pele or Diego Maradona" without bringing him on.
Imagine the staggering vanity required to approve those words about yourself and then publish them believing they strengthen your case.
Portugal created this monster.
For years they indulged Ronaldo, massaged the ego and hoped Father Time might eventually introduce the realism nobody around him possessed the courage to provide.
They waited too long.
Last week I asked whether anybody in Portuguese football had the balls to tell Ronaldo his time was up.
Jorge Jesus finally did.
Ronaldo responded like a pampered child being told no. He left the camp, blamed others and has now produced nearly 2,000 words explaining why Cristiano Ronaldo remains the victim in the continuing tragedy of Cristiano Ronaldo.
He even wants "one or more farewell matches". Naturally. Apparently even his goodbye requires a tour.
An extraordinary footballer has become a deeply embarrassing spectacle.
Father Time won.
Ronaldo simply cannot accept the result.
โ๏ธ P.S. Last time I dared question Ronaldo, the cult descended. So, for clarity, as a footballer and athlete he was extraordinary, one of the greatest we've ever seen. I donโt need his goal statistics from the Saudi league waved at me as proof that he somehow remains an elite footballer. My eyes have told me for years that heโs washed at the highest level. His devoted following can continue to delude themselves if they wish. His reputation cannot outrun reality forever.
This is the real Ferran Soriano - one of the central characters in the Manchester City cheating scandal.
โช๏ธ Inspired by Picasso (and a car tycoon)
โช๏ธ What explains his โIcemanโ nickname
โช๏ธ Being Cityโs โDr Noโ - inc. on Maguire deal
โช๏ธ Controversies in Spain
โช๏ธ Revolutionary Barcelona bonus schemes
โช๏ธ โฆ and why he drove a Nissan
๐ @DTathletic
๐ https://t.co/UmBhvHgDIO
๐ดโช๏ธ ๐๐๐๐ HAS SOMEHOW BECOME THE STANDARD EVERYONE ELSE GETS TO ESCAPE.
Kvaratskhelia retired from football without telling anyone and somehow nobody noticed. ๐
No questions.
No outrage.
No โhe needs to do better.โ
No 20-post analysis thread.
But Saka?
Every single game, heโs on trial. ๐ญ
One quiet performance and suddenly itโs:
โIs Saka finished?โ
โHeโs overrated.โ
โPlayer X is better than Saka.โ
And yet some PSG players can drop stinkers week after week and still get called โworld classโ without anyone making a fuss. ๐
Sakaโs biggest crime is that he set the bar too high.
Now every Tom, Dick and Harry puts together a few good performances and the first comparison you hear is:
โ๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐.โ
Since when did one man become everybodyโs measuring stick? ๐ญ
Seriously, Iโm yet to see a player who hasnโt somehow been compared to Bukayo Saka.
And the funniest part?
This is a player who already has 5 goals in 10 appearances for club and country this season. ๐ด๐ฅ
Maybe some of you need to take a step back and realise just how ridiculous the standards have become.
Especially those of you pretending to be Arsenal fans. ๐
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Omo all of una don die for epl seh๐ Pep is gone, baba been wan relax haram ball but Brighton go vex am. Itโs about to be pain for yโall. Letโs Go Arsenal๐๐ช
๐จMikel Arteta plans to bring RAF fighter pilots into Arsenal to study how they communicate under extreme pressure.
If pilots can communicate a life-or-death instruction with one clear word, football instructions should be just as precise.
Mikel Arteta: โI will get in touch with those guys, how they communicate, because that is life or death. Iโm sure they donโt use 20 phrases or 20 words if there is one word.โ
Thierry Henry opened the scoring at Robert Pirรจsโ jubilee and put on a vintage performance for the Arsenal legends.
Sharp in front of goal, full of quality and still showing that trademark class. โค๏ธ #afc
@TheArsenalMind Must we start Rice, canโt Arteta start Lewis & Bruno
Arteta has a lot to do with his players and his style shouldnโt always be predictable. Example: Brighton
Rice needs to add a few extra things to his style of play to fully complement his PR