Do you understand the aura and skill it takes to order in French, in Paris, and have the waiter not immediately revert to English?
This is like when Ronaldinho had the Bernabeu on its feet applauding him.
Truly the greatest to ever do it.
🥺🏆 Mikel Arteta: “It’s one of the best feelings I’ve ever had. I couldn’t watch City game. I could hear noises from inside, then my son opened the door, ran towards me…
…he was crying and he said ‘we are champions daddy!”.
@BeanymanSports 🎥
Mikel Arteta: “I was supposed to be here at London Colney watching the game with the boys and certain staff, but I couldn’t do it.
“Before the game, I had to leave. I couldn’t bring the energy that I wanted.
“I went home, I went into the garden, I built a fire on my own. I didn't watch it.
“My son opens the door, started to cry and said: ‘we’re champions daddy.”
🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Guys, I’m an idiot. All this time I’ve spent trying not to die, I had toxic turf in my backyard. Artificial turf contains crumb rubber infill made from recycled tires, which leaches chemicals including PFAS, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds are linked to hormone disruption, carcinogenicity, and systemic inflammation.
I don’t know how I missed it. It makes me question my basic competence in life.
What gets me is that I try so hard to survey the world of potential idiocy. Then I find out there’s a monument to idiocy sitting right in front of my face that I was blind to.
I’m removing the turf, yet I’m still stuck with this seemingly unsolvable problem of how to not be an idiot.
Rare you meet a professional ballers who give you the time of day but my word, J Bellingham. What an absolute boy
Had 5 mins in the sauna with him & he asked my lad about #dcfc & his favourite player etc. Asked him for a photo and he even waited in the lobby for us
#bellingham
This story of Granit Xhaka’s upbringing is guaranteed to pull on your heart strings 😭❤️
‘We never forget where we come from.’
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🚨 🚨 BREAKING: Gianluca Prestianni has now ADMITTED to the rest of Benfica's squad that HE CALLED VINI JR A M*NKEY.
However, he says he's still not a racist. @cmjornal
Turned down the bao buns initially. The people wanted two bao buns. Upgraded the order to include four bao buns. No hesitation. Adapted and unfazed. Man of the people. True leadership.
🚨 Gregory Van der Wiel's incredible testimony about his career 😳🥺
𝗔𝗕𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗬 read this 👇
🗣️ “I won 16 trophies. And I felt nothing. No joy, no pride, no relief. Nothing. I couldn’t enjoy a single moment of my career. Because I was too busy… wearing a mask. Pretending to be okay. Avoiding anything that might unsettle me. Showing that I had everything under control.
I wore that mask for so long that I eventually became the mask itself. A robot playing a role without feeling a thing.
If you feel this way, that mask isn’t protecting you. It’s killing you. Take it off.
What would you give to play without fear? To step onto the field and feel totally FREE. No pre-game anxiety. No post-game depression. Just you. Fully present. Fully focused. Fully yourself.
Most athletes will never know that feeling. They’ll spend their entire careers playing in fear. Fear of the coach’s reaction. Fear of the fans’ judgment. Fear of the media headlines. Fear of their own thoughts.
And they’ll call it ‘pressure.’ They’ll say: ‘That’s just football.’
It’s not. It’s a prison. And I lived in it for 15 years.
I played stiffly when I should have played freely. I held back when I should have exploded. I doubted myself when I should have had confidence.
The version of myself I could have been? It still exists, somewhere. It never saw the light of day. It still torments me, it still haunts me.
But you? You still have time.
You have time to develop the mindset that will set you free. You have time to perfect the tools that will make you invincible in every match.
This inner work is demanding. It’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do in your life. And it’s truly the only thing that changes everything.”
🚨🔴⚪️ Ademola Lookman to Atlético Madrid, here we go! The agreement is in place on every detail.
€35m fixed fee, €5m add-ons to Atalanta and long term deal agreed by Lookman after decision last night.
Atlético, planning now for travel and medical next for the Nigerian. 🇳🇬