Shashank Adavi

All things @ManUtd.Software Engineer. Backend/Java mainly but promise one day I’d have kept up with all the JS frameworks out there. Occasionally funny

[JOSIAHx @Josiahx]

me entering my group chat after securing all of us imax tickets

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Zohran Mamdani, what is your plan to stop people who don’t live in the city from snapping up our precious inventory of AMC Lincoln Square IMAX 70mm DUNE PART 3 tickets

[lo messiah @timchals]

i am the friend in charge of securing dune 3 tickets

[adam @rupertpubkin]

Got my dune tickets.

[dej ⁷🪽 @daisydeja]

the workers in the theater watching us sit and wait for a post credit scene

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

The fans got Deadpool off the ground so many years ago. Yesterday, 10 years after the first film and exactly 2 years after Deadpool & Wolverine, I felt so lucky to be on the #SDCC floor with everyone whose unapologetic devotion brings so much joy to this world.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🫡 The BBC's World Cup 2026 montage is utterly sensational. https://t.co/lzOUWxwTuM

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Merino’s POV of that Messi shot that nearly knocked him out😂😂😂😂

[Kat Tsai @Chuwenjie]

At Regal LA Live to see the Odyssey in 70 mm and they’re apparently calling the cops cause a guy from the previous showing is refusing to leave his seat. He wants to watch it again 😭

[Sean Cranston @themoviedadsc]

Wives anytime they see their husband relaxing:

[djcows @djcows]

sorry babe not now, Norway vs. England is happening in 6 hours

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

I personally respect the commitment to 11th century transportation accuracy

[lombo @JanktoBarak]

If I was a footballer, I would just learn the most random sentences in the languages of my opponents in perfect accent. Whispering "I am quite fond of chamomile tea" to Haaland in perfect Norwegian would break his concentration more than any defending you could do...

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Read nothing else: The tweet below is a perfect explanation of why America, which has the greatest athletes and infrastructure, will never compete against the greatest countries in the World Cup.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

The English players with the fans: “You’re my Wonderwall”

Henderson:

[Dekunle27 @dekunlz]

#ENGLAND  Mexico manager said

“GORDON! Fuck you!!! 😂😂😂

[That Goan Guy @schmmuck]

Bosnia and Heresgovinda

[Adam Clery @AdamClery]

Russel Crowe's going to play Pochettino in a film about this world cup