Dad was why I started watching football.
Some weeks ago I told him that the WC was coming and that we would watch the matches together in the hospice.
We managed to watch the opening ceremony and the US v Paraguay match on his last day.
He will always be my man of the match.
Not for the first time, the woman is roped in to clear up big mess, and she will be blamed (based on gender stereotypes, amongst other aspects of identity) if she doesn't succeed where other men have failed.
@FabrizioRomano The first woman to coach a Bundesliga men's side and her opening task is a RELEGATION BATTLE because the men before her burnt everything down.
Union Berlin accidentally changed football history through sheer incompetence
🚨 Historical decision by Union Berlin as German club appoint Marie-Louise Eta as their head coach until June.
Union lost at Heidenheim, sacked the head coach Steffen Baumgart and put Marie-Louise Eta in charge until the end of the season.
Ets becomes the first female head coach in the history of men’s Bundesliga.
@raccoonrocket_ I think it's been cut out of the clipped videos put together by reactor channels because it happened during the "unexciting" part - when she was still in the building. I felt so much pain (and anger) for that puppy!
@raccoonrocket_ I'm surprised that no one seems to have picked up on how she'd likely run over that poor dog at her building's lift. It screamed before barking, & her immediate response was to apologise (she knew what she did) before telling her viewers it almost bit her. Shifting blame again.
My Grandparents Were Married For 60 Years.
One Day I Asked My Grandfather:
“What’s The Secret To Loving The Same Woman For A Lifetime?”
He didn’t laugh.
He didn’t say “communication.”
He didn’t say “date nights.”
He looked at my grandmother, who was in the kitchen, and said:
“You don’t love the same woman.”
That confused me.
He said, “She changes every few years. And if you don’t update the way you love her, you lose her.”
He told me the girl he married at 22 wasn’t the same woman at 30.
Motherhood changed her.
Loss changed her.
Time changed her.
“At 40,” he said, “she needed respect more than romance.
At 50, she needed partnership more than passion.
At 60, she needed presence more than promises.”
And every time she changed, he had a choice:
Complain that she’s “not like she used to be.”
Or learn her again.
He said the biggest mistake men make is this:
They fall in love once.
Then stop paying attention.
“Loving a woman for a lifetime,” he told me,
“is deciding to stay curious about her.”
Not assuming you know her.
Not freezing her in the version you met.
He leaned back and said something I’ll never forget:
“If you stop studying her, someone else eventually will.”
Sixty years.
Not because it was easy.
Because he kept relearning her.
🇧🇷 Meanwhile in Brazil, someone has trained their dog to support Fluminense just as passionately as any human would support them. 🤯🐶
How is this even possible? 🤣