𝐖𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐬𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬

zurdos de mierda, viva la liberdad carajo

[Ander Herrera Culture @salgovolandooo]

Pochettino (2027)

1h 33m

Dir. Clint Eastwood

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is now considering resigning after Cabinet Ministers called for him to step down

He'll come to a decision with his wife and family over the weekend

[@thetimes]

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Jan Paul van Hecke, welcome to our family 🤍🧡

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:

"Dear Roxane,

Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"

"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."

"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."

"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"

"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."

"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."

"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."

"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."

"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."

"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."

"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."

"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."

"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"

"But they still didn’t sign me."

"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."

"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."

"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."

"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."

"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."

"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."

"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..

“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”

"You were 15."

"15."

"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."

"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."

"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."

"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."

"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."

"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”

"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."

"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."

"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."

"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"

"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."

"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."

"Everything you said came true."

"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."

"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."

"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."

"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”

"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."

— @PlayersTribune

[𝐖𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐬𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 @TombstoneThree]

BAISEEEEEE TA MEEEEEEERE SIUUUU

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇬🇭 Thomas Partey, denied access to Canada and not available for Ghana opening game at the World Cup — reports @Dan_Sheldon_.

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Our shirt is yours now.

Marcos Senesi, welcome to our family 🤍

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Our thoughts are with Christian Eriksen and his family.

Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, Christian. We’re all with you 🤍

[David Lisnard @davidlisnard]

Ils avaient 18, 20, 25 ans. Ils venaient de l’Ohio, du Yorkshire, du Canada. Certains étaient français, les commandos Kieffer. Ils ne savaient pas s’ils rentreraient un jour chez eux. Ils ont sauté, débarqué, avancé tout de même.
Ce qu’ils ont engagé ce matin-là, c’est l’idée que la liberté mérite qu’on lui sacrifie ce qu’on a de plus précieux.

Huit décennies plus tard, que faisons-nous de cet héritage ?
Le 6 juin n’est pas une date de musée. C’est une exigence adressée à chaque génération : choisir la liberté, la défendre et la transmettre chaque jour.

Que notre reconnaissance soit éternelle à ceux qui nous délivrés du totalitarisme nazi au prix de leur vie.
Que leur exemple nous oblige aujourd’hui encore.
Vive la Liberté, Vive la France. Notre devoir aujourd’hui est de lui redonner sa grandeur.

[British Army 🇬🇧 @BritishArmy]

This day in history 6 June 1944, #DDay, British soldiers landed in Normandy alongside Allied forces to begin the liberation of Europe 🪖

Today, we remember their courage, sacrifice, and service 🫡

Lest we forget.

[Little Think Tank @L_ThinkTank]

‼️[ 🇫🇷 FRANCE ]

🔸 Le corps retrouvé est bien celui de Lyhanna 11 ans.

[L’Illuminé🙌🏾🏴‍☠️ @Immortel00]

Le problème c’est que même l’Europa league vous l’avez pas

[Billie @Billie_T]

Our players were so pissed at this parade we had to have a specific staff member hold them from falling off the top and then drag Johnson off the stage 😭😭😭

[AK @AKfromthelane]

The contrast between ours and their players after winning is crazy.

There's something in the air at Arsenal, the constant need for validation.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Happy 80th Birthday to Brian Cox!

[Playmaker @Playmaker8u]

Nobody enjoyed that Arsenal’s L more than Richarlison 😂

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1942, 3,700 Free French soldiers were holding a fort made of sand against the Italian Ariete Division and the German Afrika Korps.

They had been told to hold for five days.

They held for sixteen.

The fortress was Bir Hacheim, a crossroads in the Libyan desert with one old Ottoman cistern, no natural defenses, and no way out. The commander was a 43 year old general named Marie-Pierre Koenig, who in June 1940 had refused to lay down his arms when France surrendered and had escaped to England to join Charles de Gaulle.

Half his men were French Foreign Legionnaires. The rest were Pacific islanders from Tahiti and New Caledonia, Senegalese tirailleurs, Syrians, Lebanese, Spanish Republicans who had lost one war and were ready to fight another, and Jewish refugees from across Nazi Europe who had walked, sailed and smuggled themselves out to fight again.

Among them was one woman. Susan Travers, an English ambulance driver, the only female ever officially enrolled in the French Foreign Legion. She was also the general's lover.

For sixteen days they were dive-bombed by Stukas, shelled by 88s, attacked by tanks, choked by sandstorms, and slowly starved of water. The Italians tried first and were thrown back with 32 tanks destroyed in a single morning. Then the Germans came. Rommel himself eventually drove out to the perimeter under a white flag to demand surrender in person.

Koenig refused.

When Hitler heard that Free French troops were holding out at Bir Hacheim, he personally signed an order that any captured were to be shot as terrorists, not treated as prisoners of war. The order was passed down the German chain of command to Rommel.

Rommel read it. Then quietly threw it away. The Free French were soldiers and would be treated as soldiers.

On the night of June 10, Koenig and 2,400 of his men broke out through the German lines in a single column. Susan Travers drove the lead vehicle straight through enemy machine gun fire with the general in the passenger seat. Her car was found the next day with 11 bullet holes in it. She was unharmed.

When the news reached London, de Gaulle wept openly.

The next day he stood in front of a microphone and told the world:

"When at Bir Hacheim a ray of her reborn glory came to caress the bloody brow of her soldiers, the world recognized France."

[𝐖𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐬𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 @TombstoneThree]

@HKane @Treizista OSINT vite

[Little Think Tank @L_ThinkTank]

[ 🇺🇸 ÉTATS-UNIS ]

🔸 L’armée américaine, malgré sa supériorité militaire, enchaîne les échecs stratégiques depuis plus de 30 ans faute d’objectifs politiques clairs, selon une analyse de l’ex-ambassadeur à l’OTAN Ivo Daalder sur Politico.

Les interventions en Irak, Afghanistan ou Iran illustrent une même logique : recours massif à la force sans stratégie définie, avec des objectifs irréalistes comme le changement de régime ou la transformation politique.

Cette approche, qui privilégie l’outil militaire avant la définition des buts, empêche des victoires durables malgré une puissance militaire inégalée.

[Little Think Tank @L_ThinkTank]

[ 🇺🇸 ÉTATS-UNIS ]

🔸 Une femme amputée de l’avant-bras droit a dû jurer à un policier qu’elle ne tenait pas de téléphone en conduisant lors d’un contrôle routier. /Via @brutofficiel

[Tottenham Tiers @TottenhamTiers]

#Tottenham will make further executive appointments this summer and will consider bringing former players back for the right roles, after Alderweireld said he’d love to return.

Ben Davies is very well thought of and expected to step up after playing.

[@TomAllnutt_] 🥇