I've said it before, Portugal need to organise a fake World Cup for Cristiano Ronaldo during the real thing so he believes he's playing against DR Congo when all the players are actors. Genuinely think he'd fall for it, not sure he knows who any of his teammates are anyway.
In January 2023, Arsenal missed out on ยฃ86M Mudryk and signed Trossard for ยฃ26m instead.
One became embroiled in a doping scandal. The other helped deliver Arsenal's league title.
Why mention the ยฃ26m fee today?
Because it's been exactly 26 days since Arsenal won the league.
In case anyone doesn't know...
- Led Curacao to become the smallest nation to make a WC
- Resigned to be in the Netherlands for his daughter, who had cancer
- His daughter's health improved & his replacement resigned to let him return
- Now he's the oldest WC manager ever
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๐ฏ๐ต๐ The most Japanese celebration ever
After Japanโs 2โ2 draw against the Netherlands, fans rushed onto Tokyoโs famous Shibuya Crossing to celebrate.
For exactly 40 seconds.
Why? Because the pedestrian light was green.
As soon as it turned red, everyone stopped celebrating and obediently moved back to the sidewalks.
Even in the middle of a spontaneous football celebration, the Japanese still refused to break traffic rules.
@RealDonKeith The โHe is so quick to become violent because his brain canโt comprehend the notion of civilized debate.โ Is absolutely not related to skin color.
You call them short tempered. And has got nothing to do with skin color. White browns are quick to become violent as well.
Odsonne รdouard has made an incredibly selfless decision ahead of the 2026 World Cup ๐ฎ๐
รdouard is eligible to play for Haiti, who have qualified for the tournament for the first time since 1974, but has turned down a call-up as he hasn't represented the nation before ๐ญ๐น
๐ฃ๏ธ Speaking after he helped Lens win their first trophy since 1999, he said: "I wouldn't feel legitimate playing in the World Cup because there were players who fought to qualify and I wasn't going to show up at the last minute to take advantage.
"Quite simply, if I'm going to play, I have to deserve it." ๐
It's every footballer's dream to play at the World Cup, but to look at it the way รdouard has is commendable ๐
India trains the engineer.
America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.
He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.
Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.
His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.
Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.
None of them are Indian.
We export the inventor.
We import the chip.
This is my friends aunt, sheโs 102 and has seen every single one of our league titles. Surely the longest serving fan out there. @arsenal show Auntie Sylv some love ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐