being able to spend at least 1-2 hours a day without your phone, doing things like reading, painting, dancing, taking long baths, listening to classical music, sunbathing, going on walks listening to birdsong only, praying, meditating is a sign of a healthy nervous system. the more hours you can go without your phone, the better. give your brain and your body time to relax, unclench. romanticize it as if you’re living in the 90s.
i'm in love with this quote:
"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."
Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.
He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.
Aren't you guys tired of this country's mismanagement? Life is not supposed to be this difficult for citizens. It's not like this in other countries. Please stop defending the government.
I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
🚨🗣️ Oliver Kahn on how Bayern Munich got “robbed,” pointing to a penalty incident on Joao Neves and a second yellow for Nuno Mendes not given:
“I’ve been in this game for decades, as player, captain, and now in the club and I have NEVER seen three clearer decisions ignored in one Champions League night. This wasn’t a football match, this was a robbery in broad daylight and every single Bayern fan knows it.
Let’s start with the Nuno Mendes incident. He’s already on a yellow card, everyone knows that. The ball comes in, and his arm is clearly out, there’s a clear handball. Now, we can debate intention all day, but the modern interpretation is about position and impact, and his arm is in an unnatural position blocking play.
That alone puts him in serious trouble. When you’re already booked, you simply cannot take that kind of risk. It’s basic football intelligence. That should be a second yellow card, no discussion. Instead, the referee looks at it and decides… nothing. No accountability, no consistency. So what are players supposed to think? That the rules change depending on the moment?
And then we come to the penalty situation, which for me is even more shocking. Vitinha clears the ball, yes but what happens next is the key point. The ball makes contact with Neves’ hand inside the penalty area. I keep hearing people say, ‘oh, it came off a teammate’, so what? Since when did that cancel out a handball?
The laws of the game don’t say ‘only if it comes from the opposition.’ A handball is a handball if it creates an unfair situation, and here it absolutely does. His arm is involved, the ball changes its path, and Bayern are denied a clear opportunity. At this level, with VAR available, how do you not give that?
And then, to top it all off, you book Luis Díaz for protesting? For reacting to a clear foul that isn’t given? So now we punish players not just with wrong decisions, but for showing emotion about those wrong decisions? This is unbelievable. You are asking players to be robots in moments where everything is on the line.
You cannot tell me Bayern Munich weren’t affected by this. These are game-defining moments. A red card changes everything. A penalty changes everything. Instead, both situations are ignored, and we’re left talking about the referee instead of the football. That’s a problem.
At this level, the Champions League, the biggest club competition in the world, you expect clarity, you expect courage, and above all, you expect fairness.
Tonight, we got none of that. And if this is the standard, then we have a serious issue in European football, because clubs invest everything to compete here, and they deserve better than decisions like these deciding their fate.”
I used to take Liverpool losing personally. Everyone knew if they lost I’d be in a foul mood for the rest of the day. I was that invested.
But this season something’s changed. The anger’s gone, the passion’s faded, and now when they lose I just don’t care. I’m not arsed.
It’s a strange feeling, but I just don’t feel connected to this Liverpool team anymore.