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[stan @bothgoats]

Most ‘Big Five’ trophies in football:

🇵🇹 Ronaldo: 8 🆕
🇪🇸 Carvajal: 8
🇦🇷 Messi: 7
🇪🇸 Ramos: 7
🇪🇸 Iniesta: 7
🇪🇸 Xavi: 7
🇩🇪 Kroos: 7

[stan @bothgoats]

Always funny hearing football fans saying ‘why the sport fell off’ and refusing to acknowledge the most obvious reason why

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

I don’t know if it’s just the echo-chamber of my Twitter algorithm but it really does feel, this season in particular, as though a hell of a lot of people are falling out of love with the Premier League. Crucially not with football as a whole but with the Prem particularly.

[stan @bothgoats]

@Vararse_ Designing a tournament where the benefit of winning is playing LESS of the tournament is peak UEFA

[stan @bothgoats]

Too many games, and one off fixtures are mid, in the past home and away made it more of a rivalry

[stan @bothgoats]

Thats a thread... a long way from Messi vs Ronaldo ones but I think the sport and our culture need discussions.

As always, this is based on some fact as well as subjective interpretation, and whilst averages apply, individual variability remains and all situations are nuanced.

[stan @bothgoats]

Premier League football is losing its technical side.

Demographic change is a factor due to the difference in puberty onset between different backgrounds.

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[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Anthony Gordon has said the “Champions league games are more football & Premier League games are more just throw ins & set pieces”

He’s suggesting the Premier League is Anti Football?!😬https://t.co/4QfffeSrP5

[stan @bothgoats]

Whilst most DEI policy acts to aid long term absolute equality at the cost of short term merit, this would aid both

It'd be a rare DEI change that actually leads to better, fairer results overall. Britain argues that its for equality, but ironically the FA has swept this aside

[stan @bothgoats]

@Schule7i But wasn’t it supposed to be multiple matches

[stan @bothgoats]

@AugustCris7 Obvious 1-0 Colombia ronaldo yellow card and hooked

[stan @bothgoats]

@DaBronco0 Defo think they’ve rigged those home nations groups amongst other things