Sean Dyche:
🗣️ "I spent about £9m in 2014 with Burnley & we went down on 33 points. Kompany got 24 points after spending £127m & he got the Bayern job. I don't know how that works. I wish I was doing it. I wish I'd have left the club £127m in debt and got the Bayern job."
Kristen Faulkner (@FaulknerKristen) has one of the craziest stories at this year's Olympics:
• Grew up in Alaska
• Rowed at Harvard
• Moved to NYC after school
• Started working for a venture capital firm
• Took a beginner's cycling class in Central Park
• Started cycling at 5:00 am before work
• Started competing in local cycling tournaments
• Quit her job & moved to California to cycle full-time
• Added to the USA road cycling roster one month before the Olympic Games
And now, just seven years after taking a beginner's cycling class in New York City, Kristen Faulkner has won gold at the Olympics in Paris — the first American to win gold in the women's road race in 40 years.
INSANE.
Colin Cowhed calls Joel Embiid overrated
“Beyond padding his stats, Philadelphia keeps running coaches through him and teammates through him. And in the weaker Eastern Conference, he is yet to win a 2nd round playoff series.”
(🎥 @TheHerd )
US Soccer will never be a successful program as long as they continue to ignore the nation’s most talented players and prioritize the players whose parents can afford travel fees, tournament registration, summer camps and everything else involved in the sham that is youth soccer.
NETHERLANDS FANS IN BERLIN turn city streets into one gigantic Oranje Rave ahead of their match with Austria. Here for all of the Euro Dance Party vibes. 🇳🇱🧡🪩
It looks like Ralf is going to land one of the biggest jobs in world football.
Our d1ckhead players only followed his tactics for 20 minutes against Palace and then felt it was too much work for them.
I've a lot of time for him and I hope he does well.
🎙️ Miroslav Klose: “I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”