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🅾️🅾️ Wayne Rooney: On Lionel Messi performance against Austria:

“I’ll say this now, what we’re witnessing right now is just completely mental. I’ve played at the absolute highest level, I know what the physical toll of this game is, and Messi scoring twice today to break the all-time World Cup goal record? It’s just insane.

How are we all sitting here acting like this is normal? The man is 39 years old. At 39, most lads are sitting on a beach, or struggling to get out of bed for a Sunday league kickabout, let alone dominating the biggest tournament on Earth. It defies logic.

He’s out there gliding past players, reading the game three steps ahead of everyone else, and finishing like he’s still in his mid-twenties.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who still doubts Lionel Messi as the greatest to ever play the game simply is not mentally OK. It’s that simple.

There’s no footballing argument left to have. Even if your brain has been completely disconnected, your eyes alone just sitting there watching what he is doing on that pitch should tell you absolutely everything you need to know. You don't need a tactical breakdown. You just need to look at the screen. To do what he’s done throughout his career was incredible, but to reach the pinnacle of the World Cup record books at 39?

We will never, ever see anything like this again. We just need to stop trying to analyze it and appreciate that we're looking at the absolute best to ever lace up a pair of boots”

[Adam Keys @adamkeys_]

Top 4 was a trophy until Mikel Arteta finished second back to back, then it was called bottling.

Injuries were valid until #Arsenal had them, then they were called excuses.

People couldn’t have dreamt of these standards two years ago. Back the team. They’re bouncing back. #AFC

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

A statue of FIFA President Gianni Infantino was spotted in Frankfurt. 👀

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

Arsene Wenger smiling in his chair right now.

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

🚨🚨🎙️| Patrice Evra on Manchester City's 4th Premier League title:

The reaction is evident. No emotion, no feelings, no nothing. Things would be different if a bigger club won it. The football world doesn't rate rigged success and you can see it.

Shots fired! 👀👀

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

Declan Rice on Instagram 🫡

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

Louis Dunford’s mother, none other than famous British actress LINDA ROBSON, hearing her son’s Arsenal anthem “North London Forever” live for the first time ❤️

https://t.co/3nPpqTF8TU

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

Premier League 2023/24 Golden Glove winner

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

🗣️ Ray Parlour on Kolo Toure’s incredible trial at Arsenal in 2002:

“He came into training one day, what he used to do for trialists is set up games. Usually, if it was a centre forward he would put Martin Keown on him as he knew he would try and kick him and whatever, and if he could handle that he might be a decent player.

This one day they had Kolo Toure, Martin Keown in Kolo Toure’s first training session. Against them, they had Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp.

I rolled the ball into Thierry Henry and Kolo Toure from nowhere has smashed him from behind. Two-footed tackle. Terrible tackle. Seriously, could have been a red card in a normal game. Our best player is rolling around.

Arsene Wenger says ‘Kolo, what are you doing? Don’t tackle, don’t tackle.’ He just wants him to stand there. ‘Oh, sorry, sorry’.

The next minute ball goes into Dennis Bergkamp, they’ve swapped now. Kolo Toure does exactly the same and two-foot Dennis Bergkamp and we are thinking ‘This is unbelievable. How can we win the league if our two best players has been taken out by the trialist? He must be working for someone else’

Arsene Wenger says ‘Right no more tackling’.

“Next ball comes in and Kolo Toure makes a great tackle, reads it, and the ball is flipped up into the air. Arsene Wenger used to stand right in the middle of the midfield and forwards and he’d try and look at the movement, so the ball has gone up in the air and Kolo Toure has his eye on the ball - he’s chasing the ball - and where did it land? Right at Arsene Wenger’s foot and he’s two-footed Arsene Wenger. Proper tackle.

All you heard was ‘ahhhh’. The lads are like ‘This is unbelievable. He’s took out Bergkamp, Henry, and Wenger on his trial.

“Wenger has had to limp off. He’s gone back to the medical room. Kolo Toure is like ‘Oh no’ and nearly crying. He can’t believe it. It’s his big day at Arsenal and he’s taken out two of our best players and the manager.

That afternoon, I remember going into the medical room to see Gary Lewin about something and Arsene Wenger was sitting there with a big ice pack on his ankle

He said ‘I know he didn’t mean it, I like his desire. We’ll sign him tomorrow’ and that was it.

“We signed him for £150,000 because he liked his desire. He could get that out of him and change the way he played just by his desire kicking them two players and he ended up being an amazing player for Arsenal.”

[Plink2 @plinketyplink2]

Peter Reid man 😂

[Patty’s Football Tips⚽️ @Pattystips]

Man City winning the Club World Cup is such a fairytale. Amazing what can be achieved with £2 billion, a manager with an offshore account, a suspended 2-year ban from European competition and 115 charges of financial irregularity!

[90s Football @90sfootball]

A brilliant story told by Stuart Pearce on Sir Bobby Robson and Gazza at Italia ‘90 👏

(via @toonarmy_com)

[GoonerViews @GoonerViews]

Worth every penny. Thankyou so much @WestHam ❤️

[Dave Ramsey @DaveRamsey]

I meet people who make $30,000 a year who save money. I meet people who make $130,000 a year who couldn't save money if they had to.

It hasn't got anything to do with the income. It's got to do with you controlling the person in your mirror.

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

🗣️ Roy Keane on the time he thought about signing Robbie Savage:

“I rang Mark Hughes. Robbie [Savage] wasn’t in the Blackburn team and I asked Mark if we could try to arrange a deal. Sparky said: ‘Yeah, yeah, he’s lost his way here but he could still do a job for you.’

Robbie’s legs were going a bit but I thought he might come up to us [at Sunderland], with his long hair, and give us a lift – the way Yorkie [Dwight Yorke] had, a big personality in the dressing room.

Sparky gave me permission to give him a call. So I got Robbie’s mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: ‘Hi, it’s Robbie – whazzup!’ like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: ‘I can’t be f***ing signing that.’” 😂

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

A team born to WIN 🏆

#TeamEurope | #RyderCup

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TOMMY TOMMY TOMMY @F_Molinari 🎶🏆

#TeamEurope | #RyderCup

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

WE’RE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BUS 🏆🇪🇺

#TeamEurope | #RyderCup

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Europe's on fire 🇪🇺

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

500 MILES @robert1lefty 🇪🇺🏆

#TeamEurope #RyderCup