Football 🤝 Horse racing
Great to welcome Mauricio Pochettino to #TattsOctober Book 2, alongside @newsellspark's Graham Smith-Bernal, chatting to @_tomstanley_ about his love of horses.
There was a semi-well known interview of the famed Argentine writer JL Borges where he explains this.
Borges: I have done most of my reading in English. I find English a far finer language than Spanish.
William F Buckley: Why?
Borges: Well, many reasons. Firstly, English is both a Germanic and a Latin language. Those two registers—for any idea you take, you have two words. Those words will not mean exactly the same. For example if I say “regal” that is not exactly the same thing as saying “kingly.” Or if I say “fraternal” that is not the same as saying “brotherly.” Or “dark” and “obscure.” Those words are different. It would make all the difference—speaking for example—the Holy Spirit, it would make all the difference in the world in a poem if I wrote about the Holy Spirit or I wrote the Holy Ghost, since “ghost” is a fine, dark Saxon word, but “spirit” is a light Latin word. Then there is another reason. The reason is that I think that, of all languages, English is the most physical of all languages.
WFB: The most what?
Borges: Physical. You can, for example, say “He loomed over.” You can’t very well say that in Spanish.
WFB: “Asomó?”*
Borges: Well, no, no, they’re not exactly the same. And then you have, in English, you can do almost anything with verbs and prepositions. For example, to “laugh off,” to “dream away.” Those things can’t be said in Spanish. To “live down” something, to “live up to” something—you can’t say those things in Spanish. They can’t be said. Or really in any Romance language.
Joe Cole and this “performance” in this “debate” is shambolic.
Allowing this kind of narrative to even be presented just downplays what Manchester City have done to the ENTIRE English football pyramid.
Absolutely stinks.
𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫... 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧
2026's record price broken again at #TattsOctober Book 1, @godolphin coming out on top at 4,600,000gns for @NorelandsStud Night Of Thunder colt out of the Gr.1 placed My Astra.
Speechless.
@NorelandsStud's @HamishMccalmont & Matt Gilsenan speak about Mrs Tsui’s Night Of Thunder, who became Europe’s highest-priced colt yearling when selling to @godolphin for 4.600,000gns 🥹
#TattsOctober
At their age I knew artists and groups 20 years before I was born
Marvin Gay, Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Womack, Gladys Knight and the pips, Curtis Mayfield, Lenny, Williams, Otis Redding Tyrone Davis Willie Hutch
Blaming tunnel vision misses point — Webb and flawed VAR system must go
Perhaps even Premier League suits will realise reviews only suck the joy out of the game after latest cack-handed decision in Manchester derby
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