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[nom de guerre @metanoiq]

@Tsarina_muna I just sip the wine and sleep , wake up at destination or wake up in heaven 🤷🏾‍♂️

[King Wow @KingWow]

They’re gonna make generational wealth off this song lmao

[rondo. @Koffy_9]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[shad @shad_mayes]

Fixed it for you bro 😂😂😂😂

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Enoch Δ @agyeitah]

Totally missed your response.

But this isn’t about pride, @garyalsmith. It’s about false narratives being given the time of day.

Underdogs lose leads to favourites. Everywhere. In every confederation.

When Japan lost a 2–0 lead to Belgium, people praised Belgium, gave Japan some slack and moved on. Nobody indicted Asian football.

Croatia scored first and lost yesterday.

It’s football.

But I find the way you build this supposed 30-year pattern strange.

Your most obvious pull was Nigeria in 1994. So I went back and checked the actual data.

All of it.

Since 1970, African teams have taken the lead in 79 World Cup matches.

They won 44, drew 21 and lost 14.

That means African teams avoided defeat 82.3% of the time after taking the lead.

Even in this tournament, the full picture is different from the story being told.

Yes, Côte d’Ivoire led and lost to Germany. DR Congo led and lost to England. Senegal led and lost to Belgium.

But Morocco led and drew with Brazil.

Egypt led and drew with Belgium and Iran.

Cape Verde led and drew with Uruguay.

Algeria led and drew with Austria.

South Africa led and beat South Korea.

Côte d’Ivoire led and won two games.

Egypt led and beat New Zealand.

Senegal led and beat Iraq.

Ghana led and beat Panama.

Algeria led and beat Jordan.

So African teams have led 15 times in this tournament: 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses.

That is not a continental pathology.

That is football.

And if this were an African problem, Africa should at least be uniquely bad at it.

We aren’t.

From 1970 to 2022, African teams lost 17.2% of World Cup matches after taking the lead.

AFC teams lost 20%.

CONCACAF teams lost 23.4%.

Even if we start from 1994, your 30-year window, it is CAF 16.4%, AFC 20% and CONCACAF 22.9%.

So where exactly is this unmistakable African pattern?

You have built a continental theory from a few painful games spread across decades.

To do that, you have to ignore Algeria holding against West Germany in ’82.

Cameroon repeatedly holding in ’90.

Nigeria seeing off Spain in ’98.

Ghana killing games in ’06.

And just four years ago, African teams led nine times at the 2022 World Cup and didn’t lose once.

Cameroon held against Brazil.

Tunisia held against France.

Morocco held against Belgium, Canada and Portugal.

That was four years ago. Not 30.

And before someone says these numbers are inflated by games against weaker opposition, let’s narrow the sample further.

Let’s look only at games where African teams took the lead against European and South American opposition.

Since 1970, it has happened 53 times.

African teams won 27.

Drew 14.

Lost 12.

That is a 77.4% non-loss rate after taking the lead against the two historically strongest footballing regions in the world.

So what you have identified is not a pattern.

It is a highlight reel of pain with the denominator deleted.

Yes, the collapses were real. Senegal’s was bad. DR Congo’s was bad. Côte d’Ivoire’s was bad.

But Japan’s against Belgium was bad too.

Croatia scored first and lost.

Spain’s collapse against Nigeria in 1998 was spectacular.

The difference is that those failures were attributed to the people who actually oversaw them: the players, the coach, the team.

Nobody said, “Croatia blew a lead, so Europeans lack concentration.”

Nobody built an Asian theory from Japan doing it more than once.

As for the coaches you cite, Thiaw was diagnosing Senegal’s game management.

That was his team in a game his team blew.

Senegal is a team.

Africa is a continent.

A coach owning his own failure is accountability. Stretching it into a verdict on 54 countries is your addition, not his.

And that is my pushback.

You may be coming from a place of good intentions. But Africa, and I must say this to you as an African, is diverse.

Sometimes coaches make bad decisions. Sometimes players panic. Sometimes underdogs sit too deep. Sometimes the better team comes back.

Sometimes a team just blows a lead.

[Scott Geelan @Scott_Geelan]

You love to see it. Tremendous achievement qualifying with a game to spare, given the challenges facing the team coming into the competition… injuries to key members of the spine, other members of the spine aging, change of coach, tricky group.

[𝙒𝙢. @excusewilliam]

The demographic that spent years insisting men don't experience certain basic traits from women because they simply hadn't "unlocked" them are now frothing at the mouth because the mirror has been held up to them.

[Pablo 💙❤️ @donpablo5050]

Mikel Arteta and Diego Simeone watching Carlos Queiroz Ghana haram football 😂 😂 😂

[Babygirl Lifestyle🥰 ❤️ @mhaamhe_adwoa]

Raising the rent is an issue in itself. Then you have to pay viewing fee of 150-200cedis for every place u check out. These agents will send u to stupid places on purpose, you’re the one paying for tnt too. Not forgetting that 10% commission. We have normalized nonsense

[Joe Bernstein @Bernstein]

Sometimes someone says something so intensely French that you need to smoke a cigarette

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The point of structure is not to limit you. It is to stop wasting your best energy on re-deciding the obvious.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is that every day has to be renegotiated from scratch.

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

Tips for passing MCQs:
1. Choose the correct answer
2. Avoid choosing the wrong answer

[Kevwe @kevwe_od]

Once you determine that your current situation is beneath you, you now have a duty to yourself to rise above it.

Needless to say, this will involve a negotiation between fate and willpower.

Good luck.

[Dr.A🌹 @DrA_001]

There’s no time on planet earth where physicians will get sympathy from the public as regards pay/crazy work hours/burnout… so maybe, we could continue to advocate for ourselves via our physician groups instead of social media. In simple terms, there’s no love online.

[Ican Kudivo-Sessy @IcanKudivo]

😭😭😭, I think my response would've made them unforgive me.

[Sandra @sahndrah03]

IMGs are really going through it this period. I fear I may just leave social media for a while for my mental health because it’s crazy.

[Baba Oja @tweetcyborg]

If you start studying for step 1 today, there is a good chance you can take your exam between October and December.

Overcome that inertia. Get to work.

[Boluwatife @TEEPHTREND]

1. Saving money will make you feel broke while actually making you wealthy.
2. Setting boundaries will make you feel alone as you build new healthy relationships in your life.
3. Digging up your trauma will make you feel broken even as it heals you.
4. Working out makes you feel weak while it actually makes you stronger.
5. Learning something new makes you feel dumb while simultaneously increasing your intelligence.