Nick Francis

My life is a satire of my life.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

I started collecting soccer jerseys last year, and they’re all I wear. I enjoy the kits, but what I love most is what they represent - the clubs, the histories, and the players who wore them. This game is a huge part of me and this is the best way I can share that. #kitoftheweek

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@benwright I was there, none of what you said happened. Some did the wave. No one booed.

[David Coates @coatesy1976]

Just listened to the @itvfootball panel talk about Harry Kane. He was elite when he left Spurs and he's elite now. Don't make out like his game was made at Bayern. He was made by Spurs only he had to move to be appreciated. Spurs fans knew for years how great he was.

[Nathan @NathanAClark]

Pre-match ITV piece on Kane's "best ever season" and the developments he's made under Kompany.

Sorry, not as good as the player he was in 2017. Only playing on a more dominant team.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

Just want you guys to know that Alexis Lalas will never change. No matter what Zlatan or Henry say.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@MCameron008 It’s been going on for a long time. He will never learn.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

Some of you don’t like soccer and it shows.

[Mark Gillies @5goalthriller]

Qatar-Switzerland is very ‘finish your vegetables or you can’t have any Brazil-Morocco pudding’.

[Louise Perry @Louise_m_perry]

"The tradwife phenomenon is also, in its own way, a response to this widespread feeling of disappointment. Like Ms. Burke’s protagonist Natalie, some young women look around at modern society, notice its various problems, and conclude that an answer lies elsewhere—perhaps, they ask hopefully, in the past?

They forget that the past had its own problems. They forget, too, that the most difficult parts of most women’s lives are beyond the reach of politics. The physical realities of motherhood serve to disrupt our working lives in a way that simply isn’t true for fatherhood. There is a difference in the size and strength of the sexes that will always put a woman at a disadvantage in any violent encounter with a man. Men aren’t to blame for the pain and discomfort of childbearing, menstruation, menopause and breast-feeding—in fact, these experiences are better now than they once were thanks primarily to male doctors and scientists. If you have a problem with the biological substrate of women’s lives, your only option is to take it up with God."

My column for @WSJFreeEx on the bestselling novel 'Yesteryear', a woman-hating revenge fantasy that shows no empathy for its subject: the tradwife.

https://t.co/RAFw8ZoFYk

[Winston @detroitsux]

No childless adults at theme parks, carnivals, children’s movies, or in the toy section at stores (a persistent problem I’ve noticed, particularly in the Lego aisle) and we’ve got a deal.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@RRR0BYN I think the counterargument is that they won’t participate in the chores when there isn’t an incentive to be had. Have any of you seen this? My kids are on the younger side but I’m curious to try it. They don’t do well with small “chores” atm

[Jack Pitt-Brooke @JackPittBrooke]

45 minutes to remind you why you love football so much and now a reminder of what they've done to it.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@kingpminch Houndoom! I’m sure he’s taken but I love that boy.

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

They oversimplify history to push a narrative, but the reality is more complex.

Voting Rights in the past were mostly tied to property and class, not just gender. Voting, for example, was often based on household ownership. That means many men couldn’t vote either, because they didn’t own property. It wasn’t “all men had power,” it was a small group of people who did.

In some cases, single women and widows who owned property could vote. So the idea that women were universally banned from participation isn’t entirely accurate. The bigger divide was economic status.

The same applies to education and work. Most men weren’t living comfortably while women suffered. The majority of men were poor farmers, laborers, or soldiers doing physically demanding and dangerous work. Life was hard for almost everyone.

On finances, women did have access to bank accounts in certain contexts. The issue with credit was tied to legal responsibility. In many systems, a husband was liable for his wife’s debt, so institutions required his approval. That wasn’t just random discrimination, it was tied to how liability laws worked at the time.

Over time, laws changed to remove these restrictions and give women full financial independence, including access to credit and contracts. Those changes were also driven by economic needs, like expanding the workforce, not just social pressure.

And women forget how different life was back then. A hundred years ago, there weren’t office jobs and remote work. Most work was physical and survival-based. Society wasn’t structured around comfort, it was structured around necessity.

The bottom line is this: history isn’t a simple story of men having everything and women having nothing. Most people, including most men, had very limited power. What changed over time was the system itself, not just who benefited from it.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@The_Money_Buddy Does he have a wife and kids? If yes he’s doing great. If no then he’s behind.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I've been reading ancient marriage contracts for a manuscript and I think it's really fun to see that a lot of our stereotypes of the ancient world are actually not the whole story.
Patriarchal societies, sure. But no one can overcome the power of Girl Dad.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

“ Hey boys keep it nice and tight for the first 30 minutes!” #thfc

[Futez @FutezApp]

Football needed a Letterboxd.

We built it.

This is Futez, and everything you need to know about it 👇

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@DaleJohnsonBBC Just leave the game alone c’mon man.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@_oscareyes_ Most people don’t understand this. EPL clubs can lose money on there academy cause they might produce 50 mill pound player that makes it all worth it.

[Nick Francis @Nfranity6]

@TheTrueVanguard Combat and traversal were super fun. Almost everything else was suspect. Wish they coulda gotten it right would love more

[Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB]

Something to consider about players moving to the Premier League.

As everyone knows, it's more physical and attritional, meaning that players have to put on weight, recondition and learn to play with new teammates. That's a big challenge in itself.

But this is also happening when players are both very young and very expensive, because that's the trend in the market. A club is happy to spend a huge fee on a young player — Ekitike, Wirtz, Woltemade — because it's a long-term investment with less risk than would be associated with signing a 25/26yo.

What are players facing as a result of those twin issues?

They leave a league before they have fully matured, have to cope with the technical/physical barriers to adaption, and must also overcome the social hurdles — language, culture, media pressure — when they are still very young and lacking the life experience that makes a person more resilient and adaptable.

It's impossible to condition a social media audience to think that way. Mugging off players and laughing about over-spends and bad deals is too tempting, and there's too much value in bad faith engagement. But perhaps the conversation in the broader sense needs to better reflect just how difficult it is.