The league is all about controlling the in and out of possession phases.
In La Liga, Barcelona and Real Madrid must exert control by dominating the ball, because La Liga's teams allow it. Barcelona actually is doing it to some extent, but Real Madrid's model treats the league like the Champions League. In other words, Real Madrid relies on moments to win games in the league without caring to solve the playing style flaws.
This version of Real Madrid generates moments of scoring because they possess individual quality. However, Real Madrid's players are not clinical enough to capitalise on the few chances they create.
The result is a team that cannot exert full control on the league's game, cannot defend, doesn't know how to attack unless there is a transitional moment, and cannot draw advantage from the only quality they had, which is efficiency in front of the goal.
Real Madrid model generates moments, but doesn't guarantee sustainability across a run of 38 games. The main reason for that is that this team is suboptimally/badly coached.
I’ve lived alone for the past 5 years and with utmost certainty I can tell you that living on your own is not depressing. It teaches you responsibility, discipline, importance of freedom. You sleep in blissful silence. Everything you put in the fridge is still there when you get home, you can wear whatever you want, you can watch your movies/ shows whenever you want and record them and no one erases it, clean bathrooms, only one persons laundry, your type of music all the time, lower energy bills. The list goes on and on lol. I love it immensely. You can entertain a person or people for a night to interact and then back to much needed solitude.
This thing you’ve said, Neo, is very easy to say. It rolls off your tongue with the kind of detachment only possible when it’s not your child, not your body, not your womb that stretched and strained to bring that life into the world.
It’s easy to speak of death as a mercy when you’ve never had to hold a child, your child, knowing she may never speak like others, walk like others, live like others, and still love her so fiercely it terrifies you.
Do you understand what it means to carry life for nine months? To watch your body tear open so that another can breathe? To hear a cry, weak or strong, and know instantly that it is yours? That this is someone you would go to war for, bleed for, die for, and yes, suffer with? Do you understand the bond between a parent and a child, Neo? Do you understand what it means to love without condition, not because it is easy, but because it is right?
You do not. And it shows.
The child in question may never have what we call a “normal” life. But who made you, who made us, the arbiter of what life is worth living? She may struggle, yes. She may need help every day of her life. But she is still her parents’ child. Their joy. Their light. And for many parents, that is more than enough. Love, Neo, is not mathematical. It does not calculate utility. It does not withdraw when it becomes inconvenient. Love is defiant. Love stays.
You see torture, but they see a daughter. You see burden, but they see purpose. And no, they are not naive. They know exactly what awaits them—rejections, closed doors, social stigma, financial strain—but they choose to fight for her anyway. And that choice? That choice is what makes us human.
Your logic leads to eugenics; to clinics where people decide who deserves breath and who doesn’t. To a world where “different” becomes “disposable.” And while you have every right to hold an opinion, it is morally bankrupt to reduce disabled children to errors worth erasing. That isn’t mercy. It’s cowardice parading as pragmatism.
See, with children, it’s a lottery. You can follow every rule, obey every medical precaution, pray every prayer, and still give birth to a child who doesn’t fit your dream of normalcy. What then? Discard them because they don’t match the picture in your head? No. They are yours. You hold them. You fight for them. You love them. Nobody promised you perfect children. Life doesn’t owe you that. And if it hands you a child who needs more—more care, more patience, more strength—you give more. That’s what love does.
Yes, it will be tough. Yes, it will be taxing. But that child is still yours. That alone should shatter any notion of throwing them away.
And if, at the end of the day, your first instinct upon seeing a disabled child is to ask why they were allowed to live, then perhaps the real defect isn’t in their genes, but in your understanding of what it means to love as a parent.
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I wonder why this is always the goal. Dominance. This sounds more like a political ideology than a religion because the goal of a religion should be your personal salvation.
The biggest thing missing from Nigerian society today is Shame.
We do not have shame.
We celebrate thieves, liars, and criminals.
Zero shame.
And that in itself, is a shame...
Entire FDI for Nigeria is $2.2bn. Vietnam is $19bn. That's the league that Nigeria should be playing.
Nigeria, find leadership because without it, we are on a long crawl.
We have so many low quality problems in Nigeria, like littering. The root of it is indiscipline and lack of consequences. How can you eat a snack in your car, wind down your window and throw rubbish out?
I am actually in tears. I cannot believe we managed to pull this off. I cannot believe we did this. We are Real Madrid, we never give up, we never stop, we are never out. We are unbelievable. Unbelievable.