Robbie van der Does

Football, mostly.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

You take the good with the Gakpo.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

Summerville doesn't start, what is he doing?

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

The timing and the selection of the subs from Koeman considering the speed bump of the hydration break was really poor. Have to feel the game better for a manager of his experience.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

What Koeman did to that game is indefensible. He'll rightly get torn apart for it

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

Oh dear.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

▶️ 'All or Nothing: Manchester United', coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2027.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

My dutch boys playing as if I myself had set them up in a 4-3-3.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

Not enough people talk about how terrible the standard of crossing a football into the box has gotten. Genuinely awful technique across the board.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

Every time I see Barcola popping up in a game, he is wasting huge chances.

Also, an actual crime not to play a player like Eze in the 90 mins.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

"Fabled"... tells it's own story

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

"Bruno Fernandes winning Footballer of the Year is long overdue recognition for a truly outstanding player. There are legendary No 10s who didn't ever achieve this level of consistency.

"But my vote went to… no one. No Premier League footballer this season has been at the requisite standard. The football has not been entertaining enough. The matches have been lacking in the technical quality and individual inspiration we’ve been accustomed to in previous years.

"Fernandes deserves his award, but it's a damning indictment of the individual quality in the Premier League that by simply maintaining his typical level he's suddenly the victor by a landslide."

📝 @Zonal_Marking

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[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

People say "the business side of Spurs is going well". A 5 year deal for DeZerbi? That is, probably, bad business. Am I grateful they've done it? Absolutely

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Roberto De Zerbi agrees a five-year deal to become Tottenham’s new manager ✍️

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

@NathanNorthcutt Yeah that's exactly it. If we don't want to "re-referee" the game then we need to strictly define what can and can't be reviewed to a very specified set of circumstances.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

@NathanNorthcutt Maybe a challenge system would only suit offsides so that it couldn't be abused for more subjective decisions e.g. leave offsides to the assistants on pitch unless there's a challenge. And to stop it being clunky, only give teams 1 challenge per game.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

@NathanNorthcutt I would agree. Games have too much riding on them these days to go back to nothing. It's very simple tbf, define a VERY specific set of criteria that VAR can rule on which should be minimal i.e. sending off the wrong person, clear dives but dunno about challenge system.. messy.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

It is honestly crazy that Stuart Atwell is still a premier league referee. Consistently bad week in week out.

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

"Best in class" doesn't mean anything if he doesn't 'get it'. Not all of these "best in class" options have that but Carrick definitely does and it means something. Neville is talking like a tech company looking for a CEO.

[utdreport @utdreport]

Gary Neville: "I'm not against [Carrick] being appointed [as permanent head coach], I love him, I think he did incredible job so far, but I just feel Manchester United should go for the best in class manager available.” [@SkySportsPL]

[Borussia Dortmund @BlackYellow]

The A is in town. 🇩🇪🇮🇹

[Robbie van der Does @robvanDD]

Man Utd sure do know how to pick a billionaire.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe believes the United Kingdom has been “colonised by immigrants”.

Ratcliffe, who moved to Monaco in 2020, said the UK needs a prime minister who is “prepared to be unpopular … to get the big issues sorted”, comparing that role to his own at United, where he has been “very unpopular” because of the changes made since his arrival in 2024.

“You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” Ratcliffe, 73, told Sky. “I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.

“The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn’t it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”

The UK’s Office for National Statistics estimated that the UK population was 69.5 million in November 2025, compared to 67.1 million in 2020. The ONS also estimated that the UK’s long-term net migration was 204,000 from 2024 to 2025.

According to a House of Commons research briefing from January of this year there were 1.68 million people, as of December 2025, claiming unemployment-related benefits in the UK.

[MUNDIAL @MundialMag]

More of this, please. What are they smoking over there in Brentford?

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

2024: "I'm voting for Trump to lower the cost of eggs"

2026: "your son died a hero in the Greenlandic liberation wars"