Congolese fans are out in the streets celebrating that draw against Portugal. They had never scored a goal at a World Cup before. Absolute scenes in Kinshasa.
Expanding this tournament to include more teams is giving us some of the best moments by far.
@MattMcCarthy985 So much of the emotional investment you see in soccer comes from promotion and relegation. Clubs organically build roots in fertile places, and create hotbeds. There’s always a way in for new ideas and stories.
@Kashif23_ No question these stadia are impressive, but worth noting that football league teams play 20+ games at home in a season, not <10 like in NFL, so 50-60K is often optimal size.
@Sam_Dumitriu Bentham Tower was 2006 and importantly survived the GFC to be the template. London based lenders turned gun-shy on Manchester, hence Bernstein argued for that revolving line of credit for housing from Osborne. The rest is history.
@SashaSwire Was brought up in South Pennines and I’m trying to square stewardship with moorland that catches fire in summer and fails to retain heavy winter rain because it’s been denuded by sheep farming.
@BrentToderian I like how they’ve framed in terms of safe active travel to schools. The impact of the school run is something that resonates with drivers as well as parents.
@RM_Transit In the UK low cost salary sacrifice leasing through your employer is driving high take up rates, and then bleeding EVs into the 2nd hand market.
@ianjelf@JonNeale It’s not that, these people want a 4 bed new build in Stockport, Trafford, Wilmslow or the Wirral and these affluent commuter suburbs are locked in greenbelt.
@rorysutherland This is Stott Hall Farm. It infamously sits inside the M62 near Saddleworth Moor and is at the highest point in England’s motorway network. It’s also where the greenbelt of GM and WY meet. Make it make sense.
@rorysutherland I guess you know AI is rapidly bleeding into automated mobile UX design. It’s not creating slop, but welcome to the world of quick, but average.