Rikaad 🇹🇹

Malazan. Lighting. Arsenal. Champions of England 🏆

[Rikaad 🇹🇹 @Ultimate_Gooner]

@hannahafcc Football back and seeing that gold badge makes me smile

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@AmazonMGMStudio FO with your drive to destroy Stargate

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[Guillem Balagué @GuillemBalague]

I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.

In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.

Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.

City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.

From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.

From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”

If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.

We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”

And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.

[FK @fkhanage]

They’re all talking about us. Laughing at Arsenal and how awful we are. Our renaissance is going to be so sweet. I’m backing Arteta. Just wait.

[RohanJivan @RohanJivanAFC]

Early morning thoughts

On Pep Guardiola, he’s always been a manager that surrounds himself in an environment where he can mould the squad the way he wants by being afforded vast amounts of resources. And in this context, he is the best I have seen. The ability to motivate players consistently to go again and again is top.

However, emphasis on ‘resources’!

Without the cheating, Pep wouldn’t have even considered the job. The resources, established through fraud, attracted Pep. And that’s why the entire Pep dynasty is obsolete. It holds NO weight.

[Rikaad 🇹🇹 @Ultimate_Gooner]

@hannahafcc When we signed eze. The summer window made be believe it was ours

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@RuiPinto_FL

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@fkhanage Freezer paper

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@hannahafcc

[Matt Spiro @mattspiro]

Arsène Wenger won 21 trophies in his managerial career. Imagine what he would’ve won if hadn’t been competing with Bernard Tapie, Roman Abramovich and Khaldoon Al Mubarak.

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@hannahafcc I'll trust your word 😂. I won't test it myself 🤣

[Rikaad 🇹🇹 @Ultimate_Gooner]

@hannahafcc That's the fun part 😂. I've been trying to do sourdough pizza and many failures 😂

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@hannahafcc I never use it 😂 I'm not sure

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@hannahafcc 😂 the closest I get to horror is the nightmare before Christmas

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Reacher season 4 finali! Well done viking!
@BUNJIGARLIN

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@hannahafcc 💀

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@hannahafcc Apple pie using focaccia cinnamon and glazing