Walter Finch

Digital editor of the Olive Press, Spain's number one English-language newspaper.
@olivepress

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@AGHamilton29 Defending the indefensible, this time with the argument ‘everyone else is just as corrupt anyway’.

Lord how low standards have fallen

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@futballfan17 @YedIin Neymar recorded a video of himself singing and dancing as he voted for Bolsonaro in Brazilian elections.

It was that ejection where bolsonaro was trying to pull a trump. Neymar has also just looked like a petulant child with no empathy at times.

I don’t know if there’s more

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@sandibachom Yes… did you take down the response as well ?

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

A fast-moving wildfire is burning in Bisbal d'Empordà, Girona, Spain, forcing around 45,000 people to remain indoors as flames spread through a protected natural area.

Around 150 children at a summer camp are sheltering in place and are reported to be safe. Strong winds have fuelled the fire.

📹 Dani Rodriguez Verdejo

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

Catalunya is burning right now with fires near Garraf and near Girona and a number of smaller ones.

Spain is a tinderbox in the summer and it’s a testament to the firefighters that more disasters don’t unfold.

[Àlex Fenoll i Cruells 🗽||*||🗽 @AlexFenoll]

Acollonant!😳

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@paxangloceltae Interesting his tactic of saying she was demonising immigrants.

It’s a common tactic among international criminal gangs. Play on the naïveté of left wingers

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@PernotLeplay There’s no rule prohibiting non-EU countries from participating.

The UK specifically has much to contribute; London’s deep capital markets, the UK’s AI sector and start up community each the largest in Europe.

This is a discretionary choice by 🇫🇷 that is against EU interests.

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

This has the capacity to ruin the knock out rounds of the World Cup. It’ll be too hot to play

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@WeAreTheOverlap Within two years both Gordon and madueke will be playing for Sunderland

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@stewartflaherty Nah it was the witch doctor.

In all seriousness, when Quieroz was assistant at Man U, we were very hard to beat.

It’s when we set the clean sheet record and defeated nascent Messi’s Barcelona (2008).

Evra and other have talked of training focused on positioning to the cm.

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

‘If you measured the height of all French men, the average is around 1m75.

Someone at 5.9σ above would be over 2m30.

That doesn't exist. That's Messi in football. He's an anomaly’

[Lucas @lucas_hby]

Messi se situe à 5,9 écarts-types (σ) au-dessus de la moyenne des attaquants des 5 grands championnats européens, en buts + passes décisives / 90 minutes.
Explications

En statistiques, la courbe normale dit que :
99,7% des individus sont dans les ±3σ

À 5,9σ, la probabilité d’exister est inférieure à 1 sur 500 millions

Imagine que tu prends tous les attaquants des 5 grands championnats européens, on a des des centaines de joueurs.
Tu les ranges du moins bon au meilleur en buts + passes par match.

La grande majorité des joueurs se retrouvent au milieu, c’est la bosse de la courbe sur le graphique

Les très bons (Haaland, Lewandowski) sont déjà loin à droite de cette bosse.

Messi n’apparaît même plus sur le graphique. Il est tellement loin que la courbe ne le représente plus.

Si tu mesures la taille de tous les hommes français, la moyenne est environs 1m75. Quelqu’un à 5,9σ au-dessus ferait plus de 2m30.
Ça n’existe pas. C’est ça Messi dans le football. C’est une anomalie

Ça veut dire que statistiquement, un joueur comme lui apparaît une fois toutes les centaines de millions de carrières de footballeurs.

Ô ne reverras probablement jamais ça de notre vivant, et c’est les maths qui le disent, pas juste une opinion.
Messi est une anomalie mathématique

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

@EnglandExtra This is the same guy who went after Bellingham so hard trying the build em up knock em down routine.

He should be shamed out of every press conference, every press event, every media briefing just total persona non grata

[Alejandro Maldonado @AlejandroMO79]

Estoy flipando con esta locura.
Málaga, España

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

King Kane… one surprise is Haaland leading the assists

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡: Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland in all competitions this season.

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

Spanish football fans (and also Brazilians) seem to be genuinely stunned and a little envious that England has the musical pedigree and discography to produce moments of connection like this between players and fans.

There’s been a debate about what Spanish song they could sing

[NACHO TELLADO @_naxotellado]

Ojalá me equivoque, pero en España veo complicado poder hacer algo así con una canción de J.Iglesias, Nino Bravo, Rapahel, etc….ya que habría personas que tratarían de politizar el tema. Que si este no porque es rojo o facha, que si la letra dice esto o lo otro y me ofende…

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

One thousand drones launched at Moscow, famous ring of air defences ineffective…it’s really starting to feel like the beginning of the end

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that approximately 1,000 Ukrainian drones have attacked Moscow.

Let us first note that Ukraine is now capable of launching up to a thousand unmanned aerial systems (UAVs) in a single wave. And it is not merely a matter of possessing such a number of drones—Zelenskyy has already announced that Ukraine will produce 10 million of them this year.

It is a question of command, logistics, and personnel resources. It is about the ability to organize an attack of this magnitude in the first place: setting up launchers, transporting components, conducting reconnaissance, planning, target assignment, launching, tracking, and post-strike assessment. That is a massive undertaking that must be managed.
And Ukraine is capable of doing so.

But what happens when that number rises to two thousand UAVs? Or five thousand?

Just imagine that.

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

Hard to believe this is a real video… Moscow in flames

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

Something that most people really haven't paid enough attention to is the agricultural impact of prolonged extreme temperatures.

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

This broad daylight murder sent shockwaves through Barcelona - a city used to shootings and stabbings.

The victims are rarely innocent, this one was mistaken for a Kinahan associate but now has been pegged as a Serb who oversaw cocaine entries to Antwerp (amounting to tonnes).

[El Periódico @elperiodico]

El hombre ejecutado en la calle de Balmes controlaba la entrada de cocaína en el puerto de Amberes https://t.co/0Q4YnKyVh5

[Walter Finch @waltfinc]

Freak summer storm really caused some havoc in Jaén this week, in between 40C heat peaks

[Hora Jaén @HoraJaen]

🚨 Una de las imágenes más impactantes de la tarde en Jaén. Un hombre ha sido arrastrado por el agua en una de las calles de la ciudad durante la fuerte tormenta de este martes, con aviso naranja activo en la capital.
Una escena que refleja la intensidad de lo ocurrido y la peligrosidad de circular por zonas anegadas cuando el agua corre con fuerza.

⚠️ Se han registrado más de sesenta incidencias

#Jaén #Tormenta #Inundaciones #AvisoNaranja #TiempoJaén #Emergencias #LluviasJaén