There’s a line from Roy Keane autobiography in 2002, where he talks about the mentality of the United team in the first 15 minutes of games. I’m paraphrasing, but it was along the lines of “we know we have more quality than any other team, the only thing the opposition could ever be better at than us is intensity and fight. So for the first 15 minutes we always go out high intensity, starting from the tunnel. We let them know within 15 minutes that they won’t even beat us at duels and battles, then when we’ve killed their spirit, we start playing football”.
That was a treble winning captain talking about running and dueling first, before anything. No great team is 20th in running.
A disgrace.
Egypt completely dominates the sport of squash on a global level; South Africa’s Springboks are a force in rugby; Ethiopia and Kenya rule global marathons. Kenya and Morocco dominate the steeplechase, Ghana and Nigeria lead U-17 football, and Senegal is a global beach soccer powerhouse. Now Africa needs to figure out how to lead the world in science, agricultural technology, economic growth, good politics, and curbing the theft of taxpayers' money.
If you can watch only one video to understand current geopolitics, make it this one by George Yeo, one of Singapore's longest-serving cabinet ministers (23 years!)
As Yeo explains, current global geopolitics is fundamentally driven by US "retreat" and "decline", forced by a financial reality that no US administration can reverse: its debt servicing already exceeding its entire defense budget.
To Yeo, this explains why the US insists so much that its "allies" in Europe and Asia spend more of their GDP on defense - to basically pick up the tab for an empire America can no longer afford - but it also means that, inevitably, "once your allies begin to have their own military capabilities, they will think differently, and they will not follow you in everything that you want to do."
As such, American decline becomes self-reinforcing: the more it asks allies to carry their own weight, the less reason they have to follow its lead.
Still, Yeo says that a similar dynamic to one that happened after the fall of Rome could occur where America - like Byzantium did - sheds its empire and consolidates around its own hemisphere, allowing it to remain self-sustaining and powerful for a very long time.
He believes it's the direction things are heading - which would also explain Trump's obsession with Canada and Greenland.
It remains however obviously an open question whether an American "Byzantium strategy" is even achievable: Canada, for one, clearly wants no part of it.
Full video available here: https://t.co/99APyQjG3q
If you sit back and observe things keenly, you will see that hatred has never worked. Those you hate on will surely rise above you, provided they don't get caught in your bait. Hate as a strategy is destined to lose. Those who allow the waters of bitterness sip into their soul end up as losers. Haters are losers.
Rise above the temptation and embrace wisdom. It is a better way of getting things done. A sure and certain way to success.
Pastor Poju Oyemade
So many begging school kids lurking after school. One moment they're greeting you and before you even take in the greeting comes a bold ask. What explains this decadence?
ديكلان رايس ده شخصية جباره حرفيا !
بعد ضياع ركلة الجزاء الأخيرة وإعلان تتويج باريس بدوري أبطال أوروبا...
الكاميرات بدأت تبحث عن وجوه لاعبي أرسنال.
إحباط.
دموع.
صدمة.
لكن لقطة ديكلان رايس كانت مختلفة.
كان مبتسمًا.
هادئًا.
وكأنه يرفض أن يسمح للحظة واحدة أن تمحو رحلة كاملة.
الأجمل من اللقطة كانت تصريحاته بعد المباراة.
رايس لم يبحث عن شماعة.
لم يهاجم زميلًا.
ولم يلمح إلى أن أحدًا تسبب في ضياع اللقب.
بل قال بكل وضوح:
"لولا إيزي وجابرييل لما فزنا بالدوري الإنجليزي."
ثم أكمل:
"في الموسم الأول وصلنا لربع النها��ي، وفي الثاني لنصف النهائي، وفي الثالث للنهائي. حققنا حلم الدوري، ولدي شعور أننا سنعود ونحقق دوري ال��بطال أيضًا."
وهنا تفهم لماذا الجميع يحب هذا اللاعب.
لأنه في عز الانتصار يبقى متواضعًا.
وفي عز الانكسار يبقى مؤمنًا.
أتذكر عندما بدأ أرسنال يبتعد عن الصدارة أمام مانشستر سيتي؟
كان الجمهور يفقد الأمل.
وخرج رايس وقتها بكل هدوء وقال:
"الأمر لم ينته بعد."
ثم عاد أرسنال وحقق اللقب.
واليوم يكرر نفس الرسالة.
نفس الهدوء.
نفس الإيمان.
نفس العقلية.
ولهذا السبب...
هناك لاعبون يمتلكون الجودة.
وهناك لاعبون يصنعون شخصية فريق كامل.
وديكلان رايس من النوع الثاني ❤️🏆