Weird decision to schedule the Palace v City fixture for 2 days before the Palace v Arsenal game.

like he scored the chance against Olympiakos?

Summer: celebrate and overhype signing mediocre players

Spring: blame the manager when he doesn't win with them

Rinse and repeat

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I didn't touch grass and I don't know who he is

Crikey.

And Leicester City are relegated

Coventry are champions. Second promotion place looks like a straight fight between Millwall and Ipswich.

Haha. Stuff we inherently know, but still: no PSG attacker ranks among the top 1,000 players in league minutes across Europe's top five leagues this season. The leader is Barcola with 1,395. Which is 16 starts, five of them completed.

Deep recruitment. And other things...

monetization, the content farms, diverse audience, the guys posting from India and Nigeria are football twitter

This is correct in England, where a good copy editor will tell you to use a singular verb when the subject is the club as an organization and plural when it’s the team as a group of players, but like “soccer” they’ve forgotten their own usage and suspect an American conspiracy

Valid to block someone who thinks the scientific consensus in 1538 was a flat earth.

Dutch geocentrists?

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

I know all the context, but it's still wild to see it typed out:

Nuno Mendes averages 8.8 league full-90s a season for PSG.

Across 5 seasons at PSG, he has finished fewer total games than Ben White did in one year for Leeds

One of my feelings is that top coaches have hacked the ideal role for FBs as the all-action, perpetually free man. But the physical demands are unsustainable. So you need a superhuman athlete to defy gravity, or PSG's luxury of playing them ~20x a year in league, or triples.

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

Bournemouth and Palace are ranked higher than Villa.

We have also been the best team in the league for 6 out of 8 months. City have been good for maybe 2 months.

Chances come from the Chance Stork who drops them off at your doorstep in the small hours. Whether you accept responsibility from there is up to you

The ripple effects of having Gyok up top is the most underated part of this whole convo. More than anything, his team mates don't trust him, they avoid passing it to him and when they do, they don't commit to running off him as they expect him to lose the ball.

the remaining 28% are the odds of an asteroid ending it all before 3pm

So close

72% chance City are top of the league by 5pm tomorrow

Eze was poor for 75 minutes, was at fault for the first goal but had one shot that hit the bar so shouldn't have been subbed off

If we score 25 goals in 5 games and concede none, we win the league.

100% - Wolves will spend all 282 days of the Premier League this season, since their opening game, in the relegation zone, becoming the first side to spend 100% of their days in the drop zone in a top-flight campaign since they themselves did so in 1964-65 (250/250). Marooned.

I'm up at 2:30am and my Fitbit thinks I've recovered well and ready for a productive day

Friendly neighborhood financial markets knower here to remind everyone that index futures are trading at 8:30a ET, and in fact trade 23/5 from 6:00p ET to 5:00p ET. Large, liquid stocks trade extensively in pre-market/after hours ~2h before/after regular hours. “The market” is not 9:30a and 4:00p.

Lol. California governorship race?