This is an interesting piece on the use and abuse of analytics in English football in its own right, but I also find it amusing that Balkan football culture tends toward the exact opposite problem:
“He can pass.”
“But can he run?”
“We’ll deal with that later.”
One of the strangest and most disturbing moments during Orban’s long tenure was the period in 2018 during which he was repeatedly photographed - including during a meeting with Italy’s Meloni - with an enormous ethnic map of Bosnia.
This coincided with a sharp uptick in his government’s support…
He’s been pouring money into Trump grifter networks via Michael Flynn—Don Jr. was in Banja Luka just the other day talking about crypto, etc.—so I’m guessing this is the latest stop in his image rehab tour w/ the US right.
“Get ready to be inspired!”
I wonder what he’ll do with the ethnic map of Bosnia that he had up in his office. Maybe he can hang up in his living room at home now.
But doesn’t it still come back to the question of who has more to lose? We‘d be taking away their immediate oil revenue but accelerating the global economic meltdown at the same time. Their pain tolerance remains higher here.
In Serbian, we don't say "he made a stupid decision," we say "he cut off his dick to spite the village"
Random thought from the past few days: Bosnians sure do love their songs about flowers.
That’s a Mike Tyson reference. youtu.be/25tP7Nn0mQY?...
*From some random corner of ex-Yu instagram via @a-d-n.bsky.social.
Ok, last one from me:
“Džeko and Tito after the Fall of Italy”
IMO it’s the same thing as when he asked a crowd in Wisconsin whether he was “more Greek” than Giannis Antetokounmpo. He delights in implying that black people are disconnected from some white national heritage.
In all honesty though, we probably did them a favor. They urgently need a Calcio Tanzimat and maybe this will actually force them into one.
Hot take: if Edin Džeko had been Brazilian, they’d have another World Cup by now.
Bosnia just beat Italy to qualify for the World Cup. Unbelievable.
The lane is wide open for the first 2028 Dem hopeful to articulate an unabashedly pro-Palestinian position.
Reminds me of that evergreen Bosnian curse: “May your house be on CNN.”
For my money, this is essentially the smart critique of Platner. I might quibble with the implications, but there’s substance to it.
By contrast, the consensus that’s formed around him on the rest of this website veers into utter hysteria.
And introspective indie (Dear Prudence).
Sarajevo’s Indexi. Also the authors of Yugoslavia’s first acid trip song around this time.
1. US preferentialism. In my mind the other options are ultimately downstream from this.
10. Lack of a competing great power. Just don’t see it, though could’ve gone with Pal maximalism as well.
You’re laughing. Serbia invested so much money in this man and you’re laughing.
Is it lack of spine or is she just happy to bomb Muslims?
The guitar riff at the end tells me they did their research on us.
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You're missing the point arkadaşlarım. What Israel dislikes about Türkiye isn't whether it likes Israel, it's Türkiye's existence as a state capable of exerting its own sovereignty.
Larry Krasner Attorney General?
Not familiar with OP, but I feel like the types usually obsessed with Nazis in Ukraine are also viscerally against Platner because he’s a “Blackwater merc” or crypto-Zionist brother-in-law or whatever.
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