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vg football stats site, particularly for xg data. now appears to be the latest victim of the Great Capitalist Data Purge

is understat down for anyone else

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noooooooo not scooter braun

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Ticket to ride? Fifa premium makes this the World Cup that actively hates you | Jonathan Liew The $95 bus trip to Foxborough highlights a tournament unique in modern times – one that ultimately makes no secret of its disdain for the paying public

i wrote about the $95 bus ticket www.theguardian.com/football/202...

this is great on the cruelly underrated yusuf pathan

oof! what is this?

Ticket to ride? Fifa premium makes this the World Cup that actively hates you | Jonathan Liew The $95 bus trip to Foxborough highlights a tournament unique in modern times – one that ultimately makes no secret of its disdain for the paying public

i wrote about the $95 bus ticket www.theguardian.com/football/202...

lol this is bluesky every opinion is old-coded

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question: given spurs are only 47% to get relegated, how come the bottom left scenario is rated more likely than the top left?

this is it. he's already leading a largely interior life, then the pandemic takes him out of society at age 13, then darts keeps him out of it.

love that those are the two examples you went for

i'm obviously not remotely qualified to make that sort of judgement. i am, however, obsessed with the fact that he failed his driving theory test six times

on a side point, "i said to him, 'well done, you got the win'" has to be up there with "it's an early bath for you, mr cantona" in the pantheon of great sporting fictions

so when van veen objects to littler celebrating a missed double, littler's response is "well, why did you turn round in the first place?". he genuinely thinks the turning round is worse. which is exactly what you'd think if you didn't recognise human volition as separate from competitive instinct

when an opponent acts in a way that doesn't fit the usual competitive dynamic, it totally baffles him. pietrezcko makes a self-deprecating joke at the interval and littler fumes at his "mind games". schindler throws him a casual compliment and littler's instinctive response is "living rent free"

this is a very interesting interview because it largely confirms what i've long suspected about littler: he doesn't really grasp social interaction beyond its most basic level. for him, the world is essentially one big game of darts. there's player 1, player 2, the crowd (£££), and that's it.

How Coventry won back their soul on tortured journey to the Premier League For years the CBS Arena was a monument to Coventry’s miserable plight, writes Lawrence Ostlere. Now it is their true home as they near a remarkable return to the top flight after 25 years away

Sent to Coventry:

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Lotte Wubben-Moy finds ‘perfect storm’ to show she is more than England stand-in Arsenal defender on embracing her England chance, maintaining self-belief and sharing training tips with her cyclist partner, Tao Geoghegan Hart

really quite hard not to love a footballer who casually drops the word "modalities" into an interview

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the “girls in north london” woman off TikTok

this time donald trump has really gone too far

ok NOW do people believe he’s a teenager

David Squires on … Roy Hodgson staying down with the kids on his return to Bristol City Our cartoonist on the 78-year-old’s shock move to Bristol City and his attempts to connect with the young ‘uns

Come for the return of Roy, stay for the Die Hard reference, leave because of Keysey in his pants.

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Here’s the danger: if Labour doesn’t offer a radical solution to the energy-price crisis, others will Money-off vouchers won’t do. Instead, the government needs to offer a lasting vision for energy security – because we already know what Reform’s is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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got a sense of forebodin here

Bruno Fernandes is the true custodian of Manchester United in the age of Ratcliffe | Jonathan Liew As well as being one of the team’s best performers, midfielder has become a talisman who is aware of the club’s spirit and traditions

manchester united have spent more than a decade trying to fill their ferguson-shaped hole. *very* weirdly, the closest attempt yet may be the lad playing in midfield

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Bruno Fernandes is the true custodian of Manchester United in the age of Ratcliffe | Jonathan Liew As well as being one of the team’s best performers, midfielder has become a talisman who is aware of the club’s spirit and traditions

manchester united have spent more than a decade trying to fill their ferguson-shaped hole. *very* weirdly, the closest attempt yet may be the lad playing in midfield

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Here’s the danger: if Labour doesn’t offer a radical solution to the energy-price crisis, others will Money-off vouchers won’t do. Instead, the government needs to offer a lasting vision for energy security – because we already know what Reform’s is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

vote labour and win some heating oil www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...