#ARSAVL

I love Darwin Nunez so much.

Might be my favourite photo I’ve taken at the football - glorious!

Okay who wasn’t whispering quietly?

There were an estimated 100,000 empty houses across Melbourne in 2023. A big number but easy to visualise when you see these yellow posters in your neighbourhood. This one is in Brunswick, a short walk from where I live.

Really effective propaganda campaign from @vicsocialists.bsky.social highlighting the housing crisis and how easily it could be solved. Seeing these Housing Crisis Crime Scene posters on many empty houses.

Jack White, confirmed Vuck fan

Went past a bunch of cop cars with the ambo-inspired handwritten messages on the windows about their pay and conditions… they aren’t workers - they are enforcers of capitalist interests.

Solidarity with striking distribution centre workers ✊

Yeah, pretty much. Fullbacks basically on the touchline with goalkicks to provide width, then both inverting and pushing up next to the 6 in the attacking half. Wingers always asked to stay wide and make the pitch big to stretch the opposition defence and open up gaps for attacking midfielders.

This Liverpool team is doing someone special. Every last one of them absolutely tremendous.

Rattled and washed. The greatest ever manager reduced to this. Sad to see.

Liverpool still haven’t played anyone above them.

Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers between 2013-2016. Intense rivalry between fan groups which led to iconic clashes on (and off) the pitch. Very much the glory days of the A-League.

Still think he has it wrong with Bruno though. I like Vergos but come on.

Whisper it quietly but Kisnorbo has the Vuck playing some good football

Cheers! Will give that a try

"Liverpool, Liverpool top of the league" ringing out around Anfield. Don't usually hear that one on European nights.

This, combined with a bit more patience when building out from the back, appears to be what is giving this Slot team a sense of control.

But if they were just a tiny bit off, or personnel were missing, they’d constantly be put under pressure.

It felt like Klopp could take that risk with those 19/20 and 21/22 Liverpool teams because Van Dijk, Matip/Konate and Fabinho just covered so much space and were so good 1v1.

But if you had fullbacks overlapping constantly they just can’t delay or impact the opposition on loss of possession.

Both games were at home so the absolute state of the pitch helped because you’d need three touches to control the ball before passing, which was plenty of time to press and win the ball back.

I tried it with my team at the end of this season for the final two games. Instructions for both fullbacks to tuck in next to the 6 when we were in our attacking half. They smothered any counterattack and meant we could apply prolonged pressure. Won both games comfortably against similar opposition.

More players in central areas when you lose the ball = less likely your centrebacks will come under direct pressure.

It appears to me to be one of the main reasons Liverpool have more control under Slot than the end of the Klopp era.

Baby’s first posts about coaching: I’m all about inverted fullbacks.

I still can’t quite get my algorithm right on this app. I only follow football journalists and fan accounts, but my feed is overwhelmingly ice hockey, NFL and wrestling. All three of which I have no interest in!

A thoroughly enjoyable game. All of the were absolutely boss. Up the reds ✊

City are collapsing, but not totally collapsed. We’re not even in December. They can easily reel in 5 points. Still in touching distance at 8. But 11 points? Especially with the psychological damage of a loss at Anfield… that starts to become too big of a mountain. Sunday’s match is huge.

The unbearable silence in women’s football While women footballers have been trailblazers in advocating for gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and refugee support, many remain conspicuously silent on Gaza and Lebanon, writes Shireen Ahmed.

I wrote a piece for Sports Politika on the stunning silence in women's football on attacks and deaths of fellow footballers in Palestine and in Lebanon.

www.sportspolitika.news/p/women-foot...