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Was gonna say, it’s not pandering to Messi

Urgh, terrible own goal by South Africa.

FFS

Terrible decision that.

Back post corner causing issues for Haiti again. I wouldn’t say England have looked particularly bad, just mediocre. Vulnerable to the quick ball forward. The passing and movement in general has been…OK. You can tell they’re missing two or three of their better players though.

Great harry and lovely cross.

England seem so disorganized at the back at times.

Christ, the final ball has been bad.

Been sort of half-watching. Haiti look very organized and hard-working (and love a dive and lying around). England look neat but uninspired. There’s so much more space on the right but the decision-making with the final ball is terrible. Lucy Bronze seems like the real talent but isn’t getting as much of the ball as I’d expect.

It’s a Transfer window Twitter. Don’t get wound up by that nonsense.

You cannot compare college football in the US with anything in the UK. Not just different culture, a completely different system from start to finish. IIRC more people watch football in the US than (Ice) Hockey. Certainly far more people play it.

One of the great music cities imo. I miss it a bit.

https://khelnow.com/football/2023-05-world-football-most-90-minute-winners-premier-league-history …or…maybe it says something else. One club being so far ahead of the others in this particular stat is, let’s say, suspicious.

Yeah, not unhappy at all tbh. Should have pissed it. Ange’s key issue is making sure the defence is solid.

Yeah, loads of people are just looking after their own I think. That’s what fans do. Ultimately, what angers most fans is anything that’s good for other teams and by extension bad for them. It angers me that a country can buy a club, but it primarily angered me that an oligarch could buy a club and just throw money at it. Chelsea was the straw that broke my back I think.

No, although there‘s been an absolute ton of bitching and moaning about Chelsea getting bailed out by the Saudi league. Including in here. If you’re owned by a country, and that country is going to give you a ton of money to take a player off your hands, it looks dodgy. That’s inescapable and part of the price of taking their money. I feel like you just have to suck up the opprobrium tbh, however unfair it might feel. You might actually be the bad guy, through no fault of your own, obviously.

Maybe in some other leagues, don’t think so in England. There’s still a ton of money sloshing around here, and the prestige of the competition and potentially the Champions League.

Well what do you expect? You’re owned by the country that’s buying the players. That’s precisely the point.

Technically yes, but I’m pretty sure that the convention historically and colloquially is for the English to say “are” and Americans to say “is”. As to whether “is” is becoming more prevalent in British media? No idea.

By “done some great business” do you mean “thrown enough money at the wall for some of it to stick”?

Lolz

I stand to be corrected, but one of the things that most struck me about the UK since coming back was the relative decline in Liverpool and improvement in Manchester as a place to live. Just on a completely superficial level, mind you.

The absolute classic technique of refs in Europe. Drives me insane.

The one England should have got.