Kid Icarus

Pretty much yeah, like all of these cults of [personality/fandom/brand here] that are an online phenomenon. Look at Man City's fanbase now and there's like a dedicated group of fanatics who are out there batting for Man City not just on a human rights front, but on a legal front too, gathering any information they can use and every argument available to them. All because it's tied to the club they support.

I've been thinking this for a while but haven't posted about it. You know how there's often talk around sportswashing, greenwashing, this-that-and-the-other-washing? I'm not saying it's been done by design or anything, but to what extent do you think all of this absolute bollocks around legalities, regulations, loophole finding and so on within football is creating these little armies of fans who now champion 'gaming the system' for their football team, who otherwise would have looked down on it? Not sure I've articulated that well tbh, it's hard to explain what I mean.

Shows how Western-focused we are like, although it's understandable because of what we are and aren't regularly exposed to. Put him alongside MBS and on paper it should stir at least the same reaction towards them and imo much more.

Inside I think it looks good tbh, I like the window allowing for light to come through. Outside it reminds me of the Manta Force spaceship from when I was a kid, which I don't mind.

And/or who's on the mixing desk with the mic inputs slammed into the red

I'm pretty confident it'll be excellent and more or less exact with everything except the fit. My yellow and green one from the same year is the best snide I have by an absolute mile.

I ordered it so I'll report back

Meh, I support MBS-owned Newcastle and order from Amazon so it can go to Skeletor and not be as bad as far as I'm concerned. It'll be fine, I'm just gonna sell my real one tbh, much easier to do that, get this snide and then probably get the full on £250 one with the integrated star at some point further down the line.

Anyone want to buy a real one for £90?

5 fucking years I wait for a snide version, then two weeks after I drop £90 on a real one it comes out for £15.

Oh for absolute fucks sake man

I see some similarities with the Southgate arguments from a couple of years ago. "He's done really well because he got a constantly poorly performing side to a semi final and two finals" "They can't be a poor side, they got to a semi final and two finals - they're generational talents!" Basically I think it's about the extent to which you think success comes down to the manager or the players. In our case I think the overwhelming majority of the reason we are where we are is down to Howe, and that nigh on everything you look at points to that being the case.

Not even being able to press the Spurs button is canny embarrassing for Man United like. Like getting knocked out by Niles Crane.

Mad thing is Man United have been miles better here than they were at home to Southampton. Still shite like.

Think he's been by far their best player here.

Desperately wish there was an alternative. Those two on co-comms are insufferable in these matches, everything is centred around Liverpool and Man United, regardless of what happens.

Could still see Man United winning this comfortably tbh, Spurs are absolutely honking.

Feel like neither team has any excuses in this one.

Man United looking more dangerous in the Old Form Derby

He's been weird whenever I've seen them. Quiet, or often making daft decisions, overdoing it, playing poor passes and missing the target, but then out of absolutely nowhere he'll score, assist, or do something really dangerous.

Said similar last week. They're not bad by any means but they've basically filled a vacuum rather than gone above and beyond.

2 points Inthink. Twice (Man City and Liverpool) out of the 6 times its happened. Not ideal like, but thankfully we haven't been behind that much.

Went down at the end there knowing the ref would buy his bullshit. Horrible watch because of the ref.

Liverpool are cheesing this and relying on Wolves being pretty useless going forward. A better team makes more of these opportunities

Haven't seen as bad a ref performance as this in like 3 weeks