Kid Icarus

What the fuck

Get directly the fuck in!

No man, I mean a different opinion on Richarlison

It's a penalty, like I said, bit let's not pretend Richarlison doesn't dive to the point of it being totally risible, or that you wouldn't have different feelings towards him if he had a different passport. But yeah you're right, hated Barton, Bowyer, and Mitrovic when they were here for similar reasons. If any of these dick heads were actually good enough to make their downsides worth it I might have thought differently. Bellamy being a good example.

It was a pen in the sense that you can't do that against someone who's as big of a diving cheat as Richarlison. Couldn't give a shit if he'd be 'our cunt' if he played for us, I don't like him or the way he plays.

They're the same thing ye pedant

So a preference then

lol at all the people with a preference for fucking Chelsea

Jesus Christ, the music

In real time I thought that Thiago challenge was a red. Clearly a two footed flying challenge. Not even talked about, unbelievable.

A good game with really poor finishing almost exclusively from Pulisic, Luis Diaz and Robertson

I'm reaching my Micah Richards saturation point like. Don't mind him all that much, but it feels like he's on all the time now and never really has anything insightful to say.

Lukaku has been almost useless at the top level whenever he plays up front on his own for ages. He regained form as part of a 2, Chelsea re-signed him and only play him on his own. Very weird.

He's awful. Perfect mix of going down over nothing mixed with butter wouldn't melt shithouse tackles. Such a boring player as well

Pulisic misses the target, as is tradition

Oh no, don't boo my precious song about my precious queen Pathetic boot licking nonces

Remember when snowflakes were triggered American teens crying over the misuse of pronouns and not normal working class men who don't really like that their football club's owned by one of the world's most notorious wronguns I wonder what happened there

Improve their image, not improve.

Aye it's there from the journos but hardly outrage on here. Even then the ratio is still massively out. Could do without the cringe edgy patter as well, no doubt we're deemed oFfEnDeD like, when it's actually just 2nd hand embarrassment. You're right about the polarisation like, it truly turns people into total cunts.

I see the talking about Fewm to Fewm ratio is still about 200:1 Some bonus edgy revelling in it with jokes about human rights abuses from what I can only assume is a lad struggling with puberty.

I also don't get this whole thing about scoring apparently being the hardest part of the game tbh. Without question the hardest part of the game for me was always dribbling past a smart defender who knows when to back off, double up, turn you away from goal etc. I've never thought that scoring's that hard. It's why I find the superhuman individual Messi goals mind blowing way beyond any goal stats on their own.

If that's turned even one Farage loving Newcastle fan away from him, then

Not sure about striker, but Maldini would have easily been an excellent winger I reckon and at the end of his career could have done a job at defensive midfield. I know what you mean as well, the absolute best would have been great in more than one position (except goalkeeper) almost without exception

They were both as inconsistent as each other I think, I'd probably say Shaka was marginally better.

I think whichever way you want to define it, as sportswashing or the brainwashing of a fanbase or whatever, there's a lot to be said for how a pre-packaged, tribalist set of supporters will to go out and bat for you and your sins if you're associated with their club and appeal to their material interests is a very real phenomenon. How effective that is in softening your reputation is another matter, but I think the first part of it is true and self-evident. Why journalists seem to have no curiousity about why people might act in this way, in the psychology behind acting in self interest, where people draw their lines, how certain groups are primed for it, how emotional attachments can be exploited, examples of it elsewhere in society, what it tells us and the human condition, how we can work against it etc beyond 'football is tribalist' or 'it's an example of sportswashing' is just baffling to me. I wouldn't mind their complete like of curiousness if it wasn't paired with their know-it-all moralising and self-exceptionalism. Honestly, if I had the time and also had the motive to do it that they do, it would have been the first thing I'd done.