Recent content by 1966

I think you might've read into a subtext that wasn't there. I wasn't calling out United. I just thought it was a shame that not a single one of the PL's huge clubs could engineer a move for him. Who the hell knows what really goes in the background? In the last week alone, the media first...

I wish I could like your post, but in lieu of that: thanks, mate.

Also I'm super-excited to see Kane play for Bayern. I've been looking forward to his big move ever since Spurs started going downhill almost immediately after Kane signed most of his peak away (I was gutted when I first heard about that contract). Even as a club neutral, I did hope his big...

Copy-pasting my standard explanation whenever this comes up, because I think football gamblers deserve to know what they're into and the vast majority don't. This isn't how betting works. But don't worry: almost everyone goes through a phase of believing that bookies win by being better at...

I did a little experiment with one of the matches towards the back end of last year when Sky were doing their interstitial screen and found that between the kneeling, timer adverts, hoarding adverts, interstitial adverts, tarp adverts etc. that there was a reference to BLM or adjacent messaging...

Yes. The amount of BLM stuff in the PL makes me feel like I'm living in a dystopia. The intensity of it feels like some bizarre brainwashing exercise. Very weird.

Agreed. I've already made a lot of defences of starting Kane in that final (before, during, immediately afterwards and ever since) so I'll just summarise my main points: - As is now being made clear, Kane is so much better than every alternative that the potential reward of him playing well...

That was a shitty meme that I used to identify people that either don't watch Spurs or don't understand football. But yeah, it was very common. Now seems pretty outrageous, of course, but it always was. If there were ever a bounce without Kane, it was a mirage. To some extent, teams no longer...

Good post. Yeah, "pragmatic" carries connotations of accepting the limitations of your coaching and players and just trying to maximise results at the expense of aesthetic considerations. Genuinely pragmatic management gets a team playing above par given its constituent parts. Jose is the...

One of these things is not like the other. Kane, Son, Bale was theoretically a world class strikeforce and could've easily been such if Bale had lived up to the fairly reasonable expectation of an unretired player. If Bale could find something approximating his top level, that would be one of...

Agree. Also hello fellow England supporter! (I know there are lots on here but you're the only other person I've seen with it on their profile)

Yep, legit two man team. Or one and a half, really, because Kane is the one who actually makes them tick. He's worth several league places to them on his own.

Wenger was perfectly capable of defending himself. I'm not a fan of discouraging manager banter, even if it's dumb or harsh.

The hypothetical was him now versus if he had never needed it. I'm aware of the medical necessity. It's a lot more complicated than you're making out. I'm in biomed: I know my endocrinology. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it had conferred upon him permanent benefits beyond merely controlling...

Cheers for saving me making this point, mate.