Dr. Gonzo

Tbf, Citeh have massively underperformed this season given the players they have and the resources they’ve spent. They won one domestic cup after all that... and it’s the one that nobody really gives a shit about unless they win it. Obviously it’s not over for them, and if they win the CL I think it’ll be a successful season for them. But domestically, I think they’ve massively underperformed by the standards that were set over the previous two seasons.

Didn’t Sterling also win young player of the year too? Guardiola should stick to giving the sheik lapdances, the sportswashing cunt.

I’m gonna play the shit out of Halo & the game that looks like Mario but on LSD with Jack Black. Also the DLC for Outer World’s is intriguing. I think there’s also another Obsidian RPG they barely showed us anything of. But they make really good RPGs. What surprised me most tbh was that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 looks like it’s a console exclusive. But Outer World’s isn’t... even though MS bought Obsidian out recently.

Idk if she needed 10 minutes to say all that It’s definitely changed how I buy games (although tbh I’m like much less inclined to buy games now unless it’s something like Doom - where I know it’ll probably be on gamepass later but I just can’t help myself). Now I’ll only really pay money for a game if it’s something I like on Gamepass and I see that it’s leaving the service.

James Milner has some trophy haul, doesn’t he? Premier league legend for sure when he retires.

Part of what made Torres so brilliant was his fantastic change of pace with the ball. He could go from pretty quick, slow down a bit, and then put the afterburners on and leave defenders left for dead. Couple that with some incredible finishing and he was absolutely brilliant. I think injuries took that change of pace away, I’m not sure he’d ever look the same as his best ever again. But yeah, I imagine a player like Suarez alongside him would have been a better way for him to wind down his career with grace. Although he can’t really argue against the medal haul he had at Chelsea - or blame him for wanting to get the fuck out of Hodgson’s Liverpool. But imo, for as brilliant as Torres was, I’m with @LFCMike on this... Suarez was just something special. As complete of an attacker as I’ve ever seen and the whole side was built around him to get the most out of him. I would have loved to see him in his peak in this Klopp side.

Mine (in my lifetime) would be: Alisson TAA VVD Hyypia Robertson Mascherano Alonso Gerrard Salah Suarez Mane A lot of players from present day make my squad. It was tough for me to pick between Hyypia and Carragher, but in all honesty... I genuinely think Hyypia was the best CB we had at the club in my life until we signed Virgil. Alisson v Reina was tough, but I went with the man who won a CL and PL with us. That Rafa-era midfield is 100% the best midfield we've had in my lifetime. Then our current wide forwards playing alongside Suarez, who's probably the most brilliant player I've seen at Liverpool other than Gerrard... that would be a dream attack. Not a bad side, imo.

Imo that's where the game takes a bit of a downturn... so I understand that tbh. It's still a very good game, or at least... I really enjoyed it.

Brilliant game, although the second half of it isn't quite as good as the first. The first half is great though, it was really immersive.

I started playing Fallout 76 because it's on Game Pass. I know it had horrible horrible reviews when it launched, but apparently as of April it's been made into a pretty good game. As someone playing now, I have no idea what's new and what's original... but it's seeming pretty fun so far.

That's the way to do it, my friend.

Teachers, doctors and nurses all deserve a big pay rise before everyone else in the public sector tbh.

Looks like Havertz is imminent. Wonder if Chelsea are going to sign anyone for their defense in the window, because I certainly think a CB (and goalkeeper) would go a long way for them, especially with those 3 new attackers on the way.

Tbf Arsenal need a lot more changes to their midfield (and squad generally) than we did after we sold Coutinho.

Coutinho’s a very good player if your attack is built around him. He’s a “traditional” playmaker, when the play runs through him he looks fantastic (and why he’s infinitely better in a central role than out on the left wing. He was only an issue in the dressing room once Barca turned his head and he decided to fake injury to leave. Now that he’s had his “dream move” and it’s been a bit of a nightmare, he might be less inclined to leave a club rather than spend season after season on loan. Tbh though, it seems modern football has sort of left his position behind. We improved after he left for Barca where he was never going to be the main man because Messi isn’t just the best goal scorer in the world - he’s also the best playmaker in the world. Bayern don’t really play a system that uses a traditional #10 and he’s just been “okay” there - but poor overall for the wages he’s on.

That’s because so many people don’t give a shit about politics so you get in people that are only really in it to enrich themselves. People who don’t give a shit about politics are easy to manipulate and that’s how you end up with governments that are incompetent in every regard except for being corrupt.

One plus Ancelotti has over Silva is he’s managed to shift tactics around and win Everton points with this pretty poorly assembled Everton side. That midfield is shit, you improve that over the summer and you’ve got a much better midfield. I don’t know how much can really be expected of Ancelotti to transform this side without making any changes to the squad. There’s too much deadwood and not enough leadership in the side. It makes them dull and mentally weak when the going gets tough (which is why they were in the relegation places before Ancelotti came in). He needs at least 2 windows before we can judge him as a blueshite fully imo. Hard to make changes to a squad when it’s that imbalanced of a side without actually changing players around.

Do you have a fever?

Azerbaijan is using a global pandemic as an excuse to start shit with Armenia over contested territory, which is pretty fucked up because it’s a global pandemic.

Sadly, I think there are too many people in the world that are just fucking idiots to not have it legally imposed on everyone. You might be reasonable about when you wear a mask and when you don't. Sadly, many people won't be reasonable about it at all.

I've heard it's awful, like they're poking your brain through your nose.

Here are both of my kitties posing for a photo

Like you said in your post before... I don't understand why there's this 24 July date. Incredibly arbitrary, tbh. Where I'm at, we had some new restrictions in place (masks were already compulsory in supermarkets and have been for the last few months) - but it's really just a rollback of many of the restrictions from how the state first dealt with the virus being reimposed because they opened too early and everything has spiraled out of control. But there's no arbitrary date that's been imposed. The "new" restrictions are effective immediately and basically anything deemed non-essential that takes place indoors is prohibited again.

What the fuck? Although what do we expect Gove to tell us when experts are saying otherwise.