Dr. Gonzo

Bayern Munich taking Kompany from this relegated Burnley is absolutely mental. This season’s Burnley were one of the most useless promoted sides I’ve ever seen come up. This is genuinely funny.

There’s truth in what both @OrangeKhrush& @Spike have said, but it’s a bit more nuanced. The left wing did help Khomeini take power. But it wasn’t just the left wing. It was the centrists and the right wing too. Anyone not in the very upper crust of the Shah’s Iran had serious and legitimate grievances - across all segments of life. It wasn’t partisan. And ultimately the IR betrayed them all. That’s why all of the legitimate problems that existed under the Shah still exist today… it’s just worse. But Spike is right that ultimately it’s Carter’s fault. A US puppet only falls when the US stops caring to pull the strings.

I think it's mental that Chelsea have had something like 20 managers since 2004. Just for comparison, Liverpool has had 21 managers since 1896.

I imagine they go for Tuchel again now. The people making the decisions at Chelsea are the most clueless idiots in football though. Chelsea, finally end a season with some stability... for the first time in years. 20 points more than last season, losing only 1 out of 15 matches, and getting European football when earlier this season the idea of Chelsea playing in Europe would have seemed totally unrealistic. And they sack him? Absolute clown show at Chelsea.

A lot of Liverpool fans have adopted this attitude after seeing so many neutrals desperate for our winning title run to be overturned due to covid and saying if we win the league it's the worst thing ever because we're insufferable. Weirdly tended to be from a lot of London & midlands based clubs too. The attitude is generally: "we fucking hate you too then" and "fuck all of the other English football clubs." Since City are less a football club than a tourism advertisement and sportswashing project, them winning a 4th title in a row is something that's more palatable to the Liverpool fans that have decided they hate the rest of the clubs in the country. They're more of an entity nobody really gives a shit about. For me, personally, though - I would have loved Arsenal to have won over City. I don't think of City as an actual football club either, and I think I have very much adopted a "fuck all of the other English football clubs" attitude - but City represent to me everything that I hate about modern football. So any time they fail to win a trophy they wanted to win, I see that as a victory for football.

EU offering condolences to a human rights abusing government because of the loss of a prominent mass murderer: Josep Borrell deserves all the hate he gets from Iranians.

Chris Bascombe, who's also a club connected journo, saying we're likely to be making contract extension offers to Virgil, Trent, & Mo as they're seen as vital for the transition to playing under Slot.

https://x.com/_pauljoyce/status/1792586251683447203?t=2Knj6ggv8xKEdxl-t3Jk7A&s=19 If it's from Paul Joyce, it's basically from the club - so Darwin's most likely not going anywhere. Unless we get a bid where we just can't say no... but I can't see that happening. Which is a shame because if we're going to sell anyone - I'd imagine it'd at least be one of Diaz/Nunez/Gakpo. And I'm sure we're going to sell someone - my guess is of those 3, Diaz is the most likely to go - and out of those 3, he's the one I think I'd prefer we keep the most. Nunez would be the one I want to see go the most because I'm just tired of watching him miss chances he should be putting away, and then just grinning that grin. He's a polarising player, because I love his workrate and I love the crazy shit he's done which has resulted in goals. But holy fuck is it irritating when he's routinely failing to put the ball into the back of the net from what seem like gilded opportunities.

Would be funny to see him at Barcelona tbh. I think he's done in club football though, but wouldn't be surprised at all if he's a hit at the international level.

Makes a lot of sense, if true.

Imagine winning 4 titles in a row and nobody giving a shit. The fourgettables.

Probably right behind Paisley & Shankley

Al Jazeera immediately blamed Israel because their dicks got hard at the idea of getting Iranians to go to war and die for their Palestinian friends.

Tbh it will actually be hard for that decrepit piece of shit Khamenei to find a worse guy than the butcher of Tehran. The guy was responsible for thousands of dead Iranians in the purges of the 80s, rolled back human rights in Iran in his short time as president, and was considered the heir apparent to Khamenei. There’s not a lot of news to celebrate lately, especially if you’re Iranian. So this is particularly great news. It doesn’t change much in the grand scheme of things. He will be replaced with another hardliner. And even the reformist parties in Iran are insane zealots so even if it’s not another hardliner, it’s not going to change much. But it represents karmic justice to a lot of Iranians. And it has given me a newfound appreciation for helicopters. Particularly the Bell 412, which is now imo the best aircraft ever made.

You surprised?

Raisi’s helicopter was involved in what Iranian state media are calling a “hard landing” and asking the country to pray for him.

Some birds that were on the pitch when we played Brentford (I think) got more time on the pitch this season than Thiago did. Great player, but ultimately a luxury signing that didn't really help us because of how injury prone he is - so not really a great signing. Gutted about Matip though, was one of our best free agent signings of all time despite his own injury woes. Gave us many great moments. Hope they'll be replaced with players that are close to as good as they are (or better, that's obviously more ideal) - but also with players that are nowhere near as close to injury prone as they both are.

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If it were down to me I'd sack the lot of them rather than scrap VAR. At the end of the day, I think most of the problems with PMGOL are institutional - VAR isn't the problem, the referees are the problem and the system where referees go through is failing them. PMGOL's never going to do that though, it's an old boys club.

VAR or no VAR the referees will be shambolic. At least not having VAR makes human error more forgivable.

This

@Stan is right - it’s been like that for a long time. It’s been like that since the early 2000s (and really with the TV money in the game in the 90s, the prem wasn’t that competitive either then - basically just 2 sides won it every year for an era bookended by Blackburn & Chelsea, 2 billionaire playthings at the time). The financial incentive of the CL is a huge motivator - winning the EL doesn’t even pay out as much as just playing in the CL groups. And it’s club football’s best cup competition, which means it’s football’s best cup competition. The best players want to play in it, the best managers want to manage in it. It’s an overall good thing for the health of your club, if you want to be competitive, to qualify for it. I think Villa fans will be absolutely delighted they’re in the CL next season and it’s got to be exciting going into it (is it their first time since it was rebranded the CL?) with a manager that has a good record in Europe.

Errr… didn’t “Are you watching Arsenal” ring out onto the TV speakers? That definitely wasn’t City fans lol. Spurs fan did the Poznan at the end of the 90. Ange was clearly pissed off about it in his post match conference and now if you go on reddit and check out the Spurs subreddit… quite a few of their fans have turned sour on him overnight.

Important words to know to bond with people from Italy that aren't Juve fans: Juve Merda