Mike L. Goodman
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Now: “The Carlo Ancelotti of ” Then: @StatsBomb , Grantland, @FiveThirtyEight etc. Always @doublepivotpod .
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Nobody in South America will have heard of Lionel Messi is the kind of content I come to this here website for.
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Everybody saying Wagner heading to Moscow is unprecedented. But.
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The state of USPS discourse.
Democrats: We think Trump is destroying the post office to win the election.
Trump: I’m destroying the post office to win the election.
Conservatives: The libs have gone crazy and believe that Trump is destroying the post office to win the election
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Man City wearing “No war” t-shirts as their owners literally abstain from a vote to condemn Russia for war.
In case you want to know what sports washing is.
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I enjoy that Inter Milan’s Skriniar and Inter’s Milan Skriniar are both correct.
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The owners of the Etihad, a literate nation state, have declined to take several concrete actions in support of Ukraine but will get reputational credit for this. Which is how sports washing work.
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It is extremely gross to try and pin this decision on the women’s team no matter what the ultimate decision is.
Manchester United delay Mason Greenwood decision to consult World Cup players
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USWNT just solidly outplayed the number 3 team in the world and lost because sometimes you lose. Time for a new coach because that’s what you do after a disappointing tournament and Vlatko hasn’t been all that good. But boy am I not concerned about the talent level on this team.
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It was not a good Bayern season.
Napoli: 90 points
Man City: 89 Points
Barcelona: 88 points
PSG: 85 points
Arsenal: 84 points
Lens: 84 points
Bayern: 80 point pace
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The quarter that Sir Jim owns is from 59 to 82 minutes.
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It’s worth understanding that if Mason Greenwood doesn’t in fact come back for Manchester United it’s because United’s plan to create an environment which seemed more amenable to his return than it actually was failed. And it failed because it was revealed by
@AdamCrafton_
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There were some very funny moments last night where Sergio Busquets scrambled to get himself a second to play a pass before suddenly realizing he had five more seconds because he’s in MLS now.
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One thing I have learned is that there are two distinct brands of USWNT psychosis rage tweeters
1. They lost because Rapinoe is woke.
2. They lost because Sophia Smith is in commercials.
Men appear to be genuinely not ok.
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I do not think the problem with the USWNT is that they smile too much and like dancing.
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I feel like a lot of MLS fans are sensitive about the prospect of Lionel Messi absolutely dominating the league. But, like, it’s ok. He’s Lionel Messi. There’s no shame in it. I promise.
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The why doesn’t Messi play for free takes are very bad takes.
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Y’all are joking about my ugly pants. But did you know they’re also insanely expensive?
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So. Today sucked. We had to put Digby down. He was 11, he’d been a little sick for a while. Then he got really sick. As often happens it went very slowly and then very very fast. We’re all a mess. He was just such a very very good boy and we are all going to miss him terribly.
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Carli Lloyd definitely would’ve blocked Carli Lloyd on twitter for what she said about the players.
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Listen there are a lot of boneheaded takes in the world. But, “The fact that politically active players I don’t like didn’t follow up their two World Cup wins with a third in a row proves they’re dragging the team down” really is a level above.
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This is an incredibly brave thing to do.
Russia and Dynamo Moscow striker Fedor Smolov is the first national team player to oppose his country's invasion of Ukraine.
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Getting salty over added added time because you time wasted is just the funniest salty there is.
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They say sports is a microcosm of society. Doing the watered down moment of silence for unity and having the crowd (there’s a crowd!) boo during it to start the NFL season sure hits the nail on the head for where America is.
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It was antifa that did the bad thing that actually was just an innocent mistake which is actually a good thing and we’re glad they did it.
It’s always the same and it’s boring despite how dangerous it is.
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Listen man I just want a VAR system that makes all the wrong calls right except for the ones it would be funnier to let stand. Is that too much to ask?
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Listen I’ve spent a lot of years praising David Moyes, but if you try and take the Declan Rice money and turn it into Scott McTominay, Harry Maguire and James Ward-Prowse, when you show up at work the next morning you should find yourself permanently locked out of your email.
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I was like come on, how and could it it be. But….yeah.
This might be the worst penalty kick you’ll ever see 😂
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This is not “could you, an average Joe, score a high-pressure penalty against a Premier League keeper” but it might be as close as we’re gonna get in a televised, real game, setting.
SCENES 😳
@Wrexham_AFC
's Ben Foster comes up BIG to save
@Official_NCFC
's last-minute penalty 🦸♂️
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I wonder how Saudi Arabia decided to host this match there given that they do not in an official capacity have any relationship with the team that plays there.
St. James’ Park will host two international friendly fixtures featuring the Saudi Arabia men’s national team in September. 🇸🇦
The Green Falcons will face Costa Rica on Friday, 8 September before taking on South Korea on Tuesday, 12 September.
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Every year since you were seven the cops told you this and none of you have ever gotten edibles in your (or your kids) candy. Which maybe should inform how you think of the other stuff the police tell reporters.
State police warn parents to watch out for marijuana edibles in their kid's Halloween candy
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The thing about extreme social distancing was that flattening the curve was always about buying time for a response. Make a huge sacrifice to give the government time to massively ramp up testing and put extensive contact tracing in place.
And then the government just...didn’t.
Publishing late on a Friday: Social distancing cooperation is going DOWN, per cell data provided by
@SafeGraph
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There is tons of criticism to go around for the group stage. But on a day when the USWNT forced Sweden’s keeper to make 11 saves and Sweden managed exactly one shot on target…there’s not much to say about today other than, “I wish to not ever experience that again.”
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It is true that Ronaldo score a great free kick back in 2009.
Ian Wright asking how many free kicks really does Ronaldo score. How about this one Ian?
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Arteta did his mentor proud today.
By which, of course, I mean that David Moyes is grimacing in an almost smile somewhere.
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The fucking six-year-old lost a tooth at school and didn’t tell us and put it under her pillow in an envelope to see if the tooth fairly was real and this morning she is NOT buying our “maybe they don’t know we moved to Belgium” Hail Mary play.
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Wonder what it would take to get
@FabrizioRomano
to tweet the totally factual tweet.
BREAKING: Haaland confirmed.
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We’ve basically replaced getting mad at linesmen for sometimes getting it wrong with getting mad at VAR for correctly applying a rule we don’t like.
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Manchester City have spent their infinite money well. And it’s not easy to spend infinite money well. But it is impossible to spend infinite money well if you don’t have infinite money.
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The major problem I’ve spotted for the USA in the first 15 minutes is that Englands players appear to be significantly better than the American players.
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If I took the job as manager of a team owned by Saudi Arabia I would simply avoid moralizing about whether the conduct of others is admirable in the eyes of millions of people, including children.
Eddie Howe says he wouldn’t behave like Jurgen Klopp after his red card: “I’m very aware I’m going to be looked at by millions of people, especially children. You have an expectation to make sure the game is upheld in the right way”
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Here’s the thing about Susan Collins. She just doesn’t matter. She isn’t a swing vote in the senate. She’s the 52nd vote in and the threshold is 60. If she’d like to matter she needs both the filibuster abolished and to figure out an issue where she’s left of Joe Manchin.
Chuck Schumer no longer interested in playing 3-card monte with Susan Collins
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Former Real Madrid success Carlo Ancelotti is currently at Everton and former Everton failure Ronald Koeman is currently at Barcelona. What a world.
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My only thought on the opening ceremony is that when I am 85 years old if I ever find myself on the ground in this position it’s going to take three people minimum to get me standing upright again.
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Here we go with the lates
@FabrizioRomano
Here We Go, looking at Erling Haaland’s big transfer week.
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We have clear, unambiguous, answers on how Grant died now. I sincerely hope that people respect his wife’s wishes and focus on who he was as a person.
Grant Wahl’s wife, Dr.
@celinegounder
, reveals that the renowned journalist died due to an aortic aneurysm that ruptured at the World Cup.
Gounder says she hopes he is remembered as a “kind, generous person who was really dedicated to social justice.”
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This is amazing. It’s literally the policy conservatives believed already existed and have brought law suits to (unsuccessfully) prevent from being implemented on other platforms.
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
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Oh. I see.
If you see a swastika spray painted on a synagogue and think “oh this is a good condemnation of genocide” you are in fact just a boring old antisemite.
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Hope Solo can say what she wants or whatever but her last game with the USWNT not only came before the first time Rapinoe kneeled but before the first time Kaepernick did.
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The lesson to take from Barcelona is definitely go ahead and max out your credit cards.
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Biden ended the Afghan war, organized international support for Ukraine without putting a single boot on the ground, and kneecapped the drone program.
Sometimes the reason the left can’t have nice things is as soon as they get the things they want they decide they aren’t nice.
On domestic policy, Biden has claimed several progressive victories.
But why has Biden's foreign policy been so lackluster?
Let's take a look at Secretary of State Tony Blinken's schedule today—he's speaking at AIPAC, celebrating Kissinger, and then traveling to Saudi Arabia.
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USMNT fans who can’t enjoy this team which has more or less won everything in Concacaf, made the round of 16 at the World Cup and quite clearly have fun playing together should probably just get another hobby.
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Listen if Shakhtar had really liked De Zerbi they would simply have made Russia not invade Ukraine in order to keep him.
😰 “It’s a risk! You’re bringing someone in who doesn’t know our game.”
🤔 “Someone with De Zerbi’s CV - 7 jobs in 9 years - if you’re an outstanding coach people want to hold onto you.”
Graeme Souness questions
#BHAFC
’s appointment of Roberto De Zerbi.
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Abortion bans are obviously a restriction on Jewish religious liberty btw, and as we speak republicans are developing a legal strategy that claims non-orthodox Jews don’t count as religious and thus should not get their religion protected in response.
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In a transfer deadline (EFL edition) swoop
@CBSSportsSoccer
have swooped in and snatched me up on a free transfer. Starting next month I’ll be joining the crew their as their senior editor for soccer. Can’t tell y’all how psyched I am to get back to it.
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Ah the classic libertarian position that only those we deem morally worthy get to do free markets.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) complains about how antitrust laws impact college sports at a hearing on the PGA Tour-LIV merger:
“Now everybody that plays basketball in college is gonna be driving a Bentley or a Rolls. I mean, we’re gonna be seeing rap stars instead of basketball stars.”
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This person just decided to invent a very specific lie to spread misinformation about vaccines. Christian Eriksen has not had COVID and not been vaccinated.
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Inflation is so bad when negotiations started it was only eight Hag.
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@bricey16
@AsteadWesley
@daveweigel
Ok but also also there’s an entire race of sneaky grubby hook nose creatures that are good with money.
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“Defense against disorder” is like a five alarm fire phrase.
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Personally not the slogan I’d have gone with.
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They’ve literally handed out guns to anybody that wants one and are giving out Molotov cocktail instructions on the radio you nitwit.
Charlie Kirk: "If Ukraine had a robust 2nd Amendment, would Putin invade?"
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Letting Rafa sell Digne because they didn’t get along a week before firing Rafa seems about right for Everton.
🚨 Growing uncertainty over Rafael Benitez future as Everton boss after Norwich loss. Multiple sources close to
#EFC
think there’s no way back & feel he’ll be gone before Aston Villa visit next Saturday. Ownership assessing. With
@GregOK
for
@TheAthleticUK
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I appreciate that while so many professionals retire from international football to prolong their club career, Gareth Bale has done the opposite.
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Not firing Ole before the break, coming back, getting mushed by Watford and then dropping the hammer is just such a perfect encapsulation of where United have been for the past 8 years.
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So, I’ve officially been laid off at
@StatsBomb
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The angry baseball man understands the difference between the debt ceiling and funding the government. He’s just lying about it because he (generally rightly) assumes the people who will adopt his arguments don’t care that they’re lies.
The entire argument is for cutting Congress out of the process of funding the federal government, which is the most essential function of the House & was given to the House specifically to make the power of the purse turn on the continuing outcomes of biennial elections.
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I do not think the standard of proof required to take Antony out of the Manchester United squad should be the same as the standard of proof required for the state of Brazil (or England) to forcible take away his personal freedom and confine him to a jail cell.
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“You see, I would have supported Kap if he hadn’t chosen to make it about the flag. But the flag is sacred.”
The Cincinnati police pulled down the American flag at the justice center and replaced it with the thin blue line. Infuriating. Picture from a friend.
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This isn’t wrong. But it’s very very funny hearing Arsenal fans talk like Jose Mourinho acolytes.
If you want entertainment as a neutral, go watch movies..
Arsenal have actual stakes to play for this season, and entertaining you isn't one of them.
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This law is designed to remove federal employees who refuse to carry out unlawful instructions from their superiors.
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You watch Mudryk for five minutes and it’s obvious why he’s exciting as a prospect. You watch him for 10 and it’s obvious why analytics folks are skeptical. No idea what that means for his career all in.
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This is what good journalism is. Adam didn’t do anything other than reveal what Manchester United were planning. But the fact of what they were planning spoke volumes.
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Eintracht Frankfurt won seven Europa League matches and ten Bundesliga matches.
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You wanna see change? It starts with everybody who is trying to get Balotelli not to walk off, walking off with him. The fact that they won’t tells you all you need to know about the relative priorities of those involved.
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The Premier League’s position on brain injuries is that you should ask the player whose brain might have been injured how he thinks his brain is doing.
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A bit of the ol’ breaking news as the man
@FabrizioRomano
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It’s brutal that Saka missed. But to the extent Southgate got the penalty takers wrong it’s because he specifically didn’t use two subs for 120 minutes because he decided he’d rather have two attackers take penalties than try and win the match. And they both missed.
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I know it makes me sound like a certain kind of extremely annoying football fan but watching Messi literally stand still as a pocket of space develops around him because everybody else moves is wild.
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It’s simple! Whichever branch Republicans don’t control is separated from power.
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Every time you commit money to buy a 30-year-old instead of a 23-year-old, you are also committing to spending the extra money on replacing a 33-year-old whereas you can just keep playing (or sell) the 26-year-old. It’s a simple concept really!
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It will be really funny if/when Chelsea fire Graham Potter and every top level manager they talk to to replace him has zero interest in playing any of the kids who are there on eight year contracts but have a list of six first teamers they want Todd to go get.
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Had
@jamesbenge
do a deep dive into Chelsea’s financials. They seem to be, what’s the technical term for it, mega-screwed.
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I’m a soccer media professional which means that every weekend I log onto Twitter and watch 20 premier league fanbases whine about how the refs are uniquely biased against their club.
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I am always here for people who want Dems to do more and be better. But, people who claim they’re currently no different than Rs can get absolutely permanently bent.
On 1st day, Biden will rescind travel ban on several Muslim countries, rejoin Paris climate accord, extend pandemic limits on evictions and student loan payments, and order agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families at border.
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Argentina with a hilarious 5 shot, 1.5 xG half. Nice work if you can get it.
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Yes yes, the refs are biased against specifically your team.
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I’m like the biggest referee apologist in the world but this shit is absolutely insanely unacceptable.
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You know Christian Pulisic is truly an example of the United Stares because in an American context he’s on the left, but in Europe he’s on the right.
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There has been much made of findings that liberals don’t like to be friends with conservatives and might I suggest that conservatives say they’d rather their children be dead than liberal might have something to do with that.
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This is really funny in part because it makes sense. Southampton fired a better version of Marsch, had a worse version of Marsch take charge and now might settle on a Marsch version of Marsch.
🚨
#SaintsFC
are considering Jesse Marsch to replace Nathan Jones as manager.
Southampton have held a long-standing interest in Marsch which predates Sport Republic's arrival. Marsch is still in the UK after
#LUFC
sacking.
Story
@TheAthleticFC
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Everybody who advocated for the power of the market over the power of regulation.
Who elected Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg to dictate the terms of our 21st-century town square?
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I think
@zeynep
has been the absolute smartest person about covid. Measured when warranted and alarmist only when necessary. And yeah.
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It is….unpleasant to watch people on Twitter who couldn’t have picked Grant out of a lineup in life make wildly speculative claims about the circumstances of his death.
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The dude is so good at this. And I’m so eroded by my time working in soccer that I am just sitting here dreading when Spurs go on a month cold streak and people start blaming this empathy for it.
Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou talking brilliantly about mental health in football ❤️
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Just imagine how much money the guy paying the athlete has.
An athlete can make $450 million over 10 years, but teachers have to buy their own school supplies.
As a society, there is something fundamentally flawed with this arrangement.
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