Alex Towells
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Soundsman. Arsenal. Asking all the wrong questions on
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Jonny Singer
11 days ago
In all three we stopped playing at 1-0. And in all three it went badly
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Guy Shrubsole
14 days ago
It’s beyond insane that the BBC World Service might end in 7 weeks when its funding runs out. A beacon of information, education and UK soft power - Ministers would be crazy not to find money to support it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/the-guardian-view-on-the-bbc-world-service-this-is-london-calling
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15 days ago
Made me laugh this morning
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Eulenberg
about 1 month ago
we did a podcast again, have a listen
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We're back with a mid-season review pod, with a healthy dose of "what the fuck was that at the weekend" thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!
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about 1 month ago
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POT SHOT
about 1 month ago
💥MID-SEASON MINI-CRISIS?💥 #136: Fix The Roof While The Sun's Shining 🎙
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🔴 Another mid-season slump ⚪️ What's up with the forwards? 🟡 Eze, 6 months in 🔵 Are Arsenal bottlejobs? Listen 👇
pod.fo/e/38246d
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The Pot Shot Podcast: #136: Fix The Roof While The Sun's Shining
Towells, Alex, Jake & Seb ask each other their burning questions about the issues with this Arsenal side - which, while being top of the table, hasn't looked great in recent weeks.For tactical writ...
https://pod.fo/e/38246d
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My favourite thing about cow tools being real is this image being a real image from an academic paper
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about 1 month ago
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Spheal Posting
about 1 month ago
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The two possible states of the Arsenal fan
about 1 month ago
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Tom Curren
about 1 month ago
it's crazy how much sheer feeling Arsenal generated over the past three years and now, when we're in our best-ever position, it's all gone so emotionally flat
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Andrew B. Watkins
about 2 months ago
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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Unreal
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about 2 months ago
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Xabi Alonso. Arrived, tried to do tactics, players told him to fuck off, fucked off
about 2 months ago
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Your team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap in open play. My team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap from corners. We are not the same
about 2 months ago
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Joel Morris
about 2 months ago
Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
about 2 months ago
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2026-our-already-rotting-future/
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I'd like to apologise for the lack of 20th century philosophy references in this episode, but on the bright side we do talk about an advent calendar of model trains, so its still worth a listen I reckon
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3 months ago
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John Muller
3 months ago
People have been wondering when Manuel Neuer will retire and the answer is about 30 seconds ago
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SMBC Comics
3 months ago
The important thing is that net happiness goes up. COMIC ◆
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/blame
PATREON ◆
www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆
smbc-store.myshopify.com
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s o u n d e r n a v i a
4 months ago
Well
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talking about the old gods being dead while the new ones struggle to be born in the context of Arsenal’s set piece strategy is extremely my shit
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You might have seen Jon got caught up in A Discourse over on the other site, after daring to suggest that the rise of set pieces as the primary method of attack for some of football's best teams might not be great for the game. Naturally, we got him on with our set piece nerd to talk about it 👇
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4 months ago
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Just gonna repost this. Yknow. For reasons.
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4 months ago
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Small Robots
4 months ago
"I thought, well, what two things are most important to me? And it's my family and this ground I walk on here in the great state of Maine. So, to honour that, I got the words BLOOD and SOI..." "Graham, no!"
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Kye
10 months ago
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Kye
10 months ago
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The metaphor at the end of this piece is perfect for how it feels to watch Arsenal right now. Easy to complain about it not being very fun to watch Arsenal atm, but every dull set piece win is another step towards the goal of a title. It might not be pretty, but if we get there, we won't care
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POT SHOT
4 months ago
💥WE'RE BACK 💥 #133: Taking Stock (feat. NSftbl) 🎙:
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& Nick (@nsftbl on twitter) 🔴 We're top of the league! ⚪️ Is the handbrake off? 🔵 A changing midfield 🟡 Odegaard's injuries: are we worried? Listen 👇
pod.fo/e/33e00d
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The Pot Shot Podcast: #133: Taking Stock (ft. NSftbl)
Towells & Manas are joined by Nick (@NSftbl on Twitter) to gauge the lay of the land after the first 10 competitive games of the season.For tactical writing from the Pot Shot Crew, check out the Po...
https://pod.fo/e/33e00d
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal
4 months ago
Also very funny that they had a whole international break to fire him and implement a new manager and instead they thought “I’ll give him one more chance against Chelsea”
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I love everything about Redstory and if you follow me you probably will too
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5 months ago
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Tom Curren
5 months ago
A tale of two managers, two Brazilians, one colosseum, and one sound: hahahahahaha
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Last laugh
Hahah. Hahhaa. Hhahaha
https://redstory.substack.com/p/last-laugh
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Tom Curren
5 months ago
A story about Gabriel Martinelli, and Pep Guardiola the coward
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Thunder follows the flash
On Gabriel Martinelli, lucidity, and a controlled anger
https://redstory.substack.com/p/thunder-follows-the-flash
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Alex Collings
5 months ago
uhhh is it too late to un-give up on Martinelli?
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Adam Rae Voge
5 months ago
I won’t have any complaints about the creativity in the second half btw, City quite literally played 7 or 8 behind the ball all half.
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This is what
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watches instead of football these days and you know what? Fair enough
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5 months ago
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Chris Washington
5 months ago
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.
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There's a point in this pod where it is very funny that it was recorded before Bilbao and released after. I'll let you guess the topic
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POT SHOT
5 months ago
💥TAKING STOCK💥 #182: Trading Takes 🎙:
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🔴 Liverpool & Forest reviews ⚪️ Zubi the Superstar 🟡 Hot takes on Rice 🔵 Standout performers so far Listen here 👇
pod.fo/e/32c31f
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The Pot Shot Podcast: #132: Trading Takes
Alex & Seb chat Liverpool, Forest, and some standout players from the start of the season.For tactical writing from the Pot Shot Crew, check out the Pot Shot Substack: potshotpod.substack.comIf you...
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Its a funny game
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6 months ago
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Evergreen Arsenal post:
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6 months ago
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It is mental to me that Trossard came on for Gyokeres rather than bringing on Nwaneri & pushing Merino to 9
6 months ago
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
6 months ago
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Duncan Robinson
6 months ago
Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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I was not one of the people really hammering on Trossard & Martinelli last season but the difference in on-ball quality between them and Noni & Eze is fucking mental
6 months ago
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Musa Okwonga
6 months ago
"I spent decades saying, ‘Come on, it’s got to be more complex than this.’ But I think it’s not. I think that almost everything can be explained by this deep hatred that the majority of white Americans have for black Americans. It’s the only thing that makes sense.”
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Lee Child: 'I'd rather be a multi-millionaire than a credible author'
The best-selling author on abandoning America, his utterly fascinating writing process (which involves exactly 90 days and zero planning) - and his aim to write one more 'Jack Reacher'
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/lee-child-rather-multi-millionaire-than-credible-author-3885891?fbclid=IwY2xjawMqFmFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0bEZZT3FLWGt4d3Y3VGVGAR6oD1IeEnx_I0r27mJ9Ei9Vi1KyjcoM5oXU7PSyC4GzXGA9PkLE2TRq5e8Z1g_aem_XcWvxPlWcZt3Z5Lt5oZM7A
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Tristan Grayford
6 months ago
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
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🎯 (So glad Tom's back writing stuff, subscribe to REDSTORY its great)
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6 months ago
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Tom Curren
6 months ago
Why didn't you just try to win, Arne?
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Different stories
The narrative engine hits overdrive, already
https://redstory.substack.com/p/different-stories
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Alex Collings
6 months ago
Martín Zubimendi by the way, fantastic player
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