We have the best crop of international managers as far back as I can remember in Poch Nag Tuchel Ancelotti etc. and as tactic brain smart these guys are, they have all taken some insane squad decisions

GLP-1’s are so bad for you I went from 365 to 285, an A1C my doctor was screaming at me to normal, hypertension 1 to normal range blood pressure, and was able to play men’s league soccer 2x a week for the first time in 5+ years and then tore my ACL. Ban GLP-1’s and I’d have a healthy knee smh

the one I understand least is the CB’s. Quansah is ass. Colwill has come back fit and looks great, even if he can only play 2 group games. Maguire is awesome. I think my squad would have been:

One of my the weirdest small differences between America and Canada I’ve noticed is the extreme individualism about small things.

Djed Spence is both bad and literally has a broken jaw, why is he in the squad?

Tuchel thrown away a very legit chance at a WC for whatever this insane squad is

I get the feeling Poch is about to drop an all timer stupid squad. Konrad de la Fuente your time is now papi

There are a lot of very good 28/29 year old guys MLS teams should be calling if the Saudi league is collapsing

Mark Daigneault is such a dweeb

I am now willing to concede the David Brooks v Emi Buendia championship midfielder debate

A world free of meat wall has more goals like that

Every goal is vaguely worth 2/3 of a point, every red card is worth ~half a goal. Arsenal having +4 PK difference and +2 red card difference is ~5 goals or 3 points of swing. They are going to win the title by 3 points. It matters and it’s 99.9% out of your control.

Arsenal 0 red cards this season and a +4 penalty difference. Last season they had the most reds in the league (6) and a -1 penalty difference. Sometimes that’s the whole swing.

Nice to see Palmer give a shit for the first time in 6 or 7 months. Somebody should ask him about the movie theatre every week.

May we present Argentina v France, 2022, the single best game ever played in World Cup history, in the hottest country the tournament’s ever been played in, with perhaps the worst political reality of any tournament ever played As John Oliver said, FIFA is terrible, but the World Cup is awesome

I get the World Cup is problematic and being up front about that, I do not get the people who are absolutely desperate for it to be a bad tournament

City are hiring Maresca because they need someone with a track record of winning the championship with an exorbitant wage bill

The best compliment I can pay to Wembly beyond the superlatives is that he plays so extremely emotionally. That performance was fueled by hate. Every action, every reaction. He's not a cool customer. His heart is on his sleeve, his chest, his face, all of it. It feels weirdly relatable.

I will never forgive Masai for trading for Poeltl

Caruso can’t foul every possession if you just throw it 8 feet above his head, little naked molerat

Wemby gets to shave Chet’s head tonight

If Alex Caruso is ever convicted of a crime I support the maximum possible sentence

CALICE DE TABARNAC MOTHERFUCKER

Think that it’s *just* below the force bar for SFP, lucky boy

If Odegaard played for Barcelona I think people would think he’s the best player in the world

Havertz is just straight up a winner at all levels in all phases of

This is my least favourite call in all of football and I think no call is the correct decision, but I think both points of view are entirely fair.

Do you know how overpriced cinema snacks need to be for someone making 10M a year to look and be like “ok but £8 for a bag of M&M’s is outrageous”

Hahahahahaha Rydstrom sacked. Fuck you loser

I ranted to @harrisoncrow.bsky.social and @beninquiring.bsky.social on the pod about why has he not played more when the team is so bad? He’s always productive!

Feels weird to “announce” this but my younger sister passed away earlier this week. I was randomly googling them last night and found letters from them to our city council fighting for the homeless. And fundraising initiatives for Palestinians. And protests for trans rights. Despite their own shit.

There was a Statsbomb plot many moons ago (I think from @jair1970.com) of how many attackers are in the box when a team shoots, and I think about it so frequently. Chelsea have just gotten nobody in the box since February.

Think the ref has largely been pretty good but I’m quite unsure how that last one on Hato isn’t a pen

I wanted Hearts to win purely so I could talk about Roman’s elite ownership regime

The funniest bit of this is Celtic fans will complain about VAR but VAR is going to give them the title for a goal that without VAR is just disallowed lol

Sam Kerr scoring a flying volley and/or header vs United. This is football ‘eritage

I’m sorry but no other rapper is freezing one of the worlds most recognizable landmarks and doing a surprise fireworks show for thousands of people who went to the CN tower *just in case* there was something for an album launch

Sam Kerr confirms she’s leaving Chelsea at the end of the season. First ever women’s kit I bought. Best player to ever play for Chelsea. Really sad.

The Cavs are so so so deeply unserious

Just called Delta about a bereavement fare since I gotta fly home today or tomorrow, since they're the only airline who does them anymore. The bereavement fare is literally more expensive than economy. How does that even make sense?

The list of eligible AM's for the all star ballot is genuinely comical

Nothing gasses me more than hitting my Japanese coworkers with the Arigato Gozaimasu and getting the “Arigato Kieran-san” back. Elite feeling.

My take reading Doyle's weekly recap most weeks is that most teams are progressing appropriately (except SKC), and I'm kinda bummed the WC is going to totally throw a wrench in that

Maybe I'm a cynical asshole, but it probably says more about the Poch tenure than intended that it's noteworthy his assistants are at MLS games

Rashford wow

There are worse ways to spend a Sunday

A Filip Dujic “Number 19 fouls the goalkeeper HOWEVER….” Would’ve been louder than Krakatoa

Nobody except the goalkeeper can stand in the 6 when the ball is kicked. That fixes the entire thing.

Honestly, this happening is the best possible outcome for fixing corners this offseason.