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Ok sooooo… I turned my heat on.

Going back through the archive against Augsburg 📽️⏪ Who could forget this banger from Timo? 🤩🚀 #FCARBL #Bundesliga

Today’s Ask @otcpod.bsky.social with me & the heavenly pairing of @radiodotun.bsky.social & David Cartlidge. Can Schalke get it together for a promotion campaign? What is going so wrong at Ajax? And who are we taking in a new Football Manager season? lnk.to/otc

Ajax have fallen a long way since 2019 😬 Andy explains why their performance against Chelsea wasn't a surprise. Find out more on today's Ask OTC 🔗 lnk.to/otcpod

Don't sleep on Porto in the Europa League 🏆 They might have lost against Nottingham Forest last night, but they're looking serious this season 🇵🇹 @andybrassell.bsky.social's reaction from the City Ground ⬇️

"We're focussed on this competition" 🏆 "I think the intensity here is a little higher, but I'm learning quickly" 💪 Igor Jesus spoke to @andybrassell.bsky.social after Nottingham Forest's huge 2-0 win against Porto! ⬇️

Gladbach were once the blueprint for how to run a smart, forward-thinking German football club. But now the Foals look destined to join other fallen giants like Bremen, HSV and Schalke with a stint in the 2.Bundesliga. So what’s gone wrong? I tried to answer that in this week’s newsletter.

Bellingham scores, Liverpool win and La Liga's game in Miami is off. Oh, and @okwonga.bsky.social is back! New podcast up now! www.patreon.com/posts/bellin...

The more ways you can do this, the better. Advertising is a hive of scum and villainy but sometimes I feel like some of y’all who pretend to be great political messengers should think like that. You’re selling a message, a worldview. You can also create the conditions for that message to be received

People care about what you can convince them to care about by tying it back to their identity and their anxieties. Show them that ICE is an enemy of the liberal idea of the United States, tie Trump’s greed to their economic anxieties, bring up their sicknesses and point them directly at RFK.

Also, as someone who has done advertising for over 10 years, it’s just funny to think that people care about what they innately see as important. Not to be all philosopher about it but what you learn in that line of work is that people’s realities are created. You have power there.

The “they’re weird” campaign was actually pretty good at this. “Look at these weirdos fixating on women’s bodies, they don’t respect women and it’s a symptom of their contempt for the people of this country as a whole.”

I get the assumption that people’s attentions are limited and can be sabotaged by showing them a shiny thing, but it feels like that’s a starting point to keep raising awareness of all the different kinds of issues, and using whichever resonates to point back to the bigger / overall problem.

And he’s ugly and a liar. I feel like anyone who has ever truly hated another person knows that the dislike finds its way into the smallest gestures. If you dislike someone completely, you’ll even hate the way they eat fries.

Anyway, overall, the distraction angle is silly because it’s just better to give people more reasons to hate Trump. You should make sure they’re aware of everything from the biggest issues to the smallest ways that he’s repulsive. He’s kidnapping people on the streets and he also has bad taste.

The biggest Always Watch Friday games match today is not in the first league. Who could have guessed that Schalke and Darmstadt, who finished 14th and 12th last year, would be in a game fighting for first or second. Both teams are on unbeaten runs, this is an absolute must watch.

I really hate that Gmail has ads in your fucking emails. Just absolutely nonsensical.

The Fires first playoff win since 2009. Soccer is pretty fun it turns out.

Thank you @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social 🫡🍻⚔️ #GhostOfYōtei easily my most enjoyable platinum this year 💜

Midfielders as centre-backs. How I’ve missed that.

At 17 years, 7 months and 24 days, Lennart Karl could become Bayern Munich's youngest ever UCL goalscorer tonight. The current record is held by a certain Jamal Musiala.

Gotta save energy for the bigger game this weekend

Only 1 of them starts #SGELIV #UCL

With @adamcrafton.bsky.social on how Villarreal v Barca in Miami fell apart so spectacularly. Tebas was forced to pull plug after players protests over lack of consultation/ respect, but especially when Real Madrid succeeded in getting Spanish government involved... www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

Having someone/something to look forward too >>>

"The growth is there in Italy, just not at the rate of other countries" 🇮🇹 Nicky Bandini says it's a "mixed picture" for women's football in Italy since their incredible run to the semi-finals of the Euros 💥 More on the latest Upfront ➡️ lnk.to/upfront

Goals! Red cards! More goals! No Musa today, but Ryan is joined by Carl Anka to chat all about last night's Champions League. Available ad-free and in full to members now! www.patreon.com/posts/goals-...

No show this week as Jake is moving to somewhere. However we do have to recognize the 50 Plus Döner derby this weekend between Köln and Dortmund (if we were biased)

That's one of the things that encourage this kind of movement. Citizens refuse to believe that these behaviours are possible in their country. "Those things only happen in other countries." Until they happen where you live.

UCL reaction show: Dortmund win in Copenhagen, Leverkusen come undone against PSG Listen to it now on Gegenpressing gegenpressing.substack.com/p/ucl-reacti...

Picking through the bones of a dismal evening for Bayer Leverkusen. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

Real Bundesliga is back! (no one can defend) Before Int break - Frankfurt, 4 games, 16 goals conceded After Int break - Leverkusen, 2 games, 10 goals conceded

🚨 🔔 🆕 #TalkingTactics 4️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞 Spotify ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/47Ua... Apple ▶️ podcasts.apple.com/podcast/428-...

It’s quite hard to pin down what’s changed at Liverpool, but hopefully these numbers give a decent picture of what I think has gone wrong. Klopp’s Liverpool were - unsurprisingly - closing down machines. But that’s not really been the case under Slot.

Liverpool have changed a lot this season. And not in a good way. sbienkowski.substack.com/p/slots-misf...

Earlier this week, Bayern Munich surprised fans and insiders alike when they announced that Vincent Kompany has signed a new contract. But why has the club opted to extend the contract now? My in-depth analysis for Gegenpressing gegenpressing.substack.com/p/why-bayern...

Dortmund may have signed a Bellingham in the summer, but the real long-term replacement to Jude is undoubtedly Felix Nmecha