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Watched it a lad who doesn't follow English football that much (big Galatasaray fan), he said "when he is through on goal, you don't get the feeling or excitement he will score".
He was doing my nut in because I was so desperate for us to win, but in hindsight, the two chances he had back to back was more to do with really good goalkeeping and the header was hard to put away when you look back on it. The one in the first half though, he has to be putting those away. That's where the criticism is warranted.
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Much better watching this on Brazilian telly, think my head would implode if I had to listen to Sky and Ratboy's agenda driven drivel for that half.
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Cole Palmer is really, really good. I don't know why City sold him tbh, he looks miles ahead of Nunes and an ageing Kovacic.
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Galatasaray and Fenerbache were to play the Turkish SuperCup in Saudi Arabia today. It is 100 years since the modern Turkish state was founded as a secular Republic. The Saudis wouldn't allow the players to play with in jerseys with Ataturk's picture.
Ten minutes before kick off, the players have refused to play as a result.
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9 minutes ago, Elite said:
How does it compare to All The Pretty Horses? found that a bit dull overall.
Tbh, I haven't read that yet. This is definitely not dull though imo. It does have long descriptive passages of the topography but I think that serves a purpose and it's clearly meticulously researched.
It is too existentially terrifying to qualify as dull. Definitely not for those with a weak stomach.
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - 9.5 out of 10.
A brilliant masterpiece and the most utterly terrifying book I have ever read. The story largely revolves around an unnamed, youthful, largely mute protagonist who falls in with a gang of bounty hunters called the Glanton gang, whom are contracted out to hunt Apaches and return their scalps for payment. When none are to be found, they claim those of Mexican and Native American villagers they find along the way their way, including woman and children. Here, might is right, nothing is sacred, violence is unrelenting in its brutality to the point of banality, and murder, greed and depravity largely goes unpunished. It is exceptionally dark and nihilistic, to the point of being unreadable, although it is interspersed with detailed and near poetic expositions on the austere beauty of the landscapes of the region in which it is set. It is a complete subversion of both the traditional Western and its revisionist equivalent whereby whites are the sole perpetrators of violence against peaceful natives. This book never shies away from the fact all men are capable of cruel violence, whether that be in the name of greed, racial supremacy or simply sadistic pleasure.
The themes of nihilism and the ultimate supremacy of power over morality are expressed through the antagonist - Judge Holden. He is quite possibly the most frightening and bone-chilling character in fiction. He is near seven feet tall, exceptionally strong, a polymath, as well being a sadistic, megalomaniac killer and paedophile. The events of the book are loosely based on real events taken from a book written by Samuel Chamberlain, a contemporary of the gang who travelled with them for s time. In the McCarthy's book, Judge Holden is strongly suggested to be a supernatural being, something akin to a demon, not unlike McCarthys' other bone chilling antagonist, Anton Chigurgh. The description of him in Chamberlain's contemporary account makes McCarthy's depiction feel all the more real and horrifying.
"The second in command, now left in charge of the camp, was a man of gigantic size who rejoiced in the name of Holden, called Judge Holden of Texas. Who or what he was no one knew, but a cooler-more blooded villain never went unhung. He stood six foot six in his moccasins, had a large, fleshy frame, a dull, tallow-colored face destitute of hair and all expression, always cool and collected. But when a quarrel took place and blood shed, his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend ... Terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes committed by him when bearing another name in the Cherokee nation in Texas. And before we left Fronteras, a little girl of ten years was found in the chaparral foully violated and murdered. The mark of a huge hand on her little throat pointed out him as the ravisher as no other man had such a hand. But though all suspected, no one charged him with the crime. He was by far the best educated man in northern Mexico."
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4 hours ago, Chris said:
He started six of the eight league games he went scoreless, played another 90 against West Ham in the cup. So that's seven of the 12 scoreless he started in. But his goals per minutes are still great, according to his Dad on the podcast.
I'm gonna need a little bit more than an "I seem to recall" when it comes to other top strikers in top, high-scoring teams having 12 game scoreless streaks too. I don't remember that happening.
It didn't happen to the best of them.
"It is, officially, the worst scoring run of his professional life. When Wayne Rooney was withdrawn against Newcastle United on Monday it was the 13th successive game in which he had gone without the adrenaline rush he craves the most. In total, it has been 1,081 minutes – just over 18 hours – since his last goal for Manchester United or England.
All that can be said with certainty is that Rooney has never experienced such a morose scoring drought, the previous worst being a 12-game run – 1,002 minutes in terms of match-time – from December 2005 to February 2006, ending when he scored twice in the Carling Cup final against Wigan Athletic."
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52 minutes ago, Reckoner said:
I enjoyed listening to that in the drive back from Sheffield.
In defence of Darwin, remember MOwen going 10 games without a goal. It was starting to make the front pages of newspapers in the little sports bit at the top. I think he then scored a hat trick.Others have deffo had similar goal droughts from memory.
Rooney was also very streaky if I recall correctly. He would score 9 or 10 games in a row, then go scoreless for another 9 or 10.
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United players: "How are we doing, boss?"
Djibril Cisse: "You're doing a great job, lads...a great job."
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Maybe we should keep playing Gakpo in the position he's been playing in for 90% of his career. Crazy idea, but it just might work.
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36 minutes ago, rubble-rouser said:
Ratcliffe has been taking notes from the Alan Johnson School of Business Management.
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22 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:
I listen to a couple of football podcasts and the apathy has truly set in with them to the point they’re just mocking the absurdity of it all now.People are getting bored of it.
I think the penny dropped after last season when it was someone other than us they were cheating out of the title and people couldn't laugh at them for bottling Europe anymore.
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1 hour ago, Kevin D said:
The Dublin police are ill-equipped to deal with 100k Rangers fans and 250k Liverpool fans.The locals will deal with any Rangers fans.
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11 minutes ago, Kevin D said:
Spurs 2-0 up with 15 minutes to go at Old Trafford?That's the one. Forget Macheda, Howard was the real hero of the hour during that run in.
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2 hours ago, Kevin D said:
They somehow won the league title with John O’Shea playing Central midfield.I’ve never been able to work that one out.
Howard Webb
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4 minutes ago, Scott_M said:
Imagine if Trent had made that mistake…There would be a 20 minute analysis by the Prime Minister of football on one of his 27 podcasts.
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3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:
"nigger" blatantly picked up then in this pen shootout for fuck sake
Do you really have to spell out the entire word? Jesus christ
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If only Trippier could defend...
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13 hours ago, Section_31 said:
Tiktok is sinister as fuck. The Chinese own it and over there it shows stuff like science experiments, over here the algorithms show things like people hitting themselves over the head with pans.
My father is on Tik Tok constantly. Every time I go home, I get an earful about Ukrainian refugees bilking social welfare and "military age men" from Muslim countries stalking the streets.
It's their payback for the Opium Wars imo and by god is it effective. Total mind poison.
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The forwards have been a massive issue for weeks and unfortunately it doesn't look like changing. With this inverted system, I think we need our wide players to beat their man to stretch the opposition. It's no coincidence Guardiola brought in Doku who is not what you would call a traditional Guardiola player.
Salah has noticeable slowed and Diaz looks far less dynamic than he was pre-injury. He's very young, but I wouldn't be averse to brining on Doak for situations like yesterday. He has a long way to go but he can beat his marker at least.
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Ferguson is beyond finished, he looks like he's fighting underwater these days. Someone needs to cut him for his own sake, Pimblett is shite and he still knocked him around.
Didn't see the Edwards fight because they removed all the videos before I could watch but delighted to see Covington shat all over himself. Apparently, Trump left during his post fight speech, even after Covington was licking his hole. Donny doesn't like LOSERS.
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2 hours ago, Redder Lurtz said:
We've been scouting Goncalo Inacio at Sporting this week apparently. 22yo left footed CB. €60m release clause, Arsenal and Real looking at him too though.
Alaba tore his ACL last night. If Madrid are serious about signing him, he'll be going there.
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Still fuming about this. Onana spilled nearly everything he got his hands on yesterday, yet we barely put any crosses in and all of our corners were outswingers to the penalty spot. This team can be braindead a lot of the time.
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Big fan of his obviously, but that performance yesterday was bordering on disgraceful. He got himself booked by flattening Evans in the most obvious way possible and did his level best to get a second yellow for dissent.
Missing chances you can forgive, we've seen Haaland miss glaring chances, I remember Aguero putting the ball over bar from three yards away from an empty goal. Getting caught offside 3 or 4 times a game is unforgivable though. He's a confidence player, but he needs to grow some sack and get himself out of this funk.
That being said, it doesn't help when the rest of the team play zimmerframe footy.
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Wataru Endo Welcome to Liverpool
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Live in some nice part of Rio or Sao Paulo, watch footy, make up some shite for the gringos and then spend the rest of the day drinking caipirinhas.
Fair play to him, that's some gig.