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When I see headlines like this, I can't get angry. For decades, we've sung and danced to music that celebrates online fraud; from “Yahooze” to “Maga don pay” to “Able God”. So why should I get angry when the mirror is turned back on us?

So far we’ve received 2k, please don’t give on Lauretta, she can win cancer 🤲🏾🤲🏾🥹

My mum is dying, please help retweet🙏😩

Trash World Cup!

Isiah Thomas on former NBA players holding LeBron out of the top 5 players of all time: “Guys are jealous, they get envious…. They intentionally ignore the obvious. When you intentionally ignore the obvious it has to come back to jealousy, envy, or straight up BS. This man got every basketball record on the books, if he ain’t in your top 5, you’re full of sh*t” (via @RunItBackFDTV, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

I have an abiding annoyance with how the idea of 'pragmatism' is spoken of in football. In the proper sense, pragmatism is contextual and rational, based upon an appraisal of not just the problem but also the tools/resources/circumstances available. As such, what is pragmatic for one may not be so for another. If I have an urgent meeting and the means to arrive at it via helicopter, it would not be pragmatic for me to take the bus and expose myself to the whims of Lagos traffic; for an individual of more modest means and/or without a similar time constraint, pragmatism would necessitate the opposite. Pragmatism is doing a cold, logical appraisal of the tools at your disposal and thereby coming up with a problem-solving framework that best maximises them. Apply this to football: pragmatism, in a nutshell, is to identify your team's strengths (and/or weaknesses) relative to the opposition, and build a tactical system that platforms and/or mitigates them, thereby giving you the most logical route to success. And because the aim of football is to both score and prevent concession, that system must balance both the mitigation of weakness and the platforming of strength in order to be complete. The direction in which that balance tilts depends on the dynamic at play: when facing an opponent with inferior resources, the latter should be privileged over the former to a degree reflective of the disparity, and vice versa in the opposite case. If, comparatively speaking, you boast greater attacking riches than your adversary, to be pragmatic is to attack, to assert and impose your will. (We even, subconsciously, have a concept of this: in 2002 when France, boasting the top scorers from the Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 limped out of the World Cup with two defeats in three, no one asked why they did not defend better. Instead, everyone asked how it was that they left Korea with a zero in the 'goals scored' column.) What we saw from South Africa last night, and what is often labelled pragmatic, is a football that is defence-first, that seeks to contain regardless of competitive advantages. Bafana, with a squad heavily composed of a Mamelodi Sundowns side the world watched and admired at last summer's Club World Cup, were not so inferior to Mexico that they needed to abdicate all of their distinguishing characteristics. Yet, not only did they completely deny the possession-based approach that should have been their edge against the hosts, they sat in with a back five and were painfully passive out of possession. That was not pragmatism. It was cowardice.

You will never see them using an example of another tribe person becoming a Governor in their own States, it’s always the other way round and Lagos most especially.

Life isn't perfect but Arsenal won the EPL and nobody can take that away from me.

This shit is meant to be hilarious but do you know how much hatred you have to have in your heart to be moved to tears like this! Even Hitler in all his rants wasn’t moved to tears by his antisemitism! This is a level of hatred you can’t even begin to quantify! This is scary!

That is not crazy. It’s totally predictable unless you have never left the United States.

24 goals, 8 assists and her best campaign yet ❤️ As voted by you, Alessia Russo is our 2025/26 Player of the Season! 🏆

The GOAT just casually changing geography. Welcome to Thierry Henry Way.

"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you." — James 1:5 NIV Catch the full video in the Bible App today!

I feel Mexican today, all my Mexican fans come out. I’m Santiago, you?

Once again. You play with grace, you face disgrace.

👋 Welcome, Mourinho 👋

You dey over explain sis.

Hated the fact that he was thrown under the bus during those periods. All the board members hid and pushed him to the front. This is why a lot of fans turned on him. Only one Arsene Wenger 🙏🏽❤️

👋 ¡Bienvenido, Mourinho! 👋

🎶 Kai Havertz scores again 🎶