Derek Lusk

How bad analytics built a Tottenham team that might get relegated

Sorely missed.

Lisandro Martínez has been sent off for violent conduct 🟥

Abbi Summers' epic Spurs rant after another PL loss! This episode of Goals is in paid partnership with William Hill. For full T&Cs of Final One Standing please click the video below. All odds correct at the time of broadcast. 18+ | Be Gamble Aware | Please Gamble Responsibly

This is so dirty from Brobbey. Should have been a second yellow and arguably a straight red. Pushing someone into a collision is a scumbag move that can only end up in people injuring each other. Spurs have been robbed of a sending off in a crucial relegation game.

If you don’t believe you can eat 360 Oreo cookies in 24 hours for 5 million dollars you aren’t allowed to call yourself a man

Dianna Russini has issued a statement: “I did something this past weekend that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a woman of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again.”

The issue with XIII's linearity isn't that it's linear in of itself, it's that XIII has no sense of place to its world, no sense of its geography at all, nobody can picture where Bodhum or Palumpolum or Pulse Vestige or Eden or Sunleth Waterscape are or have any perspective of where they're located in relation to one another, they're just a bunch of disconnected zones you are funnelled through via story cutscenes with nothing breaking up the monotany, while in other FF you have a sense of place within the world, like in FF7 you know where Kalm is in relation to Midgar in relation to Junon etc, or in FF15 you know where Insomnia is in relation to Lestallum to Altissia to Niflheim, etc. In FFX you have towns and locations that you can picture in your head exactly where they are in relation to each other, you have minigames and you have the freedom to revist locations you've been to, there's shops, there's NPC's to talk to and actual sidequests, in XIII there's none of that and the most "sidequest" it ever has are just monster fights against monsters in the one area where all you can do is just fight monsters. On top of that XIII's character upgrade system is chapter locked until 20 hours into the game which is once you've cleared 10 out of 13 chapters which only contributes to the hand holdy linearity it has. Like FF13 is the one FF that has no map of its world in the game, and in the Ultimania a "map" of Cocoon was published and it looks like nothing like what anyone could picture anything in Cocoon would be, then when you get to Gran Pulse in chapter 11 the area becomes a flat grass plain with nothing but monster fights or you continue on to 2 more linear chapters that have just as little sense of place to Gran Pulse as anything in Cocoon. Like bro where the fuck in Bodhum does Lightning even live? I know where Cloud's house is in Nibelheim, I know where the Citadel in Insomnia is where Noctis's lived, where is Lightning's peanut shaped house in Bodhum? The worst excuse FF13 defenders have for this is "oh but they're on the run from the government!?!", as if that doesn't apply to practically every FF party in relation to the antagonistic force they're fighting against. Cloud and the gang are literally wanted by Shinra, Noctis and the gang are fugitives in exile on the run from Niflheim who are constantly up their ass too, etc, it's just poorly executed in FF13.

Drake Maye: "Coach, the Seahawks look pretty tough. What's the gameplan?" Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini somewhere:

We could watch this all day 🥹

Final Fantasy VII - Listen To The Cries Of The Planet Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

I love McKennie’s run here. The goal is just icing on the cake