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They better get a lot of beer thrown on them.

The CHIPS Act funds the production of chips using leading-edge **transistors** And now you can probably figure out why he thinks these companies needed transgender people to qualify. We are truly living in the dumbest of times.

@UtdHeisenberg_ Wasn’t it Ornstein who broke it? Transfer gossip is based on sources, & Athletics reporting is better sourced and vetted than any wannabe influencer/aggregator (and most tabloids), but doesn’t mean they are always right or always in the know. Articles are still worth it for me.

The Tielemans deal showed that nobody really knows what's going on behind the scenes. It emerged virtually out of nowhere, with even Ornstein, Mitten, Anka and Whitwell caught off guard. So I'd take most "United are interested in..." stories with a pinch of salt until something concrete happens.

@UtdHeisenberg_ @TheAthletic They cover Youri in the middle of the episode. It seemed the information broke while they were recording. Athletic articles have ads inserted, at least at my subscription level, so no real surprise the podcast does. That’d be the parent company (NYTimes) I’d expect.

So excited about the Tielemans signing that this was the first Talk of the Devils I'd listened to since the live show... Two minutes of ads... and they don't even cover the Belgian captain. I thought @TheAthletic subscribers bypass the ads?!

@larbyclassy4 @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC One experienced and PL acclimated 29 yo midfielder to go with the 22 yo we just bought and the 21 yo we already have in a PL and CL season, and your toys are outta the pram?

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC I honestly don’t feel good about this transfer. When are we actually going to build? We need a younger team that can grow together and deliver results in a few years. We can’t build around all these 30+ players. F off United

🚨 Youri Tielemans move from Aston Villa to Manchester United through £35m release clause in midfielder’s contract. #AVFC had no wish to sell + offered new deal but left with little choice due to mechanism & #MUFC set to proceed on transfer @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/74403…

@TheAthleticFC Will he also be bringing in “Real Time Reviews” where once each half, a sponsor, autocrat, or someone with “Prince” in their name can ask for review of an on field decision?

Gianni Infantino has said FIFA will examine expanding the World Cup by a further 16 nations to a 64-team tournament ahead of its next edition in 2030. The 2030 tournament will be spread across six nations and three continents: Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay are scheduled to host one match apiece at the start of the competition, with the remaining games split between Morocco, Portugal and Spain. More from @Millar_Colin 🔗 nyti.ms/4eWizlv

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year. That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer. FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset. US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records. So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros. Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability. Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business. They will not.

Two things can be true at the same time here: The Balogun red was nonsense FIFA arbitrarily unbanning people based on vibes is terrible for the sport. A ridiculous organization.

@Trip91080 @alen_dylan @fifamedia @adidasfootball @FIFAWorldCup It’s not the frame you’re looking at. It’s the contact that is coming in the next few frames. The white line is the current frame.

@alen_dylan @fifamedia @adidasfootball @FIFAWorldCup How is the signal present before ANY touch? x.com/trip91080/stat…

According to the data provided by Connected Ball Technology housed within the @adidasfootball Trionda, the official match ball of the @FIFAWorldCup, it was proven that contact was made by Croatia's #20 Igor Matanović in the build up to the goal against Portugal, allowing the referee to correctly determine offside and disallow the goal.   IMU sensors housed within the Trionda ball are capable of determining any slight contact, displayed to viewers in the broadcast as a 'heartbeat graphic', and allowing officials an unprecedented level of data to make fast, accurate decisions.

@Exploding_Heads “No, he was cup tied.” 😂

The lottery of penalties

Now that is funny!💀 #FIFAWorldCup 🇧🇦🇺🇸

My goodness, the stereotypes write themselves……🤷‍♂️ #FIFAWorldCup 🇧🇦🇺🇸

@AndyMitten @utdreport Unfollow and block I’m afraid. So blatant, so little regard for followers other than revenue marks.

@utdreport Are you really using footage of a footballer’s wife talking about her husband and linking that to an advert for a company that, even if you were allowed to use the footage, has nothing to do with the content?

The wife of five-time Champions League winner Casemiro on what Manchester United means. More than a club ❤️

@DavidChastity74 @MBruunJorgensen Not saying that has to be a penalty,, but “Attacker … lifted him off his feet”? The slow mo is right there. Not like you can’t watch it easily. He is airborne well before the knee contact.

@MBruunJorgensen It's simple really, attacker barged into the England player lifting him off his feet. Attacker then went to ground trying to get a penalty. Ref wasn't fooled, neither was VAR.

Jeg synes, at dommerne overordnet set har gjort det rigtig godt ved VM, men jeg kan simpelthen ikke begribe, at Ghana ikke fik straffespark i denne situation. Hvem kan oplyse mig om reglen, der fritager Ezri Konsa fra at begå straffespark her?

This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena. Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen. Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money. Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.

@AlternativeMUFC Can I like it twice? Once for the Reds, and once for the Catherine O’Hara shout out? 😢

Such absolute (standard) Vance bullshit, detectable by anyone who has ever stepped into a waiting room and been immediately directed to the “how you going to pay?” desk. Also note the dog whistle of “you can tell an illegal by just looking at them!”

What a piece of shit bully.

RT @MojoResin: @rawsalerts D'oh!

Phenomenal response from Australian media on the incident in which Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi was shot with a rubber bullet at relatively short range by a police officer. To be very clear, she posed no threat to the officer, Indeed she had her back to him. It was clear she was press, yet the officer decided in what can only be described as a cowardly act of reckless disregard for her safety to deliberately injure her. This is disgraceful, especially when we are being constantly told police officers are the victims. I would like to personally extend my best wishes to @LaurenTomasi for her speedy recovery, following her courageous work reporting events on the ground in these most dangerous of times. You shout all reach out too. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdAFvojo/