Chris Payne

Nights you can only dream about! 🥹🩵

🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗: Arsenal are the only club in history to lose their first two Champions League finals when leading 1-0 at half time. 💔

Happy Birthday, Johnny Stones! 🩵

Still find it crazy that VAR didn’t give Saka’s handball. PSG clearly robbed

✨ A third @PremierLeague Golden Boot for @ErlingHaaland 👑

CHAMPIONS AGAIN! 🏆 Celtic are crowned Champions of Scotland for the FIFTH season in a row! Huge congratulations to Martin O’Neill and the Bhoys #Champion5 | #CelticFC🍀🏆

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Your FA Cup final line-up! ​​💪🩵 XI | Trafford, Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, O’Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo (C), Semenyo, Marmoush, Doku, Haaland SUBS | Donnarumma, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Kovacic, Cherki, Savinho, Foden 🤝 @etihad

It's FA Cup final day! 🏆😤 COME ON, CITY!!! 🩵 🤝 @Revolut

OUR FA YOUTH CUP CHAMPIONS! 🩵🏆

Adidas has released a short film ‘BACKYARD LEGENDS’ for the World Cup. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Bad Bunny, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal.

In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's. Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend. #YouGotThis

Things certain in life: 1. Death 2. Arsenal's bottling 3. Taxes

NICO O’REILLY WHAT A GOAL KEPA MISTAKE 1-0 MAN CITY WE ARE WINNING

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!! 🤩 🔴 0-1 🩵

Today I reached my limit. ❌ Not because of the game. ❌ Not because of a mistake. ❌ But because of the nonstop voices coming from the touchline. I kept hearing: “Press him.” “Pass it.” “Shoot.” “Turn.” “Get wider.” “Drop.” Every action I made already had an instruction attached to it, before I’d even thought for myself. ◍ I’m trying to play, but I can’t. ◍ I’m trying to make decisions, but yours arrive before mine. ◍ I’m trying to focus, but I keep looking over, checking if you’re annoyed, disappointed, or waiting to shout again. ⇢ I’m only a young player, still learning. ⇢ I want to hear my coach. ⇢ I want to understand the game. ⇢ I want to trust my own eyes. ⇢ I want to make decisions and learn from them. But when the sideline becomes a second coach, louder, harsher, more impatient, I stop learning. ❌ I stop thinking. ❌ I stop enjoying it. And then the questions start: ⇨ Why do adults think their constant instructions help? ⇨ Why do they talk as if they’re in the game with me? ⇨ Why am I worried more about upsetting them than doing the right thing? Football shouldn’t feel like a test I’m failing in real time. It shouldn’t feel like I’m being judged for every decision I don’t make because you’ve already shouted the one you want. Here’s what nobody admits: 🔴 Children don’t struggle because they can’t think. 🔴 They struggle because adults don’t let them. ☉ Decision-making comes from freedom, not fear. ☉ Awareness grows from playing, not from being shouted at. ☉ Confidence builds from trying things, not from being corrected every five seconds. I’m playing the game. I see what you can’t see. I feel the pressure you don’t feel. I’m learning in real time. All I’m asking for is space to think, to breathe, to grow. If you want to help me, let me play. Let my coach guide me. Let my mistakes teach me. Let the game speak. Because when the noise stops, the learning starts.

After their elimination against Panama, the kit man of Guatemala broke down in tears while continuing to work. 😢🇬🇹

For club and country 🌍🩵 Here's how the lads got on during today's international fixtures ⤵️

Harry Swartz against QPR U18's

Nine years ago today, #ManCity signed John Stones. 🩵 🔵 277 Apps ⚽️ 19 Goals 🅰️ 9 Assists 🏆 Premier League [x6] 🏆 League Cup [x4] 🏆 FA Cup [x2] 🏆 FA Community Shield [x2] 🏆 UEFA Super Cup [x1] 🏆 FIFA Club World Cup [x1] 🏆 UEFA Champions League [x1]