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@Fejiiro @aakashgupta This guy waffles in AI every day and somehow it pops onto my for you feed and I agree it’s tiresome slop. It degrades his integrity as he claims to be knowledgable on all these areas when he simply does not.

@aakashgupta "Here's where the story get strange" then proceeds to say nothing actually strange... This type of writing is actually becoming exhausting

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

@thearsfamily97 Need to get at Hasbullah early

Mine: With Gvardiol and Guehi unavailable, we need to pressure their CBs as much as possible. GyokeresxHavertz is important for this to be achieved. Additionally, Havertz is a good dueller, which helps us maintain dominance in the middle of the pitch with RicexZubimendi. Saka and Eze are obvious. Creative players on both wings will provide opportunities for the CF and SS.

@AFCCymru @BlackScarfMarc @yorkshiregunner Agreed. Soon apparently. I saw @Salibasexual02 had mentioned Musk would let you filter out countries

@BlackScarfMarc @yorkshiregunner Yup. If only you could block something other than people!

Not petty, elite mentality. Hates losing. That’s a pretty good outlier for a manager of a top club to have.

@TomCantonMedia @__jbthe1 He wrote this in January. Ridiculous and not in any way fair. Makes him look especially stupid now given he’s contributed goals and is clicking more with the squad.

@jp_AFC @__jbthe1 Huh?

Every interaction I’ve had with @alexmoneypenny has been extremely positive. Do we agree on all our POVs? Nope. That’s football, and life. Some of what I’ve seen directed at Alex is disgusting. Arsenal going into a cup final and instead of uniting, some are doing this…

@TomCantonMedia @__jbthe1 Is it not abuse to call Gyokeres a “competition winner”? After all the shit he’s gone through to get where he is?

@__jbthe1 Mistake you’re making is with response and abuse.

@Smuggo49 @thearsfamily97 John cross has always been a fraud

Proper breath of fresh air. 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍

@Carra23 @charles_watts We don’t want whatever nonsense you’re shilling as we know exactly who you are and what you represent.

@charles_watts It was a joke 🙃🤯😅 Arsenal fans going nuts over a positive Arsenal piece……..the modern Arsenal fan in a nutshell!

"Thanks for bringing more traffic." Urgh man, modern punditry in a nutshell.........

@Shareee The bellend called Gyokeres a “competition winner” and then days later said fans can’t criticise Odegaard. He jumps from one bandwagon to the next. 🥱

I gave up on Alex Money penny when he expressed empathy for referees and how “they won’t willingly influence decisions or target Arsenal (as they are inconsistent with everyone anyway) cos they have families” or something along those lines 🤦🏽‍♀️

@mannydubbs Got steamrolled on sky and did nothing to back the club. Knew from then on he was a cuck

alexmoneypenny probably one of the worst, most performative arsenal content creators oat. was a matter of time before he self destructed

@Carra23 You picked the biggest muppet on here to blow steam under. Good one chief

Finally found an Arsenal fan who isn’t a crank 🤝😅

As I said yesterday before he cowered away behind protected tweets..bellend.

@JamieJackson___ How do you feel after the press conference? Hopefully a bit silly after trying to force something that isn’t there.

@ThatGuy28780245 @Radicalmanthus He put a shit take out on Gyokeres a while ago which was hypocritical to stuff he’d said about Havertz before. He has no clue about our club’s history (abysmal showing on Sky). The Bruno thing is small time but shows he’s plastic. See today he’s begging for cup tickets.

He’s made constant takes on Arsenal from a perspective that makes him look like he wants the club to not do well, so he doesn’t look bias. Then he revealed that he was a Man Utd fan & that explains why he kisses up to Scholes & Neville. But the take that got everyone rattled was about Bruno. Which I think is a little harsh, but I understand why it’s added more to it.

There’s a new branch of “fans” that lean away from honest or partisan takes in order to keep being “in” with a certain circle. I’d like to call that circle the “Sky” circle. Something that enables them to look unbiased or smart , so they can sit with Gary Neville & Carragher and then after they can go on Saturday Social & put up a random card in a “combined 11” debate & get some extra YouTube time. It’s pathetic. I thought the troll culture was bad, but now people are selling their souls so they can smile with 19 other fans they don’t like, but they can piggyback off their clout.

Good morning to everyone who’s preparing for a cup final at the weekend. To everyone else……

@dog_person20 @1882_Tottenham “The League” like it’s some weird conspiracy monolithic being. Take a long look in the mirror.

@1882_Tottenham The league has definitely decided who it wants to win and who it would like to go down.

Just a reminder Arteta called a PL referee a disgrace continually after a Newcastle game and received no consequence 👌

@1882_Tottenham Arteta had to make a court appearance to appeal his claim so what you’ve typed is nonsense.

@alexmoneypenny @HandofArsenal You’re such a bellend

@HandofArsenal Get em, HOA. Love you. 🫡

@chrisbunnett @NafeezAhmed @mehdirhasan @NJ_Timothy The common denominator in the majority of the rapes of women in the recent past is that they have been carried out by people who follow your religion. That cannot be denied. Moderate Christianity has not attempted to rein in the extremism in any way at all! 🤷🏼‍♂️

@NafeezAhmed @mehdirhasan @NJ_Timothy The common denominator in the majority of the attacks on the public in the recent past is that they have been carried out by people who follow your religion. That cannot be denied. Moderate Islam has not attempted to rein in the extremism in any way at all! 🤷🏼‍♂️

Dear @NJ_Timothy You described mass ritual prayer in public places as "an act of domination." You said the adhān - the Muslim call to prayer - is "a declaration of domination." I think you are profoundly wrong, in ways that matter - not just for Muslims, but for every Briton who wants to live in a country where diverse expressions of reverence are still possible in public life. Let me tell you what you are actually looking at when you see Muslims pray. What the Qur'an actually teaches The Qur'an contains a verse (22:40) that is extraordinary in the history of religious scripture. It grants permission to those who have been wronged to fight back against persecution - and then it explains why such resistance matters. The reason given is this: "Had God not repelled some people by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques - in which God's name is much remembered - would have been destroyed." The Qur'an does not say: defend mosques. It says: defend monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques. It places Christian, Jewish and Muslim houses of worship in a single breath, united by a single criterion - that they are places where God's name is remembered. The theological implication is breathtaking. The divine concern, in this verse, is the protection of all worship, not the supremacy of one form of it. The Qur'an goes further. In 2:62, it says: "Those who believe, and those who are Jewish, and the Christians, and the Sabians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good - they shall have their reward with their Lord. They have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve." In 5:69, the same promise is repeated almost word for word. The Qur'an also emphasises that salvation is not solely dependent on belief in any particular scripture, whether Islamic scripture, or the scriptures of 'People of the Book' (Jews and Christians). Rather, the criteria is sincere devotion to God: “If they argue with you [Prophet], say, ‘I have devoted myself to God alone and so have my followers.’ Ask those who were given the Scripture, as well as those without one, ‘Do you too devote yourselves to Him alone?’ If they do, they will be guided, but if they turn away, your only duty is to convey the message. God is aware of His servants.” (3:20) These verses say plainly that salvation is not the exclusive property of Muslims. In 3:113-115, the Qur'an describes the People of the Book - Jews and Christians - with striking tenderness: "Among the People of the Book is an upright community. They recite God's revelations throughout the night and they prostrate. They believe in God and the Last Day, and they enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, and they hasten to do good deeds. These are among the righteous. Whatever good they do, they will not be denied it." And in 5:82, the Qur'an says something remarkable about Christians specifically: "You will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers are those who say, 'We are Christians.' That is because among them are priests and monks, and because they are not arrogant." The Arabic word here - lā yastakbirūn -means they do not place themselves above others. What the adhān actually says You singled out the adhān as a declaration of domination because it contains the words "there is no god but God" and "Muhammad is the messenger of God." Let me offer you a different way to hear those words. "There is no god but God" - lā ilāha illallāh - is the foundation of tawhīd, the radical oneness at the heart of Islam. It is a statement that no finite thing is ultimate. Money. Power. Ego. Tribe. Race. Nation. Not even the self. Every idol - every false absolute that human beings construct and then bow before - is swept away in that single phrase. The point of the shahāda is liberation. It frees the human being from servitude to anything less than the Real, al-Haqq, another name of the Divine. The Arabic word Allāh, Nick, is simply the Arabic word for God - al-ilāh, the God. Arabic-speaking Christians use it in their liturgies. Arabic-speaking Jews use it in their prayers. The Maltese word for God - Alla - comes from the same root, and Malta is one of the most Catholic countries in Europe. When the adhān says Allāh, it is naming the same ultimate Reality that every monotheist reaches toward. As the Qur'an itself says (29:46): "Our God and your God is One." And "Muhammad is the messenger of God" simply places Muhammad in a chain of prophecy that the Qur'an honours at enormous length. "We surely sent a messenger to every community" (16:36). Abraham, Moses, Jesus, David, Solomon, Jonah, John the Baptist - the Qur'an names them all as messengers of the same God, carrying the same essential call. To say Muhammad is a messenger is to say he belongs to that company. It is an act of humility about the Prophet himself - he is a messenger, not the message. The adhān, in its entirety, is an invitation. Literally. It calls Muslims to turn away from whatever they are doing - buying, selling, eating, talking, working - and to stand before God in gratitude and surrender. It is a public announcement that the time for reconnection with the Real has arrived. It is addressed to Muslims. It is telling them: stop. Remember. You are not the centre of the universe. God is. What the Prophet actually built After the Prophet Muhammad migrated to Medina, he did something that has few parallels in the ancient world. He drew up what historians call the Constitution of Medina - a covenant between the Muslim community and the Jewish and pagan clans of the city, establishing a shared civic order across religious lines. Under this covenant, all communities retained the freedom to practise their faith and govern their own affairs. The principle was universal, even though the Jewish tribes were the primary non-Muslim signatories. And the language of the covenant is extraordinary: the Jews of Banū ʿAwf are "one community with the believers" - ummah wāḥidah ma'a al-mu'minīn - with "the Jews having their religion and the Muslims having theirs." One community with the believers. Not subjects, or a tolerated minority. One community bound together in a shared civic body, each retaining its own faith, its own law, its own courts. The Constitution of Medina established a framework of secular religious pluralism in which diverse communities coexisted under mutual obligation and shared civic belonging. That was the Prophet's model of governance, built in the first generation of Islam. The same principle extended beyond Medina. When a delegation from the Christians of Najrān came to the Prophet, he granted them a covenant protecting their churches, their clergy, and their right to practise their faith - and tradition records that he invited them to pray in his own mosque (huffpost.com/entry/pluralis…) And the Prophet reinforced this ethic with a warning that rings across the centuries. He said: "Whoever killed a mu'āhid" - a non-Muslim living under covenant protection - "shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise." The protection of religious minorities was so central to the Prophetic model that violating it could, in the Prophet's own words, cost a Muslim the hereafter. The Qur'an's own instruction on this point is unambiguous. "There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256). And in 3:64, it tells Muslims what to say when they encounter Jews and Christians: "Say: O People of the Book, come to a common word between us and you - that we worship none but God, that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords beside God." Come to a common word is the Qur'anic posture toward other faiths - not domination, Nick, but invitation to shared ground. And in one of the most beautiful expressions of deliberate divine pluralism, the Qur'an says (5:48): "To each of you We have given a law and a way. Had God willed, He would have made you one community, but He tests you through what He has given you. So compete with one another in doing good." God could have made humanity uniform. He chose otherwise. And the response the Qur'an demands is that all communities, whatever their religion, race one another toward goodness. I wish you could hear that, Nick, before calling it domination. What prayer actually looks like The physical form of Muslim prayer - standing, bowing, kneeling, prostrating - is also not alien to the Biblical tradition. Genesis 17:3: "Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him." Joshua 5:14: "Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped." Matthew 26:39: "He went a little farther and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, 'O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.'" That is Jesus, in his most anguished hour, praying in the posture of sujūd - forehead to the ground. Psalm 95:6 calls the faithful to worship in exactly the language of Islamic prayer: "O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our maker." Jewish liturgical practice preserves this embodied grammar to this day. The Amidah - the central prayer of Jewish worship - is a standing prayer. Bowing remains integral to it. And on the High Holy Days, Yom Kippur above all, kneeling, bowing and forms of full prostration remain living elements of Jewish worship. When Muslims stand, bow, kneel and place their foreheads on the ground, they are doing what Abraham did. What Moses did. What Jesus did. What the Psalmist called all people to do. The form of prayer you find threatening is one of the oldest continuous practices of worship in the Abrahamic world. These prayer forms share striking similarities with yoga asanas and forms of Hindu worship practised over thousands of years. What sujūd actually means In sujūd - prostration - the forehead touches the earth. The highest point of the human body, the seat of reason and pride and self-regard, is brought to the lowest place. Dust meets dust. The ego, for a moment, is dissolved. This is surrender - islām, in its most literal meaning. Surrender of the will, the pride, the illusion that any human being is sovereign. The surrender of the egoic self - its greed, its cruelty, its hunger for dominance - to something immeasurably higher. In the Islamic tradition, what the worshipper surrenders to is spelled out in the Divine Names themselves: al-Wadūd, the Loving; al-Raḥmān, the All-Compassionate; al-ʿAdl, the Just; al-Karīm, the Generous. The ego bows so that love, compassion, justice and generosity can rise in its place. In sujūd, the Muslim enacts what every mystic tradition in every civilisation has always known: that the deepest freedom comes when the lower self yields to what is highest and most beautiful. That is what was happening when you saw Muslims praying in public, Nick. Hundreds of human beings, in the middle of a city that celebrates its diversity, placing their foreheads on the ground in an act of yielding the self to Love, to Mercy, to Justice. The body enacting humility. The forehead returning to dust. I wonder what it would take for you to see that. What public worship in Britain actually looks like It is worth noting, Nick, that public religious observance in Britain is not uniquely Muslim - nor is it new. Trafalgar Square has hosted major Christian prayer and worship gatherings, including the 2019 Pentecost event where thousands of Christians gathered in open prayer and praise. It hosts Vaisakhi on the Square each year, celebrating Sikh faith, culture and the founding of the Khalsa. A giant Chanukah menorah is lit there annually, recorded in London's official reports as a public celebration of Jewish life. The square already belongs to many communities. Christians have prayed there. Sikhs have worshipped there. Jews have celebrated there. Muslims are doing what everyone else has already done - bringing reverence into public life, openly, in a city that has long made room for it. The question is whether that room will continue to exist. Or whether, one public statement at a time, we will construct a Britain where some citizens are not welcome. Nick, perhaps you saw something unfamiliar and interpreted it through a framework of anxiety that is widespread in British public life - a framework in which Muslim visibility is automatically read as Muslim threat. But the tradition you described so confidently is one you do not appear to know very well. And that gap between confidence and knowledge is dangerous in a lawmaker, because it shapes policy, it shapes rhetoric, and it shapes the lives of real people, your constituents among them. If you genuinely want to understand the theological vision behind what you saw - tawhīd, love, pluralism, the Prophetic ethic of protecting difference rather than erasing it - I would warmly invite you to explore these ideas at Perennial Vision (perennialvision.org). The work there examines Islam's deepest teachings on the unity of the Divine, the dignity of every human being, and the sacred obligation to protect the worship and freedom of all communities, not only one's own. Britain is enriched when people bring reverence, gratitude into public life respectfully. It is diminished when every unfamiliar act of devotion is redescribed as conquest by those who have yet to understand what prayer is. With love, and in good faith, Nafeez

@bobaking89 @clockendsniper @MrBoldOne @SpursOfficial @grok 🥲

@MrBoldOne @SpursOfficial @grok remind me to come back here when Bodo/Glimt knock Arsenal the fuck out of the Champions League

The road to Budapest 🏆

@Salibasexual02 Think the CL semis are two legs right? So would be 4 wins to get to the final

Update…. 5 wins away from winning the PL 3 wins away from winning the CL 3 wins away from winning the FA Cup 1 win away from winning the league Cup. Big week ahead.