Owen Taylor

Unbelievable gaff with an unbelievable DJ

There's going to be a lot of tired, out-dated cliches thrown around about Atletico Madrid in the build-up to their game against Arsenal... But they are a very different side to 10 years ago. Their midfield and attack at home to Barcelona: Simeone, Llorente, Koke, Lookman, Griezmann, Alvarez. Sure they all work hard, but there isn't a single "destroyer" type in there. After conceding fewer than 30 league goals for 8 consecutive seasons between 13/14 and 20/21... they haven't done so in the last 5, twice conceding 43. THIS IS NOT A DEFENSIVE TEAM, they have evolved. Only Bayern and PSG (38) have scored more goals than their 34 in this season's Champions League. They have conceded 1.9 goals per match, compared with Arsenal's 0.4 and Bayern's + PSG's 1.2 I make Arsenal marginal favourites for the tie, but it will not be straightforward!

People putting Diego Simeone in the same category of boring as Mikel Arteta. Let's not be disrespectful now.

@laligaandbeyond Relegation only seems a matter of when for them now in the future

A pretty damning interview with Matias Almeyda who has finally spoken since his sacking at Sevilla. I have picked out some of the key bits. "What happened at Sevilla is the first time this has happened to me. I've always had long-term projects. What happened here was different because the day before they told me I had to leave, they told me I was staying until the end . That kind of betrayal in football is what I can't... It hurts. Those people can't look at me anymore ," "There are people there who aren't interested in the club" "Very similar moments" to what he experienced at River Plate, "a great club that is having economic and political problems and with a fanbase that always expects the team to win : this was not a team formed to fight for titles, but to avoid relegation , that's the reality ," A lot of what he has said tallies with the mess we perceive Sevilla to be in from the outside.

Atletico vs Barca is a reminder of why you don't have to "sell" football. For all the stupid modern gimmicks that have been implemented, there's no substitute for two top teams going at each other like drunk boxers.

Give Atleti and Simeone the Champions League idc. The most under rated manager in European football

This first 45 mins of Atletico vs Barca is genuinely like the perfect antidote to some of the robotic system based Premier League set piece ball we have to watch every weekend. Unreal, unreal, unreal viewing.

Iraola is better than Arteta, no matter how you want to look at it. Bro, he went to Cyprus to win the cup. He went to Mirandes in Spain Segunda division and got to semi finals of Copa Del Rey, go and look at all the La Liga teams he beat. He promoted Rayo Vallecano from Segunda to La Liga This guy has worked his way to the top, right from the trenches of Cyprus, not that his first job was in a big club with 7 years patience and a billion pounds to work with. He’s about to take Bournemouth to Europe for the first time in their history, and I hope he will. He also sold top players like Semenyo, Huijsen, Zabarnyi, Solanke, and many more, but his style of football remained the same. What a guy! On a 12 game-unbeaten streak with fucking Bournemouth, you can clearly see they’re a well-coached team. He did this last season also👇🏽 2-0 Mikel Arteta 2-1 Pep Guardiola. 1-0 Ange Postecoglou. 3-0 Ruben Amorim. 2-2 Enzo Maresca. 4-1 Eddie Howe. 5-0 Nuno Espirito Santo. Crazy guy!!!! I wish him luck. Listen to his players talk about him also, his philosophies are crazy. There is a style, which is what I criticise Arteta for, you can’t have a billion-pound players and not have a style, no ideology, if there is, we seldom see it, he might end up winning the league but he’s just privileged to, with all the patience from the club and money involved. These guys are way better.

Retro La Liga is genuinely one of the best marketing campaigns of all time

so excited to be attending coachella 2026 😍

Got to be honest I’m totally fed up with the cliches around Barcelona #highline and Atletico Madrid #defensiveStability from pundits who’ve not watched a La Liga game this season, subscribers to tv channels deserve far better.

england is such an unserious country it’s 19 degrees and it’s fellas walking around with no shirt on and girls in bikinis in public get a grip you’re in manchester 😭😭

genuinely pissing myself laughing abt people being upset wireless got cancelled. like oh no you can’t see a nazi preform oh noooo

Spoken like a true ‘FIFA peace’ prize winner, honestly this world can’t be real at this point

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

can we livestream flying in space more often this shit is so fun

@MrBoldOne @EmiratesFACup Enjoy your quadruple, pal.

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Omds the guy repeating the scores is so nostalgic how did they send this game so far backwards

What a game 17 was, we had it all

Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch: CNN: "Why do you want to be here?... Why do you love being a part of history? Kid: "We're going back to the f*cking moon, that's why!" 🤣