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At the end of the day, we all want competent people in football. Who cares about the gender? Btw one of the most important people at Bayern is a woman, Kathleen Krüger. She was the team manager for 12 years and got promoted lately. Gender is irrelevant if competent.

🚨 Historical decision by Union Berlin as German club appoint Marie-Louise Eta as their head coach until June. Union lost at Heidenheim, sacked the head coach Steffen Baumgart and put Marie-Louise Eta in charge until the end of the season. Ets becomes the first female head coach in the history of men’s Bundesliga.

@Leqkee @FabrizioRomano ...? merit

@FabrizioRomano This is bullshit

@oldheaded no one is misinterpreting anything. a well constructed pithy statement resonates regardless of life stage. but you fancied some likes from strangers so you reached for the tired and generic "i bet this goes hard if you're..." format. that's why you're getting backlash

A lot of people misinterpreting this as saying it’s wrong. It’s not wrong, but it’s definitely Depression 101 thinking that you simply must progress forth from lest you end up succumbing to the same disease that ended up killing David Foster Wallace.

Mind-blowing quote if you’re 19 years old

🗼WELL I NEVER🗼 Would you believe that Ray and June, who won the Reform UK energy bills prize, go back all the way to the Brexit Party with Farage? Here they are with Farage, Widdecombe and Bull [a truly awful supernatural detective thriller]. What a coincidence [increasingly unlikely] h/t, and thanks to @linfitlass for pointing this out to me. These images are from a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019. [credit Getty Images I believe, but Google for me].

@thesatantapes @____selah combination of the strains getting too strong and increased self awareness

@____selah why is this so universal? from 18-23 i didn’t put it down for more than a week but then out of nowhere i started tweaking every single time

I totally dominated you at the museum dude. Pondered every piece for a couple seconds longer. Scratched my chin with more curiosity.

There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder. This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with. Thank god for parents like my mother She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving. These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.

@isnit0 @riversorare these are great infographics, where do you get them from?

@riversorare This shows reasonably that people retiring today have, proportional to the costs they impose on the country, started contributing significantly less than 30 years ago.

For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.

@CforSwf @Theo_Griffiths literally couldn't go to the pub ya knob

@Theo_Griffiths Da fuck did you ‘give up’ in the pandemic that protected older generations?? Absolute mug

young people like me gave up their best years to protect older generations in the pandemic - how have we been repaid since?

@escapefrommelos i haven't seen a single video where it looks like he's having fun

I don’t particularly like Clavicular but he’s 100% right. watching sportsball and getting drunk with your “friends” is one of the most harmful ways of spending you time “the best choose one thing above all: immortal glory. the many care only to glut themselves like cattle”

Try 2 months without Boubacar Kamara 🫨

@BBCMOTD @WayneRooney @DionDublinsDube no konsa is wild

Agree with their selections? 📋 @WayneRooney and @DionDublinsDube pick their combined Man Utd/Aston Villa XI ahead of their Premier League clash on Sunday. #BBCFootball #MUNAVL

@israel_ajoje @grok please can you find a link to the research referenced in this post

Nature or nurture? In 2023, a researcher named Tane Kanope and colleagues published a study in the journal Genes, a peer reviewed scientific publication, where they fully sequenced the genomes of 44 elite Brazilian under-20 players from first division clubs. They then compared those genetic profiles to global population databases covering European, African, American, Asian, and South Asian populations, specifically looking at genes linked to athletic performance, things like endurance capacity, explosive power, speed, and recovery. Here is what they found. These young elite players showed significantly higher genetic differentiation in performance-related genes compared to the general population, including African populations, despite the fact that Brazilians themselves carry between 12 and 24 percent African ancestry. In plain English, the athletic genes in these players had clustered and intensified in a way that stood out even against populations with similar ancestry. Let me just break this down for you in simple English. The researchers did not find a special Brazilian football gene that the rest of the world does not have. What they found was evidence of an extremely intense filtering process. Brazil has a population of over 215 million people, an almost fanatical football culture, and a development system built on street football, futsal, and ruthless competition from a very early age. The sheer number of children playing football in Brazil every single day means that only the kids with the most naturally suited physical and cognitive profiles for the game survive the journey to elite level. Everyone else gets filtered out long before they even reach 20. So it looks like genetic superiority but is actually the result of one of the largest and most demanding natural selection process in football history. So it is not that Brazilians are born better at football. It is that Brazil's cultural system is so demanding and so vast that only the genetically best suited players make it through. And when you sequence the genomes of the ones who survived, of course they look exceptional. They are the ones who made it through a process that eliminated millions. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

UK has similar gas storage capacity at present as Europe - about 28% in UK to 29% in Europe - BUT gas storage is vastly smaller in UK, only enough for a few days relative to 5-6 weeks of supply in Germany. Once again, UK has failed its own people by privatising its essential utilities to rentier private equity which does not invest in critical infrastructure. Nationalise water, gas and electricity now.

We have spent the equivalent of what it cost to build this just blowing things up the last 4 days.

Defunding creative arts courses isn’t just short-sighted, it’s economically reckless UK’s creative industries are a national powerhouse £100billion+ engine of growth They create exports, intellectual property, tourism, inward investment & high-skilled jobs across the UK

So there we have it. Reform UK want to repeal the Equality Act. This is the law that: Stops your boss sacking you for being pregnant. Protects disabled workers who need adjustments to do their job. Backs up equal pay for women. Stops people from being harassed at work because they’re LGBT+. Makes it illegal to refuse someone a job or a service because of their race or religion. And THIS is what they’ve decided is the problem in Britain? Not the cost of living. Not NHS waits. Not wages. (They said they’d actually them CUT for young people) But YOUR rights. THEIR culture wars would TEAR UP protections that millions of hardworking Brits rely on every day. NO THANKS ❌

Unilaterally changing a contract that 17&18 year olds were pressured to enter into in order to have a chance at success in the job market to terms that make them significantly worse off is immoral. Worse still, the chancellor seems to think that student loans thresholds are there to be changed to suit the treasuries income needs, they are not a tax. If a high street lender did this, the ombudsman would rule against them.