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@Coral It’s the teams involved. City, Chelsea don’t have the fan base. Big figures on paper but a lot of them are clout chasing. Look at the empty seats in City’s home game last week. Look how quick they were to leave during the Everton game too. I’m sure the real fans will agree

FA Cup Final viewing figures: 2007 - 9.9 million 2015 - 8 million 2025 - 5.9 million Is the Cup Final as relevant as it used to be? 🤔

@ClearlakeWon @troopzafc What did he win ‘multiple times’? He won the champions league in 2005 where shocking defending left his side 3-0 down at half time. He was just above average as a player

@troopzafc Probably cuz he won something multiple times that your club hasn’t won in its existance you clown

Why’s Carragher even there lol

@Ryback Charles Robinson hairstyle? Must have been 98 😂

Guess my age here!

@KGiamurhuklbery @AncientHistorry Hope he doesn’t ruin the Titanic movie for you next 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

@AncientHistorry This account literally just makes shit up

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Almost nothing they know is the full story. Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled. The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end. Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian. They marched anyway. And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument. The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering. For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass. Then the Greeks were betrayed. A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded. He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came. So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name. The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it. They lost. Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home. Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame. That's the world they lived in. The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws. A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it. We remember 300 of them. There were always more.

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@EduardoHagn Fearing a few nasty injuries if Atletico do lose

Feeling a Gabriel header today.

@TL_Mason 3-0 at half time was great - meant he could rest players for Tuesday. 3 more games to work on that goal difference

I wanted 4-0 yesterday before the game. After the first half I wanted 5-0. Shame we couldn't push that goal difference up a bit further but we'll take it.

@MrNeu_ @GoonerTaIk The system of sideways and backwards passing you mean? No striker suits that system. The guys need to adapt to him. He’s clearly adapted to them

@GoonerTaIk 20 goal campaign is fine. I’m happy with it. But he doesn’t fit our system. I’m hoping over the summer we figure something out to incorporate him more.

20 goals this season for Viktor Gyokeres. His goals have been crucial in getting us top of the Premier League and reaching the Champions League semi final. And people try to label him as a flop…

@EduardoHagn You sound sad about the win? Where is the support?

That misplaced pass from Gyökeres could cost the team so much at the end. The lack of quality is so evident. Keeping him next season would be detrimental.

@ApexF121 @harryenglish25 @monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail There’s more on order but again, it’s not like Lego. They don’t just come off a shelf and into service

@harryenglish25 @whataloadofx @monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail Try getting the governing funding for them to add more carriages, Its a joke.

The same everyday, why they pulled it from 4 carriages to 3 at the end of January and still wont say why, is baffling!

@harryenglish25 @monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail Common sense like? You realize they’re real trains and not Lego sets yeah? 😂

@whataloadofx @monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail Well then they need more carriages... Also if that's the case trim one of the larger ones down. There's no way you should ever have a 3 carriage train during rush hour... Common sense like!

@harryenglish25 @monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail All carriages are in service during peak hours though.

@monaghanroad @valleyelectra @IrishRail All peak hour trains should have more carriages... They can be trimmed down during the day if they really need to!

@Gravitygunner14 Hats what Chelsea do to the majority of players they buy. Cant think of 3 players over the last 15 years who came to Chelsea and got better

Is this the same Delap from Ipswich?? How can football leave a man like this?

@stevek9KS1TV AFTV is poison and only relevant due to the years of no success. It could be argued that they genuinely fear Arsenal winning a trophy or doing well

From speaking to genuine Arsenal fans, most recognise that sacking Arteta would be a rash and short-sighted decision. As for AFTV, most within the Arsenal fanbase hold a lower opinion of it than even rival supporters do. #AFC #COYG 🔴⚪️

@branfan91 100% and as soon as the gobshites arrived id say the Government ket out a huge sigh of relief because it destroyed all credibility and gave them the easiest opportunity to slander the protest

Look he's a fucking twat but he is right here...it was. There were literally some eejits standing outside the Dail today with an antivax thing..the fuck has that got to do with fuel ffs

@SuzieD755164 @Mick_O_Keeffe Joseph Goebbels was rhe Nazi minister for propaganda. Just a different title 😉

@Mick_O_Keeffe The fact we even HAVE a media minister says it all.

Mother of God. The Irish Media Minister says he will be asking the Media Commission to "examine" protest coverage because it was too lopsided in favour of the farmers and truckers. The government sent in the military to break up protests and now they want to clamp down on how the media covers those protests because it made the government look bad. Ireland is gone full totalitarian.

@Orangeiceman10 Played lovely football for the last 20 years and celebrated top 4 finishes like it was the champions league. Happy to go back to that?

Remember the football we played 3 seasons ago It is night and day

@TheNotoriousMMA This is done constantly with bars and restaurants too. Make sure your staff are well versed because even a token for a cigarette machine and they can do you

@henrywinter The whole Team should be built around him. He’s the only one performing to any sort of high standard all season!

Judging by his Sky Sports interview, Dominik Szoboszlai looks & sounds seriously frustrated by Liverpool’s fading display. Understandably so. He’s giving everything, scoring 6 goals in his last 14 games, playing out of position at times. Midfield should be built round him #LIVTOT