Nathan Firth

Amazing the sliding doors at United. Club were prepared to sell Bruno, Mainoo just months ago. Amorim era may rival Ten Hag as most damaging in recent history. Not convinced yet by Wilcox, this success now is the opposite to his plan. He was part of capital gains chase.

No Matthijs de Ligt. No Harry Maguire. No Leny Yoro. No Lisandro Martinez. Ayden Heaven was the only senior centre back available tonight and he stepped up to the occasion. Pressure creates gems. And we have a real gem in this kid. 19 years of age but plays like he's 29. Motion.

Julian Nagelsmann Thread 🧵 Been excited to write this one, and Nagelsmann has not disappointed. With JN, there is little value in obsessing over formations. He tinkers too much, and has done throughout his career for shape alone to tell you much about the coach. This thread will instead look at the constants and the recurring principles, the ideas that stay in place even when the structures change, and what Nagelsmann consistently wants from his teams. This thread by by slightly disjointed, but that is the nature of Nagelsmann, please read it through to gain a true picture Then I’ll assess the pros and cons of that approach.

Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area. Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free. A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there. Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video. For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after. Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion. The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.

YE WAS BANNED FROM UK FOR ANTISEMITISM Valentina Gomez was allowed in despite her Islamophobia Two Tier System.

THEY STILL DON’T!

Debut season Improved Improved Maintained Improved Improved Injured Improved Shoved on RW and told to defender more than Dalot Missed 1.5 months of season Limited minutes from the bench

"Oh man, yet another high school student that invented a {insert way to fix something on the planet}, the new generation is amazing!" You know what will come of that? Fucking nothing. Nothing will happen. Any fucking high school student that invents a novel way to do X or Y thing will either be assassinated by the CIA or have their projects shelved into a smelly office of a random teacher in some fuckass university, like fucking always.

🚨 NEW: The Independent's Political Editor, David Maddox, has published messages showing No 10 was told last September that Peter Mandelson may have failed security vetting

Feel like Palace are the only English club who can do this convincingly. They’ve nailed the European Ultra atmosphere without it feeling completely artificial

Nagelsmann with Steve Holland…I am listening

THE SAME FUCKING REF GAVE IT ONCE AND NOT THE OTHER TIME !!!!! Cunts the lot of them

In England, you must stay in education until you turn 18. Companies like McDonald’s exploit people who failed their GCSEs and have few other options by hiring them as an “apprentice” and making them do the same job as everyone else but paying them a fraction of the amount.

when i found out that a 60+ Oyster card was valid voter ID and a 18-25 Oyster card wasn’t valid voter ID, i truly recognised who society was set up for.

🚨 Ex LCFC goalkeeper Alex Smithies on Jon Rudkin:

people get more angry over the thought of ceos not being as rich as they are atm than they are about children growing up in poverty

the UK actually fucked the lives of every single person born from 1996-2006 and they actually need to pay for their crimes WTF IS THISSS

The far right message to young men: “be miserable.” What a bleak and sad existence.

Heaven and Yoro is calm esp for Chelsea's attack, it's Ugarte I'm more worried about. If he starts, we have very little chance of winning. Hopefully Kobbie is back, and if not, I'd rather Bruno play deeper and we start Amad/Mount/Zirkzee/Cunha whoever at #10.

People post this and get so close to the root of the problem but then blame it on some Jewish conspiracy instead of a cabal of billionaires