@doctor_rahmeh Sinner comes from a region of Italy populated by Austrians. Those Austrians live peacefully without violent resistance despite Italian occupation.
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Icel Eomering
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Icel Eomering
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Forged in the Foederati, moulded in the Heptarchy, validated in modernity!
Sumali Mayıs 2019
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Glad to see the defending champ Jannik Sinner through to his second Wimbledon final.
I watched Sinner live at the Paris Masters in 2022 (R1) and at Wimbledon 2023 (R3)—before he became a global tennis icon 🥹🎾
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@StanCollymore Didn’t join the Netherlands in independence because of Catholic ties with Spain.
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Fun Fact.
Belgium was called the Spanish Netherlands from the 16th to 18th century as it was a part of the Kingdom of Spain.
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@JamesSurowiecki @ScottMGreer This is a W for soccer. Simple sports that are mostly about athletes with natural ability showcasing their talent are superior.
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The idea that soccer is more complex than football is just comically inaccurate. In football, you see teams with inferior talent regularly win games because they have better schemes and smarter playcallers. That almost never happens in soccer, and when it does the scheme is almost always "park the bus and hope to steal a set-piece goal or win on penalties."
Erik Dale 🇳🇴@EuroDale
Frankly, I doubt it. Football is far more complex than eggball. Just because you managed to master an 11 minute turn-based game of brute force and scripted plays doesn't mean you could excel at a continuous, flowing one that demands elite touch, vision, stamina, and IQ from every single player for 90+ minutes. The same way dominating Monopoly doesn't make you a potential real estate mogul. If the US thinks it can compete, build a grassroots football culture, an open league system, and clubs capable of attracting and challenging the best youngsters. It would take decades, but it's feasible if you stop wasting energy on games no one else wants to play or watch. Good luck 🤞
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@richardpbacon Were one? What are you planning to do to her?
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20,000 Palestinian children died violently.
You are going to be an awful human being.
And are one.
And were one.
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1
Good grief. This is going to be an awful Labour government
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@LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 This guy looks and moves so much like a chimp it’s unbelievable.
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“72% marginal tax rate for graduates... that is far more disincentivising.”
@Garyseconomics counters the idea that his 2% wealth tax proposal will ‘stop innovation’.
@TomSwarbrick1
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@martinez_clips Russia stopped serfdom later than USA stopped slavery!
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The Russian state is officially backing "reparations" from the West to Africa.
A Russian institute launched a project to calculate the amount to be paid.
Of course, this doesn't apply to Russia which practiced kholopy prior to the 18th century, serfdom in the 18th century and the gulag slave labour system under Stalin.
Putin's leftist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ regime has employed this type of woke anti-White rhetoric for years to pander to Africans and third worlders.
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@TitusCEO @capcomhazard @AaronBastani Usain Bolt does not have footballing ability to a professional level. You seem to think I think the same of Haaland.
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@IcelEomering @capcomhazard @AaronBastani Usain Bolt is same height as Haaland and much faster, and he tried to become a professional footballer and failed.
Being the fastest man ever to exist didn’t mean anything.
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Americans seemingly can’t understand the idea of god-given talent.
The two greatest footballers of all time were Maradona and Messi (5’5 and 5’7). Being 6’5 and benching 185kg isn’t going to give you a better centre forward 🤣
Josh Wiesel@Jwiesel13
Christian Pulisic is a prime example of the United States not having its best athletes playing soccer There’s just no way there aren’t guys in the NBA & NFL who wouldn’t be better than him if they would’ve started playing soccer at a young age He’s a wimpy small athlete
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@IcelEomering @TitusCEO @AaronBastani LOL haaland is a lethal striker because of his positioning and brain on the pitch it has nothing to do with how tall or strong he is , sorloth in the norway team is tall and strong and hes nowhere near haaland as a striker.
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@Barry4EU @derJamesJackson Normans conquered England and wales and made it into one.
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@derJamesJackson Wales 🏴 did NOT join UK voluntarily.
It took England (10x greater population) 200 years to finally win a war of attrition and then annex Wales.
Wales, under Owain Glyndŵr, broke free in 1400 and signed treaties with France and the Vatican, but England retook Wales c.1416
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Scotland joined the UK voluntarily after their failed attempt to colonise Panama
ObtainerOfRareAntiquities@ObtainerOf
As a Scotsman I just can’t root for my colonizers
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@JamesGillespieX @RishiJoeSanu In the 90s he fancied himself as more of a cm but Fergie was adamant he was a winger.
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@RishiJoeSanu I reckon if he was playing now, he'd be a deep-lying playmaker. Kind of like Fabregas in his Chelsea era.
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Beckham was a one-trick pony of the 4-4-2 era. His technique outside of his crosses was atrocious & had no pace or dribbling ability. Easily the most overrated English player of the 2000s golden generation.
The GOAT of that era was Rooney, followed by Lampard, Gerrard, etc...
Betsey@Betsycashmoney
So is David Beckham like the GOAT of English soccer, or is he more famous for being handsome & being married to Spice jawn? Can someone explain in NBA terms? As a kid I think I assumed he was way better than he actually was. Is he actually like the Tristan Thompson of soccer?
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@ubiquitousnewt Basically anyone with an old fashioned haircut or fashion style becomes the subject of these kind of memes.
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Anthony is a scouser. The known details of his ancestry including his name suggest Irish and Scottish grandparental heritage, with Scottish roots confirmed on the paternal side.
His parents are a classic Merseyside working class footballing family from Kirkdale.
There was no significant Irish or Scottish contingent fighting on the English side at Agincourt. Scotland was frequently allied with France during this period
Hia family likely have nothing to do with 1415 English soldiers at Agincourt. Tracing a working class Liverpool family line back 600+ years to a specific medieval battle participant is virtually impossible without noble documentation, and none exists here.
weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval
i cant shake the feeling that anthony gordon took an arrow for me at agincourt in a past life
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@TitusCEO @AaronBastani His other skillsets are fine but his physical attributes are world class.
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@IcelEomering @AaronBastani Yeh but you still need technical ability with the ball. His physicality means nothing if he’s not talented with his feet.
There’s plenty of tall, strong strikers playing in lower league football.
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@kelvmackenzie In 100 years time 90% of all humans will be black. We desperately need to close the door to Africa.
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Will be pouring a huge bucket on this useless government on my 10-12 UK Live show for allowing thousands of dependents from India, Africa etc to come over when their offspring landed health and care visas.
Labour were supposed to have stopped this racket but for every Ghanaian 8 of their family came over and for every Cameroonian ( is that right?) 15 came here.
No wonder the country is changing before our very eyes.
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@GuillemBalague I think the Paraguay game showed France’s midfield isn’t really too great.
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Exactly the same team that played against Austria, so Pedro Porro remains as right back
We are the best defence of the tournament
Lamine has not 100 per cent yet but getting closer
Oyarzabal, the Invisible man, up front
Rodri was outstanding against Austria
Cue the: it was only Austria, you have not played anyone. Etc. Ok, let’s see what we can do against Portugal
Selección Española Masculina de Fútbol@SEFutbol
🚨 OFICIAL | Nuestro once ante Portugal. #VamosEspaña | #CopaMundialFIFA
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@aerthsea @Lben @oscarftc @MsMelChen Do Mexicans care about the difference between Americans and Canadians? Even we British see them as basically the same 😄
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@Lben @oscarftc @MsMelChen In mexico "gringa" is not any foreigner, it's specifically someone from the USA. Canadians are not gringos, for example. As others have said though it would've been credible if she had been called "china" bc that one does get any asian/almond eyed person
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Flew into Mexico City from DC last night and I’m already clocking the shift in energy.
I left my England shirt in the bag for this flight despite wearing it loud and proud on every single one before now without any second thoughts.
But here? The Mexico fan vibe isn’t reading as normal rivalry. It’s heavier and meaner. It’s not banter; there’s no playfulness about it. There’s actual aggression in it, and underneath that, something colder and almost unhinged.
Walked a few blocks around the hotel in my England shirt this morning and got called “puta gringa” - white whore, basically. The whole atmosphere is steeped in this hostility.
Police have shut roads down, running checkpoints, confiscating glass bottles like they’re expecting things to pop off. Riot vibes. I’ve traveled everywhere in this shirt and never once felt this on edge.
It feels like it’s more than “just football” at stake here. I hope that I’m reading it all wrong, that it’s just pre-match noise that burns off once the final whistle blows and everyone goes home.
Miss Jo@therealmissjo
This is really very sad. Mexico fans are making a massive noise in the middle of the night outside the hotel where the England team are staying in an attempt to keep them awake at night. I really hope that England thrashes Mexico.
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@Brian_TavizonS @oscarftc @MsMelChen No, it 100% doesn't make sense.
Mexican racial insults are tailored for each general visual characteristic.
Gringo is something almost only used against white, blonde/red hair people. The type of white-skinned people who usually turn red with the heat of the country.
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@fact275 @MsMelChen Gringo es un insulto hacia los estadounidenses, nadie en México insultaria a una mujer asiática con camisa inglesa, esto claramente es falso
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@samikshassotd This is just navel gazing. Enoch Powell and the British public of the 60s wouldn’t have known about goofy terms like ethno nationalism or civ nationalism but they wouldn’t have approved of British cities looking like they do now.
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Just spoke to a bunch of right-wing normies about how they feel about "ethno-nationalism".
They were immediately disgusted, and reassured me they weren't Nazis.
But, they would vote for Restore Britain and think it's important the English shouldn't be a minority in England.
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