Tom Storvik

🖤🤍 for all the ones who didn’t make the night 🤍🖤

We must repel the dying light 🙏🏼

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Imposter syndrome on social sites like bsky is annoyingly real. Stuck endlessly looping this pattern:

1) Open bsky
2) Scroll feed
3) Stare at the 'New Post' button like it's judging me
4) Tell yourself: "you're not special, who'd care what you'd post?"
5) Close bsky

Repeat ad infinitum 🫥

The reasoning for applying a 15+ app cut-off... 😅

1. Holland - 1 in 84
2. Slimani - 1 in 130
3. Robinson - 1 in 162
4. Jeffrey - 1 in 171
5. Asprilla - 1 in 186
6. Armstrong - 1 in 233
7. Carroll - 1 in 243
8. Viana - 1 in 270
9. Marveux - 1 in 276
10. Kelly - 1 in 298
11..... Xisco - 1 in 304

Which means Murphy slots in at #11 of all NUFC players in the PL era with 15+ appearances when it comes to assists per minute on the pitch! Numbers don't lie, Murphy's very much underrated by pundits and fans alike... 😕

PL Assist/Min rank (excl sub-15 app players)

1. Asprilla - 1 in 186
2. Carroll - 1 in 243
3. Viana - 1 in 270
4. Marveux - 1 in 276
5. Sellars - 1 in 305
6. Solano - 1 in 326
7. Cole - 1 in 326
8. Fox - 1 in 328
9. Robert - 1 in 331
10. Gordon - 1 in 344
11. Murphy - 1 in 357
12. Ginola - 1 in 357

Looked at number of minutes per Assist for the players listed, this would be the ranking based on that:

1. Solano - 1/326

2. Robert - 1/331

3. Murphy - 1/357

4. Beardsley - 1/429

5. Guimãres - 1/452

6. Ritche - 1/550

7. Dyer - 1/573

8. Lee - 1/722

9. Shearer - 1/730

10. Ameobi - 1/737

PL Assist/Min rank (excl sub-15 app players)

1. Asprilla - 1 in 186
2. Carroll - 1 in 243
3. Viana - 1 in 270
4. Marveux - 1 in 276
5. Sellars - 1 in 305
6. Solano - 1 in 326
7. Cole - 1 in 326
8. Fox - 1 in 328
9. Robert - 1 in 331
10. Gordon - 1 in 344
11. Murphy - 1 in 357
12. Ginola - 1 in 357

Looked at number of minutes per Assist for the players listed, this would be the ranking based on that:

1. Solano - 1/326

2. Robert - 1/331

3. Murphy - 1/357

4. Beardsley - 1/429

5. Guimãres - 1/452

6. Ritche - 1/550

7. Dyer - 1/573

8. Lee - 1/722

9. Shearer - 1/730

10. Ameobi - 1/737

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Forza VAR! Forza the Future! Forza Football! 🤝🏼

The only genuine reason for criticism of VAR is that implementing it worldwide is an expensive task… if only football was the most popular sport on the planet and generated untold billions across its leagues and international cups every year! 🤷🏼‍♂️

Making footy fairer for all is the right thing to do!

1. Improving the standard of referees
2. Pestering the IFAB to not alter the Laws of the Game once a year by including unnecessary, minuscule, rule changes and/or adding dumb new rules/laws
3. If step #2 fails, then pestering FAs to make their Refs understand the rules of the season pre-start

Instead of complaining about VAR, which is a provable, factual, improvement to the sport and football as a whole - on a global scale - they should focus their attention where it should be focused:

Pre-VAR fans spent the next week after watching their team lose due to a contentious ref decision complaining about the refs decisions in that match. They still do, but because it’s now called something else (VAR), it has “ruined football”… 🤦🏼‍♂️ 🤷🏼‍♂️

Fans protest because it demands them having to pay more attention to the refs than they had to pre-VAR as it’s not just a one or two individuals, visible on the pitch, responsible for making (quite often wrong) decisions anymore.

However, even if it on average takes between 10 to 20 seconds more to rule out a goal using VAR vs. an Offside Flag - a price worth paying for the chance to be 98.8% certain the goal was good vs. knowing 2 out of 10 goals, on average pre-VAR, never should have counted

Main Complaint:
“It ruins celebrating goals!”

Narrator: “It did not do that..”

If someone *still* needs to be explained basic logic and FIFA R&R’s, picture this chain of events:

Using VAR in Football = Correct Answer

1. Unifies Football under ONE Refereeing Standard 🗺️
2. Avg Accuracy globally now 98.8%, was 93%
3. Avg Correct Key Match Decisions (fouls, cards, etc) now 96%, was 82%

The list is endless. Anyone opposed to VAR are, in fact, only afraid of change…

Cont:

Impressive ambition shown by a lot of the newly promoted teams across the pyramid in Norway & Sweden. The combo of ambitious clubs and the amount of quality talent, young as experienced, going unattached into the next transfer window means some exciting months ahead 🙏🏼

Art: David Squires

Will BlueSky manage to become what Twitter used to be before it got shanghaied by Musk and turned into a right wing boiling put 50% populated by bots?

Was Twitter already heading that way, meaning a SoMe network like it was a dying trend, or is there still a demand for one, and enough users?