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Conversely, to paraphrase our erstwhile striker, do youse not expect growing pains when trying to grow?😅

But admittedly it also gets back to the Asian Cup and how fussed one is about it (for me, less than what state we're in for WC 2027, not that it should necessarily have to be one or the other).

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On this note, big shoutout to Captain Glack on YT producing this fan-made vintage af VHS tourism promo of the map of San Andreas. More I think about it, more I probably just side with this game as my favourite GTA world ahead of HD Liberty City, due to the variety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5eR...

He was lucky to have legendary manager Dettmar Cramer to help propel him and the Japanese game forward at all levels - Cramer is the most important foreign figure in Japanese football history *bar none* - but equally, Dettmar Cramer was lucky to have him.

To underscore just how far Kamamoto is ahead of the rest of the JNT pack, second on the all-time scorer list is Kazu Miura with 55, followed by Shinji Okazaki with 50. Hiromi Hara and Keisuke Honda are tied w/ 37 to round out the top five.

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The J.League has announced the death of Kunishige Kamamoto, who scored 75 goals in 76 caps for Japan and won the golden boot in the country's bronze-winning campaign at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

He was a 7-time Japan Soccer League MVP for Yanmar Diesel with 202 goals from 251 games.

(/first world problems but goes for all sorts of nostalgia really. The '90s/post-Cold War and pre-9/11 decade was such a flawed gilded age. On the flipside, gloom over present shit is also often overblown and/or overly simplistic. We're always living in varying and rather complex shades of grey.)

Even after moving on from dial-up and with speed restriction in place of fines, it was still frustrating being stuck with a download limit akin to standard mobile plans now. One of many reasons I dislike blanket e-nostalgia, because these were a long way from simply being the good old days.

I'm still smdh over incurring a $200 fine (for my parents to pay in return for added chores) for slightly going over a truly meagre download limit measured in MBs when I first had internet for myself in 2000 (older brother actually had it all the way back in 1993 but I wasn't interested). So stupid.

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Meanwhile, the money that’s been squandered here and elsewhere by sokkah generally while sokkah here in Brisbane is having to excruciatingly pull teeth to *possibly* get some still relatively meagre government investment in a stupidly overdue and beyond necessary redeveloped Perry Park.

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You can strike it 'lucky' with a WSW or Auckland – places of significant size that haven’t really been capitalised on/consolidated in sokkah terms – but otherwise/past a certain point, I’d rather not jump into the unknown at ALM level and put so many people (staff and fans) through such a wringer.

Something that drives me batty with the ‘see, we need to sort out the ALM first’ sentiment re: ALM struggles/NSD ambitions is how much a (well thought out) NSD could provide a safer, cheaper and ultimately less risky testing ground for new would-be ALM clubs. Or for struggling ALM clubs to regroup.

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Aw Shit, My Favorite Genre Just Got Changed Forever | Defector I was scrolling the Steam store aimlessly a few Saturdays past, avoiding my various anxieties and responsibilities as a professional, when I happened upon a game whose banner appeared to be the old…

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Osijek 0-2 Dinamo: Spatial Occupation/Utilisation and the Path Forward The opening round of the HNL witnessed two divergent approaches to two burgeoning projects.

I made a space to constructively write on football/test data things that interest me, instead of spamming threads.

So, here's ≈1500 words on Osijek-Dinamo, Luka Vrbančić, the HNL and the important distinction between occupying space and actually utilising it.

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This + PES 3/5 + GTA Vice City & San Andreas = my mid 2000s timesinks.

I've been thinking that same margin and reasons for it. England have a chance for better if most of their ifs and maybs work out well but there are so many in their team (fitness of Stokes/Wood/Archer, spinner situation, Crawley, Pope, even Root with his record here). And more than Aus have in Aus.

this is the best frame

"Latter gets to pitches and player management." and, you know, Cummins/Starc/Hazlewood/Lyon still being an excellent and durable quartet (+ Boland such a strong backup if a pacer does need replacing) vs. England being more patchy and dependent on iffy fitness of aforementioned players.

Looking ahead to the Ashes, Stokes being England's best bowler this series was both impressive (after his roughish/limited past few years in bowling) and worrying. Ultimately not ideal for him to be such a foundation piece of the attack, but with Archer and Wood's fitness, it's almost necessary.

The real difference come the 5th Test of each series? Tempted to point to Aus a) having a thoroughly tested all-rounder in Webster to come in there (instead of an egregiously hardly-played young Bethel here), and b) not exhausting their pace attack. Latter gets to pitches and player management.

One can possibly point to Aus pulling a final session win out of the jaws of drawing in the 4th Test in Melb where Eng couldn't last week in Manchester, but you could bring up Eng getting their unlikely win in the 3rd Test for that, and each being 2-1 up going into the 5th Test.

Putting the awesome drama aside and analysing this with more an Oz hat on... Been interesting to compare the series to Aus-Ind this past summer. Again comes down to a tight 5th Test finish to decide whether it ended 3-1 to the home team or 2-2 with India retaining the series trophy.

Just brilliant stuff as a neutral. And this Test was exactly how I like the bat-ball balance to be in contrast to much of the series. #ENGvIND