Blaugrana

Vaya absoluto portadón.

In 2010, there was genuine shock that Qatar's bid was awarded the 2022 WC. The bidding for each tournament was highly competitive. 14 years on, there is just numbness to FIFA's processes, the jarring hypocrisy, the damning reports, the human rights orgs criticism. All that now institutionalised.

This would be the answer to a lot of our problems, but I can‘t see it happening with Flick. He‘s not pragmatic.

I always remember the Spurs v Chelsea game where Ange played a suicidal line with 9 players. Flick would‘ve done the same.

Feel so bad for him

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:

Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

Observations from MD 15, against Las Palmas(long 🧵⬇️):

- extremely sloppy in possession, too many unforced errors;
- experienced players not dictating the game as much as required;
- poor closing down finally costing us goals;
- opposition teams getting smarter.

Someone serious about climate change does not add a new tournament to the match calendar, does not expand a World Cup to 48 teams, and does not - as expected - permit a World Cup to be hosted across three continents.

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

Florentino Pérez's second man opposed La Liga continuing to give 8M for clubs in La Liga F, destined for Women's Football development, saying „ it's too much“.

Putellas said a while ago that „ women's football doesn't need Real Madrid“.

She was right.

Bluesky needs a verification system — what it doesn’t need is a monetization system.

Monetizing helped to ruin Twitter and it could feasibly do the same for this place.

People already spend 90% of their days trying to make a buck, they shouldn’t feel that same need when they come on social media.