David Phillips

Don't Look Up was a bit of a miss as a movie, but Chalamet was very good(also good on SNL), as was Jennifer Lawrence who so clearly is just a funny person. Oh, and the later Bridget Jones films were uneven, but Emma Thompson - as always - was magnificent.

YouTube video by Hermanos Gutiérrez - Topic Esperanza

In case anyone wonders what the lovely piece of music accompanying Manousos's journey is, it's Esperanza by Hermanos Gutiérrez.
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FIFA has applied to register the trade mark "Stars in the Making" (and its Polish equivalent) across a swathe of classes in advance of next year's U-20 Women's World Cup.

Wait ... our big chance conversion rate is the *worst* in the league?

Hope you're able to get back to it soon. "Miserable" is indeed precisely how I felt.

I run a bit, sometimes to an OK level. Until November I'd had 18 months of frustration as persistent calf injuries occurred and stopped me running freely. Today I ran a 22:59 5km. Far worse than my PB (19:57), but also more satisfying than any record time - the ability to run without pain again.

(Also - there's a reason football clubs, like musicians, don't charge as much as they *could*).

Oh heavens no! They're shifting the money to the people who create the music and their management, who actually want their fans to attend for reasons other than scarcity! It's almost like it was before modern touting existed!
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Going to disagree here. The rule about the definite article is not fixed - the Eiffel Tower, but not the Buckingham Palace; the Taj Mahal, but not the Westminster Abbey; the Kabaa, but not the Times Square; the Etihad, but not the Anfield. It's a mix of custom and culture, not rigidity.

I'd have said it was a penalty if that had been a Liverpool player. A moment of stupidity for once not by the team I support. #lfc

I'm struggling to find the justification for disallowing the goal, other than it be deemed "unnaturally bigger". #lfc

Ahhh, the beauty of football, free from instant commercialisation ... oh.

Following that extraordinary snowbound bicycle kick in the Canadian Premier League final, quickly christened the "icicle kick", the CPL has applied to register the term as a trade mark across 17 different classes.

Leeds Utd trade mark application which features the crest of the city, including the motto Pro Rege et Lege (For King and the People).

The Coat of Arms of Leeds

An interesting trade mark application from Leeds Utd, who are effectively seeking to trade mark the city's coat of arms for merchandise purposes. The Coat of Arms of Leeds and its design has been in existence longer than the football club, and Leeds does not have any prior registration of this type.

a black and white photo of a man with a sword leaning against a tree . ALT: a black and white photo of a man with a sword leaning against a tree .

Could also have been.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom Reporters and photographers have been banned by the Premier League club, as a Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was in the public interest

Brighton, once admirable, now bans a newspaper for reporting fairly and seemingly accurately with not even a whiff of a lawsuit in the air. The behaviour of people with the very thinnest of skins and embarrassing from a football club.
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Even if I think it'd be wiser not to say anything - this is a grenade if not nuclear approach after all - exactly that. "Salah acknowledges lack of form, vows to do better, struggling with relationship with Slot" would have made it bigger than him alone. Even if not intended, it now looks selfish.

The fact that the aggregate performances have been better without him in the side notwithstanding, that's not the point. No-one is saying other players also aren't carrying their weight (Ibou et al), it's that he isn't taking responsibility for the fact he hasn't been good enough in the interview.

If he doesn't believe that he's to blame - accountable for - the team's poor performances then I would suggest he's not particularly good at self-reflection.

There'd certainly be more sympathy had he said "I've been trying to find ways to improve, as I know I'm not playing well, but the coach won't speak to me about what I can do". If you're going to do an interview like this - especially in times of a crisis - you own up to your own failings. He didn't.

No, but let's not pretend the circumstances are the same, those he's pointed out himself in the interview - that he's been repeatedly dropped for the first time in his life, and at least from the interview quotes doesn't acknowledge that he isn't playing well and doesn't take responsibility for it.

I don't think that's in any way clear at all.

There's no sense from the interview that he's tried to work it out - it would perhaps be different if he'd said something like "Slot refuses to discuss his choices or how I can improve". So if it's an appeal for sympathy, It's likely going to be in very short supply from fans (and perhaps inside).

The underlying presumption that past contribution equals entitlement to start games is jarring - at least from everyone I talk to, the demand that he be benched is unanimous, and I think that's a pretty common view. It's not disregarding everything he's achieved, simply a recognition of poor form.

Perhaps the biggest issue around Salah is that in the times he does talk to the press, everything he says is very deliberate. Reasonably assuming that this wasn't spontaneous, he knew what the consequences would be and went ahead anyway - precisely timed to apply the maximum pressure on Arne Slot.

It's quite a remarkable stance to think your selection for a starting eleven should be impervious to your actual form.

Yeah.
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I love football. I hate football. I love football.

The Bradley and Wirtz substitutions were, however, on the manager. As unnecessary as the Konate challenge.

There are many things managers can account for, but stupidity is not one of them. #lfc