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And our pre-season starts less than a week after the World Cup final.

The lads are enjoying an extended vacation in the US then.

The point is in the degree of control and outcome. The UK can continue to not impose those barriers to trade without any pushback/blowback/consequences from other parties. Trump can continue to control how much or little he bombs Iran, but he can't control what Iran does next or happens in the ME.

He's not saying they weren't damaging, but that some of the consequences haven't been as damaging as they *could have been* based on control. The UK has mitigated some of the Brexit trade consequences by not implementing the controls it could have - i.e. it would be worse *but for* this.

A risk, yes. A massive one, no.

The audition in which he went an entire league season undefeated is likely to count for significantly more than two games in which one team came up against an opposition with a wage bill approximately 4.5 times the size, and the other was a team he arguably shouldn't have joined in the first place.

When the time comes, Skynet will remember manners.

The fact that there's been no serious discussion about extending a coach who has only one season left on his contract leads me to believe this has gone beyond "wait and see" territory and that regardless of what might still be achieved - Europe, weirdly, is more viable - he'll be gone in the summer.

A ridiculous and yet not at all surprising outcome. #lfc

One of the worst passes you'll ever see from Salah there. So late. #lfc

An average post-season friendly so far. #lfc

Is there any way just to mute Jim Beglin, individually? #lfc

Once again, Fabrizio Romano is not a journalist.
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Yeah, I've got a range of 18-21 points which assumes players returning/high availability and no additional injuries.

I'm (overly) optimistic as a football fan, but reading the prediction in The Athletic that #lfc will win eight and drawn two of their remaining league games is, on the face of it, beyond any reasonable assessment.

Worth noting for obvious reasons that Persian New Year - Nowruz - starts in 2.5 weeks. As it stands the US fully intends its bombing campaign to continue through what would ordinarily be one of the largest celebrations in the country, and last year involved in excess of 36 million internal trips.

Was it Proust on the "boxing match"?
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August 2025, per Howard Webb/PGMOL.
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Animals watch Tom Holland for inspiration before their courtship dances.
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For those wondering why the ref immediately stopped play to show a second yellow card to Neto, he would not have been able to show a second yellow card had he allowed the advantage to be played.

See "interfered with or stopped a promising attack" in the image.

Nope. If the ref plays an advantage and the offence is interfering with or stopping a promising attack, the player isn't shown a YC.

Whether it was better for Arsenal or not to play the advantage is a good question, but he could only have show the 2YC immediately in that situation.

That's just very, very, very dumb by Neto, and very, very, very funny.

I thought the Cunha call was marginal but I could see it as legitimate. What I don't understand is how that was given as DOGSO and yet Guehi at Anfield wasn't.

Again.

The two wrongs make a right interpretation, apparently.

I do not know what laws VAR is looking at, if it can't penalise this.

Not that I want Chelsea to get anything from this game, but the equaliser is some justice for the absolute absurdity of Declan Rice not being penalised at the prior corner.

I'm not particularly keen on Reza Pahlavi, but the mention of Zahhak was seemingly an appropriate one.

It is, sadly, Champions League over (the ongoing possibility of a) cup.

It shouldn't be a relief to be leading 5-2. #lfc
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It shouldn't be a relief to be leading 4-1. #lfc