Ben

Was this Paratici’s final flourish?

It is

I have heard all the very reasonable arguments against Poch and I just don’t care. Our time on this earth is short and we must embrace romance when we can. I want at least one person in the building who will fight for us.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Anyone advocating Dyche to Spurs, I wonder if they understand anything, anything about the club

I ask as an increasingly distressed Spurs fan, in case you hadn’t guessed :)

@footballcliches.bsky.social quick one for you Adam. What constitutes a side ‘sleepwalking’ towards relegation? Can anyone sleepwalk, or is it the reserve of clubs who previously seemed safe from having to think about it. What factors are necessary for a sleepwalk? Thanks!

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Good morning

I hear all your very reasonable arguments against Poch and I simply don’t care. We have a limited time on this earth and we must embrace romance whenever we can. Heartbreak means feeling, which I can only dream of right now

But these second halves have been reactive, when we’re already losing. Wanging it forward when we’re losing is not a plan. And CL completely different. We’ve benefitted from the easiest fixtures and the PL being far more physical

Feels like I’m picking on you now but I’m not I promise! I’ve just woken up and catching up on my timeline. I don’t think everyone’s mind was made up at all. A lot of people were very positive on Frank. Hopeful. Thought he would bring some stability and sort out the defence. But we’re worse all over

But there’s not even been a hint of something for us to hang our hat on. Something for us to get behind. It’s passive, regressive bollocks. I’m old enough to take losing, it doesn’t bother me really, but don’t be a coward and don’t bore me

We have enough players, we just don’t have the right profile of players - too many 8s, not enough full backs etc. you can’t just have 40 players in case of an historic injury crisis. Thats what academy players are for, if you’ve integrated them properly.

One of my most formative memories is that of the relentless sound of the cowbells and crowd cheering on Ski Sunday. So evocative. And now we get the drone of drones. Ugh

That third one, with our last midweek win being against Frank’s Brentford, is absolute chefs kiss

Haha - my gravestone more likely

One doesn’t follow the other, unfortunately

It’s fine, I’m going to put ‘potentially critically-acclaimed’ on my bio

Just blokes (mostly) with access to a mic and a surfeit of opinions.

I had a major publisher reply to me with ‘we are sure this would be critically acclaimed, but we just can’t justify the commercial risk at this time’

Shouting this from the top of every hill I know

Seems to be a convenient blind spot for a lot of people

I am surprised, given their ethical stand on so many issues, that The Extra Inch boys are still on X. Plenty of other Spurs podders are also still in there, but I’m less surprised by them

He was surrounded by world class players though. Madrid could absorb his random acts of violence.

I wrote a thesis on this. You’re right. Also, Romero is a dick

You can be a liability and an incredible player. They are not mutually exclusive

This sort of gaslighting is ridiculous. People are entirely within their rights to be pissed off at him today