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Jon Townsend

@jontownsend3.bsky.social

Has Been Footballer, washed up writer, soccer coach, dad, husband, endurance athlete, author of “It’s Just a Ball” Amazon book link: https://a.co/d/iwWTR66

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Latest posts by jontownsend3.bsky.social on Bluesky

Haha I did, too. It was more of a joke stemming from everyone’s reaction to the CP and other main players opting out of summer national team duty.

07.07.2025 01:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not enough flavor

07.07.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love the fact the Fox clown show thinks this was a moral victory for coming second in the Gold Cup.

07.07.2025 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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USMNT #GoldCup

07.07.2025 01:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Edge of Sports Sports Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin

Listen to this, read the book, educate yourself: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

25.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Perfect is the Enemy of Progress "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."— Mark Twain As coaches, we’re often trained to prize knowledge and caution. We fear ignorance because it implies weakness or incompetence. We temper confidence because it's so often mistaken for arrogance. But what if both ignorance and confidence—when properly harnessed—are exactly what we need to move forward? When I first began writing this reflection years ago, it stemmed from a moment of clarity during a difficult time.

Perfect is the Enemy of Progress

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."— Mark Twain As coaches, we’re often trained to prize knowledge and caution. We fear ignorance because it implies weakness or incompetence. We temper confidence because it's so often mistaken for…

29.05.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Liverpool seal Premier League title – and Anfield gets its crowning moment in the sun Liverpool 5-1 Tottenham: The Reds claimed their second Premier League title with the home faithful jubilant after a five-star showing on a Sunday to remember at Anfield

Liverpool become Premier League champions and seal it in style with five goals. On Liverpool 5-1 Tottenham and the team who have dominated the season:
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

27.04.2025 17:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Development is not Winning Development: The Journey, Not the Destination Development is a complex and subjective concept, shaped by individual experiences and perspectives. While its meaning may vary from person to person, i…

Development is not winning

#soccer

farpostfooty.com/2025/04/03/d...

03.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is the future. This is the way.

26.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Flipping the narrative and suggesting that Darwin did that to take the heat off of that braindeadass sequence by Virgil and Alisson and the nonchalance of everyone at Anfield. A true team player.

08.03.2025 15:58 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Don’t listen to me. I know nothing.

08.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bring on Endō, Mac Allister, Jota…. Núñez, Días, Gravenberch need to be hooked at halftime.

08.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Man City 0 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 2 - 0 Newcastle 
PSG 0 - 1 Liverpool

Man City 0 - 2 Liverpool Liverpool 2 - 0 Newcastle PSG 0 - 1 Liverpool

Liverpool single handedly defeating sports washing within the last 10 days.

06.03.2025 00:23 — 👍 85    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

In addition to Alisson being a god on the football pitch, watching Wataru Endō hunt the ball down, cover for teammates, tackle everything that dared move and maraud box-to-box fired everyone up. What a difference the subs made tonight. #psgvsliverpool

06.03.2025 00:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ROGSTRADAMUS KNEW 🔮

22.02.2025 16:02 — 👍 80    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

Watching Aston Villa vs Chelsea and again reminded just how awful Michael Oliver is as an official. Inconsistent, indecisive, being fooled by defenders flopping with the slightest touch.

How is this the best standard of refereeing England can produce?

22.02.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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West Ham doing the business today!

Meanwhile Liverpool supporters…

22.02.2025 17:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Prompted Paradigm Look, the modern game is different. Players are expected to move differently across tactical formations and the responsibility sets of players in specific positions demand more technical prowess and proficiency than people think. In other words, the days of simply blasting the ball long down the field are gone. Teams will still employ this strategy, of course, but to what end?

The Prompted Paradigm

Look, the modern game is different. Players are expected to move differently across tactical formations and the responsibility sets of players in specific positions demand more technical prowess and proficiency than people think. In other words, the days of simply blasting…

20.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joe Rogan Fans Respond After He Loses Top Podcast Spot The podcaster’s fans hit back after he lost his #1 ranking to an anti-Trump podcast.

www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-re...

20.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 3915    🔁 465    💬 383    📌 63

Clickbait nonsense.

20.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do a better job representing your party and stop crumbling with this defeatist rhetoric. Step up or step-the-fuck-down

20.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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J.T. Miller sucks

20.02.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Roasting Elon Musk in Austin | Stavros Halkias Live In Austin | Stand Up
YouTube video by Stavros Halkias Roasting Elon Musk in Austin | Stavros Halkias Live In Austin | Stand Up

This. Is. Perfect.

youtu.be/09txSUWgCbA?...

20.02.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That role was owned by this man.

I love Slot, but I miss Klopp’s influence on this principle immensely.

Intensity and his ability to be the 12th man from the sideline willed players to run through walls and to the ends of the earth for him were ELITE.

19.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ryan Gravenberch looks miles off it recently. Not sure if he’s on a bad run of form having set such a high standard all year or he’s just out of gas.

Not sure playing him for 90 mins was a good decision.

19.02.2025 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Darwin Núñez…if you’re going to be absolute dogshit at finishing/decision-making you HAVE to work hard & run like a man possessed. That adds something to the team. Being horrid in front of goal and jogging around is an absolute disgrace. A knackered midfield pressed harder.

19.02.2025 23:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine.

“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”

Done

16.02.2025 16:47 — 👍 16419    🔁 3265    💬 579    📌 133

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