Liam Rosenior has unlocked the win in a game after being 2 goals down at half time achievement on FM.

Not an easy one to get.

A good tradesman never blames his tools but I think replacement parts are fair game

This should be Bielsa>Poch, Simeone, Iraola.

Fuck sake!

So all the ex players spent their whole careers under the greatest manager ever without ever learning from an elite coach.

So give it Giggsy til end of season, put Ole back at the wheel and hope Fletcher and Carrick can play the Utd way but it won’t work out.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

While the list goes on, Utd are notable outliers and something G Nev said about SAF never taking training.

His longevity was sustained by a rolling cast of Assistants - Kidd, Quiroz, Phelan, McLaren. It was like they had half a dozen managers over the years always with Sir Alex as the figurehead.

Compare other coaching family trees and Sacchi mentored Ancelotti who coached Zidane, Conte, Deschamps

Bielsa>Poch, Simeone, Bielsa

Cruyff>Pep>Xavi, Arteta, ETH, Maresca, Kompany

Alonso is the best young coach because he worked under basically everyone and has a smorgasbord of influences.

Bruce, Hughes, Ferg Jnr, Keane, both Neville’s, Giggs, Ruud, Carrick, Rooney all had a crack at management with varying degrees of success but none of them have really made it to the very top.

Why has arguably the greatest ever manager failed to produce an heir?

I have a theory on why Man Utd have such a mid group of ex-players as coaches…and it’s all down to Sir Alex.

I totally get bringing in Carrick/Fletcher til the end of the season, instant respect and Ole at the wheel was a great ride until he peaked below the elite.

But look at the Fergie Alumni…

My worst footballing opinion of the last few years is being unconvinced by Reece James.

Thought his hamstrings were made of cotton wool.

This year he’s been unquestionably world class. Guys a beast.

That AJ-Jake Paul fight was so much worse than I expected it to be.

Pretty sure I could last a few rounds if the ring covered three postcodes and I could just run away from him.

There’s fighting on the outside but you could’ve driven a London bus between the two of them for most of the fight.

Also worth noting that their biggest issue was around nationwide chronic understaffing, not pay.

Stagnant pay plays its role in that but it’s doing double/triple the workload to cover for a half full team that leads to burnout.

My partner voted in favour of strike action and said she was close leaving the service if working conditions didn’t improve.

And if she/others are prepared leave and never come back then where is the moral argument against walking out for a day.

What a shame.

I said ACL as soon as I saw him go down and it’s horrible to be proven right.

Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".

And now everything is broken.

Test cricket is finding a really good boxset. Takes a week to binge and you go deep into the characters and storylines as the tempo slows down then suddenly speeds up. A 30 minute passage can turn the whole thing on its head.

Once it’s cooking and you can’t miss a ball there’s nothing better.

My current explanation of Test Cricket being the purest form of sport is as follows…

Football, Rugby etc are like watching a film. 90 odd minutes, gripping, sometimes a big twist at the end. Whole narrative in and out in an afternoon. Lovely.

The ebbs and flows of test cricket make it difficult to say who ‘won’ the day.

But any England fan hearing we won the toss and were still batting at the end of the day, with Root unbeaten on 135, would be pretty fucking pleased after the first two days waking up to Perth.

What’s the point in showing the yellow card if you’re going to blow up bang on the added time anyway.

It just incentivises the defender to let the ref waste another 30 seconds getting booked. It’s not like they pay the £12 fine from the FA

@footballcliches.bsky.social my footballing irritation is referees not adding on time wasting.

He’s allowed Villa to score beyond added time in the first half. Then books the keeper in ‘94 for being slow. Keeper takes another 40 seconds to restart, ref blows up as soon as the ball is in play.

And how did everyone in the stadium except the referee and Ollie Watkins think the first half had ended.

Football twitter hasn’t really migrated over to BlueSky since Musk became a Nazi, so time to be the change you want to see in the world and start posting more.

I really think Baleba has looked back to his best in the first half v Villa

#bhafc

Isn’t Kristi Noem the one that had an entire South Park episode where she went around shooting puppies?

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

37 year old centre backs scoring an injury time equaliser whilst going up as an emergency centre forward is great drama at Sunday league level, never mind the semi final of the Champions League

I went all the way through school, GSCE and A-Level History without India coming up once.

Ireland was only covered at A-Level and I was shocked by the guy in a Celtic shirt already having a (strong) opinion on something we'd yet to learn.

I didnt have the orange man Liz Trussing the world economy on my 2025 bingo card

I try not to spread too much online negativity, but Wes Streeting is a right cunt, isn't he.

So the US has just turned full heel in the last week or so then