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I don’t think you can consider Gayle‘s comments and the context as mild criticism. It’s scathing tbh. It’s a former player saying that he is a total fraud. The way Dwight starts giggling trying to think about anecdotes he can tell and the way the bruceysaurus baconensis acted after the takeover realising to be out of a job soon tells everything imho. I can totally understand him trying to defend himself and using ad hominem attacks towards Gayle. When you look at Bruce‘s career he has little success to show how he made it to more than 1000 games as a manager. His only ability seems to befriend the right people, especially journalists. That’s quite telling about his character too tbh, only to be nice to people he thinks are important. He was certainly the right person for Ashley to piss off fans after Benitez. An appointment out of spite, kept in the job out of spite. Maybe from a good family though. Alex excluded.

This sort of poetry is clearly wrong tbh.

Normally officials posting that kind of stuff on a commercial chat app would be serious and lead to all sorts of of legal reactions. But nowadays the only thing coming out of will probably be the journalist getting arrested and put on a plane to El Salvador.

Not fair. They were probably able to fill all seats.

Just seen the funniest goal from a corner ever. Italians being Italians can’t stop talking while Kimmich plays the ball to Musiala.

https://twitter.com/toonmouthtyne/status/1903817974001098968?s=12&t=7EP1snWKh3ho3iDGAoo5gw

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/1902554939609534527?s=12&t=7EP1snWKh3ho3iDGAoo5gw

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/man-deported-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-soccer-logo-tattoo-attorney/story?id=119983892

I got me something for my collection of football shirts though. Might have a different drawer for shirts of teams I relegated. It will sit nicely with the huge amount of shirts of my very own local team Hessen Kassel…

I haven’t decided watching it before, after or instead of cheering on Tonali against Germany today.

Exactly, that’s the monent I realised that the captain for the final didn’t need an armband. Good for Bruno accepting it, too.

Finally found time to watch the whole match again. Still fucking brilliant. What a performance. Watching Howe on the sidelines being totally concentrated and focused on the match watching his game plan getting executed actually made me remembering the total disaster of Bruce and his jurassic approach to football and tactics. Also from watching the match I realised how much of a captain‘s performance we sawvfrom Trips. He not just played really well he took charge of organising players as well as talking to the ref. Last I want to add: Zonal marking? My. Arse. Slot is a lying buffoon. They obviously thought of Burn actually not being a great threat and therefore could get man marked by MacAlister. He was marking Burn whereever he was placed in the box, not just at the far end of the box but also directly in front of goal as well as in shorter positions. They really fucked this one up tactically.

That‘s the plan. And the day before I will relegate a local team.

Back in Germany, sitting on a train that managed to go in the wrong direction. It was already 25 minutes delayed. Vorsprung durch Technik my arse.

https://twitter.com/jimski_kings/status/1901655531183386934?s=12&t=7EP1snWKh3ho3iDGAoo5gw

Reported

That’s equivalent to being ahead at half time but keep losing in the end tbh.

I am at the airport waiting for my flight. It’s been a fantastic couple of days with the purest excitement I have ever experienced watching football. The joy of Germany winning tournaments doesn’t compare to what happened yesterday.

Am having a coffee to sober up while going through the papers. What a brilliant morning.