Overeducated sports writers log
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
This is what happened to me watching the france/argentina match
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Messi and PSG: a warning from history – and for Manchester United
The ageing superstar being politically weaponised in two states’ soft-power plays carries cautionary lessons for the Premier League
www.theguardian.com
Benny Bunter
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I'm not into sport but I love this picture cos I went down a rabbit hole reading about siege engines the other day after reading that section about them in Anathemata - mind-blowing.
Is that the heliopolis?
Benny Bunter
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Cool!
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
"It was probably City’s greatest performance under Pep Guardiola, a kind of footballing perfection, a museum piece, not merely a lesson but a scolding, sport as scorched earth strategy. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains."
www.theguardian.com
Manchester City’s inexorable hard power crushes Real Madrid | Jonathan Liew
Pep Guardiola’s side have the perfection of a finely executed military campaign, the perfection of wealth and strength
www.theguardian.com
luka
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Other writing
In December 2020 Liew was announced as being co-writer, with fellow Guardian sports journalist Barney Ronay, of The Red Zone, a Netflix comedy series centred around the world of football.[30] In March 2022 the project was announced as discontinued.[31]Personal life
Liew graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in History.[32] He appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 television quiz show Countdown in 2013, becoming an "octochamp" by winning eight episodes in a row.[33]
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Tales of yore will tell of the plot twists in this Mbappé to Real Madrid saga | Barney Ronay
The superstar’s latest move in this never-ending story may be meaningless but his transfer will provide a real test of his talent
www.theguardian.com
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This guy seems insufferable, but this is peak overeducated sports writer -
Yet these were not the only grounds for the disorienting disposition of this encounter. Every time the men in white took possession of the sphere in the proximity of the left wing, they were consistently forced to funnel it, in turn, to the centre of the pitch, rendering most of their offensive efforts tortured, even disjointed. The side in red could simply defend their territory in the middle with impunity, secure in the knowledge their opponents were powerless to hurt them on their right verge.
That’s a pretty terrible paragraph, right? But that’s what happens when you wilfully restrict your options. You have Kieran Trippier, a right-footed left-back who doesn’t even bother trying to disguise the fact – no feint, no shimmy, no darting eyes – that he’s going to turn back inside. You have Phil Foden, a left-footed player with very little interest in playing on the left wing, who always wants to come short into the central areas. England are essentially a team playing on 70% of the pitch, which is like trying to write an entire paragraph – like I did above – without using the letter A.
www.theguardian.com
Yet these were not the only grounds for the disorienting disposition of this encounter. Every time the men in white took possession of the sphere in the proximity of the left wing, they were consistently forced to funnel it, in turn, to the centre of the pitch, rendering most of their offensive efforts tortured, even disjointed. The side in red could simply defend their territory in the middle with impunity, secure in the knowledge their opponents were powerless to hurt them on their right verge.
That’s a pretty terrible paragraph, right? But that’s what happens when you wilfully restrict your options. You have Kieran Trippier, a right-footed left-back who doesn’t even bother trying to disguise the fact – no feint, no shimmy, no darting eyes – that he’s going to turn back inside. You have Phil Foden, a left-footed player with very little interest in playing on the left wing, who always wants to come short into the central areas. England are essentially a team playing on 70% of the pitch, which is like trying to write an entire paragraph – like I did above – without using the letter A.
England hit new low with dire performance too bad to be boring | Jonathan Liew
Such was the amusing ineptitude on show, it felt like watching a Woolworths 1990s football bloopers video
www.theguardian.com
mixed_biscuits
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Spheroid would have been more accurate.This guy seems insufferable, but this is peak overeducated sports writer -
Yet these were not the only grounds for the disorienting disposition of this encounter. Every time the men in white took possession of the sphere in the proximity of the left wing, they were consistently forced to funnel it, in turn, to the centre of the pitch, rendering most of their offensive efforts tortured, even disjointed. The side in red could simply defend their territory in the middle with impunity, secure in the knowledge their opponents were powerless to hurt them on their right verge.
That’s a pretty terrible paragraph, right? But that’s what happens when you wilfully restrict your options. You have Kieran Trippier, a right-footed left-back who doesn’t even bother trying to disguise the fact – no feint, no shimmy, no darting eyes – that he’s going to turn back inside. You have Phil Foden, a left-footed player with very little interest in playing on the left wing, who always wants to come short into the central areas. England are essentially a team playing on 70% of the pitch, which is like trying to write an entire paragraph – like I did above – without using the letter A.
England hit new low with dire performance too bad to be boring | Jonathan Liew
Such was the amusing ineptitude on show, it felt like watching a Woolworths 1990s football bloopers video
mixed_biscuits
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Southgate will now use Phil Foden as a false left with Gordon picked to exploit the empty space left behind him.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
"That’s obviously not the plan, but it does seem in keeping with the wildness of late-era Gareth Southgate. The technocrat with his clipboard and his data has somehow been transformed into a reckless adventurer. Why rust unburnished on the shore when you can set off into the dark, broad seas, court adventure and improvise?"