These people's heads would instantly explode if they were ever exposed to any semi-serious course of literary analysis

Maybe I really am woefully out of touch, but £45ish per game to watch Premier League football for a year from some of the best available seats seems broadly fine to me, no? If you want 'decent' seats it's £30 per match, and I struggle to see how that's *not* a fair price for live…

The big six Premier League teams have been involved 5 FA Cup replays in five years between them.

Unsure how they’ve coped with almost one extra game every half decade.

“When a man is tired of Emi Martinez he is tired of life” - Samuel Johnson, probably

More than four in ten people here think that taking a team from stagnating in eighth to title contenders and CL quarter-finalists, while competing against a state-bankrolled club and two of the best managers of your generation, makes your tenure a 'failure'

Robben and Ribery didn't die for this.

Yeah, fine, whatever - Saka is obviously not in that very, very top bracket of attacking talent and everyone reasonable accepts that - but an impotent Jesus and misfiring Martinelli are perhaps the worst supporting offensive cast in the entire last eight. Too many of Arsenal’s…

At least we are surely now at the point where we’ve escaped being subjected to Haaland-Mbappe debates for the next decade.

Unfortunately we’ve really seen in the last week why Jesus was deemed dispensable at City and will not be capable of taking Arsenal to the next level. His movement off the line and level of precision just aren’t, and won’t ever be, in that really elite tier.

Was saying to Caitlin yesterday that I have a very strong suspicion that this album is going to be actively bad and unfortunately nothing I have seen in the buildup helps assuage that feeling.

England fans: “A big reason the golden generation didn’t work was because we shoehorned our best players into the team instead of a balanced side”

Also England fans:

“Why in god’s name didn’t you just let him have the one-on-one?”

Araujo really has blood on his hands there. In that situation, once he’s the wrong side of you, you let the player run through on goal unless there are a handful of minutes left. Players miss one-on-ones, you can easily rally even if the equaliser goes in - but playing an hour…

Imagine the levels of regret you’d feel if you if you missed out on a Premier League Golden Boot by one goal because you’d given ‘Madueke’ a sympathy penalty to allow him to take his league season tally from three to four goals.

Hard disagree. Palmer is now chasing a Premier League Golden Boot, which is much more meaningful and worthwhile than giving a teammate a sympathy penalty. A ‘team player’ recognises the potential magnitude of *that* achievement.

I really shouldn’t engage, I know - but Messi had 41 G/A in 41 games (no pens) in his only uninterrupted PSG season aged 34/35, and has 27 G/A in 22 at Miami (no pens). Can never quite believe that these people are real.

Open space in La Liga and low blocks in Premier League? Do you people watch football at all? 😂