Competence has been eroded to a degree that the average professional is not trustworthy. Average optimizes for salary not impact. Nurse/doctor covered by your insurance? 99% incompetent. Teachers/professors? Rarely capable of inspiring. Average trainer? No attention to detail.

The Arteta-Guardiola duels normally trend towards being defense first anyways, unlike Klopp matchups. But between Gyokeres getting a big game nod and Pep’s (correct) lack of confidence in his new group’s ability to defend with the ball, that was surprisingly tame from both sides.

Great players with long careers are usually not of this mould. But this is true for specific individuals because there’s no upper limit to genetic ceiling. Great genetics can keep the body at homeostasis even when confronted with the wildest stressors.

⚽️ is clearly not a sport for excess muscle Losing weight and slimming down has brought about Kylian Mbappe’s most explosive performances in years. Feel like slim Jude Bellingham is going to be the most devastating version of him yet.

Arsenal seem to play the most forceful style of football in the top 5 leagues, and expend tons of energy at all game states. They stress their joints out more than anyone alongside Barcelona and Newcastle. Wonder how much that factors into their injuries vs medical incompetence.

The sensory clarity and euphoria that comes from eating right, working out, getting sunlight, getting your personalized herbs and peptides and micronutrients in… is truly unparalleled bliss. Deep fries any drug experience for sure.

Simeone’s Atletico Madrid summon divine rage in derbies, and Xabi Alonso underestimated their emotional + physical intensity. Broke down Alonso’s choices & implications for Real Madrid’s personnel & tactics, and why this team may stylistically be like pre-threepeat Madrid.

Cell phone restriction for kids is the future. Gotta teach them to grow up without electronics or they’re probably fucked for life. Few other ways to prevent the type of backwards cognitive conditioning and total atrophying of agency that happens to so many raised on screens.

There is such a world of difference in the enrichment you get between watching sports as a fan versus the lens of a top coach or recruiter. It’s kinda crazy. How you consume the story really dictates what you get out of the experience.

Stronger than everyone in the league. Part of the best rebounding team in modern memory. A simple meat based diet. Appreciation for fishing. They really don’t make em like Steven Adams anymore.. just brings epic old school maturity and energy.

After all the panic of the first few weeks, this is looking like Arsenal’s Premier League to lose. As long as Arteta is bold enough to play Gyokeres in the games he’s most effective in and sit him in some matchups it’s their title. Unless they get crazy crazy injuries.

Jokic is getting his 2nd ring this season