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Syder (84112495)

Burn in fucking Hell.

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Carbon copy of our performance against Southampton after Christmas, we need to sign a defender.

Syder (80332826)

You're mistinterpreting my point. We've all encountered the bad effects of the death by a thousand cuts the NHS has been suffering since it's beginning; from Aneurin Bevan's resignation in protest at charges to patients for dentistry and spectacles being introduced in 1951 to fund participation in the Korean War, to Neoliberalism beginning the acceleration of decline of the social state in the 80s.. You don't need to explain how neoliberal austerity works to me, it's the main fuel for sleepless nights for me, but the BBC has been set-up to defend a system that directly hurts our social state.

Syder (80331704)

The BBC have treated me like subhuman scum for years and have always been a tainted organisation—Forget the last decade, manufacturing consent for the Iraq War happened under Labour.. and that's before we even get to the decades of protection of paedophiles. The NHS has saved my life and, as things stand, still would at no cost. People need to stop acting like this is an equivalency for everyone. I know which one I want to fight for, I don't have blinders on.

Syder (80325305)

43p a day to get called scum over and over for wanting a better world. Fuck off lmao. Zero tears shed for an 'institution' that actively defends and protects VIPaedophiles and platforms Fascists for decades. No more spots for Alan Dershowitz for you lot.

Syder (78863281)

This should be the tag-line for Britain's handling of the entire pandemic.

Syder (78869281)

That’s somewhat true although any gains are sandwiched by apathy and the fringe right-wing protest vote in RefUK but as far as bearing out in actual voting Labour aren’t benefiting from an unprecedented precarious government. Labour have only gained voteshare in 1 of the 5 by-elections to occur in England since 2019 (in a seat they still lost by 20%), the Council elections in May were a blowout whereas the LIb Dems made a slight gain and Greens doubled their councillors. The Lib Dems have now captured 2 'Blu Wall' seats in 6 months. Labour aren't thriving, political apathy is.

Syder (78868048)

I'm tired, Robbie.. What's hilarious/pathetic about Gale saying this is he was found to have breached the code of conduct by trying to influence a judge in the trial of Charlie Elphicke... he is yet another walking Tory scandal himself. Maybe Johnson will benefit from the mere fact that there isn't a candidate for his replacement that isn't dripping in corruption themselves.

Syder (78867319)

Moving Right and picking up scraps (this doesn't just apply to this by-election) while the Party coffers empty and the most mobile section of your canvassing support, the young vote, abandons you in droves (Greens were the only other party present in 2019 to increase their vote interestingly) is so far not proving to be a winning strategy. Supporters of Labour's current strategy will bleat on about tactical voting here but there was no agreement, Labour did nothing to signal to voters that they should vote to keep the Tories out. Labour were trying to win: of the candidate and I'm sure in December temperatures. Here's the Progressive Alliance™ rearing it's head again although the stats in Labour's ad are at least accurate to the previous result If there's any better a temperature reading of your own base than losing a seat you've held for 200 years with a losing margin I don't know what is. At the very least, our odds of seeing Johnson resigning publicly disgraced are getting better and better.

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Labour had nearly a quarter of the vote in 2019, nearly a third in 2017, in this constituency. So this place that had a higher vote total for Labour in both GEs under Corbyn than the prior 2 under Miliband and Brown should now be deemed unattainable by Labour in 2021?Being Remain was a pretty big signifier of being, at the very least nominally, Left-leaning until Brexit was confirmed a year ago. but it sounds like we're agreed on this being a hard conservative constituency where those voters are ultimately the kingmakers, and it's a much easier decision to make a protest vote when you know there's less than 2 and a half years at most until the next GE. Not to mention this could tip the scales in favour of removing Johnson now to heal the Party's image long-term.

Syder (78864424)

Labour were still campaigning for Ben Wood locally on polling day. This sort of constituency isn't won by tactical voting, this is a depressed vote across the board with a very conservative constituency moving to the LibDems. This is a by-election triggered by a scandal of institutional corruption timed with the breaking of a further senior party-wide scandal—fairly unprecedented circumstances preceding an unprecedented result.

Syder (78865204)

Morgan said that because it's very beneficial to the LibDems to get 'tactical voting' and a 'Progressive Alliance' thriving in the conscious, we've already started seeing it being pushed, a line of thinking that will only benefit the LibDems.it's important to ask why in 2 years the party most Pro-Remain can go from 10% of the vote in an area that voted 60% Leave to having a 5,925 vote majority, and . Why were positioned to capitalise on conservative apathy and outrage? This isn't a new switch either, though the Tories mostly held strong in the Council elections, the incumbent leader of the council, Peter Nutting, lost his seat to a Liberal Democrat.

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I've seen the 70,000 number thrown around which is worrying, depending on how many are in patient-facing roles, of course. The truth is we don't know how much of the national total will reconsider their stance during a period of extreme vulnerability. I'm strongly of the view that if we say the people who work with the virus every day don't have to be vaccinated, ; and NHS workers choose where they work, the public doesn't choose how they get healthcare. However, and annecdotally also, my girlfriend works in care where the vaccine is already mandated and () . The position of all the Royal Colleges, all the unions representing NHS staff and studies suggest it doesn't actually increase compliance and I don't know if we're in a position where we can lose even 1, 2, 3 whatever% nationally; a dangerous assumption is that staff who may be lost will be easily replaced. Corbyn's stance is exactly what Keir Starmer's stance was on the 25th of October As you said, risk-balancing and I don't trust this government to balance risk; losing staff to vaccinate the majority who comply is great if we have the structure in place to cover the losses—as always, the timing of absolutely everything is bottom of the barrel awful and we're going to have another terrible winter.

Syder (78862219)

That Labour blowout is pathetic. -21.6 turnout compared to the -36.3 of the Dec 2nd by-election and it's too late for me to be lookinh at maths on the voteshare lost for Labour compared to 2019 but.. Labour had 12,495 votes (22.1%) there 2 years ago, Lib Dems had 5,643 (10%), Labour are sitting at 9.7% now. Does anyone want to claim that these people backing the LibDems are chasing the and not just conservative voters slapping the Tories hands knowing they can vote them back in in 2024? Many people, Tory and otherwise, are heading towards apathy but if not, people leaving Labour are heading Green or LD and Tories are going LD (or a fringe right-wing place) it is truly hilarious that Starmer has prostrated himself to Capital and the politico-media complex and he still can't get even for a seat that Labour had a comfortable 2nd place lead (+120%) on the Lib Dems in in 2019 despite a downswing in Lab vote and an upswing in LD vote there at the time. The current cynical push of the 'Progressive Alliance™' myth has also seen any high-profile Labour member giving their support to Ben Wood receiving a hail of abuse in the replies for not backing the LDs [despite the clear fact that publicly backing another party is grounds for expulsion]. Still it is absolutely hilarious that a 200 year held Conservative seat is falling to the LibDems. A deeply unserious party and Ed Davey is a comedic figure I want to see more of.. Get the Yellow Hammer out.

Syder (78860155)

Just caught up with the Chelsea/Everton highlights and what was Iwobi doing not passing here? Chelsea really hurt by their absences, they don't have the most cutting of edges even when they are at full strength, but to draw at home to whatever that was, the fourth string, Everton team really dents their status as title chasers.

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if people disagree with the concept that taking the risk of losing a sizeable portion of NHS staff during a pandemic is really bad that's their own issue to figure out.

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Look, I'm open to a data-led example leading the way as far as healthcare workers go (I find it inexplicable that we're in a situation where people who are administering healthcare to the sick and immunocompromised don't trust vaccines but here we are) but we're heading into another rough winter here with the full scale of what Omicron can do not yet known and I don't think it's a risk worth taking . If we were going to mandate the vaccine for healthcare workers it should have been 6 months ago. The words Door, Horse and Bolted come to mind here as always with this government. The government has not offered a solution (because it doesn't have one) if even a small amount of the unvaccinated work force are lost. As far passports go, opposing it is fairly boilerplate stuff in a country that uses legislation like this to exclude the poor and non-white.

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it's truly wild how many nominally Left people are struggling to understand why Corbyn would vote this way.

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The fix is in

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his crimes pre-date the G.W. admin and Iraq too

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it's not The Hague but it'll do.

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TJ 2-1 up? That cut is nasty

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That's the same eye that got this fight rescheduled, no?

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I hate to say it but I'm happy to have TJ back, his fights always deliver. TJ wins it clearly without the knee injury and the cut so I'm fine seeing the split dec. win—Fair to say that could be considered the real Bantamweight title fight as I think both TJ and Cory would beat Aljo and Yan.

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Round 5 winner probably takes the whole thing

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They all need a holiday.

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FIFA:

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Good performance, bad performance - they get abuse; obviously it's worse when they lose big games but it's still ever-present. Social media companies don't care because there's no financial or legal repercussions from letting it simmer. It's disgusting.

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Fuck those clubs too

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People arguing over or when it should be

Syder (69290722)

The organisation looked like a shitshow from top to bottom The progression in the tournament coupled with the "Freedom Day is right round the corner, everyone!" stuff made 'over-attendance' in and around Wembley inevitable. Doesn't feel like organisers saw that coming despite every England fan seeing it coming a mile away.

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The anti-It's Coming Homer is the perfect Freudian subject

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My biggest issue was when Italy were dominating and he wasn’t proactive. He waited for the equaliser to make changes.

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Great squad ultimately hindered by an over-cautious manager Weird that people are so trigger happy to call people “arrogant” for rating these players so highly, they’re an incredible bunch

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Shame Jordan Pickford’s incredible performance, and tournament, will go under the radar He’s been solid for a while, he broke through his meme status

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Southgate just put his burden on a couple of kids

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I’m sure people will be extremely nice to the missers about this Absolutely gutting for them to go through that after being so good all tournament

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Poirier, Oliveira and Gaethje are the only fighters that be in picture for the vacant title fight.

Syder (57006665)

I pray Conor is stupid enough to take on a serious Welterweight.

Syder (57006305)

For sure makes the most sense. Maybe we'll finally get Conor vs. Tony now... jk it'll be some bullshit like Nate

Syder (69242005)

Dana already said the word ‘rematch’

Syder (69240958)

So glad this guy is speedrunning the twilight of his career. Absolute embarrassment. Dustin mauled him and he was absolutely right about it being a check doing the damage. Oliveira vs. Poirier is going to be a great fight.

Syder (69233230)

Yes, Argentina! So happy for Messi to finally get over the line

Syder (69172087)

Sitting in the night time Summer breeze and reading 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson like the pseud I am

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Go out and enjoy the weather, folks, the Final's on Sunday

Syder (69043057)

Football bringing Atomic Kitten back into relevance is not something I saw coming.

Syder (69035215)

Pre-tournament, I think a lot of people kinda accepted 3 at the back as being acceptable against inferior opposition because they'd just let the narrative seep into their critical thinking; and in the end Southgate himself accepted that playing more than 2 CBs against our Group opponents would just have been a waste and invited unnecessary pressure Now, I think people just struggle to accept our defence is just pretty good and our formation is setup to keep chances created against as low as possible; the best chance Germany and Ukraine had literally came from one of our players playing an opposition player in (Sterling and Walker, respectively). I'm a West Ham fan and there was a run this season where we kept something ridiculous like 6 cleansheets in a row and we were all just waiting for it blow up in our faces because being sloppy is what we've come to expect over years of it, and the same goes for England. The reason why we're so reticent to back ourselves is because we've been beaten down by decades of abject mediocrity.

Syder (69033610)

I feel like you should read up on the stories of the actual players and manager rather than thinking in these terms It's past time we dropped the nationalism and supported the multicultural, working class boys playing a sport really well for us and the manager on his anime redemption arc. It's for us more progressive-thinking English people to not let Reactionary, knee-booers try to claim the accomplishments of the team now. It's a team to be genuinely proud of.

Syder (69033934)

it's sad because these players be the neutral's favourites. The social media content has been sustaining me and I've genuinely gotten tears in my eyes a couple of times just thinking about Raheem Sterling at odd points in the last couple of weeks. Someone will be trying to option the rights to Southgate's story for a film too, if we win on Sunday.

Syder (69032518)

it'll be on both but I know the place I'll be watching it at will be showing BBC

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Thank fuck I don't have to watch England on ITV again

Syder (69031822)

I was getting worried about Denmark.. and then they just didn't come back out after half-time... Weird, honestly. England were too cautious in the second half and Southgate waited too long to make changes, Denmark really should have come at us more, we were looking nervous and over-excited at points in this game and they had the tools to exploit it but looked set to take it to pens after one half.

Syder (69031165)

To be honest, you can forgive England fans not seeing the wrong because reffing in the Premier League is so bad you see at least one of those every week. It's legitimately normal.

Syder (69030874)

and people will still try to conflate the team with the worst of us after these cunts did all they could to disown the players before the tournament These lads and the manager are amazing, so proud of what they've done and what they represent - this team is ; I've never felt a connection like this with an England team.

Syder (69029968)

Maybe 3?

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I realised this morning I had very little nerves because a Semi is the bar for success in my lifetime and we were already there. Anything else is a plus, getting to the Final is incredible and Italy are good side so losing wouldn't be too upsetting.My mellow is unharshable.

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Can't wait to hear how we didn't deserve to beat a team that didn't come back out after half-time

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Don't google Take That's cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit

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The worst thing about England is we're such cunts that despite having one of the most likeable squads (and manager) in any tournament ever the neutrals still won't support us. Hard luck last night btw but where was The Granq?

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but almost going into a shootout without Granqvist!? Sacrilege. it is overstated how much we actually like our inbred, paedophile Nazi monarchy.

Syder (68538409)

Dutch here and all over the place, the people I saw talking up the Dutch team were mostly ignoring who their coach was. The pleas to stop playing 3 CBs were well-publicised. English are much more pessimistic because the Dutch have experienced success more recently and because of the failure of our 'Golden Generation'; when I was a kid, literally every house had multiple flags out during tournaments, these days it's much more a cautious optimism but people were beaten down by the oppressive failure between Euro 96 and World Cup 2018.

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Ehhhhhh, most Dutch have been very outspoken about their lack of faith in de Boer Also a of optimism got sucked out of England fans with the Scotland performance, and the lacklustre group games overall; people were very worried about the prospect of being dumped out by Germany yet again. I enjoyed the Croatia result despite the narrow margin because it meant we beat them for the second time in a competitive game since being knocked out of the World Cup by them in 2018.

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That Müller miss made it seem like the Football Gods have blessed him Raheem Sterling FC is not a narrative I saw coming but I'm very happy for him proving doubters wrong since 2018

Syder (68512378)

Congratulations! The only thing funnier than people assuming Germany would trash England is people then saying Coronaball doesn't care about your pre-existing biases or narratives. The financial gap between the richest of the rich clubs and everyone else is so wide now that other clubs have had to innovate in pragmatic ways at rising to the challenges of facing. The likes of Simeone and Bordalás have shown in Spain how you play against Barca and Real; you don't show up and accept that you're going to get thrashed 5-0. While top clubs can afford to dick around and chuck in ex-players into their first job managing multi-100m squads, other teams are forced to consider their hiring processes and transfer market shrewdness to exceed their expectations e.g.: Brendan Rodgers' Leicester City team of the last couple of years; and this extends to international football and how nations with relatively small player pools can do well in tournaments. Tactical nous, discipline and work rate can beat any team that should win 'on paper'. Saying England got shit teams on their side of the draw is just disrespectful to the quality of the other teams. Denmark showed how good they are despite a tragedy, Czech Republic have a fantastic balanced system and already gave England a decent game, Ukraine did take some blows tonight and put more minutes in their legs but they have some truly class players and Shevchenko has been managing the team for FIVE years already. Andrea Pirlo and Andrés Iniesta aren't lining up for Italy and Spain on Friday. There's absolutely no reason why Switzerland and Belgium can't beat them. Czech Republic didn't go out playing van Basten and Bergkamp and Rijkaard; Šilhavý knew he was going taking on Fraud de Boer mismanaging the project that Ronald Koeman abandoned. losing 1-0 to England in the group means nothing if England were to cross the Czech's again. (Let me tell you as a West Ham fan, The Czechmates are dangerous and well-organised. ) Gareth Southgate in kind knew if he could match Germany's formation, England had every chance of beating Germany man-to-man because of Germany's flawed defence and blunt attack, a better manager than Löw adapts to the situation at the very least during the game. if you didn't learn from the Round of 16 that your pre-conceived notions aren't worth anything [and that includes things that happened in this very tournament's group stage], you didn't watch the games closely enough. Anyway, congratulations to my German friends, Löw is gone and Flick will win the World Cup.

Syder (68469973)

Watching the Round of 16 madness supporting a team that hasn't played yet People think going out to Germany, on pens or something, would be the most English thing No, scraping past Germany and then dashing the false hope by losing 2-0 to Sweden would be the most English thing On a more serious note, Portugal and France just showed why you simply cannot afford to just let an entire half go to waste. Southgate cannot allow the first 45 minutes to simply be a 'feeling out' period and feel like going in at half-time with very little created is a good thing. When you see something not working, you have 5 subs, don't be afraid to amend it early.

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Kept this quote locked in because I had a funny feeling about France too when I saw the line up. Very opposite day. Coronaball loves an upset.

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Spain really could have won this game 5-0

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Well deserved, Spain have looked great.

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Belgium also lost their most important player 3 minutes into the second half so we can't really blame them for spending the second half protecting the lead. Belgium didn't create chances but the goal changes the context of the task in front of Belgium especially after KdB's injury, why chase 2-0 when you've lost your talismanic playmaker and conceding means you'll struggle to score another? Roberto Martinez made only two subs before stoppage time, and both due to injuries, he clearly doesn't trust the players beyond the first XI to hold the lead. Portugal spent 48 minutes plus added time trailing in this game, and aside from Ruben Dias' header I don't feel like Portugal really created anything completely 'unmissable', this is a tactical failing on the part of Santos. Yes, he can be credited with the second half control but in a knockout game you cannot be content to sacrifice 45 minutes of play and surprised when you don't get the 'deserved' outcome. Santos squeezed so much out of an inferior pool in 2016 and now he doesn't seem to be sure what to do with a much more expansive set of options. He changed up the midfield so much in this tournament and never seemed able to settle on what was best. I feel like that shot from 30 yards in the dying minutes from Bruno Fernandes really exemplified the lack of a link between midfield and attack. Portugal took 14 shots from outside the box and that does not signify a team that knows what to do once it reaches the final third of the pitch and that can undo so many teams.

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I'm a Coke Zero boy.

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Fucking hit, son

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I don't think VdV is a fan of the way de Boer plays either though.

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Get in, Czechmates!

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Incredible how similar they are to each other as players too.

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Really enjoying Italy doing their best impression of England as soon as they get a half-decent opponent.

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Hope this is at least a bit more competitive than Austria's weak performance against Netherlands.

Syder (68282590)

Wales torn apart by 18th Century explorers, Braithwaite & Cornelius

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Even outside that, it's not like we're known for being incredibly supportive of 'ARE BOYS' I wish we were playing on a neutral ground.

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Not sure if this has been done before but I'm almost certain England will be the first team to exit the tournament in the knockout phase without conceding a goal.

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5pm kick off on a Tuesday... at least we won't have a weekend to stew on being knocked out by Germany again Netherlands wouldn't face Germany/England side of that half until the Semis though. I don't know how they not only got drawn an easy group but also won't face another Group Winner until the Semis at the earliest.

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Same problem with Southgate. Grealish and Saka finally start and they're our brightest attackers after persevering with Foden on the wrong side for the previous 2 games... and don't even get me started on Sancho.Forget that, we're not getting past Germany.

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I'm glad you're back but holy shit that draw is fortunate

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They're on.. Lopetegui now?

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Going out to Germany and won't even do it in an interesting way

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First player to win the Golden Boot and get the most assists in the Premier League since the '90s, he's the most talented English forward since Rooney and the best finisher since Shearer. He's class. His problem is a dodgy injury record, jadedness from carrying a subpar Spurs team all season and an England manager that isn't quite sure how to get the best of him.

Syder (68013527)

I was already leaning watching Scotland over England but another Sancho snub from Southgate has nailed it. Peak fraudulence.

Syder (67823122)

can't spell Spain without pain

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More or less what I expected against a team fighting for their lives in a rainy derby Kane and Foden completely absent for 2 games in a row.. give Grealish/DCL/Sancho the run for

Syder (67685593)

Netherlands, Belgium and England will all be let down by their defences.

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I'm enjoying Belgium's England impression.

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The system is very uninspired and conservative but I still got a big kick out of individual performances tonight. Kanté and Mbappé were class as usual and Pogba and Rabiot really impressed me too, levels above where they're normally at for their clubs.

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..against Wales?

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Pavard KO'd

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Kanté cheat mode

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Hungary really did crumble

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Hungary falling apart

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Have to remember this game when I'm shitting on Sterling on Friday..

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Are there any Brazilian strikers about that wanna declare for Spain?

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Right out of the Sterling playbook..

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32° in Sevilla at 8pm tonight Those poor Swedes...

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ŠKRINIAAARRR Banger

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I maintain this position. Souček and Král completely marked McGinn and Armstrong out of this game.

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Fraud. de. Boer.

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Feel sorry for the Dutch losing Koeman and van Dijk; they were looking like a serious threat before they got Fraud de Boer.

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Southgate definitely isn't alone in this but I feel like he over-estimated Croatia. They had flashes of control, like late first half, early second half and Modrić can still play a good ball obviously but he just isn't the dynamic player he was against us 3 years ago and no one else was picking up the slack; they also haven't got a good Mandžukić replacement yet. Late on when players like Modrić were proper bollocksed and they had a few on yellows (), I think that's when you seal the victory bringing on foul-magnet Grealish, Saka maybe... The fact is, this is tournament football, fatigued legs killed us in 2018 and we only used 3 out of 5 substitutes today in the sweltering heat. What harm would bringing Grealish and Bellingham on at 75-80 do? I dunno... I always felt like Czech Republic were the test in this group but it's fantastic to get a calm, composed win in a tournament group game. First ever opening game win at the Euros for England. Feels very non-English.I think we stupidly arrogant and over-confident after Euro 96 all the way until we failed to qualify for Euro 2008, the so-called 'Golden Generation' were perhaps the most talented crop England has ever produced but the squad was always so dysfunctional and ill-prepared that we consistently under-performed. We deserved the label of being overconfident idiots that constantly overperform. I mean, look at England's performances at tournaments from missing Euro 08 to getting knocked out by Iceland in 2016. That period absolutely all previous optimism out of English fans, particularly younger ones that had never seen Italia '90 and have no or little memory of Euro '96. 2018 was such a breath of fresh air because, even though to outsiders it appeared we were just winning games we should, we so frequently in the previous 20 years screwed them up. Honestly, if we scrape every group game this tournament 1-0, with this football, but balance the minutes everyone's getting so the squad is optimally fresh for the knockout rounds, I'll be happy.

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I already knew Livaković was good but he really impressed me today. I wonder when he and Petković will leave Zagreb.

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Fullback selection debacle is such an unnecessary complication. James AWB Aaron Wan-Bissaka should be in this squad for when we need to be solid on the right hand side, simple as. Hopefully the last squad we'll see Trippier and Walker; I was fine seeing them play today as there's clearly an issue with the fitness of Shaw, Chilwell and James but they need to be cycled out of the England set-up. Also, think it's madness that Aaron Cresswell's name never gets mentioned for a call-up, just had his best season for us, can play well in a back 3 and his setpieces are immense.

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Personnel rumours sound dodgy but at least he's not playing a back 3.

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Adesanya has plot armour.

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That ending was fun but Masvidal and 24 minutes of Edwards made him look really bad. I only want to see him at Lightweight.

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I am not shocked Edwards almost fucked that up. This guy has nothing for Usman.

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So Nate's job now is to take fights he hasn't earned for good money and then showboat to get crowds going before getting mauled? Wish we could see him back at Lightweight. This shit sucks.

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Worst reffing I've seen maybe ever

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The shot of chest compressions being done to Eriksen, even from a distance, was very triggering; if you've seen that being done to someone in front of you before, it's the aspect of medical resuscitation that is almost violent in it's approach.. it's a visceral image and whenever I see it being done for real it sends memories flooding back. My sympathies are with the Danish and Finnish players that experienced this today. Glad the outlook for Christian is better now, it was looking like the worse case scenario for a while there.

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Romelu is one of the best role models in the game right now. Absolute king.

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Russia are about as bad as I expected.

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Hope both Denmark and Finland progress after what they had to go through today.

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The question is whether or not they're making a choice that will do themselves more mental strain long term. I don't believe they're in the right frame of mind to be making this call so quickly.

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Aaah fuck, Alex Scott's reaction sent me off.. the tears have come Luckily, I've cried in front of my Dad a lot

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Fucking hell, this is bad..I've never seen this done but I wish they would.

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Jesus.. That's not good.

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Given that Finland haven't won a game since November I'm expecting Denmark to get past them fairly straightforwardly.

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What a substitution that was! Offside?

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Half time arrived at a good time for Wales, they were on the backfoot to the Swiss there. The relationship between Bale and Madrid as a whole is a complicated issue, Real-biased media love to stir the pot and definitely helped to drive a wedge between Bale, the club and the fans. Don't get me wrong, I think Bale's poor efforts to learn Spanish and ingratiate himself into the culture is embarrassing but I don't really blame him for being a bit cheeky () after all the negative press response he has received and, at the end of the day, Bale has done things for Real that would make him an icon at other clubs.

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This aged well

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Very sporadic minutes over the last 2 years even after the move to Spurs because Mourinho didn't fancy him in tougher games. It was only really toward the end of the season that Ryan Mason was starting him.

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EMBOLOOOOOOOOOO!

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This was an issue in 2016, yes, not a particularly memorable group stage, and tournament overall. This is why I've been skeptical about further expansion of the World Cup too.

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Turkey were really poor, Yılmaz feeding off scraps; perfect tactical excecution from Italy.

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Just two pro players not knowing the offside rule...

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They were fun for like.. 2 games. I was so done hearing it before the end of the group stage.

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Nice to see Italy back in a tournament with a balanced, quality squad; the aging centreback partnership could be an issue though. Likewise, Turkey have brought through a decent generation of talent and look raring to aim for the stars like they did between '96 and 2008.

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Thanks! it wouldn't be my OT if I didn't fuck up at least one thing.

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WWE has completed it's transformation into TNA

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The BT pundits were trash He's 23, he'll be back

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It was especially rich coming from Frampton, easy to criticise when you've only been hit by Featherweights. I think this L could ultimately be good for Dubois, the hype train was getting a little ahead of itself here. He's got a lot of stuff to work on.

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Found out very quickly

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Expecting Brook to get bodied here

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I think Chisora is 8 rounds up on Tony Bellew's card

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No way is Bellew dropping 'robbery' here

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Chisora earned Usyk's respect but he's slowed down a lot already This biased Sky analysis is hilarious

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I'm in for this

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I mean, he had a couple of micro-naps himself this fight

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Y'all Qaeda

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Maybe the real insurrection was the friends we made along the way

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I must be behind on my Chud lore.. I thought Hillary already killed God? Stop trying to erase the achievements of women, Rightoids.

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It honestly reminded me of Holloway/Volkanovski I in terms of elite gameplan against elite striker, except Max accumulated damage on his leg from Volk's kicks at a much slower rate. Conor has slowly transistioned to an even more pure 'boxing-only' style from his Featherweight days and I'm not shocked once his leg went dead his striking, and more importantly, counter-striking base was nulled he couldn't get away from Dustin's punches-in-bunches style. Conor even said in interview that he ' he was checking the kicks' which is such a red flag for someone so lead leg heavy. I don't care about any speculation about Conor's so-called decline, I think every version of Conor is vulnerable to version of Dustin even if he doesn't necessarily lose. I have no doubt now that had this fight gone on through further rounds it just would have been worse for Conor. Conor needs to sort out the issues with his camp as soon as possible or further defeats await down the road.

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James Vick just got annihilated on this XMMA card Remember when he had a bit of hype behind him; KO'd four of his last five fights

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Hot take The current betting odds are extremely disrespectful to Gilbert Burns and Jan Błachowicz

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Frankie got flatlined

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Over the next 2 months we're going to get Usman vs. Burns Błachowicz vs. Adesanya Nunes vs. Anderson Yan vs. Sterling Edwards vs. Chimaev Miocic vs. Francis Volkanovski vs. Ortega

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Happy to admit I was wrong about Chandler (although there's definitely something up with Hooker); I always thought he was fairly up and down in Bellator and would probably fall at the UFC hurdle Askren-style Great performance, great finish, great promo, great answers in the press conference

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Dustin

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The Red Goof doesn't understand how the internet works, I'm shocked.

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Nice of Uncle Dana to throw us Europeans a bone

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Stop this, ref

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Caught the card this morning Hard to see Tony go out like that.. Washed or just came back too early, I don't know, but that was abysmal. Just sad. Main event was wild but I expected Figueiredo to still take it in a rematch, thought he was pretty unlucky to take the point-loss given the egregious nutshots, , we've seen over the years. Dern fight was fun too, she's massively improved her striking and weight cuts don't seem to be an issue anymore so clearly has gained a new level of professionalism.

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Bellator is too good for him See you in BKFC

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Figueiredo is gonna stay Champ for a while now he has his weight under control

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Damn, Figueiredo wants to fight Moreno next month

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That must've been a scary watch,

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Perry looks like he's gassing already

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Perry absorbing 50 head strikes in 2 rounds as if this kid could afford to lose brain cells

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Kevin Lee spoke at a Bernie rally once, right?

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The trashies 2020

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I feel like Glover was getting pummeled and then I blinked and Santos was in the choke Damn, what a run he's on

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Silva looks decent, honestly

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Jeez.. Saved by the bell

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Fuck Hardy

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This kid is beyond parody

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Volk vs. Ortega is on

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Zombie really hates them spinning back elbows

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Long road back for TKZ now, Ortega in full control

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Leon Edwards has been removed from the Welterweight Top 15 due to inactivity

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Insanely good performance on his return

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Zombie/Ortega hype check

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Ortega looking much more competent on the feet but whether or not he can go 5 rounds with KZ remains to be seen

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Let's go!

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What a finish to a great card

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That was legitimately embarrassing from Costa Either turn up with a real gameplan to fight Adesanya or swing for the fences, don't stand still while one of the best fighters in the world systematically dismantles you in under 2 rounds.

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Coming in with that Dominick Cruz energy and now he's claiming he Dude came in with the same plan he's had to fight everybody else; mocking Romero ended up being a hilarious self-own. I maintain Whittaker's gameplan wasn't without merit despite being caught twice, if Adesanya is gonna lose it's gonna be getting caught in a clinch exit flurry. A big reason the Romero fight was such a poor spectacle was because Adesanya realised that's what Yoel wanted and he doesn't have the explosiveness anymore to engineer his own chances. That's where I assumed Costa would differ against Adesanya due to the fact that he didn't fear getting in tight with a counter-striker like Romero even after being dropped. Costa knows as well as anyone that he doesn't have the tank for 5, especially not against a rangey point-scorer, so it was weird not seeing him pushing, throwing more of his own kicks or, as he loved to remind Adesanya, attempt a takedown to test his jiu jitzzz. I dunno, maybe he thought he couldn't be finished if he wasn't tired early on. He needs to mix up his coaching and work on that gas tank.

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We gonna talk about Adesanya's gyno?

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This could be over quickly

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God damn, concrete fists

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Shit like this would be nipped in the bud early if Dana was gone. I have a lot of nostalgia for the old Wild West of MMA but a lot of it is carny and embarassing and that thread still exists today, Colby being an example. I don't care if UFC/MMA is becoming more mainstream, accessible or homogenous even; it's a lot easier to get people into the sport these days. The amazing womens divisions, for example, has been great for the public image of the sport. I wonder if anyone above him started to regret the decision to give Dana a 7 year contract extension last year when Disney and Co. had to come down on him and force him to stop trying to hold an event on a Native reservation when a global pandemic was kicking off.

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Shame, Conor would have been smashed and Tony/Khabib might still be intact

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Adesanya and Costa proving you can still have a heated feud without being pieces of shit There are still plenty of people to admire as athletes and people in the sport like Holloway, Volk, Poirier, Usman, Wonderboy, Maia, Adesanya, Whittaker, Ngannou, Miocic, JDS, Shevchenko, Nunes, etc. etc.

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Man, the long-term Woodley haters got like 14 straight rounds of him getting pieced up to watch over the last year and a half I don't think he was always secretly bad, just age caught up with him quick and Usman and Burns are elite.

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I zoned out the last round and a half

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Since the RDA fight, Cowboy has been a good 4~ fights a year guy that would fight fun, if stupid, and get on streaks and make you wonder if he'd finally win the big one ...and then he took that god damned Tony fight The 3 straight KOs is probably the difference between retiring at 40 and retiring at 45. He took a serious beating in a 7 month period fighting Ferguson, Gaethje and McGregor.

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I have no doubt that the Cowboy that was going into the Tony fight on a 3-fight winstreak would finish a guy like Niko Price in a fairly straightforward manner.

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I'd love to be wrong and the Woodley right hand of old comes out to re-break Colby's jaw but I'm already resigned to disappointment on that front.

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Tyron had two judges give him 50-44 on his last two fights. and Colby doesn't really finish dudes, it's going to be 5 painful rounds to watch if you hate Colby/love Woodley.

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Just hard work and Açaí bro

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It's gonna be sad seeing Tyron get demolished over 5 rounds again by that shithead on Saturday

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I often wonder at which point Conor completely lost his mind Dude has been a complete embarrassment for at least 4 years

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Dude sounds like the kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar in the post-fight What a dick

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Holy shit Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

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I'm not gonna defend Stipe's eyepoke, two wrongs don't make a right, but DC's left eye was already pretty fucked up before the poke happened. The rules don't bend for karma but DC has eyepoked fight in this trilogy. I mean, a timeout was called in Round 1 of this fight for an eyepoke by DC. Absolutely the correct winner of this fight and I'm happy to see Stipe walk away from the trilogy with the ultimate strategic and moral victory.

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Fuck this company

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I hated watching two of my faves, Whittaker and Till, fight each other but in the end, I'm glad Whittaker won. Till just isn't well rounded enough to be a Champion at the moment, whereas I feel Rob is another fight away (Cannonier?) from a title shot.

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Double yikes...

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Yikes...

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Gastelum looked in great shape at the weigh-ins, looks like Lockdown has been good for him

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What is going on in this fight!?

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Even if a replacement isn't found, it's still a hell of a card and Volk/Max is a worthy Main Event.

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Great to see my little meathead, Cody, back with a bang. KO OTY.

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Woodley looked like a very strong Champ then loses all 5 rounds to Usman and all 5 rounds to a No. 6 ranked fighter, man's over the hill Welterweight giving Lightweight a run for it's money with the amount of top contenders

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Please fuck off, Jon

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Awlways been a fan of Diante Wilder, b Y'never hurda him? Imma Diante superfan, nicest guy in the world

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I was thinking 'who's had a quicker downfall than Cody'.. and then I saw his opponent.

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Just caught up a bit of a stinker... My boy, Barboza, was underwhelming at 145 Sad for Harris, Reem is a gentleman

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Goddamn what is Tyson on

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Just caught up Ref could've easily called it in the 3rd. Smith took 2 extra rounds of damage unnecessarily; gotta share some blame between Smith, his corner and the ref.

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I can't believe Barboza made weight

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I made a nice amount on an Ngannou 1st round KO/TKO and a Cejudo KO/TKO victory (any round). I've had an incredibly poor time betting on MMA recently so it softened the blow of seeing Tony lose by making some money off this card.

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I think Francis is going to knock Rozenstruik’s head off

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Looks like everyone made weight except Stephens

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Any more positives they’ll probably keep hushed to stop the card falling apart at the last minute

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Huge Cruz fan but he shouldn't be allowed back on commentary until he publicly apologises to Keith Peterson.

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I just don't know what to think about this event... it's an amazing card on paper, obviously.. but this really shouldn't be happening.

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Damn it, Tony

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Well, that's 1/3 of the best bouts gone before fight week... Still time for the whole thing to fall apart

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This is not the answer, Dana...

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Nah, fuck civility politics Boris & Co. killed 100k

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So he was intubated later and they wanted to drag him out of there? Fucking Christ..

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Does his Dad work at Nintendo too?

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Holy fuck, I cannot imagine the anguish

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Fireworks go off mad around here a week either side of Bonfire Night, I'll still be hearing them tomorrow

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I feel like it would be quicker to count out the contracts the government handed out where there wasn't some sort of nepotism.

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I swear the turnaround on remasters is getting shorter and shorter I'm not paying full price for

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Glad you're staying strong, I know other shielded individuals that are struggling right now.

Syder (35458335)

Surely, with large amounts of people now disregarding the restrictions now, more than ever, vulnerable people need to be cautious.

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I'm always in the

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I mean, we shouldn't be shocked really... Always makes me laugh when people act like the BBC took this nosedive recently; I mean, they've gotten worse but David Cameron started this.

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It started trending immediately when the decision was made and many high profile journalists are voicing their disapproval. Hopefully, it's enough pressure on the BBC.

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Can't believe Mr. Cummings had the audacity to try and upstage the Prince with a more outlandish, bullshit medical excuse

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Can't believe Mr. Cummings had the audacity to try and upstage the Prince with a more outlandish, bullshit medical excuse

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Keir 'Tuxedo Mask' Starmer

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How deep does the rabbit hole go?

Syder (34890906)

it's amazing that that Iannucci quote about The Thick Of It being made redundant by reality was said like 18 months before Johnson was even PM... We've really hit the accelerator towards dystopia in the last year. Speaking of, it's a year to the date since Theresa May resigned

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Someone round here has been doing fireworks since the second week of the clapping, incredibly irritating.

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First post-easing clap on my road and it was noticeably shorter and with fewer people I guess nurses don't need motivation now you can pop out more times a day

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Followed by the a word.

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'mistake' all the thirsty people on socials calling him hot lately got in his head.. I see you, Rishi

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The most powerful currency of them all... Claps.

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You couldn't make it up...

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WHAT ABOUT THE MONOPOLY EVENT!?

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I remember when 20k was the good outcome I wonder where we'll be at the end of the year

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As someone who hasn't been furloughed and works bank holidays, the last couple of months have come with some very mixed feelings. I'm just thankful I'm part of the shrinking population that has gainful employment... but I see my Steam friendlist with an abundance of activity in recent weeks.

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This inept government and relaxing measures will bring about additional and exacerbated peaks killing hopes of sport returning any time soon.

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by Boris Johnson "I had more questions after than I started with"

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Probably good to know that the idiots you share an island with are committing seppuku down south.

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I dunno what update to put in the title that isn't 'herd immunity is back on' SMH

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and the issue with the easing is, with a lot of people not at work when they socialise they can freely drink so safety goes even further out the window. A friend of mine told me they had to leave a street party yesterday because once people got a couple of drinks deep social distancing just slipped away completely.

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That Little Richard headline...

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I don't see how Bank holiday weekend + VE Day + Rumours of loosened restrictions/restrictions actually being loosened don't end up spiking us again pretty significantly 2-3 weeks down the line.

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it's a virus, we're not being invaded, you fucking plonkers

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Imagine if police weren't so invested in protecting their masters and called out the people responsible for cutting their workforce over the last decade

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While we're on Starmer and the failings of the media

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Jesus Christ, we handed the keys over to a cult.

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The first gold star Starmer gets is bringing up the death toll compared to the rest of Europe but Johnson has never been good at PMQs, he always looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him when he was faced with Corbyn.

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I see the replies to Piers Morgan on twitter these days. I know what you're saying. Today was fine, a pleasant surprise in his improvement, but when the media is failing to adequately call out failings, for me, the opposition has to be picking up the slack. Twitter is an echo chamber where people can avoid things they don't want to see, it needs to be coming from a mainstream source and the media is not invested in holding the Tories to account.

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I know plenty that haven't had a penny yet, from various schemes.

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There's nothing wrong with asking for a plan. Making it your entire platform for 'challenging' the government is a big mistake. The opposition so far has been weak in a period when the Tories have never been more vulnerable. I'm cool giving Starmer a settling in period but if this is the taster for what sort of fightback we're getting in the coming years, we are in trouble.

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I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe. I mean, it's hilarious that we got weeks of "Italy is a shitshow", "Spain is a shitshow", endless news pieces with sombre music in Italian hospitals... Fastforward, we've got worse numbers but everything's just fine in our hospitals? the only person allowed in to film is fucking Grant from EastEnders! and yet the Tories are tone-policing a woman for rightfully challenging them on their bullshit testing numbers. It's maddening.

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What the fuck

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So when this easing inevitably ends in another spike and many more deaths, the new opposition can't complain because it's all the man has been talking about for weeks. Great job.

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I've started going out for exercise much earlier in the day to avoid the frankly packed promenade that can be seen later on. Every day is a bank holiday to a lot of these people.

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I've always been this way, even had some weird looks with my specific method, but everyone loves my cuppas.

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People here have been flouting it since the weather turned last week, it was actually noticeably quieter when the weather was milder on Monday and Tuesday.

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You know it's bad when Peston's calling it out Now, maybe do it when you're Zooming them or whatever

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As far as desensitisation goes, it's sort of irrelevant... it's kinda why comments about Boris' illness maybe changing him/giving him new perspective were so odd.. it's like bruh, ... a decade of NHS cuts means they can't handle the sick, a decade of police cuts mean this is a faux-lockdown that people would inevitably exploit. Even if Boris and his government did decide they wanted to make handling this well their defining achievement, it would've been too difficult for people as incompetent as them due to their party's legacy of austerity. This is a national embarrasment so far beyond anything I've ever seen. These people are uncharged criminals and it's written on the face of every minion put on a podium every day to chat bollocks about Keep Calm & Clap On.

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I fucking hope so; praying to every God. They can deflect their Windrushes and Grenfells until the end of time but if there's any justice in the world, this must end them.

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People out sunning themselves spiked massively here while the PM was in intensive care, which would be especially hilarious for a Tory backwater if it wasn't so fucking sad. Out to the park in the day, clapping & fireworks in the evening - Offset mortgage your pandemic today!

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This was going to be a test of healthcare systems before anything else. When I saw a report a month ago about Italy having higher ICU capacity than us I knew grim, days were ahead of us. This is going to be a national embarrassment that makes Brexit look like a day in the park.

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Personally, I've seen one cop car in the last 3 weeks [I leave my house multiple times a day for work, shopping and exercise] and uhhhh, while this isn't a prime holiday destination, a lot of people do come here in the summer... It's bad.

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and that's the middle of the road prediction, it could be as bad as -24% as Capital Economics are forecasting... .

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I must've missed the memo about the lockdown being lifted because this place had it's busiest day since lockdown began I dread to think how bad it's going to get over the bank holiday weekend with the lovely weather coming

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Sorry for your loss,

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Yeah, a headline [or multiple] about a black guy getting battered by ArmyCops on his way to essential, minimum wage work feels inevitible in the 'super strict' scenario.

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I'm certain as soon as they knew we had United/Liverpool in the Cup they were deadset on not investing in January, they didn't think it would be worth pushing the boat out to continue the Cup run as long as we didn't get an easy draw. Moyes' main weakness is poor use of substitutes and he always seems to come into games against Top 6 sides with an inferiority complex; we looked like we were playing for pens from the first minute. We actually only looked better after we were forced to make changes through injuries. Rather than playing Souček and Yarmolenko out of position, I would have put Yarmo on the right and started Odubeko through the middle. I definitely would have looked at giving Johnson and Fredericks starts; maybe even gone back to a Back 3 with Balbuena, Diop and Alves. Also, pretty sure we'll never see Conor Coventry play. We've put so many minutes in Souček, Rice, Cresswell and Coufal this year and I really hope Ogbonna's injury isn't serious, he's my Hammer of the Year so far.

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Truth.

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with this and the Haller saga, it's been a pretty shit week for Ajax.

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Morning vibes

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There's only one thing left to do

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That's the double over Villa. Happy to eat crow about the Lingard transfer, gotta keep it up though, lots of good players in attacking positions at our club.

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Now Saints fan have to hear 9-0 again for another 2 years.

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Spurs being shit distracting from the embarrassment of us signing Lingard.

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A meeting with Abramovich is as good as a boss room.

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I'm struggling to remember a better signing in La Liga in recent memory than Luis Suarez, 12 goals in 15 appearances. Like a fine wine.

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I'm not sure what point you're making here, being team leader in those stats in a doesn't mean anything. United's winrate pretty much doubled after Fernandes signed. Even now, none of these players have been important to United as key players at Liverpool have been over the last 3 years. You could make an argument that Liverpool have been pretty damn lucky to never lose one key component in their common XI prior to this season. Ole rotates players and systems way, more than Klopp has ever done. It's different squads, different management.

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because none of those players have ever hit a level of consistency that made them like key players in the Liverpool squad. You probably wouldn't have to go back that far, in this very thread even, to find people saying Pogba and Martial are completely useless.

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As funny as this is, I'm under no illusions that Liverpool wouldn't be 6 points clear if they hadn't got all these injuries More angry Klopp please

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Liverpool couldn't even go one more to get to 69 Sad

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We had 31 points on July 1st after 32 games, we now have 32 points on January 19th after 19 games. Football genius.

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29 points after 18 games is our best ever start to a Premier League season.

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Nketiah wouldn't be worth 25mil even if he was being sold to Bournemouth by Liverpool.

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I wish nothing but luck to Haller and I expect him to thrive at Ajax. We massively overpaid in a seller's market and tried to jam a square peg into a round hole for 18 months. The board have learned a £25m lesson about their infamously poor transfer 'strategy'; clubs so easily take us for a ride. If we haven't got a well-scouted option already in mind, we need to spend the next 5 months intensively looking for Antonio's successor. In the interim loan someone, give a youth player a chance, play Souček there.. play fucking Diop there.. Anything.. Just don't let this happen again. However, losing Haller and Snograss means our squad is now down to 18 outfield players, we can barely fill the bench with everyone healthy, let alone with injuries or, heaven forbid, a COVID outbreak. A pretty precarious position for a club to be in right now. Get some loans, promote some youth.

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Pulis sacked lol Bad time to support a Sheffield club

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The end of the myth that Lampard is a good manager.

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Media-created narrative of him helming a fostered by his mates. He isn't leading a project, he's a labrador at the wheel of a Lamborghini.

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A different manager will turn Timo and Kai into world beaters.

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0 wins against a Top 10 side for Lampard

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Hertha Berlin wanted to pay €25m for Xhaka and Arteta wanted him to stay, the clues were there early on. You don't keep a player that tells the fans to 'fuck off' no matter how short your squad is or how talented the player is. This lad gets to stick around but a player like Guendouzi who clearly gave a lot of effort on the pitch, and was the target of much praise from the fans and media last season, needs to go out on-loan because he can't be handled off the pitch? Granit Xhaka is the worst player I've ever seen steal a living at a so-called 'Top 6' club for many years, he hides on the pitch and is only capable of side and backpasses, no inclination to play a pass through the defence or take a shot himself. This typifies a late stage Arsene Wenger signing and the unwillingness or inability for his successors to turf these sorts of players out, root and stem, will see every one of them be a long term failure. Arteta showed the he is tactically astute with smart wins over United, Man City, Chelsea and Liverpoolx2 but the glaring hole is clearly his inability to manage a squad, especially one that is content to be mediocre over many years.

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Aubameyang finally scores from open play

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at what point do the Arsenal 'first team' and the Europa Kids swap starting places?

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Leeds were surprisingly poor tonight Bielsa made that double sub at HT and thought he’d figured us out but apart from that awful header from Rodrigo late on, they did absolutely nothing up our end in the second half. Haller has upped his work rate but his first touch is lacking and he's not getting that luck in the penalty box and Meslier was immense again. Lovely 3 points to kick off the weekend

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The starts now!

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Leeds have had shots and a combined xG of in their last games, scoring .

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Another tight win against poor opposition but this game, and the previous against Fulham, are the type of fixture we'd drop points in a year ago. Only Spurs have broken 1.0 xG against us (without a pen) since the second game of the season (Arsenal away); in that time, we've played some top teams like Liverpool, City, Leicester and Wolves. Currently, sat fourth in the form table since GW2 - conceding 6 goals in 7 and averaging 2 goals a game. We haven't been this defensively solid since the 'good' days under Big Sam but we also have some exciting attackers leading the line.

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Moukoko made an appearance then? Dortmund truly are the crèche of Europe.

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First Gomez and now Nathan Aké, expect more of the same to continue until football authorities protect players instead of their wallets.

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I love Ademola Lookman Quite an appearance for Benrahma; comes on late, gets an assist and gives away a 97th min pen

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IMMOBILE The Dortmund flop strikes back

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it's so fucking weird seeing fans in the stadium

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He tested positive last week.

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Any excuse to look at Upton Park again, honestly

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You couldn't even post his banger against us?

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, the VAR review look at the Pickford challenge but decided it was not a red card, which, as far as I know means the FA won't intervene here.

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if Pickford goes off when he should have, Liverpool win 3 or 4-0 VvD injury let Everton back into the game

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Fucking hell, I'd be raging if I was a Liverpool fan today 2 horrendous 'tackles' and screwed out of a goal by VAR

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Pickford 'challenge' was absolutely disgusting Ref and VAR room need to have another look in the rule book

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The worst for COVID deaths per capita The worst for TERFs per capita Welcome to Plague Island, enjoy your stay

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Well, as someone with an Irish passport, I can get off this rotting island whenever I want. The same can't be said for a lot of poor folk who haven't contributed to the current awful situation.

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Who exactly do they think is on the other side of this culture war? The BBC comedy department? The TERF-ridden Guardian? Young Leftists/Progressives on Twitter? They've created a war to justify taking over cultural institutions. The farce was a cultural false flag to justify root and branch attacks on people they oppose.

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Awkward.

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feels like a good time to post a picture of Keith looking like an EastEnders villain

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Ed was mostly great as leader optically. Yes, he's not the most inspiring figure but he was no stranger to exerting himself in public address. He has said he regrets not having a more radical platform in the 2015 manifesto. I may not align with him on all issues but he shares the unifying attitude on the left of a complete hatred of One-Nation Toryism. You can see he's still seething about how the last decade has gone today. I'll always have a soft spot for him.

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I kinda wish they'd remove about 5 heroes from the playable pool, they get auto-banned by players most games but when one sneaks through, it's super annoying

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, I feel like people have become used to getting pretty much all new Immortals by getting the BP The Diretide stuff feels especially bad given how disappointing TI Immortals were for support players like myself

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This is not what seasonal events should be, especially when they get so much from the TI BP

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Diretide is nowhere near fun enough to make it worth playing considering you can't get any cosmetics without spending money it feels like the BP just ended, the greed is too much

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Bought 1 bundle and now I'm 5 lvls away from Wind arcana if I'd played the normal amount of Dota I do during the BP I'd have made it to 575 without needing any money beyond the battle pass (leveled up) and the bundles that come with the Steam Sale. I just haven't had the urge to play much this year so I'm glad Agh's Labyrinth came out so good because I've played a ton of that. without the bundles I'd have had to drop like an extra £60 which I definitely wasn't doing so the end of pass bundles have enabled me to get WR at a sixth of the cost.

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Won my first Agh's run yesterday on the 16th attempt Double-size, healing party rings on Disruptor is vital I think

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So I got my second win at first try in today's session, great. Second game, playing with a noob sniper who kept dying but we were effortlessly carrying him towards the final boss. He disconnects in a previous room and when we get to Aghanim we can't move him to the pressure pad to start the final encounter. We cannot figure out what to do and my two friends leave.. then, I notice Sniper has 1 min left to reconnect and I think 'what if you just have to wait out the DC timer?' He gets the disconnect about 30 seconds later and I start the final boss but my friends have completely disconnected and an easy win goes down the drain So there's your warning, if someone DCs and you're still strong enough to go on, just wait out their timer.

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Am I right in thinking the skill tree resets every week? so we have to grind shards every week to skill down the tree?

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I must be wrong, I'm just figuring this out Playing pretty well in the mode with Disruptor but as usual fails come down to random players

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Got to the end boss of the PvE mode and it seems super fucking cheese? I had 3 lives going in and was dead before we got him to half

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Very disappointed in Redeye's response.

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We're cool

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Any time a controversial subject like this or racism comes up, usually, most top comments in threads are fairly well-reasoned BUT absolutely deplorable comments also get shot up the thread, and God help you if you scroll all the way down into the comment graveyard. Now, whether or not this is co-ordinated brigading or reflective of how much of the Dota community is just trash can be debated but I feel it is the latter.

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Burn it all down

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Jesus fucking Christ

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Hearing Capitalist take 'Llama was hated by the community' purely at face value and not as an indictment on Dota's fans and the scene has to be a massive teachable moment for him. Stuff like that is also why I had a hard time feeling bad for Slacks in his video; a lot of his takes just expose his naïvety. His "we're gamers, we're bad at this stuff" attitude had me rolling my eyes and 'Both sides are bad' on social issues is a tepid fucking take. No dude, you're just scared that speaking out on important issues will have reddit calling you an SJW cuck because your whole gimmick is 'redditor that gets to go to TI and fuck around'. No need to challenge the status quo when it serves you very well, I guess I much preferred Purge's comments where he was like "I never saw anything happen but it doesn't shock me because the scene was extremely toxic". Anyone that doesn't think Dota has huge problems with inclusivity and toxicity is naïve or willfully ignorant because it doesn't harm them. Basically, if it looks like a boys club and acts like a boys club... it's probably a pretty dodgy place for women to go into.

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I can't remember where I saw it, reddit maybe, but I read a comment that basically said the luxury male personalities get over women is that they get much more time to hone their skills without ridiculous amounts of hate, and that's true for a lot of industries. Basically, if you're not a white guy, you have to be beyond exceptional to make it and even then you might not.

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Gotta be honest, as a whole, I've always been indifferent towards the Dota2 pro scene's casters, analysts and personalities with very few exceptions, and seeing how things like this aren't just perpetrated by indivdials but very clearly enabled by groups just makes me feel incredibly disillusioned. If a relatively mediocre caster can get away with that behaviour for years, what other skeletons does the scene have in the closet? The way the Grant story is told makes it seem like he’s pulled that manoeuvre more than once. Even if many of the individuals have clean hands on actual crimes, the scene has always seemed insular and gatekeepy. For a game of its size, Dota has always had major problems with inclusivity in the scene; if you weren't deemed worthy by the "old guard" you struggled to get anywhere. This post really sums up the scene and the hardcore playerbase for me, which in of itself is a microcosm of any industry that is insular and male-dominated. Also, gotta love how people take Grant's admission of alcoholism at face value [like it's an excuse] but every accusation of abuse gets a metric fuckton of doubt dropped on it. Fuck it all.

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I'm pretty terrible. I just support & chill, most of the time. I just think the matchmaking in dota is terrible.

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I'm not so much concerned about guild goals or cheevos as I am enjoying the game,

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I mean, as a support, I'm pretty good at just doing my job in a vacuum. Even if I think a game is 'unwinnable', I'm not the type to just stop trying and flaming is just useless Having said that, when you're a few minutes in and your carry looks like they're being controlled by a bad AI or they're rushing a terrible item, I just sigh and envision 30 mins of my life going down the drain

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Make that 0-5 I don't know how I find motivation to keep playing when, in the fives games I just lost, it was obvious in the first couple of minutes my carries didn't know what they were doing Everyone on my team seems rusty and the opposition capitalise on every mistake

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I'm scared to queue.

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First 4 games back, 4 losses

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EU Era guild still has plenty of spots If anyone wants to carry me to the wins with guildmates achievement, that'd be swell

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I feel like I need this BP explained to me like I'm 5 What's the deal with guilds?

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Which supports are particularly strong in the meta right now?

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IT'S HERE

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Guess it's time to reinstall then

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OG are strugglin'

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My impulses to play Dota rn are at an all-time low

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KO'd by your spin-off

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I think the insult was more about the audience Bulldog cultivates.

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It's going back the other way in the UK, not a single party in the UK cares about the plight of trans people and large parts of British culture and the mainstream press is transphobic.

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Always watching.

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Never seen him speechless

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I really hope to see an active Conor McGregor again. As much as I dislike the man, there was nothing like the regular Mac show. I just have reasonable doubts. He watched Gaethje almost kill himself, I guess

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The only problem is, I don't believe for a second that Conor will be properly active ever again. If I had to guess, he'll be gone for 8 months and then book a very winnable fight (like he did with Cowboy) for Q4 2021, pick up the W and then talk about 'the King being back' in the post-fight and will ask Dana for a title / title eliminator fight. Hype cycle repeats.

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Exactly. Conor looked like Conor, Dustin beat a good version of Conor. Conor was landing with ease, he won the first round but Dustin just had a great plan; the accumulated leg damage culminated in a fantastic show of boxing ability to finish the fight.

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Conor's right about the inactivity but he can't say he didn't completely underestimate Dustin tonight Dustin and his team had a flawless gameplan

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

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We need the Dustin from the Max fight.

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Pretty sure Hooker was just taking off his gloves out of frustration, he'll be back

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Your insurrection was too 'low class' for the Donald, I'm afraid.

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XMP profiles always crash on me.

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Anyone thinking today's events takes Trump past Bush, google 'Brooks Brothers riot'.

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even Jared knows Parler is a massive security liability and an intelligence agency honeypot

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I don't think she considers it an issue. Her adopted aesthetic has always been nostalgic reactionary. I don't know if it was a 100% LARP or if she actually thinks that era was cool for women, PoCs...

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They shouldn't even get a chance to meet the security. Don't let them get on planes, they're flight risks.

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Why do Republicans hate Free Speech so much?

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IIRC he's deactivated his account a few times could be a (vain?) attempt to avoid being suspended

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Chuds yesterday: PENCE IS COMPROMISED Chuds today: ...is Trump compromised?

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If I remember correctly, they were keeping Gollum's appearance relatively under wraps until he actually showed up on the big screen in Two Towers. Gollum was a big VFX achievement and the first time a lot of people saw him properly was on a cinema screen.

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No one will ever take my Risitas from me

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The Electoral College votes are about to be certified leaving President-Elect Biden's inauguration as the last superficial step towards a United States fully-controlled by the Democrats. Senior Republicans have been dealt a healthy dose of reality the last 2 months. In the eyes of senior Republicans like McConnell, letting Trump go down would be a justified 'limited hangout', as Nixon would've said, if it means saving the Party for another day. Expect the Republican machine to cede ground to Biden's administration in an attempt to wash their reputation again but make no mistake, the shadow of Fascism is not banished by end of 45's term.

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Unbelievable RIP

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was always a mark for this dude and I'm still bitter about that IC title 'run' What a tragedy RIP

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Absolutely SMESHed GOAT

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Khabib is just the fucking GOAT, man

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