Football journalism

Ah yes, I see. Wondering how many people will want to subscribe to read "soccer" articles tbf

I think you mean "how many people will have want to have been going to have read BBC an Nult"

"BBC man" fuck this fucking phone

the liverpudlian scribe will have watched with some consternation as his peers in the british football press were poached by the upstart american outfit. he will have felt that his career will have been going to the proverbial dogs

Yeah that's how you will have wanted to do it

he will have wondered to himself the significance if any of wait where is everyone

jonathon wilson comparing pep to darth vader via some torturous analogy today.https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/oct/07/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-darth-vader-death-star-dark-side

it's like there's no point beating Man City because somehow it's all down to them and fuck all to do with your own performance

love wilson obviously but that is a fucking torturous analogy

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/11/why-tottenham-are-stagnating-under-jose-mourinho-who-has-yet-to-evolve?CMP

Jonathan Wilson really on peak metaphorical form this morning:

Back then, Mourinho’s outrages were mitigated by his charm. But now it is as though Richard III had suffered no Bosworth. This is him after almost two decades on the throne, worn down by tax planning, worrying about alum prices, dealing with uppity nobles, the French and Lancastrian pretenders and suffering the growing realisation that some of his past excesses – drowning his brother in a vat of malmsey, murdering his nephews in the Tower, ending Anders Frisk’s career – probably shouldn’t have been excused on the basis of a knowing glance and a quip that made a good headline.

God love 'im

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/02/frank-lampard-resolve-chelsea-defensive-issues-arsenal-fa-cup-final

jonathon wilson raises the bar on himself

In July 1971, Apollo 15 approached the moon. After the lunar module detached bearing the mission’s other two astronauts, Al Worden was left alone in the command module. When he went behind the moon, breaking transmission with Houston, he entertained himself by playing the Beatles, Elton John and John Denver and the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Orbiting 2,235 miles from his companions on the moon’s surface and quarter of a million miles from Earth, Worden was for three days the most isolated human to have existed since Adam. Or at least he was until the 67th minute of the FA Cup final on Saturday.