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Wrong thread. #muslimcore is a reality.
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# ? Aug 13, 2016 16:03 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 13:05 |
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#ChatRubbishGetForgiven is funny as hell
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# ? Aug 13, 2016 16:22 |
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How British soccer became must see tv A sample of this quote:There was the endlessly mobile, hummingly energetic, supernaturally ubiquitous N’Golo Kanté, so adhesively on top of opposing players that his teammates nicknamed him “The Rash.” There were the tipsy, brilliantined skills of Riyad Mahrez, a slender goal grabber generally moving at a 45-degree angle to the ground. Watching Mahrez, often in gloves, flaneur his way through a crowded penalty box with the ball obediently at his feet was one of the season’s great joys. And then there was Jamie Vardy, the speeding yang to Mahrez’s oozing yin, austere and high shouldered, pure athletic purpose burning almost vacantly behind his eyes, bursting into space and stonking the ball into the back of the net with a kind of extravagant directness. Can Leicester City hang on to the title? Can it fend off the young and muscular Spurs, the brawling West Ham, the revitalized Liverpool, the brittle, neurasthenic, intermittently dazzling, almost erotically frustrating Arsenal?
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# ? Aug 14, 2016 16:08 |
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > the brittle, neurasthenic, intermittently dazzling, almost erotically frustrating Arsenal
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# ? Aug 14, 2016 16:11 |
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# ? Aug 14, 2016 19:46 |
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These also exist for Spurs, City, and Chelsea but this is enough
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# ? Aug 14, 2016 23:36 |
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https://www.facebook.com/bbcthree/videos/10153976424545787/
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 00:42 |
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Godzilla07 posted:These also exist for Spurs, City, and Chelsea but this is enough Link them then you slut
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 00:47 |
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 02:27 |
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I am officially no longer a gooner. I'm parting ways with my beloved Arsenal. I am focusing all of my support on the mighty Crewe from now on. We may be poo poo but they're my home team. Arsenal are also poo poo but are a dirty southern club. Thanks for the memories, but it's time to move on. You won't see much on here anymore but I may just pop up out of no where now and again to rattle some oval office when I'm bored.
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 15:45 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I am officially no longer a gooner. I'm parting ways with my beloved Arsenal. I am focusing all of my support on the mighty Crewe from now on. We may be poo poo but they're my home team. Arsenal are also poo poo but are a dirty southern club. Thanks for the memories, but it's time to move on. You won't see much on here anymore but I may just pop up out of no where now and again to rattle some oval office when I'm bored. lmao at Arsenal being called a southern club. I do however admire the switch to Crewe Alexandra
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 15:59 |
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Anything south of the Midlands is a southern club and hell, so are Man United on a technicality
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 22:32 |
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“I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?” That was said by one of our legends, Dennis Bergkamp. I'm not calling any one here not a real fan; we all express our passions differently. Myself, I want us to win everything possible and every year always put an absolutely stupid amount of money on us winning everything. I want us to win everything, all the time, but Arsenal is my team so I will forgive all. Doesn't mean I'm not salty, or not frustrated, but that's part of it. We're not Madrid or Barca, or any of the other superclubs; we're not always going to get the best. The struggle is real and it makes the love a little bit sweeter. But what gets me is the idea that we're in complete meltdown because of a bad result when six starters are out and that loss signifies the season is fluffed. What are you all going on about? Austerity blows. I get it. We all want to spend ludicrous money and eat caviar sipping champagne on a yacht. But reality is that even with a billionaire owner, we are still beholden to the reality of the markets and are still growing. That's not a bad thing. We will still remain competitive at the highest levels and the window still isn't closing for another 15 days. To think our spending is over and that the relevant people aren't busting their rear end behind the scenes is absurd. There's also 37 games left to play: 111 points still up for grabs, of which we are guaranteed roughly 75, if not more. We came in second last year, while pushing deep in the FA Cup, so there's no reason to expect things will be radically different once our full squad returns to action in a month or so. The main reason I'm even compelled to write this is because it seems like everyone was holding their breath for Wenger and the team to gently caress up. If not against Liverpool, then Leicester. If Not Leicester, then Watford, and so on, and so on. That's not the behavior I expect, and it's downright shameful when people seem to be celebrating a loss just to say "I told you so!" It's childish and churlish, and leaves a bad taste. So, I'll quote the great man again “I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?” Because I'll follow this team down to the Sunday leagues, and celebrate with them when they inevitably hit the highs we all know they will hit. Just chill out and let them do their thing. Victoria Concordia Crescit And that motto has never been more appropriate.
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 22:36 |
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triple sulk posted:“I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?” I agree with every word of this post, especially the latin words that I don't understand.
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# ? Aug 15, 2016 22:50 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I agree with every word of this post, especially the latin words that I don't understand. the latin words mean "Chat poo poo get proved right"
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# ? Aug 16, 2016 22:26 |
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http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2016/8/16/12506464/sweden-brazil-rio-2016-olympics-womens-soccer-pia-sundhage-tactics Some lovely stuff here. The comment section in particular is a trove of awfulness. quote:Im not a huge soccer person quote:
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 09:19 |
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Eh, at least they acknowledge the quotes acknowledge they know next to nothing about football. The article's author and Hope Solo have no such excuse.
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 12:23 |
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That article is extremely funny, as are all articles complaining about teams that try to actually win instead of entertain. Also: quote:They're nothing like the Greece teams that terrorized men's soccer for a decade. sorry what
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 12:53 |
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Ewar Woowar posted:http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2016/8/16/12506464/sweden-brazil-rio-2016-olympics-womens-soccer-pia-sundhage-tactics quote:Everyone who is not Swedish will be rooting for them to lose in the final. wrong as hell
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 13:07 |
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This perfectly sums up how I feel as cast in dye Arsenal season ticket holder and a huge Wenger fan but one that is cracking as first and foremost I am an Arsenal fan. I love the guy for what he has done and achieved but cant for life of me work out how it is being allowed to slip away and I fear we are slipping away from being winners. We will contend, we always do, but ultimately fall short if our approach doesnt change... "Wenger’s Arsenal tale is veering from comic to tragic" by Henry Winter, Chief Football Writer Arsčne Wenger stands accused of selling Arsenal fans a lie. Supporters are losing it with a once-revered manager and his constant commands: keep the faith, keep flocking to the magnificent new stadium, keep paying eye-watering ticket prices, keep biting your lip as Samir Nasri, Cesc Fŕbregas and Robin van Persie are auctioned off and keep being linked with big names that rarely arrive. So keep being naive, keep getting taken for a ride. No wonder many Arsenal fans spilled out of the Emirates on Sunday, spitting with anger, many before the final whistle of the 4-3 loss to Liverpool. For all the talk of a mutinous atmosphere last season, the peace has largely held. Not now. Wenger is under scrutiny like never before. Fans’ patience is cracking. “Arsenal need to remember they are a big club and begin behaving like one Widespread dissent revolves around more than frustration at the wretched pre-season planning that had a couple of kids at centre back (Rob Holding and Calum Chambers) against Liverpool’s firefly forwards, that had his main summer signing starting on the bench (Granit Xhaka), that had negotiations dragging on to land much-needed cover (Shkodran Mustafi) for injuries at centre back, one sudden (Gabriel), one known (Per Mertesacker). Exasperation was over more than the inconsistent thinking that had the one high-class centre back, Laurent Koscielny, sitting in the stands for the Liverpool game after his Euro 2016 exertions, while there was a starting role for Aaron Ramsey, whose summer work ended four days earlier, and was far more demanding, and he succumbed to injury. This was more than the annoyance that Wenger didn’t push earlier for N’Golo Kanté, who would have moved to Arsenal but ended up at Chelsea. This was more than the typical small-time thinking that caused Kante’s club-mate, Jamie Vardy, to shun them, preferring the security of a four-year deal at Leicester City to the three years offered by Arsenal. These are simply the miserable micro-details of another troubling season’s launch. This runs far deeper. The wrath flowing unchecked towards Wenger is tinged with a sadness building in recent seasons. When he eventually leaves, Wenger will be remembered as a club legend, the man behind the Invincibles, a manager who reinvented football for a while. Arsenal, and English football, owe Wenger a monumental debt of gratitude. Yet at present he resembles some flawed Shakespearean hero who loses his way, whose character traits change for the worse. Enlightenment and determination become blinkeredness and stubbornness as he loses his wisdom, his subjects and his kingdom. Arsenal have become an institution antithetical to the principles that defined Wenger when he marched into the Marble Halls 20 years ago. He was all about challenging the status quo; now he seems content with maintaining it. He was cutting edge; now he’s blunted. He was ambitious; now he highlights the hunger of others. On his watch, Arsenal have become a commercial organisation first, a football operation second. Arsenal are not as focused on confronting the elite any more; runner-up will do in the lucrative era of Champions League qualification. Wenger keeps pleasing the shareholders who look at the bottom line when he needs to satisfy passionate supporters focused on the finishing line. Under Wenger Arsenal have become a commercial organisation first and a football operation second — they must begin their search for a new manager More than generating profits for shareholders, the game should be about excitement, about goalscorers better than Olivier Giroud. It should be about trophies and open-top bus rides, about realising fans’ dreams. For somebody who adores beautiful football, Wenger has become slow and reluctant to invest in it. Mesut Özil and Alexis Sánchez are wonderful additions, but more players with their elegant talents are required. Wenger has been overtaken by more innovative coaches such as Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte and Jürgen Klopp. He has been shown up not by those who have spent heavily but by those who haven’t, by Leicester City, the champions. Wenger is caught in a perfect storm, assailed from all sides, even his own now. Wenger’s ardour for Arsenal is undoubted. He rebuilt the team, the club and built the stadium. But it’s not Arsčne Football Club, as the doubters rightly point out. It’s Arsenal Football Club, the club of Herbert Chapman, Frank McLintock, Liam Brady, Tony Adams, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry as well as Arsčne Wenger. It is the club of millions of followers, past and present. Wenger doesn’t own the place. He’s just part of it, a hugely influential part.
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 13:16 |
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Is that a the ringer article
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# ? Aug 17, 2016 17:09 |
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I might be in the minority here, but this is a far better move for football's growth, and will rival the American sports leagues in terms of revenue generated. The better mvoe in the long term is to create a super league away from national leagues Investors will more likely back the teams now. They wouldnt risk the likes of Man U getting knocked out early of the champs league, or not even be it. Thats a huge risk for investors. This also allows teams to invest and build more carefully, and have rebuilding years and focus on youth players. Teams like Man U are too under pressure to get into the champions league every year (and in some cases, be relegated, like Dortmund nearly were a few years ago) so they cant build teams and prepare for the future, they have to panic spend, killing the market value for players. This also allows the national leagues to be feeder leagues to this super league. We can then impose a salary cap, and have a draft every year, which keeps the top teams in this super league fairly well balanced. creating a much more exciting competition than the current champs league. The good thing that about American sports is they have parity or some hope for parity and you get to see the best players play each other all year not just in special competitions. If you are winning now, the leagues are set up so that pendulum will soon start swinging in the other way (unless you have extremely talented coaching staff/scouts like the Spurs of the NBA). Same with losing. Salary caps and drafts means that in theory teams should be evenly matched and bad teams can't get too bad or they get to grab the next greats. It's also nice to see the best players playing each-other every game instead of beating up on little teams most of the year. The talent is spread through 5 leagues in soccer. If there were a permanent top league there would be some benefits to the competition. Rather than oppose the America model, we should embrace it, which is why their leagues are financially so successful. The likes of Leicester are great fun, but kill the investment value in the champs league.
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# ? Aug 18, 2016 12:49 |
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Tongues posted:I might be in the minority here, but this is a far better move for football's growth, and will rival the American sports leagues in terms of revenue generated. The better mvoe in the long term is to create a super league away from national leagues
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# ? Aug 18, 2016 12:51 |
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It must be a troll, it's too well crafted to touch every button guaranteed to enrage Reddit.
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# ? Aug 18, 2016 13:01 |
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almost as good as that goon from ages ago who was obsessed with AMERICAN SPORTS PRESENTATION.
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# ? Aug 18, 2016 19:22 |
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opus111 posted:almost as good as that goon from ages ago who was obsessed with AMERICAN SPORTS PRESENTATION.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 02:44 |
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opus111 posted:almost as good as that goon from ages ago who was obsessed with AMERICAN SPORTS PRESENTATION. i fuckin hated that guy
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 04:05 |
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peanut- posted:It must be a troll, it's too well crafted to touch every button guaranteed to enrage Reddit.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 04:06 |
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opus111 posted:almost as good as that goon from ages ago who was obsessed with AMERICAN SPORTS PRESENTATION. that guy ruled because his entire argument was that the most popular sport in the world was a failure because it wasn't popular in America.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 05:12 |
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opus111 posted:almost as good as that goon from ages ago who was obsessed with AMERICAN SPORTS PRESENTATION. I don't remember this? Link? Explanation?
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 06:06 |
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peanut- posted:It must be a troll, it's too well crafted to touch every button guaranteed to enrage Reddit. It may be a troll but (draft excluded) it's an idea that's been floated by various club owners and television companies pretty much from the moment football was invented in 1992.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 07:44 |
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Ewar Woowar posted:I don't remember this? Link? Explanation? it was during the world cup but i cant find the thread e. his name was blinkman942 or something like that
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 10:04 |
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Was it the advanced stats community post? I remember being told that the advanced stats community was anxiously waiting for football to finally compartmentalize enough for the autists to enjoy
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:27 |
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quote:I'm kinda an odd duck-- watched EPL/World Cup with my college roommate, forgot about the sport for a few years, went to a Champions League match last season, and decided that overall, the live fan experience for soccer was exactly what I wanted. I'm pretty much all-in on La Liga/Champions League. I figured it would take me a few years to watch it at an elite level, so here I am approaching year two. While I can't often see my main squeeze leagues live (gently caress friendlies tours in the US), I can attend and watch some MLS here and there. I've attended those matches and those fans don't quite have the gravitas of 87,000 singing fans, but they care a lot. And the passes aren't crisp, and attackers are sprinting at dribbling defenders just on the reasonable chance that the defender fucks up. It's sloppy at times. The general play is improving, the facilities are improving, and all-in-all the infrastructure for everything involving American soccer is improving. And to be honest, the fans are pretty friendly. Even Timbers/Sounders where Dempsey scored a hat trick to tie the game at 4-4, people were kinda just happy to see a close match. Soccer is keeping me, and many other fans, in the game and sending us out into ambassadors. And when the game grows in the US, it's good for everybody. quote:This won't be about people wanting to see some magical US team be good. It's about what we can reproduce on a worldwide scale that we've already done with our existing sports teams and athletes. That is, once we hit that inevitable jump into the legit contenders for a World Cup and our domestic leagues are of higher quality.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:43 |
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The bits about web engineering are my favourite.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 13:12 |
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Is there a word for a hatred erection? I feel like there'd be a German world for it That post gives me a raging dickfragenshouhoogenhargen I tell us what
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 13:28 |
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Tongues posted:Is there a word for a hatred erection? I feel like there'd be a German world for it The best part was at the time he just kept doubling down while we all pointed out how insanely dumb he was. I think he still posts here actually but has given up on trying to convince us of the merits of the advanced stats community and American web presentation. e: nvm that was someone else actually
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 13:40 |
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lmao I went back to the thread and found some more of this guy's postsquote:You're thinking it as binary. It isn't. There are just levels beyond what they currently have. They are global phenomenons. In general, the US produces way more of them because ultimately what we export is culture (bad and good), media. I assume Messi, Ronaldo will come to the US someday and when they do, they will reach a new level of status. Then they truly will have the world wrapped up. In Beckham's declining years in LA and spending much of it either on loan or hurt, he made over $200 million in endorsements across his contract. That's better than the endorsement money Ronaldo is earning now. Having American exposure matters. It doesn't define a person, make them nothings to somethings by default. But it's definitely a huge value add. quote:
quote:I was referring to match fixing here. It's probably reasonable to assume that at the levels some MLS players get paid, match fixing is a possibility. quote:There is no accounting for good taste, so to speak. In the way that general people would think, America's greatest, most influential export is its media product. Sometimes that's Transformers 4, which makes a billion dollars while being a steaming pile of poo poo. But, if a few hundred million people decide to pay money to see it, it's also wildly successful and packaged in a way that people love it. quote:I mean advanced stats have only led to large, measurable advanced in strategy across every sport that has applied them but I guess soccer has some English exceptionalsm that would make it immune to such a phenomenon quote:Yeah, that's kinda the problem. Like you with thinking in any abstract sense. If you don't put a smart person in charge of the analytics department, you're probably not going to get much out of the analytics department. Garbage in, garbage out. Like most of the posts in this thread.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 13:53 |
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Well at least he's humbly admitted that America isn't a perfect conveyor belt of world class footballing talent alongside being the literal best at ever at every single other thing We don't really get this in Australia, it's more of a cultural cringe that we're not doing exactly what everyone else is doing and therefore we're bad and should feel bad and also go watch afl unless you hate mateship and larrikinism and the anzacs you isis wog poofter
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you ever just start typing a reply and realise you've just been yelling at your father figures through forum posts, I apologise god bless
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