Rayvin

He's spot on tbh.

Everyone already hates Everton so I could see that working for them tbh.

You'd think he would have to go abroad tbh - work on rehabilitating himself out of the British media spotlight. Hard to imagine any club in the land taking him at this point.

That is fucked up. So the poor woman scores the winning goal for her country in a world cup final, she's a national hero, and her memory of that moment of triumph will now be bittersweet forever. I know it's random chance but that is honestly fucked up.

Our team is made up of good to great players in a very effective and efficient system that they are all committed to and trained in. City's team is made up of great to incredible players in a very effective and efficient system that they are all committed to and trained in. The difference is what it is, and losing 1-0 is not shameful even if it didn't look like we got going. We held things together well enough and our defensive work was clearly quite solid overall. We should be satisfied with a low scoring away loss and a home draw from City this season really. We'll have made some real progress if it turns out we can win at home because it will mean the gap between their players and ours has drifted into a state of being negligible in terms of outcomes - but that may still be beyond us.

Not a bad result at all, we used to lose this game about 6-0 every season. Well played City, still the best team in Europe after all.

I would have preferred the football side but is it sad that I'm enjoying the financial side too It's nice to get an insight in some small way.

I'm enjoying it well enough but one thing I think it underlines more than anything is how incredibly competent we are at the board level. Yes it's all likely staged, yes it's very corporate, agree with all of that - but the depth of talent available to us at the executive level relative to what we'd previously been stuck with is incredible. At some point in the first episode Stavely is on a video call with some fella who was the Head of European Investments for PIF - and he was talking about what the club needed to do with clearly some awareness of the situation. I honestly feel like we're going to be really dangerous in the long run not just because we can throw money at the team, but because we're going to have the most skilled and competent people running it.

Mind you, given the extent to which Saudi Arabia saved their bacon this window, maybe this is them owing us

Inconceivable that he wouldn't know where Sunderland is since he personally masterminded the purchase of Jordan Henderson specifically to undermine the global attention the mackems were getting in their ongoing protest against his ownership of Newcastle. They were this close to bringing his entire regime to its knees, spearheaded by the relentless and cutting insights of Exile and his legion of 2 legitimate twitter followers (His mum and an alt he made for his hamster)!

Not going to draw too fine a line under it but "exploited inscriptions" is precisely the sort of term an AI would come out with ...

Occasionally I wonder if the reason Diego seems to know so much about basically everything is that he is in fact an AI.

Signing of the season: Tonali Top goalscorer: Isak Most assists: Barnes Biggest surprise: Team finishes comfortably 3rd or higher. Best Young player: Anderson hopefully. Player of the season: Isak PL finish: 3rd CL finish: Out to first European elite we encounter but maybe get away with it until the QFs. Trophies? Don't see it with the CL in there too but if it was going to be one of them the more likely is the FA Cup

Glendenning was on MBM for the Guardian for this one. Based on his current level of spelling ability I would say he's drinking away the grief.

The idea that Villa were anywhere remotely close to us was always laughable and based spuriously off a single result in a purple patch they had last season We look utterly superb. I was not even surprised when we got a 4th and 5th, it felt inevitable. Granted, it's just one game. Two tough ones ahead which will temper expectations potentially. But fucking hell, we look immense.

Update later reads: "No further developments at this point"

Absolutely wish him well. That departure statement seemed really sincere and in my eyes he's a true friend of the club and was a bright spark in the dark times. Good luck ASM.

Moreover the mackems are literally tearing themselves apart over this. He was meant to be the chosen one... We don't need to pass judgement here indeed, all of Sunderland is doing it anyway.

Also hard to get worked up about this anymore given that there is literally no political will to do anything meaningful about it. I mean I'll keep voting for the right side of this, but it just doesn't matter beyond that what I do. This is eventually going to come down to a simple reality I think - do we get to viable fusion power before climate change dismantles human society. No one else is going to do a damn thing, that much is clear - so either science saves us, or we cook.

That is surreal, are we supposed to hearing all of that or not? All that stuff about coffee sounded like she should be off mic or something. How difficult is it to just bullshit your way through that question anyway? "Yes, the area has a look of affluence to it but actually there are indeed some areas within our community that suffer what is perhaps a hidden level of deprivation in certain places, and it is important that we are aware of this and sensitive to the needs of these people." Fucking hell...

At least we're not selling him to a PL team because you know damn well that if we ever did, his 2 games of being unstoppable every year would be against us.

Aye, we need to wait for Le Tissier to come out and tell us what the craic actually is, he's the oracle of our time after all.

It's been an interesting back and forth nonetheless

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/17/labour-mps-keir-starmer-tories-two-child-benefit-limit Labour will not get rid of the two child limit on Universal Credit payments. Apparently to do so would cost £1.3bn, but would also lift 250,000 children out of poverty. Just over £5000 per child. Or to put it another way, Labour deems a child in poverty to be worth less than £5000. EDIT - apologies, I misspoke - That's 250k children out of poverty, and a further 850k out of deep poverty. I don't really know what deep poverty is compared to poverty, but either way that reduces the per child cost significantly. Removing this cap is apparently the most cost effective way of dealing with this issue.

Yeah, on reflection I guess that was an inevitable series of follow up posts