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Pleased with this article about Fiorentina and it’s hundred years open.substack.com/pub/calciono...

If you want to analyse anything from the Balon d'Or, Messi aside only one player from the top 26 plays for a club that isn't Bayern, PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal & City. 21 of the top 26 play at 4 clubs. Football has been condensed into and talent stockpiled into a handful of megabrands

But I thought Jim Ratcliffe was a messiah that has all the answers

Milan derby free to air live on BBC 2 Saturday night in the UK

If you want to analyse anything from the Balon d'Or, Messi aside only one player from the top 26 plays for a club that isn't Bayern, PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal & City. 21 of the top 26 play at 4 clubs. Football has been condensed into and talent stockpiled into a handful of megabrands

“Kane bids to end England’s 25 year wait” what is the BBC on about. Will there be an open top bus. People parting in the streets at 3am.the Balon d’Or is meaningless commercial gibberish

We are going to destroy humanity...be a part of it, stocks soon available on the NY exchange Weird pitch from Anthropic

Gareth Battey leaves Surrey #cricket for the IPL. Leaves a club legend asa player and coach but we also needed a change

Much discussion on Fabregas. He is an exceptional coach. IMO he will stay at Como until he thinks either he or the club is no longer developing. I don't think he takes a job like ManU. I think he will either move to Barcelona when they decide Flick is reckless or PSG when Luis Enrique has enough

Vučic and Bolsonaro defeated on the same night. Praise be. Bad night for Putin Musk etc

Vučic and Bolsonaro defeated on the same night. Praise be. Bad night for Putin Musk etc

Manchester derby in the Championship next year?

England continue to discover you cannot trust a Surrey bowling attack not to lose from anywhere. Stunning from Shadab #cricket

Do Pakistan toss a coin before each innings to decide if they are going to be rubbish or great?

Conte doesn’t like joining mid season and the United squad is very much not in his mould. He would probably get some improvement out of them but it is also clear he cannot manage with Europe midweek. I would imagine it will implode after 18 months

Trudging to #afcwimbledon in the cold and pouring rain, full of a cold makes me realise I go in these conditions and watch defeats and it is ok because it is ours. Doing this to watch a bunch of recently relegated Chelsea players in the hope they turn a profit for Ryan Bertrand will not be appealing

Above all, there is no meaningful detail from the club about the source and level of the finances of the sole funder of the business. The information provided is superficially impressive but not meaningfully detailed.

As well as the sale, there's the placement of Bertrand in charge of football affairs. What evidence of experience and achievement is there that supports placing so much faith in him?

Also intrigued by the sole funder, Baron of Thorntoun, appearing to have brought himself a lordship.

I couldn't imagine handing over a massive chunk of the club, as well as operational control, to a tech investor with no ties to the club and, as part of it, bringing a hedge fund founder on to the board. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Another crazy wonderful game in Serie A, Napoli 3-3 Roma

Our problems stem from the insistence on playing a back 3

Lovely tribute to Mikey T #afcwimbledon. Wonderful memories listening to that

Confirmation bias

Something needs to be done about Restore. I am stunned such an awful figure has any popularity at all in Britain.

The scale of corruption, profiteering of exploiting their position is astonishing. Kushner seems to be head of the department of personal wealth accumulation

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Italian teams in Europe article open.substack.com/pub/calciono...

The lexicon of Traitors winds me up. Heat this heat that. Is suspicion not a perfect word for the purpose

For years I felt strength of Italian football was the scouting. Picking up gems. That has waned & replaced by the money ball and money no object clubs like Brighton / Brentford. Recently though its back. Varela at Monza is an outrageously good pick up. Or Mendy costing €15k from Senegalese 2nd tier

Yup. As a fan, how am I meant to build a relationship with a player if everyone of them that shows any kind of decent talent is shipped off for a pay-off every 6 months. Especially if we - as the club - will only see 1/10th of that cash

There is little more boring to me than the endless speculation about who the new James Bond actor might be.

I don't follow it all or care but didnt the British press village Meghan Markle for not having a good relationship with her dad and push his narrative.....now they to an about face

Lugano going to Spain and putting 5 past Getafe surely the performance of the night

Saw someone post this. Look there's an enormous financial gulf between the PL and Serie A but the night before Como put 4 past Man U. That is just chalked off as a bad night. Yet Milan reserves had 2 daft penalties and went to 10 men and that proves a gulf. I find this thing so reductive.

Conte doesn’t like joining mid season and the United squad is very much not in his mould. He would probably get some improvement out of them but it is also clear he cannot manage with Europe midweek. I would imagine it will implode after 18 months

Italian teams in Europe article open.substack.com/pub/calciono...

I would do anything to see this man lose his seat next election

Pretty good round for Dutch teams

Lugano going to Spain and putting 5 past Getafe surely the performance of the night

Milan suffering a nonsense at Bournemouth. A first handball penalty when nothing would have happened as a result. Now Maignan sent off and giving away a penalty in a way I've never seen before. But all this comes from putting out a stupid unambitious reserve line up. Milan fans should be fuming

Good to see the Surrey bowling attack perform so well against Sri Lanka for England

Milan playing their second string away to Bournemouth is utterly infuriating..Bournemouth already bookies favourites. If they win comfortably the farmers league narrative will be back without a flicker even though it didnt apply when Utd got murdered in Como

Most ridiculous handball i have ever seen given against Juventus

The media masquerade that there's something fairytale like about PL teams in the Europa and Confrence League is tiresome.

Much discussion on Fabregas. He is an exceptional coach. IMO he will stay at Como until he thinks either he or the club is no longer developing. I don't think he takes a job like ManU. I think he will either move to Barcelona when they decide Flick is reckless or PSG when Luis Enrique has enough