Been rewatching loads of late 1990s WWF lately and the one thing that's so jarring to me is how absolutely SHITE D-Generation-X was. The original and all of the subsequent follow-up versions. Absolute Edgelords. Pre 'The Game' HHH was atrocious.
Chris Smith
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Freelance journalist ✍🏻 Always Liverpool on Substack.🎙️ on The Liverpool Way Podcast. Writer for Blood RED. Bylines with The Guardian and Observer, Wired, Stuff and other every UK tech site you've ever read.
My latest piece for the Guardian on MLS post World Cup messaging. How do they 'take it from here'? Casemiro helps short term, but it'll take serious efforts to keep young US players in the league.
How does MLS pick up the World Cup mantle? Casemiro helps, but it’ll take much more
Casemiro’s arrival is another statement signing for MLS, but Sebastian Berhalter’s departure highlights the league’s bigger challenge after a landmark World Cup
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Waterloo Sunset is the greatest song of all time. Not accepting any counter proposals.
Arsenal leaning into being the most abhorrent team ever by signing Bruno G and Vini Jr.? Fair play. Be your authentic selves.
Saw an Upwork job ad that was offering $5 to provide voice for AI cloning technology. What kind of species traitor accepts that?
Online recipes be like: Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Total time: 30 minutes. I know for a fact I gotta carve two hours out of my day for that shit!
Couple of episodes into the Apple TV Cape Fear and it’s, as my late dad would say, “far fetched as shit from China”
Liverpool fan: *makes and point about morality, oil clubs, sportswashing, FIFA corruption, Brexit Jim* Everyone else: "Lads, you're owned by JEFF BEZOS" Liverpool fan: "Fair point" *shuts the fuck up*
Reinstating the £2 bus fair cap is a no brainer for Burnham. It was bizarre Labour under Starmer watered down a tory scheme that was genuinely helping working people with the cost of living. If you got the bus to work and back that £2 to £3 increase was £40 a month out of your pocket.
Not sure how appointing a defence hawk as chancellor is going to help with the cost of living crisis.
There’s something deeply special about these little interactions we see with the lads who were together with Jurgen. It’s not just former teammates…
With no real skin in the game I found myself rooting for Argentina a bit. In the same way I cheer for the most brilliant and dastardly heels in wrestling. I don’t buzz off the whole “shithousery” thing, like some tediously do, but their commitment to being such bastards is almost laudable, somehow.
Booing Donald Trump is the closest thing to a national anthem for the world.
Just when you think a bigger baddie than Sergio Ramos couldn't be involved in the presentation....
Buzzing off that, tbh. That's what footy should feel like. Reminded me of playing as a kid. Pure next-goal wins when the street lights come on and your mum's about to call you in vibes about it. Joyous abandon, all-out attack. Stormers, missed chances, wide open defences. Bet the players loved it
Fair play. That was one of the most fun games of football I've ever seen. Playground stuff.
4-1... France have the opportunity to do the funnies thing ever here. I'm half an hour from Miami. Is that a rumble of thunder or is BIG DAN BURN(1) warming up?
Owen Hargreaves is pissing me off on the Fox co-comms. So here's the only other notable thing about Owen Hargreaves ever to exist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipE...
Owen Hargreaves likes Fruit Pastilles Training Video
YouTube video by JJ Bull (FitbaThatba)
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Henderson is a better keeper than Pickford. Better positioning. Fewer errors.
Would Oscar Wilde have said "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" if he'd been around at the same time as The Simpsons memes?
Americans today: "Aw sorry about your team!" Me:
Ric Flair's Iconic 'Wooo!' Moment
ALT: Ric Flair's Iconic 'Wooo!' Moment
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Argentina in the knockout stage of this World Cup: 1' to 67': -3 goal differential 68' onward: +8 goal differential
By now, you should've somehow realised what you're not to do.
"Did us proud." Let's be real. 4th seeded team likely to finish 3rd/4th. Whoop. Other than 30 mins against Croatia and Mexico, were they anything other than bang average. yet again? Incredibly fortunate to get past Norway. Lost to the first proper team they played. Again. BIG DAN BURN!
While England fans have been having a month long jolly in the United States, Reform UK have imploded. Those councillors are "coming home" to a right mess. Can they pivot from stopping Messi to stopping the boats again? Tall order.
To Argentina's crop of Premier League deplorables Thank you.
