Second Captains Part II

city are a pack of rats.

Wouldn't have minded some French Open chat this week considering there's little else going on. 14 time champ Nadal going out in the 1st round (in probably his last FO) vs tournament fave Zvervev (whose court case for domestic battery started in Germany this week). Seemed like enough there for a Caitlyn Thompson segment.

Arsenal, utd and real Madrid all got results against them by sitting deep and countering this season. Given how bad they've been the last few years, Utd actually have a pretty decent record against city from playing like this.

Obviously they'll pick off weaker teams regardless because there's too big of a gulf in class.

I actually bought a record of theirs (honestly because I listened to Paulie Mac's podcast for years and he mentioned them every week/five minutes).

Tried hard to like it, didn't quite work for me.

I recommend The Festival Express for anyone. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band amongst others on a train travelling around holding festivals. Good watch.

I would agree with him on Bellingham not doing it in the big games though. Be interesting to see how he does in the Euros. Some of those La Liga teams would probably struggle in the Championship

I mean he pretty clearly truly believes what he’s saying. It’s very interesting to see a take so close to the machine that is Real that cuts against the popular perception.

An incredible amount of sanctimonious bullshit about Rheinmetall yesterday, ffs. We don't live in a world of unicorns and rainbows.

i agree with you but we definitely seem to be in the minority going by patreon comments. obviously people have their views on israel/gaza and ukraine/russia and I won't get into that, but I don't understand being against any and all weapons manufacturers. actually, i suppose it does make sense if the whole world agrees not to make any weapons, but that's not going to happen. are people OK with no western countries making weapons but russia/china pumping them out?

are people OK with no western countries making weapons but russia/china pumping them out?

Apparently so. The hypocrisy is nauseating, the naivete laughable.

The podcast presented no evidence that Germany pressured rheinmentall. It was a theory of Ken’s which is fine but that’s all it is: a theory.

In terms of genocide, well the actual last few recorded official instances of genocide in the world happened because the west didn’t bring force to bear on the perpetrators before it was too late.

As I said, I repeated what the podcast said.

Yes, you repeated the BS they came out with…

One aspect of what I said was a repeat of that and which you decided to focus on.

The other part which is that I prefer my football separate to a weapons manufacturer is one you choose to ignore. Theres no BS there. Its simply an opinion. Weapons manufacturers have no place in football the exact same way petrochemical states who have committed mass genocide have no place in football. Of course, that's my opinion. There was nothing sanctimonious about it. Its Germany committing sportswashing and it should be called out just like Man City and the like.

As I said, I'd like to keep football and genocide separate.