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4 years ago. Life isn't short. It's long, with loads of room for huge script changes.

 

I think its OK to have two positions simultaneously on Rashford - (a) that he was instrumental in the provision of free meals to vulnerable kids during Covid, and that he has genuinely been impactful in terms of adding his name and being involved in producing books for kids aimed at improving confidence, personal development etc. - its easy to sneer but I have done volunteering stints where I have seen these real impact of such interventions; (c) that he's a self-indulgent and disruptive twat who worked hard until the moment his contract extension was signed and has fallen out with every one of the Man Utd manager since Moyes

 

I agree there should be a cut-off point between the two versions but I can't help feeling his charity work was something of an extension of his Messiah complex and that his appointment by the press as a Tory bulwark contributed directly to his current predicament.

No lesser lights than Keane and Scholes-Scholes is not known for commenting like this- have said they want the guy exiles,banned, slung out.

That doesn't normally happen if you're just a nice guy who's gone a bit strange.

 

Keane is hopelessly over-exposed - if you were being paid to spew thoughts on multiple podcasts and broadcasts daily, your content would become increasingly off the cuff and kneejerk. Scholes is a dullard who skews towards negativity generally. You might be right about Rashford re self-importance, what he does next will be telling.

 

Ha you're not wrong. Keane is for sale and also has a hugely selective memory .. I do not know if Scholes is a complete dullard but he tends towards a phlegmatic negativity bordering on the neurotic.

Scholes is the kid from the Hovis af who just can't quite figure out why everyone can't be happy pushing an ancient bike to the top of a hill to deliver that final loaf of bread for 2'6d a week .

I think Rashford will skip Dodge and go to Serie A where he'll be reinvented by the British press as a super-talent who was just too colourful and dynamic for staid Blighty.

 

I agree that Rashford will go overseas but I don't see it being a consistent success, maybe a eye-catching start where he scores three goals in four games and then tails off, followed by stories in the English press about him looking for opportunities back home....the reinvention comes later, after he retires, where he ill be portrayed as a mercurial talent who was never quite used correctly at either club nor national level

 

I see a documentary featuring him, Omar Edwards, Tammy Abraham etc with Mason Greenwood hovering embarrassingly in the background threatening to ruin everything.

 

Rashford was a legit talent in my opinion, maybe if he'd come up under Ferguson a few years earlier it might have been different, but he just stagnated.

 

I think he gave up. He forgot what it took to stay at the top. But every year that United didn't win the title was a year he got closer to some sort of denouement.

 

Rangers finish top 8 and straight through which is good going considering they're shite

 

Oi Hut

 

Mmmmnnnnyes?

 

Come have a hug

 

No!

That's a wee bit weird tho b/c last night i was watching this thing about all the traditional tactics intuits used to coexist with polar bears. And half their life revolved around the threat of them: when and where they hunted & camped, how they prepared and stored food, the design of their igloos and weapons, the games children played. Its the first vid I'd added it to my favourites in ages, very cool.

 

It makes sense and they are one of the few animals on earth that does not fear man.

 

It must've been all of us at one time whether it was short faced bears, cave hyenas, lions, megalania so watching all the clever steps they have to take to work around it is like a cool glimpse into the past.

 

Confident vs Sporting, whiskey? Looks like dortmumd are favourites but not by a huge margin

 

Meh. Current team doesn't really seem to have an identity.

 

Must've been our problem against you, we did seem extremely confused

 

Where do this Confident play? What league?

 

Mandatory viewing

https://youtube.com/@beaplumber?si=pW8Q7f1JDzjs7p7n

 

That might be that. But if good fortune but you win fuck all with bad luck so.....

 

Nice to see Man U maintaining their consistency.

 

Man City legs completely gone, a few more will be heading to Saudi or MLS over the Summer

 

Not only have City not done Liverpool a favour, they've given Arsenal a shot in the arm.

Want something done? Do it yourself etc.

 

Yep. Turned a corner. Resurgent. Coming into form. Developing an understanding. Etc.

 

They need to stay humble, yeah?

 

I like what Dyche did for the club. Keeping us up amid point deductions and when money was thin. For that, he'll ne looked at favorably in Everton history.

But this season, he had three wins in 19 matches. We scored only 15 goals in 19 matches.

Moyes has three wins in four matches with eight goals scored.

 

This is the first real adversity pep has ever faced, it's gonna be interesting