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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 14h

might be a bit past his best

Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 15h

Five years ago, I used video of Fernando Torres' Liverpool goals as an example of just how much football has changed. Looking at it now, I think his style of play is coming back in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywgA...

Every Fernando Torres Goal for Liverpool & Chelsea

YouTube video by Premier League

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 19h

idk he walked in and froze out ozil. that seemed a big "i'm not like wenger" marker to me.

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 19h

the arteta project is really evidence that he personally agreed the later wenger teams he played in were "soft".

James Benge @jamesbenge.bsky.social · 19h

Kind of remarkable to hear Diego Simeone saying his Atletico Madrid team need to learn from Arsenal how to be "clinical in different phases of the game". The last time he was here you could not have imagined Arsenal being held up as an exemplar of precision for a Simeone team.

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 1d

yeah you all love jamelle bouie here don’t you. can’t get enough of bouie. can jamelle bouie write a robbie keane joke? can he fuck

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 2d

long term contract

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 2d

two mega expensive strikers and the most in-form player in the world last season, only for the best attacker to be cody gakpo

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 3d

i'm wondering a lot if richard hughes isn't really aligned with edwards beyond the fact that they're personally friends

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 3d

i feel like there should be more complex tactical solutions than "bring on all the attackers".

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 4d

Some game state stuff, xG was even until Chelsea's 2nd goal and then they sat back. But Forest missed a couple enormous chances in the 1st half.

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 4d

wait, what?

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 4d

you ever read an article that annoyed you so much you're going to have to do a whole newsletter talking about why it's wrong

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 8d

alas, i found a different way to phrase it that improved clarity anyway

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 8d

do i hate myself enough to rewrite a sentence because it has a split infinitive

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 8d

someone arrest me for crimes against metaphors

This kind of structure could also help with the full back issues. Liverpool spent a lot of money on Frimpong and Kerkez who, as yet, haven’t done much of anything to impress between them. Frimpong hasn’t played much, but I was never totally sure how Liverpool would adjust with him in the team. He is not Alexander-Arnold. Y2K fashion is all the rage right now and Frimpong feels an on-trend 2000s revival full back, the kind of player who will get up and down the byline, “more of a winger than a full back”. If Liverpool use him effectively, he should be bursting forward down the right as the widest player, rather than becoming an extra midfielder in possession or some other post-Guardiola role. He’s the low-rise jeans of right backs.

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 12d

what's welsh for "ah, well, nevertheless".

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 13d

which led to my entire career!

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 13d

My entire career.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 14d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 14d

yeah. i think a big part is that the spanish squad that won things made an effort to address this, xavi and casillas famously friends who tried to bring everyone together. but if they could do it (at height of clasico nastiness with mou vs pep), anyone can.

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 14d

he didn't invent that nickname. some random person online did and it grew organically. it's about him but it doesn't belong to him.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 15d

Chelsea and England playmaker Cole Palmer has successfully trademarked the term ‘Cold Palmer’.

Palmer’s application, submitted to the UK government’s Intellectual Property Office in November, was approved on Friday.

More from @tburrows16.bsky.social ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 14d

bit weird that england specifically would have this. it's not like spain where one club rivalry rooted in cultural divides dominates everything. it's not like belgium where people don't natively speak the same language.

Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 15d

i mean, yeah, but this is hardly a unique problem at international level. but the sides that won trophies often addressed it head on and found ways to get everyone on the same page. it just went ignored at england.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 15d

Former England captain Steven Gerrard has described sometimes “hating” international duty and claimed star players being “egotistical losers” damaged the side’s chances of success.

📝 @colinmillar.bsky.social

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 14d

obviously not as important as the tactical issues etc etc

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 15d

i mean, yeah, but this is hardly a unique problem at international level. but the sides that won trophies often addressed it head on and found ways to get everyone on the same page. it just went ignored at england.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 15d

Former England captain Steven Gerrard has described sometimes “hating” international duty and claimed star players being “egotistical losers” damaged the side’s chances of success.

📝 @colinmillar.bsky.social

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 18d

absolutely love it when foul throws are called tbh. elite professionals failing to follow the most basic of rules. always funny.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 18d

If everybody’s gonna do long throws then we’re gonna have to end the gentleman’s agreement on not calling foul throws.

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 21d

frimpong right wing in front of szoboszlai right back is the most benitez tactical move liverpool have done since 2010.

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