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I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
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wish they'd done this back when eric dier was trying to force culture onto harry kane and matt doherty www.nytimes.com/athletic/346...

submitted 24 minutes ago • 1 comment

completely scrapping this almost finished newsletter to write about the tottenham players' letterboxd fours instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFJ...

submitted 23 minutes ago • 5 comments

on the one hand, the headline to this article is goofy fanrage clickbait "Real Madrid have already 'banned' Trent Alexander-Arnold's £130k car from training ground" on the other hand, this is news I can use! www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 33 minutes ago • 2 comments

really pumped to see this

submitted 39 minutes ago • 0 comments

I thought my old guy credentials were well-established -- I am even technically gen x -- and I truly had no idea that "you know what GPS has caused the breakdown of? society!" was a thing people thought

submitted 43 minutes ago • 3 comments

this is one of the most amazing glimpses into the mind of an athlete I have ever seen www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFJ...

submitted 58 minutes ago • 2 comments

Just a reminder that this is a social media graphic from the state party designed to get donations from very online Democrats and not what the actual campaign looked like

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

it's an interesting one where I don't think there's any reason to think this particular message resonates with voters but there's a reasonable case that tariffs are one of Trump's worst issues and split the GOP coalition, and also he's a huge baby who can't let insults go so he'll amplify it too

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

I think that in most of the world the question of the changing political alignment of young women is underdiscussed -- in those US/UK/Germany graphs it sure looks at first like young women are turning left and that's an interesting topic regardless of men South Korea.... different kind of story

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

it's always fun when a Barcelona player is in the headlines as a potential exit, and you look up their wage package and structure to see if there's any way they'd ever get comparable money if they leave Ter Stegen has a De Jong style deferred deal lol www.barcablaugranes.com/fc-barcelona...

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Absolutely horrifying. Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

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UEFA financial rules explicitly forbid the kind of shenanigans that Chelsea and Barca have used to squeeze past their domestic financial regulators but their bet has been that UEFA enforces its rules with the urgency and commitment typical to parking violations looks like it'll play

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

large cohort of people on here categorically refuse to entertain this point but Mark is correct. AI water use is a rounding error compared to cattle feed and it will likely fall as models become more efficient. the problem with AI is what it does

submitted 5 hours ago • 52 comments

see our @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social profile of Tijjani Reijnders -- this is a lot of money for a player with a peculiar set of skills and limitations www.patreon.com/posts/130541...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

as a person from the suburbs of NYC I must make clear that "bacon cheese and egg" is not how a suburbanite says it, it's how an alien from a planet where lead instead of carbon is the foundational molecule for life says it

submitted 16 hours ago • 51 comments

Never in my entire life have i heard anyone say the words "bacon, cheese and egg" in that order. I'm beside myself

submitted 17 hours ago • 45 comments

Barcelona's famous "palancas" that enabled them to run massive losses but still squeak through La Liga FFP are explicitly forbidden by UEFA's financial rules the expectation was that UEFA would be too chicken to enforce its rules meaningfully anyway we'll see www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Shot/chaser

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

best way to do this is continuing to bring up Musk's criticism of the bill

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

it is absolutely wild that Luka Modric played 2500 minutes in two of the world's top competitions at this level of production among famous midfielders younger than Modric are Cesc Fabregas, Sami Khedira, and Javi Martinez in fact all of them are two or three years younger than Modric

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

this is fun www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I think an Eric Adams who didn't commit dozens of felonies while in office, and who wasn't prosecuted with his dozens of felonies being made public knowledge, would have been favored for re-election in 2025

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