The way I look at it, all of the starting XI on any big club is world class. Ignoring salary and transfer fees, any club would be happy to have them. A mediocre player on any of the big clubs would be the best player on a small club in a lesser league.
That’s different from asking if they’re the best 2 or 3 in the world at their position.
I thought it was entertaining. I’m 50% through second one that was released last week. It’s not fine literature. It’s an airport thriller. Basic escapist beach reading.
I got a few pages into I, Claudius a couple of months ago on my PaperWhite and read something else. I didn’t want to read something written in the first person.
I actually read all three of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. I’d bought them on Amazon to see what all the fuss was about and felt obliged to finish them. Easily the worst written books I’ve ever read.
I’ve read some real slogs over the years. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in High School. B F Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity wasn’t exactly a page turner. After decades of reading technical writing and having to have 100% mastery of it for my job, I don’t have the patience for slogs with my pleasure reading.
I remember reading it the first time in college. I was totally lost. I’ve re-read it easily a dozen times. When the movie came out in 1984, all the words were totally different from how I was pronouncing them.
I’ve started the first one maybe five times and abandoned it after 100 pages. It just didn’t grab me at all. I still haven’t watched the series because I want to read the books first.
I was born in New Bedford and grew up in the suburb next to it. It was required reading.
I reserve judgement until after they play Manchester City and Arsenal. They were outplayed at Anfield. They’re winning the games they’re supposed to win. That keeps them in Europe.
Ronald Reagan kicked off the cut taxes thing where the US stopped investing public money in infrastructure. It has accelerated over the decades since then.
Give the title to Spurs. Charity for the supporters who would otherwise never touch that trophy.
Nope. I spent my career reading technical standards and research papers. I was also on various committees authoring them. My pleasure reading has always been total trash to unwind from having to be 100% focused to fully comprehend technical writing. My wife’s library is literature and nonfiction. I’m proud of those 27 Matt Helm books or the 20-ish Dirk Pitt books. The only thing I’ve read in 2023 that wasn’t total trash was The Grapes of Wrath and that was a 1930s bestseller.
Spurs are #5 when ranked by revenue. Gunners at #6 are more questionable. Nobody is questioning Arsenal as a big 6 club, are they? And of the top 6 can out-spend all but a very few European clubs.
Hair? Marc Cucurella would be perpetually offside.
I’d rather instrument the pitch properly and have an AI rule offside in real time using the current rules. If a fingernail or shoelace is offside, you’re offside. It’s the delay, poor camera placement, and human error that is the problem. In interest of more offense, I’d have some kind of audible or visual alert so players know in real time that they’re in an offside position.
I read it earlier this year. I have no memory of reading it as a new release. The movie had been my Jurassic Park. It was interesting to see how they changed the characters for the movie.
Amazon Prime has a book with a shapely woman in black leather on the cover. After scrolling past it 100 times looking for interesting titles, I pushed it to my Kindle. There it sat for a year+ with that shapely woman in black leather taunting me in the Uncollected folder. Eventually, I channeled my inner 14 year old and read it. It wasn’t awful so I read the next one in the series. The series dead-ended so I tried another series by the author but abandoned it fairly quickly.
It’s not how I normally choose books but the Kate Beckinsale Underworld outfit with more exaggerated curves sucked me in.
I’m 65. It’s on my Kindle PaperWhite to read eventually.
You can get your soul crushed in Championship where it’s invisible to the media and social media other than club supporters and local news. No VAR to complain about. All the refs are poor. The league is so inconsistent that most of the league is a month of good form away from promotion playoffs and a month of poor form from worrying about relegation.