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I despise english commentary in Europe, the way they were gagging for as many Atletico players to get as sent off then was nauseating, and you know if the situations were reversed and an Atletico player did what Foden did then they'd be going apoplectic about how it was disgracing the game.

I imagine they're absolutely furious that they have to show Norwich v Burnley in the middle of their wankfest

I think the issue was that even though it's clearly offside, they have to prove it with the lines to overrule the decision, and Cucurella's positioning makes it hard to get a good angle to draw the lines on the last defender.

Because reports of what's happening in Ukraine are probably trickling their way back to the Russian people regardless of Putin's efforts to stop it, so an attack on Russian soil helps keep the general populace supporting the war. Or perhaps it could be further propaganda just to keep soldier morale high. We've seen lots of reports that Russian soldiers have no idea what's actually going on or being confused when they aren't greeted as liberators, maybe they'll be more motivated to keep fighting if they see it as a defensive war against Ukrainian attacks? Plus it could be used as a justification for continuation to countries like China and India in the hope that they might see attacks like that as enough wiggle room to outright support Russia and help prop up their economy. This is a guy that blew up an apartment building in his own capital just to justify restarting a war with an openly rebellious region of the country, so I don't think blowing up a fuel depot to continue this war as a false flag is much of a stretch, especially when they've been making very loud statements about withdrawing from Kyiv. I wouldn't be surprised to see Russian troops advancing back to Kyiv next week. Whether it is or not, I'm not sure, but with Ukraine denying it was them and Russia referencing it in a way that would suggest they might use it as an excuse to walk away from peace talks, it makes me suspicious of it's veracity.

Russia's response definitely makes me suspicious it could've been a false flag to undermine peace talks

And of those, only Dembele was a teenager when they signed him, and one with a full season of Ligue 1 football at that. Aubameyang was 24! Dortmund's transfer policiy really is overhyped, the only players that really fit the mold of it are Sancho and Bellingham(even he's a stretch with it, he also had a full season under his belt), all the rest are typical big club signings, just plucking the best players from smaller teams. I'm convinced Dortmund aren't actually interested in Chukwuemeka, it's just an easy and lazy link for the media, I believed the Leipzig one last summer much more because it wasn't as obvious.

Winning a Six Nations game had to come at a price

It's going to be on Unreal Engine 5 this time and not their own engine, so that should ease some pressure on them as they won't have to develop the engine alongside it as they did with Cyberpunk.

CD Projekt Red obviously took a hit reputation-wise with Cyberpunk (I actually enjoyed it and had very few issues, though I played it on PC) but I am so excited by this news! Witcher 3 is probably my favourite game ever and the first RPG I played properly all the way through without getting bored, can't wait to see what this new game is like. *Probably won't be Witcher 4 per se, but a new standalone series by the looks of it.

Yes, but not in the way people think. It's typically just a regression to the mean as manager's are often sacked for exceptionally poor performances, so when the manager is replaced and the team begins to perform at expectations again, it looks like a "bounce" in performances and that they are playing above their level, when they are just simply returning to their typical level of performances. For the inverse, see the Manager of the Month "curse".

Lovely moment from Adams

Capuozzo looks a great talent, I reckon there's a lot to come from this Italy team over the next few years.

Holy shit they're gonna do it!!!

He may represent the IRFU and may not be the reason Wales are winning, but it's a bit dodgy that Cardiff-born Brace is allowed to ref Wales matches.

Italy are good value for their lead at half time, a shame they couldn't get over for the try at the end. Hopefully they can keep this up in the second half.

If letting Russia annex Ukraine is the price to pay for seeing someone beat the shit out of Elon Musk, then so be it

Just tackle properly for **** sake!

An encouraging performance from Italy too, I reckon they could be a decent team when a few of their young players are more experienced internationally.

Sorry mate, you're a northerner now

Richard Jolly is a great follow on twitter.

Happening again in London This looks to be a more more modern building however so hopefully no cladding issue, but looks pretty huge. Edit: A more recent tweet makes it looks like it's a bit more under control now, but still a load of firefighters there to deal with it.

The recent stuff around referring to Kiev as Kyiv because that is the Ukrainian word instead of the Russian one has got me thinking about my biggest pet peeve in football: Bayern Munich. They're called Bayern Munchen and Bayern just means Bavaria in German, so why do we translate half the name and not the other? Just call them Bayern Munchen or Bavaria Munich, not this half commital translation nonsense!

The part where in response to people asking for him to speak out about it he immediately tried to turn it in to people criticising him for being Russian and saying "athletes have to suffer" whilst the Russian military is shelling civilians in Ukraine. He could've just said nothing and people would've understood that he may not have wanted to risk the consequences of speaking out. The comment about double standards wasn't aimed at you, it was just something that annoyed me when reading Dzyuba's post again, but yeah, you totally got me, I was completely unaware about the Yemen civil war despite being furious over the Newcastle takeover and voting in our last election for the party that pledged to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia due to it's human rights abuse and role in the civil war. It is possible to care about different instances of war crimes at the same time you know.