All about those Youtube hits, sadly. Check out the views disparity between that clip of bliss and just about any other segment they chuck up on their channel. They know what drives traffic, though that’s not the same as knowing how to tell good stories. 

There are a myriad of anecdotes out there about the likes of Jose Mourinho conversing with players in the showers, or Tony Pulis actually showering with his players.

“Bruh, I’mma steal your mace.”

If it was just the raised hand I’d be inclined to agree. But raised hand + other hand above his lip, mimicking Hitler’s infamous tache?

AKA Dickie Dick.

“using only its 22 feet...”

“Yeah, I felt pretty bad, but I went up to the kid and his dad and I was like, ‘Hey it’s my first touchdown, is there any way we can switch you out?’ So we ended up getting him another ball. They were really nice about it,” Sudfeld said. “But I really wanted to keep the first touchdown pass.”

Southampton fans: ‘No.’

Oleg Salenko would like a word.

Alternatively.

Unquestionably. That hard-earned cachet established over the Ferguson decades (and to a slightly lesser but equally-important extent, the Busby + Best years) doesn’t just disappear on the back of a few barren seasons. Granted, it’s not the best job in the country (Pep claims that mantle at City, unless UEFA decide to…

None of that trio were given a new 4.5-year contract mid-season, though. That’s a mark of how seriously they rate him. If it wasn’t for Marco Silva’s voracious appetite for club-hopping he’d probably still be there.

Javi Gracia is doing particularly well, looks set to break the mold in terms of typical plug and play/fire and forget Pozzo appointments.

The one big thing United have going for them re: Poch is they have a proven track record of giving post-Ferguson mangers a whole bunch of time. If Jose hadn’t Josed things up to the degree he did he could have quite easily seen out the season in mediocre fashion. Poch would basically have the same degree of job…

You underestimate Florentino’s appetite for the objectively absurd.

Back in the day they used to draw the quarters and semis on the same night, though they stopped doing so a number of years ago. Presumably to create more work for UEFA wunderhost Pedro Pinto.

“the biggest shock in international soccer history.”

“...some bad sod shredded a player’s knee and jeopardized the rest of their season.”

“could be the difference between relegation and survival...”

Get a load of that ref, what a Donbass.