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Hey, everyone!
That’s Kit Graham at the top today. The forward joined Tottenham over the summer.
Ramble of the Day
We all have random things that we like to boast about. Mauricio Pochettino, for example, likes to boast about his abilities to sense auras, and Jeremy Renner likes to pretend he can sing. (So do I, on occasion, but only to myself.) They’re not even humble brags; they’re just weird things that one, either intentionally or otherwise, announce that one is decent at. I’ll mention two very different, naturally random things I casually boasted about recently.
The first one was a few days ago, when I just happened to utter the words “I’m a very good note taker.” In retrospect, it feels like a silly thing to brag about, but I suppose I can reason with myself that at least it’s a handy skill. After all, if I didn’t take decent notes of what happens in my own brain, I would probably have messier Hoddles.
The second is a bit different from the last, and was something I mentioned yesterday (for those reading, today for me as I write). Before I continue, I must issue a warning that it provides a spoiler from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the second of the Chris Pratt-Bryce Dallas Howard led films), so just skip this if you don’t want to know. If you’ve seen it, you’ll recall Sir Benjamin Lockwood, the man who wants to relocate the dinosaurs, and that he had a granddaughter, Maisie. Relatively early on, I had a theory about Maisie that I can’t believe I had the bravery to whisper to my younger sister, because it sounded dumb at the time: Lockwood used some of those dinosaur studies to create that granddaughter. She thought it was wild, and it truly was, but I was right.
I continue to say it was predictable. Neither she nor my older sister agree. Feel free to share an opinion on the matter, if you want to, or your own random boasts.
tl;dr: I accidentally boasted about being good at taking notes, and purposefully boasted about quickly guessing one of the spoilers of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Links of the Day
AC Milan will create an internal racism task force in an effort to combat racism in Italy.
The FA is looking into a tweet shared by Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva and is considering a racism-related investigation.
Barcelona’s Ansu Fati is now a Spanish citizen.
Former Manchester United midfielder Anderson has retired after a 15 year career.
Liverpool has paid Manchester City £1m after hacking the club’s scouting system in 2013.
Today’s longer read: Rory Smith on the week long Greenlandic football season for The New York Times