Episode 1412: Manchester United Win In Fergie-Time With A Dubious VAR-Assisted Penalty – And The World Rejoices
We talk about the perils of narrativising: Thomas Tuchel wishes his players would stop seeing catastrophic patterns in what is no more than averagely-terrifying chaos. Ole Gunnar chooses to surf the wave of destiny rather than act as though it doesn’t exist.
Piece on Solskjaer’s impressive prediction of how game would go, and how that helped convince United playershttps://t.co/OuhemdyLKZ
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) March 7, 2019
Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjær: ‘We can go all the way. We just have to wait for the draw and then take the game as it comes. We’ve had loads of injuries, suspensions, but maybe that was a good thing today because we had a fresh team and loads of energy.’ pic.twitter.com/48WZ4xFcUn
— Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) March 7, 2019
Miguel Delaney was in Paris to see United’s glory show. We pick over the bones of Paris’ defeat: where do they go from here? Will Neymar ever play another Champions League knockout game?
PSG and having money for a heart. https://t.co/wLxsa0AFoy
— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) March 7, 2019
Plus there’s the latest from Ireland’s squad announcement, where Mick McCarthy announced a 38-man panel that contained a few surprises, just not the surprises we were expecting.
What an unbelievable feeling to be called into the senior squad for the first time. By far this is the proudest moment of my career ???????? https://t.co/OS28CJlZDo
— Padraig Amond (@padraigamond21) March 7, 2019
More than a touch of 23 years ago about the background to McCarthy’s first Ireland squad…. https://t.co/Qs6vyaUPQk
— emmet malone (@emmetmalone) March 7, 2019
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Ken discusses Ramos the movie, the sweet relief of defeat for Madrid, the brilliance of Ajax, and the next 6 months of back-biting, scapegoating and transfers that Real have to look forward to.https://t.co/WAJZnzjp1g pic.twitter.com/ZIl4pejGXK
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Ireland are still fighting for this 6 Nations title, and Shane Horgan and Gerry Thornley analyse (at 30.05 mins) Joe Schmidt’s rarely discussed soft skills as he tries to mend their minds ahead of the France game.
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.@knbrmurph tells us about Bryce Harper, the baseball player who has signed a 13-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies worth $330 million, which makes it the most expensive contract in US team sports history…
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— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) March 5, 2019
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