#we play football

[kinardsevan]

WIP Wednesday

Finally gettin' things done on that Football AU.

“Publicist want you to keep pushing that PR relationship,” Evan asks. Tommy looks up at him, and there’s a smirk playing on his lips.  “Yeah,” Tommy says dismissively. “Even though it was publicly acknowledged to have ended weeks ago.”  Evan nods as he leans past him once more, drops the waterbottle back into the carrying crate. Tommy realizes it’s the same one he used a few minutes before, and finds himself licking his lips.  “Been there, done that,” Evan replies. “Spent weeks telling mine that the reporter she wanted me to keep hanging out with just wanted soundbites.”  Tommy nods and reaches down for his helmet.  “Look, we should get a beer,” Tommy tells him as he pulls the helmet back over his head. “Since we’re going to be in this working relationship for the next six months.”  Evan nods back at him.  “I got a meeting with some of the coaches after the press conference at two, and then the team meeting after that, but I should be available after that, if you want to meet up,” Evan offers.  Tommy nods, snapping his chin strap into place.  “Sounds good. I’ll meet you outside of the locker room then.” 

[choccy-milky]

bloody beater seb🥴💞

[6ebe]

When I said Spain were violating child Labour regulations I didn’t think they actually were 😭

[grumpyghostdoodles]

The Almighty Sheriff!

Save a horse, ride a cowboy~

[footballshowrot]

having a normal one👍

[pernillecfcw]

The absolute shithoursery I love it 😂😍

[bamboo-bees]

Please. Please be nice to him

[hunterintheice]

I don't know if we'll ever get to see more of it, but the early SaintShin dynamic re Saint's gang is so interesting to me.

Obviously, Saint is poor, isn't doing well academically, has an alcoholic father, and doesn't have a lot of control over his life and his future. Was the gang (built on the only thing he was good at - fighting) the only place where he could feel in control? Was this why this place, where Saint could be the best and the most important, meant so much to him?

But then again, we see that he is willing to let Shin be the "Boss", order him around, playfully insult him, and poke him. So obviously Shin had a very special place in the hierarchy, especially considering that he has to be personally cajoled by Saint into going to the internet cafe for some fight.

So it's all the more interesting (read totally fucking me up) that when Shin tried to leave it was the gang and its rules that Saint tried to use to make him stay, where previously Shin was more or less exempt from them. Was it because Saint felt like his control was slipping? Because he thought that putting Shin back into this hierarchy would give Saint power to make him stay? Because even right before the whole beatdown starts Saint still asks Shin if he's sure he wants to do this (with a kind of desperate hope that this is the point where Shin will finally reconsider). It is also interesting that Saint is the only one beating Shin, with all other boys just kinda...standing there, since usually a punishment like that would entail a sort-of group-beatdown? And god, what a stupid rule, truly deserving of a group of 15-16 year old boys.

Still, it's like even at his angriest Saint can't alow anyone else to hurt Shin.

It's also curious how in the present one of the first things Saint does is express his willingness to be Shin's gofer, again trying to put them both in this sort of rigid hierarchy, just with their roles reversed. Is it out of desire to have a familiar pattern to fall into in a very unfamiliar situation? An attempt to forge at least some sort of relationship between them?

Something-something patriarchy and society making boys believe they can only express anger and not sadness, something-something Shin saying no one will ever make him cry again, and still shedding tears whenever he is face to face with Saint.

[leclercskiesahead]

FOOTBALL CARLOS ALERT

Carlos was playing football with the Ferrari factory staff during this break!!!

[sudaca-swag]

you can ask me a non usamerican what I would have done, I would have started a different independent party and won unlike u losers

[thetarttfuldickhead]

But the day it suddenly occurs to Roy just how fun it would have been to play football with Jaime, if Jamie hadn’t been such a colossal prick back when they were on the team together? Like, of course he’s always known that Jamie was great and all, but the whole ‘makes me want to puke’ thing really obscured the fact that it could have been brilliant.

But it wasn’t, and then Jamie was gone and Roy retired and then Jamie was back and Roy returned as a coach and he never thought too much about what could have been, until one day when he sees Jamie and Richard or whoever pull some truly spectacular, nigh on telepathic shit on the pitch and he’s suddenly stunned by the realization that I fucking missed out on that.

It pisses him off a bit (as most things are wont to do), so he confronts Jamie about it, like, “Why the fuck did you have to be such a prick, we could have been fucking fantastic together?”

Jamie makes a face, because hello, random and uncalled for? “Um, why did you have to be such a nasty old bastard, mate? It takes two to tangle, like.” And before Roy has time to tell him that it’s tango, you dolt, Jamie adds, “Besides, doesn’t matter how nice I’d been about it, you’d still have been proper bitter about me being better than you.”

And that’s… a little bit true, maybe, because Roy did fucking love being the best on any team he ever was one, and he was fucking bitter about slowing down and growing old. But even so…

“Would have been fucking worth it,” Roy decides.

Jamie nods, slightly subdued, perhaps. It would have been. And it’s a sorrow, the fact that they wasted that opportunity on hating each others’ guts – but isn’t it a wonder, too, that they found their way past all that?

“We’re pretty fucking fantastic together now, Coach,” Jamie says, gently bumping his shoulder against Roy’s.

Roy grunts, in the way that means yes.

[torch-the-throne]

Just saying what we're all thinking. Voice of a nation.

[whitehartlane]

HEUNGMIN SON, HE'S ONE OF OUR OWN. ↳ "Please give a lot of love to Tottenham Hotspur."

Ange on Sonny / Sonny signs for Tottenham in 2015 / Sonny signs an extension / Sonny signs another extension through till 2025 / Maisie Peters, 'Place We Were Made' / GQ Korea, 10 Things Son Heungmin Can't Live Without / Nora Sakavic, 'The King's Men' / Sonny joining Spurs in 2015 / Sonny being appointed club captain in 2023 / Stray Kids, 'You Can STAY' / Sonny squashing rumours about him going to the Saudi league / Sonny talking about being captain / Sonny on extending his contract / Tottenham 3-1 Chelsea, 24 Nov 2018 / Sonny's Instagram post after becoming captain / Sonny leading the lads out to the away end at Brentford Community Stadium to clap them and huddle in front of them before kickoff / @moonlitsgarden, 'waiting room' / Tottenham on Sonny's contract extension

[theidlespoon]

how the fuck did southgate manage to bottle a team of top notch players THAT badly

[yeetusthemighty]

At a football game and within the first 2 minutes the other team has two touchdowns and our team was penalized because one of the football players yelled at the ref 💀

[painterofhorizons]

I am not into football. I couldn't be less into football. But there are football funko pop figures who just yell at me turn me into Mass Effect custom pops.

Why are you so expensive, Jürgen Klopp?!