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Those recent Norway videos confirmed it. Martin is the Odevertz top

"those recent norway videos" i hope its a sex tape

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Martin Ødegaard for Champions Journal no.23 "My place, my club", 18.05.2025

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favorite sports books? please 🥺

Since I get this question pretty frequently, I have decided to create a chart of the books that I currently recommend (granted I have not read all of them through and some are recommendations from trusted mutuals)

(click for better quality!)

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“i wake up every morning trying to think of ways to beat him” to “i won’t sleep very well tonight” MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL DIE

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thinking about the possibility of jannik getting to the rg final without dropping a set and then losing to carlos.... delicious

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what if you'd just returned to tennis after a 3 MONTH BAN and somehow reached the final of the first tournament you play which also happened to be your HOME TOURNAMENT. and you had to play your BIGGEST RIVAL who also happened to be the last person to have beaten u. and then he beats you AGAIN to end your 26-MATCH WIN STREAK. and he's PURPLE. well unfortunately this happened to my close friend jannik sinner

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"He's the best tennis player right now, I mean, he's destroying every opponent. I love that battle. But most of the time is just about suffering, because he pushes you to the limit. It gives you feedback of how I can be a better player. I think that's important, and that's beautiful. Even if I win or not, it gives you a lot of stats and gives you feedback."

Carlos Alcaraz on Jannik Sinner at the eve of RG 2025 final

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I had a field day on getty images

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“it’s a privilege in every tournament making history with you. in this tournament, in other tournaments. you’re a great inspiration for the young kids, for myself.”

— carlitos talking about jannik in his champion speech

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it was an honor risking you

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probably the greatest opening to a sports memoir ever...

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Kai and Dec push Martin to celebrate after he scores the 2nd goal | Southampton - Arsenal (A), 25.05.2025 ©️ Dylan Martinez/Reuters

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chose this club when we were at our lowest. took so much shit from our own fans all season while coming back from injury. found his home in north london. he would have died for this.

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For those in the NVB, and many investors outside of it, football was not purely a game separate from society but was an integral part of the wider drive to educate the young and construct a ‘better’ society. As with other cultural products, and organised activities, football was able to reproduce discourses of discipline in society; from the design of stadia to the organisation of leagues and matches, football brought order, ranking and segregation into the city and into the daily life of thousands of individuals. Through new functional stadia, football ensured that individuals embodied the concepts of discipline in how they moved in the city and in the sporting space. Through the imposition of timetables, training, exams and norms, football spread the idea of observation and relentless scrutiny. By the end of the 1910s the emergence of many new sporting spaces firmly constructed into the urban landscape meant that new theatres of observation had been established; the football stadium became not a panopticon, where a faceless individual could watch and monitor, but a space where everyone was being watched and monitored at all times. And they were being evaluated against the sportsman, be it playing, officiating, administrating or spectating. The sportsman was an idea reproduced in the media which allowed a permanent evaluation of the individual against the ideal. It ranked, differentiated and allowed the individual to be recognised within the team, all while making the body more efficient and more useful. The period between 1910 and 1920 in Dutch football can be seen as one where functionality became central to the game: the functionality of football in society, of space in the stadium and of the individual in the team. This functionality was intended to reproduce efficient, respectful and docile citizens who would work hard; play fairly; value teamwork, honesty and respect for authority; and who would take these aspects from school to work to the playing fields. No area of modern life was without these disciplinary aspects. Football was vital because it gave the impression of freedom from work or school, while at the same time reproducing their discourses further and deeper within the body of the individual.

Nicholas Piercey, Four Histories About Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920 (emphasis mine)

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I'm always saying this

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thinking about an article i read recently about how one of the reasons former athletes struggle during retirement is that, somewhat paradoxically, they find it difficult to adjust to life without constant surveillance and examination (and by extension the imposition of alternating praise/punishment) by coaches and other staff members and it is this loss of constant supervision that makes them feel unfocused, and at a loss on how to navigate the non-sports world.