Eden Kane Puns

Sorry for the long post. I just wanted to put things into perspective. Please, give it a read.

No matter what the outcome of this season may be, all of us can agree that we need new signings this summer. Our season that we started with a bang winning two major trophies and kicking Barcelona's ass, went downhill since the start of LaLiga. Cristiano's 5 match ban, tons of injuries, dip in form, and horribly managed summer transfer window (in which we let go of some of our key in-form players without properly replacing them) are the major reasons behind our disastrous run in the league. During the rough patches of games, people pointed out many issues in our performances that I believe we need to look into in order to properly address them. The many problems that people pointed out can be summed up by following three -

• Lack of reliable goal scoring option outside Ronaldo and need of a proper no. 9
• Lack of creativity in the final third and endless crossing
• 4-4-2 Diamond and Zidane's stubbornness

The 4-4-2 diamond was Zidane's tactical response to Bale's unfortunate injury last season, bringing Isco in the starting XI. It was really a breath of fresh air as with this formation we played the most beautiful football that I have seen us play in recent times. Sadly, that's no longer the case. The key to success of 4-4-2 diamond lied in three things - the ability of our world class midfield trio to hold and circulate the ball quickly in midfield while supporting wide players, the ability of our fullbacks to provide width and wing coverage, and Isco's playmaking in the final third. For the Diamond to work, all three should work flawlessly and in harmony. This season, none of the three worked properly. Carvajal, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kroos all of them witnessed a dip in form and only recently have they started to come back. The most important key, however, is still missing - Isco. Isco last season was in form of his life - pressed like hounds everywhere on the pitch, made so many key passes in the final third, always provided outlet for our midfielders in his free roaming role and often bailed them out while getting out of high pressure. Last season, he was among the top 8 players imo. This season, however, he has regressed so much that it's shocking and is still struggling to perform well. But, Isco has always been a fighter. With his quality, he could literally walk into any other starting XI in Europe, yet he has always fought for his place in this startin

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I wanted to know which of the top goalscorers of the latest years have the best scoring record for their National Teams. It is commonly known which players are the best if you look at club only, or club and National Team combined but for NT only it's not that obvious, so here we go:

I looked at the 50 players with the most goals (113+ goals) in the top-5-leagues in the last 10 seasons (11/12 - 20/21):

I didn't include Aubameyang because there are a lot of games missing from the database.

Players who would've qualified per criteria but played 32 or less games for their NT and therefore weren't included: Lacazette, Ben Yedder, Icardi, Aduriz, Diego Costa, Gameiro, Aspas, Vardy, Quagliarella, Raúl García, Gerard Moreno.

Bare in mind that this doesn't cover for assists or considers how many of the goals were penalties. It is just a calculation of data, it is NOT the point of the table to say that Di María and Sterling are shite for their National Team but I hope you understood that anyway.

My conclusions from this: For CONMEBOL countries it's generally harder to score than in UEFA countries, the top 5 consists of UEFA only. Immobile is underperforming for Italy, just as he was in Bundesliga. Higuaín's scoring ratio being as good as Messi's is was a huge surprise for me. I think especially Dzeko's, Lewy's and Ibra's records are among the most impressive ones because they scored 60 or more g

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.