i will defer to you on knowledge of germany but i feel, not unlike increasingly secular uk, the country's institutions, values, "vibes" etc were built from protestant notions. which makes it different to spain or italy.

today, yes. but it's traditionally a protestant country.

Five wins for Protestant countries, two of which were against other Protestant countries. Which means Germany is the only nation to have beaten a Catholic nation in the final.

not sure this was quite what they had in mind

Diacritics function differently in French and Spanish. In French, it changes the pronunciation of a letter, in Spanish only the emphasis inside a word. French speakers sometimes add accents as a pronunciation aid, especially when transliterating from other languages, eg in this case Arabic

my guess is city weren't an option for him last summer, but they are now and that was his preference

sounds like his contract is up in the summer and he was going to go to spurs then, but it's been accelerated to right now for reasons

this kind of move makes sense if they're ~5 points ahead of where they actually are: title race basically over, champions league safe, etc. that's not the reality.

they were playing in such different eras, you really have to account for that

i see you do this a lot bsky.app/profile/pizz...

where is the eric cantona or arsene wenger of france

yeah. saying nothing is always an option, and one people usually won't even notice.

ekitike and salah are theoretically the wingers in this team, except that the "strikers" wirtz and szoboszlai will drop much deeper to create space for them.

being such a noted defender of women in sport, i'm sure tnt sports presenter laura woods will be appalled, what with her priority of protecting women.