Running for Congress on a platform of keeping Thierry Henry off TV forever.

The splash screen music may be garbage, but on the other hand the rest of the app is also terrible.

"Mathys Tel had a very poor game" is both not abuse and, unfortunately, entirely accurate.

Funny you should mention that...

This wasn't on my mind when I first made the post, but any time you remember Spurs winning a European trophy was more recent than the last time Arsenal won one.

I don't know what the solution is. It's possible everyone has a different idea of what the problem even is. But I'm entirely convinced that treating women's football as a circus sideshow or a financial mechanism to sidestep the spirit of PSR is much closer to a problem than to a solution.

And finally, Chelsea and Villa selling their women's teams for PSR headroom shows how tenuous the women's game is still. It's not exactly helpful to women's football at large if clubs will pull financial moves to enable more spending on the men's.

Who's subsidizing whom?

Then you invest where you can see a return. Right now, there's room for the women's game to grow (and even more if the dumbs learn to shut up), and for relatively little investment. What investment does it prevent to buy a female player for a few hundred thousand, or even a whole million, pounds?

There's also some heavy business illiteracy going on with the "no subsidies for women's football" argument. If the point of these businesses is to make money--and make no mistake that every single Premier League football club is a moneymaking enterprise first and foremost--

But also, I very believe that men's football benefitted from some amount of public subsidy at points in history. In fact, there's argument to be made that men's football is subsidized today West Ham's stadium.

Which already strikes me as an odd opinion for football fans to have. I'll need Some Convincing to believe that less football is somehow good for football.

I've called for greater investment into women's football outside of this platform, and I'm always met with the complaint that women's football shouldn't be subsidized by the men's game. Women's football should stand on its own or die, is the refrain.

This is why I have exactly no patience for comments or "jokes" about the quality of women's football. It takes a special kind of uncritical thinking to expect women's football to offer the same experience as a system with literally decades' worth of first-mover advantage and then laugh about it.