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YYYYYAAASSSS

firetruck YESS

OH piss off

The firetruck

Quid reactions everyone

Liverpool those diving c unts

Well, if you stop to think about it it's VERY lady like

Well that was heartbreaking

The highs are quite something though

Almost makes it worth it

Oh yeah, the plot and character development is unmatched

Real box office shit

Reminds me of the cricket World Cup final, although that reduced my faith in humanity, still hugely entertaining

throwing just to make character development

Probably has to do with the Jeremy Renner accusations

@Estoria#4001
Pochettino grew up in Murphy, a small farming village in Santa Fe, which also saw the birth of Spurs substitute goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga among the 4,000 people who call it home, with a ratio of one Champions League finalist per 2,000 inhabitants.

At the age of 14, he was discovered by Marcelo Bielsa's legendary assistant, Jorge Griffa, who was responsible for discovering such talents as Gabriel Batistuta, Jorge Valdano, Maxi Rodriguez and Gabriel Heinze, naming only a few players who emerged from the fertile football fields of Santa Fe. Pochettino moved to Rosario, where he began working as a juanto a El Loco in the youth divisions of the leper club.

Bielsa was the man who gave his final approval to the signing and traveled to Murphy to convince the teenager's parents to let him move to Newell's, while taking the opportunity to get a good look at his potential star.

"One night, at one o'clock in the morning, he came to my house, knocked on the door and wanted to see a 13-year-old boy. He wanted to see my legs! To me, he's a person I'll always admire. People call him 'El Loco Bielsa', but for me, he's not crazy at all. To me, he's a genius. A person with charisma and a very different personality from our normal coaches, and that's what makes him special," he reminded ESPN.

When Bielsa was promoted to coach the first team in 1990, Pochettino had already been there two years. With El Loco on the bench and Poche directing the defence, Newell's enjoyed one of the best moments in their history, winning two national league titles and reaching the final of the Copa Libertadores for the second time in 1992, where they lost on penalties to Sao Paolo.

That Libertadores campaign really began with a disaster, losing 6-0 to San Lorenzo at home. Outraged, members of the red-and-black's hooligans headed to Bielsa's family home to protest, only to be greeted at the door by the manager brandishing a grenade.

@Estoria#4001 football is mad hype

So much lore

Damn, that wall of text

@Star Maker Hype
"If you don't leave now, I'll pull the pin and throw it," he warned, before chasing the thugs who scattered over several blocks, grenade in hand.

Bielsa opted to trade Newell's for Mexico after the defeat in the Cup final, but Pochettino stayed. A year later, Diego Maradona's arrival in La Lepra went around the world. The Argentinian football legend, fresh from his time with Sevilla, opted to join the Rosario club to continue his return after a lengthy ban on cocaine use that forced him to leave Napoli.

More than 40,000 fans attended his first training session. And Pochettino was chosen to share a dormitory with Diego when Newell's traveled. "It was amazing because I always had his picture on my bedroom wall. And then I was with him, it was tremendous. I remember my first night. I turned off the light and I lay there trying to see if I could sleep. I couldn't believe it, I thought I was dreaming, that it wasn't real."

Maradona's time at the Leper turned out to be turbulent, highlighting by injuries, problems with coaches and very little time on the field. He would only play a total of five games for the club, and he couldn't score. However, Diego stayed until early 1994, participating in the summer pre-season plans at the Mar del Plata resort.

However, as Pochettino can attest, life with the little genius was never predictable: "We were all together in pre-season at Mar del Plata and had shared a room the day before. That night, because he loved basketball, he had gone to see the final of the League. In the morning, when I woke up, he wasn't in his bed.

The mystery of Diego's whereabouts on that February 2, 1994 would not be cleared up until hours later. "After breakfast we went to training and then came back for lunch. Nobody knew where Diego was yet. While we were eating, we saw the news on TV: he was shooting at journalists in Buenos Aires, 400 kilometers away from where we were".

While Pochettino slept, Maradona returned from the Atlantic coast of Argentina to his home in Moreno, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. When he woke up to find a herd of reporters at the doors, Diego opened fire with an air rifle, injuring six members of the press and threatening the rest. In 2002, he received a two-year prison sentence and payment of damages to the injured

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Anime backstory

It really is

Grenades and rifles

It reached the 60s (Fahrenheit) in New York... in January

Global warming

Had to bring that heat from the South w/ you, didn't ya, @KH-Queen?

Aww but how will you get the feeling otherwise?

need a TLDR

Fine urgh

TLDR indeed

Tl;dr
Players riot because they lost the cup final and turn up to the managers house, manager gets a grenade and tells them to firetruck off or he'll kill everyone