BTW, be careful that YouTube doesn't try to auto-dub this into English for you.

It apparently detects the language as Spanish, so it auto-dubbed it into English for me... but the result is hilarious (I encourage you to try it out just to see how bad it is). It's basically like all the natural sound is partially muted and then once every few minutes there's a sound like whoever is holding the camera has Tourettes and they just suddenly say one word like "TEN!".

Also, apparently Merino is back in full training. With only Sunday and the CL final left he might not actually play again this season, but maybe he'll get a Spain call up? If Spain wonders if he's healthy, this video could be proof for them.

Some Max Dowman Facts:

• Youngest ever Premier League goal scorer by 197 days , previous record holders were:
  • James Vaughan for Everton, April 2005, 16 years, 271 days
  • James Milner for Fulham, 26 December 2002, 16 years 356 days
  • Wayne Rooney for Everton (against Arsenal), 19 October 2002, 16 years 360 days
• Youngest ever Arsenal goal scorer, beating Cesc Fabregas by 139 days. You might recognize some of the other names on the list:
  • Cesc Fabregas, December 2003, 16 years, 212 days
  • Jack Wilshere, September 2008, 16 years, 266 days
  • Stewart Robson, March 1982, 17 years, 127 days
  • Arturo Lupoli, November 2004, 17 years, 138 days
  • Ethan Nwaneri, September 2024, 17 years, 188 days
  • Thomas Meade, January 1895, 17 years, 243 days
• Won the Player of the Match, but wasn't allowed to do the interview because he's too young, apparently you have to be 18 to do the POTM interview. (Good thing they don't call it Man of the Match anymore, I guess!)
• Gyokeres accepted the award on his behalf, and was asked if he'd give it to Max in the dressing room -- he can't. Max isn't allowed into the dressing room. He's too young.
• Some of the ball boys at the match were older than Dowman
• Dowman is not old enough yet for a professional contract, so he currently earns £356 per week
• This 16 year old was only on for 16 minutes, but no player had more successful dribbles than him (2 out of 4 attempted)
• No player had more shots on target than him (but that was just 1. It was a good one.)
• He had 28 touches in those 16 minutes. Madueke had 32 in 60 minutes. Kai Havertz had 26 in 60 minutes. (William Saliba led the team with 127 touches and 110 passes)

Other fun facts that aren't Max Dowman facts:

• Wayne Rooney was the youngest goal scorer ever at just under 17, and his reign lasted 68 days. Then James Milner took his record, beating his age by only 4 days. James Vaughn beat them both, and since he played for Everton, Wayne Rooney couldn't even claim the youngest Everton goalscorer record either.
• Mikel Arteta has a son, Gabriel, who currently plays as a winger for Arsenal's U17s. (Gabriel Arteta is 6 months older than Max.)

( Image credit: https://www.poorlydrawnarsenal.com/everton-arsenal-poorly-drawn-2/ )

This time it wasn't the thing from Nebraska.

In the most recent Arsecast, Andrew and Lewis Ambrose played a game where they picked a team of Arsenal players to lose. The restrictions were that the player couldn't be played too far out of position, and that they had to have at least 20 appearances for Arsenal in all competitions in the emirates era, and that the team be in a 4-3-3 shape.

It's worth listening to the episode. They didn't always pick the worst players, sometimes it was players who were just bad in a certain position, or surrounded by players who emphasized their faults.

You can see the two teams if you want to skip to the end.

Seems like a fun game, anybody want to post their designed-to-lose teams?

• At least 200 people have died
• The plane crashed into a doctor's hostel, injuring many people on the ground
• One passenger survived, with injuries minor enough he was able to walk away
• The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

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Stocks have almost returned to where they were 5 days ago after his latest change to the tariffs.

I need some new earbuds, and live in a place with severe winters. I want to be able to access the controls using gloves or mittens if possible.

The online reviews I've seen all assume that you can just touch the earbuds with bare hands, but when it's well below freezing, that sometimes isn't possible. If I have to take off a mitt to use my earbuds my hand might not warm up until I can get back indoors again. Earbuds that work with touchscreen-capable gloves aren't good enough either. I've never seen touchscreen-capable gloves that keep your hands warm at -40C.

Any suggestions?

First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they're buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won't have any effect for people buying used homes.

Currently the PM doesn't have a seat in the house. If he visited the house, he'd have to go to the visitor's gallery.

It's an interesting situation. The PM is the leader of the federal liberal party, but he's not a member of parliament. But, does he need to be? Is the PM sitting in the house of commons just a tradition that nobody has challenged yet? Could the PM delegate things inside the house of commons to their deputy-PM and then do things like give speeches, attend diplomatic functions, etc.?

The US has a very different system where the president isn't part of the legislative branch at all. But, typically presidents don't twiddle their thumbs waiting for something to do. Being the head of state keeps most presidents busy. It makes me wonder if technically Carney could choose not to run for office, and just spend his time doing head-of-state things rather than legislative things.

"Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release."

This sounds like a disaster.

For those who don't know, Football Manager has a yearly release schedule, and the highlight of the release is that it has a database of nearly every professional player in the world, the club they play for, and an attempt to "scout" them, giving all their various attributes from passing ability, to height and weight, to their determination.

By releasing in March 2025, they're going to release the game essentially at the end of the 2024/2025 season right before players start moving to new clubs and the database becomes obsolete. Typically, around March is when they're giving deep discounts on the yearly release because they know there won't be much remaining interest in playing a game that's almost out of date.

They really shot themselves in the foot. They could have released a Football Manager 25 that was 100% FM 24 but with an updated database, they've done it before. They could have called "Football Manager 25" something like "Football Manager Next Gen" and not tied themselves to a certain season. And, if they do manage to get Football Manager 25 out in March, are they really going to be able to do FM 26 half a year later? Will anybody buy FM 25 if they know there's a FM 26 coming out so soon?

It's amazing to me that they can even measure a 0.01 XG shot. This comes from James Benge's twitter account.

The XG graph is also interesting. Tottenham has a continuous stream of very low quality shots, resulting in the graph going up in tiny increments. Arsenal has a series of decent chances near minute 17, and then the one high-quality shot resulting in Gabriel's goal.

https://understat.com/match/26640

I'm sure part of it is Arsenal defending in a low block after scoring. But, it also smacks of desperation on Tottenham's part. If you're taking a shot that has a 1% chance of going in, rather than passing and waiting for a better opportunity, you don't believe that you're going to get a better opportunity.