Publication day! My new book, "The Mbappé Project", is officially out today. It is not a biography, but an attempt to understand and explain how a football prodigy was built into a global star by his entourage and by himself, retaining control every step of the way.
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So tantalising!
Ah...I was in Helsinki not long ago...enquired...found out that Ainola was "temporarily closed"...
But I will be back. I will!
...not quite what I said, no?
Relativity is not whatabout-ism.
Evergreen, by @davidsquires.bsky.social.
Ah, merci!
Tapiola hitting 17-year-old me like a tornado, terrifying me in an exalted way I'd never experienced before, and which I still experience every time I hear it.
Then following 1st movement of No.2 with score at hand, unbelieving. There is no such thing as too much Sibelius.
Truth
What what what?
Oh, thank you, copied and bookmarked!
"Hold talks"...This is getting utterly ridicuous.
As Brian Glanville said (and said again, and again), "it's football. It doesn't matter".
I'm a bit more concerned by crooks, criminals, autocratic states and dodgy private equity funds buying our clubs myself, but priorities, eh.
Mein Gott...
In a nutshell, yes!
Dear German frends, does "Dubai-Steuerflüchtlingsabwanderungsschadenfreude" work as a "word" in your wonderful language, or am I - really - making things up?
Oh, not everyone. Bisous!
Absolute hero.
This is going to be megamassive .
Youpi!
Merci!
En effet - 30 secondes montre en main pour recevoir confirmation de l'envoi d'un code sous 24 heures!
J'imagine que Philippe est déjà pris...
Yes, 2001.
One second, those AI visionaries tell us that their tech "can" (not "could") transform humanity, a claim that is gobbled up by the media for no other reason than the visionary who makes it is a billionaire.
The next, they let it slip it's about stock market speculation and winning big on Polymarket.
...as did "Space Oddity". That arrangement of Bowie's classic is genius.
youtu.be/YWjTbB4ONeM?...
Brian Wilson's music was at the heart of the experiment, which took place in 1976 and 1977. "You're So Good To Me", "God Only Knows" and other songs of his also received the Langley Schools treatment/transfiguration...
Thank you, Daniel. It was.
More or less, yes. Probably more than less.
Thank you so much. Your support means an awful lot to us!
Oh, I'm not worried...for them.
Of course they will.
