#my favourite football player

[skiernerd]

Messi of Monte Carlo 👑

#charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #fight aids cup 2024 #my favourite football player #true high performance athlete #babygirl was so out of breath whole time #and then he tripped on nothing and ‘’hurt’’ his ankle #I’m convinced that it was just an excuse to stop making fool of himself #the drama!!

[indeliblescarspivotalmarks]

taylor then vs taylor now

#my favourite football player #swiftie #taylor swift #taylorswift #taylor #ts #taylor swift eras #taylornation #taylurking #ts meme #ts nfl #nfl #football taylors version #chiefs #tayvis #travis kelce

[thetarttfuldickhead]

”Who’s this then?” she asks, as if she doesn’t know, and only to hear the excitement in Jamie’s voice as he tells her all about Roy Kent.

She’s a City girl through and through and it is a little jarring to see different colours up on her wall, but that’s what being a parent is all about, isn’t it? Loving someone enough to love what they love, even if it turns out to be the captain of bloody Chelsea. 

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Posters come and go, there are girls and footballers and other girls and other footballers and then others still, but Roy Kent stays where he is, slap bang in the middle and staring right at her with those weirdly intense eyes whenever she gets in the room to hoover.

Needs to relax a bit, that one, she thinks, more than once. For all the pictures and clips Jamie has shown her, she’s never seen Kent smile. Plays like a god, though, one of those vengeful ones, so she guesses she can see the attraction.

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It’s obvious that Jamie’s not happy, and she’s not either, what with having him move down all the way to London to play for AFC Richmond of all teams. Still, she supposed a loan make sense, get him more minutes and bit of experience.

“Didn’t Roy Kent move there after he quit Chelsea?” she asks, and is pleased with the way Jamie’s eyes light up a little at that. “You’ll get to play together now.”

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“He’s a nasty bastard. Right fucking bitter about not being as good as he was, yeah?”

She doesn’t hear much more about Roy Kent after that, not for another year or so. Doesn’t hear much from Jamie at all, really, not even after he returns to Manchester. When he does stop by – for Christmas, for her birthday – he talks about just about anything but football. Doesn’t mention fighting Kent on the pitch, doesn’t say a word about calling him a knob on national television.

Doesn’t take the poster down either, though, she notices when he’s gone.

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“Jamie Tartt is a muppet and I hope he dies of the incurable condition of being a little bitch,” Roy Kent says and she’s already halfway out the sofa when Simon’s hand on her arm holds her back.

“If Jamie wants it down he’ll take it down,” her husband tells her.

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She sees her son crouching, defeated, on Wembley grass, and her heart breaks for him. Two days later he’s outside her door and in her arms and he’s talking like he hasn’t talked to her since he was loaned to Richmond and her heart breaks for him all over again.

She can’t wish she had never gotten with his wanker of a father, for how can she, when she got Jamie out if? Still, there’s no stopping her from wishing James falls down a sewer and drowns in shit, gagging on it as he goes.

“And I’m just standing there, like I couldn’t move or something, right, but then Roy walks over and I though he was going to fucking punch me, but he just hugged me, like really tight, and I fucking bawled my eyes out. Dead embarrassing, it was, but… made me feel safe, too. Made me think of you.”

She stops flipping the poster off, after that

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“So Roy offered to train me, special,” Jamie says, and she thinks it sounds a bit like torture personally, the things Kent is apparently having him do in the middle of the bloody night, but Jamie’s nothing but enthusiasm and barely contained pride so she’s happy for him.

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She knows that other parents might have been surprised to see their son befriend and then bring home people whose pictures he still has on his wall, but their sons are not Jamie, are they?

Roy Kent proves far less domineering than she might have suspected. Doesn’t shout once, is polite about Simon’s baking, and tells her he loves her before he leaves. Definitively has some issues, but seems a nice enough lad for all of that.

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Simon drives them down to London for Jamie’s 26:th birtday and it’s only the third time she’s ever been to his Richmond home. As she exits the car, Roy Kent exits Jamie’s front door and pauses at the sight of her.

“Hey,” he says, and it’s a bit endearing, the way he sounds unsure, like he doesn’t know what to make of her or how to act around her.

No need for any of that, though.

“There he is,” she exclaims, adding, “I’m going to hug you now,” before doing just that.

His body is solid and hard and held so fucking stiff, but after just a moment – surprisingly quickly, really – he relaxes into the embrace, like maybe it’s one he’s been wanting for a very long time. He holds her tight and she lets him and she can see what Jamie means about him being a great hugger.  

Eventually, she gently pulls back a little, so she can smile up at him as she says, “Thank you.”

Off his furrowed brow, she continues, “For what you’ve done for our Jamie. I know it’s meant a lot to him, you training him and being his friend and everything.” 

“Oh. Jamie’s told you about that, has he?”

And she must raise her eyebrows at that, kindly but incredulously. “Of course he has, love. Never shuts up about you, does he?”

As it turns out, Roy Kent does know how to smile after all.

#georgie tartt #roy kent #jamie tartt #roy & jamie #ficlet #my stuff #like jamie's whole thing with roy is such a wild thing but i feel like georgie would just have been so decidedly NOT surprised about it #of course her special boy and golden child is going to become bff:s (and maybe more!) with his favourite football player #that's just jamie right? #also roy probably need a mummy hug SO BAD

[southstand]

i wanna be in that number… 🎶

#tottenham #football #my absolute favourite video in the world. the way you can hear that wall of singing as the players are IN the fucking tunnel … #this was spurs v ajax @ home btw #the tifo … the noise … the singing … take me back 🥺🥺🥺 #rahul.txt

[thebusylilbee]

football players ? they're so lame i hate them i- *trips* *thousands of pictures of Kylian Mbappé hugging Olivier Giroud spill from pockets* fuck those aren’t mine i swear i’m just holding them for a friend i- *slips on a fresh pile of pink haired Antoine Griezmann pictures* fuc k no they’re not mine i hate this sport i just- *additional pictures of Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi fall out as i fall to my knees, desperately trying to pick everything up* hang on a sec jUst LISTEN

#kylian mbappe #achraf hakimi #olivier giroud #antoine griezmann #psg #france nt #football #bee tries to talk #me irl : I DON'T CARE FOR SPORT also me online : *puts little hearts under my favourite football players' pics*

[mchiti]

There are teams out there that are failing even after spending 600 millions in less than one year and then there's Roma, with that team they have now, that is currently third in serie A, most of it thanks to Mourinho who is doing wonders. And that's when you know there are managers that really deserve to be where they are. Some others managers, well, honestly they don't.

#if they add a few quality players next summer honestly they are going to be incredibly competitive #yeah do I still think about Hakim being at Roma #honestly every day #fans are so happy and mourinho knows football #remember when he said 'I can't succeed without a black striker' ? he gets it. I love him. #the way he loves tammy btw #second favourite team in italy I'll die for roma #i need hakim with tammy and dybala honestly this is my dream ok i'm admitting this in front of everyone #sure psg is psg but go to serie A khoya #win the scudetto have fans writing songs for u be and embrace being the legend u deserve to be

[paddockbunny]

Listen, I don’t look good in red Mason!!! It clashes with my blonde hair. Now if you’d have gone to Man City we could have been something, we could have went the distance baby.

#mason mount #chelsea fc #red is my least favourite colour #blue all the way #I don’t have a damn clue about football I just like the pretty players

[lewishcmilton]

ferrari is such a safe team to support bc you have merc fans fighting for their life, red bull fans that should definitely be in therapy, but ferrari is just?? safe??

#bland #asked a guy who his fav f1 team is. guess what he said #its like me saying my favourite football player is messi because thats the only one i know 😭

[maxvchamp]

i am in france, two thousands kilometers from home and it's sunday yet again and i can't help but think of places that are so far away and people that i'll never see again.

#just being sad over my favourite football player leave my club #whose last game i did not see #because i'm in different country #god how i miss my hometown smh #gadu gadu stary dziadu

[southstand]

never forget your #herstory 👍🏾

#tottenham #football #probably my favourite thing about pl football. man city doing a quadruple charge and forgetting how to play football at tottenham #like how are WE their bogey team it kills me dead every time 😭😭😭 #fraudiola called us the ‘harry kane team’ once and it stuck with our players forever ig #rahul.txt

[justcakeythings]

Wait there's regular songs that mention footballers?!

#I'm gonna start my own lyrics like it #Music #Football #Not even my favourite ever other player who was just England and MLS gets a mention #But still haha #Talking about love and stuff #Using footballers as metaphor #It's class #It's so English

[mchiti]

u know, I L O V E football because I love the game and I admire the players, who are after all just people like us who got to success. many of them weren't born into privilege and you relate to their experiences - like I relate to moroccan players born into diaspora myself. It's just upsetting to realise rich people behind football who invest on it and gain profit from it were born into that privilege and use football, my favourite thing in the world, as a way to hold onto that.

Now, you might have heard about the UK's plan to deport migrants in literal concentration camps in Rwanda? - The fact their prime minister, Sunak, he's also of Indian Punjabi descent btw -

Seeing the pictures of an uk minister - another conservative of Indian descent!! - visiting those camps, smiling, shaking heads with Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, just makes me SICK. Uk setting money into Kagame's hands (a 120M pounds deal, BTW) to solve "the migrants issue" for them.

And you know what also belongs to Rwanda's government?

The "Visit Rwanda" sponsor campaign you can see onto Arsenal and PSG shirts. Just another african government making affairs with european governments in spite of the life of their african brothers and sisters and sportwashing it in the name of football.

#like would be very nice if I didn't care at all but sadly I do #and I know football is twisted to the core that's why I'm only here to support my favourite players and my clubs and have fun #but truly when you think of it. #also 'don't bring politics into football' they say

[7yearsofdele]

Never forget Danny Rose’s League debut NLD goal.

#miss you always Danny 💙🤍 #one of my favourite spurs players ever #football #tottenham hotspur

[alexis-mac-allstar]

#e writes #poll-lease answer my poll #football fanfic #football rpf #spy au #the fic is gonna focus on Arsenal players fyi #and probably on Martin specifically because he’s my favourite #but I like lots of players in the prem so I anticipate many cameos

[woofety]

I'll take any of these four players on court rn over Coello/Tapia or Lebron/Galan thank you very much

#i wonder #padel #sanz/nieto are my current male dream team #given that my favourite player is momo but I'm still waiting for him to find a suitable partner #not really for the talent sanyo has but for his horrible attitude - yanguas please come back 😭 #I doubt that bela will let him go so soon though so I'm still suffering for him #anyway I'm aware that in terms of talent coello/tapia and lebron/galan are far superior than everyone else #but I'm sorry I just don't have fun watching them play I just get bored #of not irritated (especially for lebron/galan attitude on the court - I just can't stand them) #among the 3 big pairs I only save stupa/di nenno because not only they are excellent #but I have a soft spot for di nenno and his story - to me he is really the definition of padel #for the way he plays and lives the sport the hard work and resilience #I have particular opinions about sports and they usually lead me to suffering #because the players I like often are not the top ones who win everything or almost #more than particular I would say masochist 😅 #but to me it goes beyond how much one wins so yeah I'll keep suffering and be glad about it #because when sometimes a victory comes the satisfaction is almost exhilarating #and well I believe sports are more than winning matches #my father low key says I'm not a true fan because of this mentality #he has a more 'extreme' opinion which to me is similar to many football fans borderline ultras #I think it's an awful mentality but whatever - it's not that I don't get heated (oh I do A LOT and most of the time) #but I put limits to winning at all costs and with a shady if not blatant disrespectful attitude #but I'm going off topic regarding this post lol - anyway first set to jon/coki hell yeah!!

[maxsix]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic isn't a Leo but he is the most Leo coded football player. If you're considering adopting a Leo friend, he is what to expect 50% of the time. The other 50%? We're graduates of Clown University. Leos are stupid. Don't adopt a Leo friend. Please.

#zlatan ibrahimovic #it just hit me that he retired #and i will never see him play #sigh #swedish nt #i love this lunatic #he is my favourite football player #not for the stats or glory #but for the passion of the game #and the chaos #i swear my dad and i are haaland stans bc we kept on seeing his highlights on tv #and kept being like #Viking scored again #(my dad loved Vikings)