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Sep 23·edited Sep 30Liked by Chris Russell

I think six celebrations is the correct answer.

1– 'Witness me' jog

2– Neymar/Harry Kane jumping fist pump

3– CR7 shush

4– Eye of the Tiger

5– Matthew McConaughey Wolf of Wall Street Hum Chest Beat

6– The Notebook embrace between Christian "Ryan Gosling" Pulisic and Alvaro "Rachel McAdams" Morata

Controversy will arise over the moments between celebrations 5 and 6, where Christian announces a "let's go" directive toward his team. In my opinion, this is not a celebratory act by Pulisic so much as an instinctive display of leadership uttered upon the success of celebrations 1 through 5. It is snuffed out by Morata's overture before getting the chance to evolve into its own celebration.

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*its

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many thanks

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Appreciate the fix. We need to make sure to focus on keeping all the details correct if this substack is going to be at the level of a Pep Guardiola, and I think that's what we really want to aspire to.

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the micro analysis of Westin and Nico's interaction is truly a masterclass in social cues and interpersonal relationships.

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Malik's poking/prodding/pushing technique is way more effective than Kyle Walker's was this weekend. Kyle should watch this review of Malik's defense on the set piece.

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Malik's technique here was effective but he's gotta be more worried about either A) the slightest bit extra either in the shove or the reaction being just a bit too far and thus leading to greater repercussions, or B) developing a reputation for this sort of thing and thus getting caught too easily when subtlety was probably already the greatest weakness about this gambit

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