Only us, Man U, and Brighton got actual games. Skids being greased for the likes of Arsenal and City. Very cool.

Yes, exactly right. Was thinking of my guy Stoppard here. Plenty in JUMPERS and THE INVENTION OF LOVE "sounds like writing," but the style fits the context.

Just wondering what it’d take for Xavi to get consistent starts is all

The error a lot of audiences made, I think, was expecting a Nancy Meyers-style romantic dramedy (which admittedly the early trailer kinda gives), when in fact the movie is like a group of Marxist grad students writing a romantic dramedy (I say with praise).

We’d need to clone Xavi a couple of times to pull this off

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE but with the most insufferable people you've ever met.

Even his roasts are polite. While working in his archive I read a letter he wrote to a hotel in the early '90s that would be the greatest Yelp review ever published had Stoppard the inclination to do that kind of thing. Simultaneously pointed and affable.

Insane that he put out a work as major as LEOPOLDSTADT in his final years. Unlike a lot of "late style" examples, still feels quite continuous with his masterpieces but just so slightly different (rather than wholly unusual).