✨✨⚽️The Great Big Anniversary Issue! ⚽️✨✨
✨✨⚽️The Great Big Anniversary Issue! ⚽️✨✨
It's my [newsletter's] birthday and I'll cry if I want to🥳😭🎂
So... a year ago I had a conversation in a group chat about how there was so much about football stuff that I didn't understand and how it always made me feel like a bit of a fraud when I tweeted about the sport. Because you should always have a group chat of cheerleaders, my babes lifted me up and said no, we love your tweets! We always check what you've written to find out what's going on! I can't remember exactly what was said after that but it culminated in me pondering whether I should start a newsletter to talk about football the way I wanted to talk about it and also to help me and others understand all the sport specific lingo, how the game is played on a technical level and the stories behind the some of the most famous incidents that form the basis of the memes and phrases Football Twitter uses on a daily basis. Throw in my speciality, being thirsty, and my penchant for a good kit and I had the basis for my first issue.
I signed up to tinyletter, got the title from a well timed DM that made me die laughing and TWUTAB was born!
In September, before Deadline Day, I made the move to a bigger and better club, platform, platform, in Revue and created a nice little logo and header for myself (hashtag branding) and if I may toot my horn briefly I feel like it's gone from strength to strength since then.
At no point would I have thought I'd get anywhere near 100 subscribers, let alone nearly 500, nor would I have expected to keep this going for as long as I have. So I just want to thank everyone who's signed up, read an issue, RT'd my tweets, sent me feedback or given me a tip via KoFi, bigged me up on their podcast (Ryan and Musa, you're the best) or just been nice when I've had a wobble about it (Louise, Ewa, Hux, McMc, Selina, Alex, Fubs, Sarah D, Lia, Sarah B and Jenny, this is for you).
Here's to another year and maybe in the meantime, seeing as they're all about subversion and are obsessed with sex, Channel 4 will appoint me as their Thirst Correspondent for all the future England games they're going to be showing? Come on Pete Andrews, you know it makes sense...
The Week In Ball
This has, frankly, been an epic week for the European competitions. There's been a level of engagement and excitement that I can't remember there being for several years now? Even when we had the Liverpool v Barcelona and Spurs v Ajax head to heads I'm sure there was less hype than this year's.
So, we start in Villarreal where Liverpool were hoping to maintain or more likely increase their two goal advantage over the Yellow Submarine.
And boy. What a game!
The atmosphere was crackling before it even began, before BT and serial Cringemeister Jake Humphrey could finish their patronising babble about the size of Villarreal and the amazing achievement of getting to the semi final of the Champions League (which it was but god, the tone of the coverage was interminable).
And then, within three minutes, Villarreal scored... the rest of the half was a struggle. Liverpool looked pretty poor, they couldn't get going, their passing was off, no-one was on their game so of course, just before half time Villarreal scored again, thanks to Francis Coquelin.
PANDEMONIUM.
The Red half of my household spiralled into doom, "this isn't good, no no no, [loud shouting]". Then at half time Jurgen did Jurgen things and they came out firing. In a 12 minute period they went from the prospect of facing extra time to winning the tie 2-5 on aggregate. The first goal came from Fabinho, who gave a lovely, incredulous interview after the game, followed by star signing Luis Diaz, then Sadio Mané came along to wrap it up.
The win means that Liverpool are the first English team to play in every single game they could possibly have played in a season and winning the remaining three trophies is still in their court. Will we see an historic quadruple? Only time will tell, before they do they have to see off Manchester City, Chelsea and... well, let me explain who the third one is.
Match 2 of the Champions League Semi Finals. The Bernabeu. The atmosphere is crackling yet again, Steve McManaman is waxing lyrical about the kitmen being the same as when he played, Pep is already looking stressed. But it'll be fine right? City have got this. Sure one goal is a narrow lead but there are no away goals any more and they've got Cancelo and Walker back. It'll be FINE.
And for a while it was. City held on under a barrage of professional fouls, Real didn't seem that sharp, no-one could finish but hey, who cares, City were leading. It was FINE.
In the second half, on the 73rd minute, Riyad Mahrez scored. The Bernabeu started to empty. 3-5 on aggregate? Yeah that was definitely fine. It was FINE.
Reader: it was not fine. Not for Manchester City. In a matter of moments their joy at a nailed on second Champions League final in a row was gone. Everyone's tweets were redundant.
Of course it was Benzema who sealed it. It had to be him. And he sealed it with a penalty that was as equally beautiful as his panenka the week before. There's something about shots, penalties, free kicks that go straight and true along the ground that really gets my juices flowing. I mean watch it, hnnngh.
So there we have it. I can't really describe the emotions I had watching those last 35 minutes. My heart was racing, my cheeks were SO HOT, Twitter was lit. I didn't go to bed until half past 12 because I was so hyped. I'm very sorry to my one Manchester City supporting friend who I love and adore but I'm afraid they represent such a tiny percentage of the whole that I can't say I was anything less than delighted and hysterical at it all.
Not least because within moments of it happening, Battle!Mo had sprung into action...
Champions League: Liverpool v. Real Madrid
In the final part of this week's European adventures we had the second legs of the semis for the Europa League and the Europa League Conference. Eintracht Frankfurt took West Ham to Germany with a narrow 2-1 lead, Rangers hosted RB Leipzig who were 1-0 to the good and in the Conference Leicester went to Rome to play Roma after a 1-1 draw and Feyenoord took their one goal advantage (3-2) to Marseille.
There was far less chaos in these fixtures than the Champions League but that's not to say they were bereft of drama.
Let's start with the least interesting. In France, Marseille were trying to overcome a one nil deficit to get to the final of the Conference League. Unfortunately neither they nor Feyenoord could make any inroads, leading to the game ending 0-0 and Feyenoord capitalising on the advantage they went into the tie with.
In the other Conference semi, Leicester went to Roma, apprentice to master, to try and win to get into their second cup final in two years. Sadly (for them, not for me and my well documented Leicester vendetta) Roma's breakout star, Tammy Abraham, scored after 11 minutes and Leicester found themselves unable to score one of their own. José cried and so we have the Netherlands v Italy in the final.
Europa Conference League: Feyenoord vs. Roma
Over in the Europa League, RB Leipzig went to Scotland, to Ibrox, to see if they could make it an all German final. Now I don't like Leipzig but I also don't care for Rangers, so this was a tough one for me, someone who refuses to believe in such a thing as a 'neutral'.
Anyhoo, Rangers started off well, scoring after 18 minutes to equalise on aggregate and then took the lead just six minutes later. Leipzig fought back, getting their own aggregate equaliser via Christopher Nkunku on the 70th minute, only for Rangers to fire back on the 80th minute. It was a who's who of who's been good at Rangers this year, with the goals coming from captain James Tavernier, Glen Kamara and John Lundstram. They managed to hold on and became the team who've actually been in a major final the most recently out of the two Europa competitions to get to this year's final.
They will face the Bundesliga's Eintracht Frankfurt who dispatched West Ham in relatively straightforward fashion. West Ham weren't awful but equally they didn't have some of the fight we've seen from them in both Europe and the league this season. This wasn't helped by a silly sending off of Aaron Cresswell after a mistimed and ill judged challenge on the edge of the area. Declan Rice had some things to say about the standard of the refereeing after the game but pretty much no-one argued with the red.
There was also the bizarre incident of David Moyed booting the ball at one of the ball kids and then apologising but not apologising. It was a shame for the Hammers to go out with these incidents clouding it but they should absolutely be commended for going so far and keeping the league from fully slipping away, given the limitations of their squad.
Eintracht Frankfurt however need a mention because of their fans. It was an unreal spectacle watching them. At one point an entire side of the stadium was jumping up and down and it was so incredible and moving and mesmerising. There was also a pitch invasion at the final whistle, which the BT commentary was extremely and in my view unnecessarily pissy about. They had their fun, they moved and the players came out and it was beautiful to watch. Seville isn't going to know what hit it...
Europa League: Rangers v. Eintracht Frankfurt
Time to move on to the various leagues around Europe.
Starting with the WSL which finished this weekend in thrilling fashion.
The day started with Chelsea a point in front of Arsenal but with worse goal difference and therefore needing to win, or hope Arsenal lost, in order to secure the title.
Arsenal kicked off against West Ham and Chelsea against Manchester United and on the 13th minute Manchester United scored. This put Arsenal in the league winning spot on goal difference. Then Chelsea scored, flipping them back to the top of the table. On 25 minutes it all flipped again with Ella Toone scoring for United. Arsenal back on top.
In the second half both Arsenal and Chelsea pulled their fingers out, with Arsenal getting two in six minutes, the first from basically Stina Blackstenius' first touch and then a Steph Catley goal after. Chelsea found the form they'd had for most of the season and Sam Kerr, never one to shy away from big occasions, scored two wonderful goals, with a fourth added by Guro Reiten. At this point there was nothing Arsenal could do, even if they won 50-0, the title was Chelsea's. Congratulations to Chelsea for winning a third title in a row and to all teams for what has been a breakout season for women's football in terms of coverage and interest. I can't wait to see how the Euros goes.
Congratulations also to Wolfsburg who won the Frauen Bundesliga with a game to go.
Let's briefly stay in Germany where the title is done but there's still a fight to stay in and move up to the Bundesliga and for European places.
Firstly, a nod to my guys Dortmund who tested my nerves by allowing Greuter Fürth to score early on in the game (only to thankfully have it disallowed) and then, when they finally broke through and scored themselves, hung on for ages, only to let Fürth, bottom of the Bundesliga incidentally, score in reply. To my relief two quick goals came from Felix Passlack and a second from Julian Brandt who's having a quietly excellent season for BVB this year.
In the race for the Champions League spots, Freiburg stumbled, losing 1-4 to Union Berlin and Leipzig won, allowing Leipzig to leapfrog them into the UCL spot. With Köln losing also, Union jumped into the Conference spot.
In the relegation fight, Arminia and Furth are down but if Stuttgart pull it out of the bag against Koln on the last day of the season next weekend, and if Dortmund don't do something ridiculous against Hertha, it could be Hertha in the relegation play off spot instead of Stuttgart.
In the 2. Bundesliga Schalke managed to bounce right back up after falling last year, which means we get the Revierderby back (Schalke/Dortmund). The second guaranteed place looks likely to go to Werder Bremen but Hamburger SV and Darmstadt could still do it on goal difference. Sadly St Pauli are out of the race for the play off unless they somehow manage to spectacularly spank Düsseldorf in their last game and hope Paderborn do the same to Darmstadt.
In Spain, Barcelona yet again left it late against Betis, with whom they were drawing 1-1 until a last minute rocket volley from Jordi Alba on 90+4. This keeps them second and guaranteed Champions League football next year but with three games and nine points on offer to go, the other spots in both UCL and UEL/UECL could go to any of the remaining top 8 if my maths is correct! (Sidenote: I was a mathlete at school for a couple of years and competed in a couple of competitions despite hating the subject)
At the bottom, anyone from Cadiz down is in trouble, though the chances of Alavés and Levante pulling it out of the bag must surely be slim.
In France, Bordeaux could perhaps scrape a relegation play off place but are unlikely to, with Metz and St Etienne looking very much in danger as well. Whereas at the other end anyone from 7th place upwards could end up in some kind of European place.
Elsewhere in France, it was also the Coupe de France this weekend which was won by Nantes and a single goal against Nice.
Finally in Europe, in a title race only matched by the Premier League, Serie A had an extremely tasty weekend.
On Friday, after going down 2-0 to Empoli, Inter fought back to win 2-4 and put themselves at the top of the tree and in line for the Scudetto. However, on Sunday, in what was a really great game, Milan travelled to Verona to try and keep their hopes alive.
After Tonali scored and then had it disallowed, Davide Faraoni scored for Verona on the 38th minute. With the last kick of the half, Tonali hooked up with Leão and put Milan level with a lovely tap in. An almost carbon copy of the goal followed not long after the break with some beautiful movement by Leão, including a truly glorious little pause and dummy, allowing him to open up a bit of space to run into to slide the ball across the face of the goal and allow Sandro, whose 22nd birthday it was, to get a brace.
This was sealed by Florenzi on the 86th minute, moments after he came on as a sub, with a stunning goal that made me do an extremely undignified and somewhat sexual noise, for a 1-3 win, putting them back on top of Serie A and in pole position for the Scudetto.
At the bottom there are two matches left and after a stunning 4-3 win against Bologna, even the beleaguered Venezia aren't yet mathematically relegated. Do. Not. Sleep. On. Serie. A.
And so finally, we reach the Premier League!
The weekend began in the blackout, with no early kick off, and saw Brentford dispatch with Southampton easily, Villa getting a second win in a row against Burnley and Palace beating Watford. After this game, which secured Watford's relegation, Roy Hodgson celebrated(?) with the Palace fans which I'm afraid is just a shitty shitty move. He claimed the Watford fans were 'too far away' and sure, he's ten thousand years old but come on. There are still games to play, it was a bad bad look.
The other 3pm game saw Chelsea yet again drop the ball and go from 2-0 up against Wolves to drawing 2-2. It's difficult to know what the root cause of their current sloppiness is but they just don't seem right at the moment. It must be a difficult club to be at right now if you're someone who can't tune out external noise but considering all the elements they have you'd think they would be dispatching teams with much more ease than their current form suggests.
Which brings us neatly to the early evening kick off. Brighton v Manchester United. We've been here before haven't we. A United capitulation, a team on blistering form. What's left to say? Nothing as far as United go I don't think, it's clear there's issues all through the club from top to bottom and it's difficult to see Ten Hag being the one size fits all solution to it. So let's leave United then, we know what they are, and talk about Brighton.
Brighton opened the scoring on 15 minutes with a great goal from exciting new prospect Moisés Caicedo. That was it for the first half goals-wise but Brighton were on top throughout. Just four minutes into the second half, Spanish defender, Marc "with the Good Hair" Cucurella scored a belter of a goal and cried he was so pleased and proud. Afterwards he said that it was, to paraphrase, difficult to move to a new country where you don't know the language and it'd been hard but now he felt at home and everything was good. The collapse continued with a Pascal Groß goal after 57 minutes and then Trossard getting in on the act at 60. With only one game left somehow, United now can't finish higher than 6th, Brighton could however potentially finish 8th if results go their way, a club best.
The late evening kick off saw Spurs take on Liverpool in what may end up being a pivotal game in the title race. It was a tight, frustrating affair with the eventual outcome, a 1-1 draw, probably a fair reflection of the teams' performances. As expected Spurs were well drilled and Liverpool had an element of tiredness and made lots of sloppy passes and crosses. After Man City saw off Newcastle in triumphant fashion, winning 5-0, this could be it. The only bit of hope Liverpool have to cling on to now is that Pep revealed after the game that Ruben Dias, John Stones and Kyle Walker are all out for the rest of the season. Somehow however, I don't think this will matter. Being a Red-by-marriage this is disappointing but you can't say City don't deserve it (I mean you can, and plenty of people do but you get me).
The rest of the weekend saw Arsenal once again give me far far too much stress by allowing a ten man Leeds to get back into the game when they should have put it to bed far earlier, after Luke Ayling was sent off for a dreadful two-footed tackle on Martinelli. This result, along with Everton's win against Leicester (which I'd normally celebrate) helped in part by a wonderstrike from Vitaliy Mykolenko, meant Leeds dropped into the relegation zone and could find it very hard to escape. It'll be a real shame to see them go into the Championship even if they do seem intent on killing our players.
Finally, West Ham tonked Norwich 0-4, a good win to ease the pain of being eliminated from the Europa League but it was perhaps more notable for Brandon Williams' post-match instagram posts. I saw this at the time and had to look at it about five times and even then I didn't really get what he was trying to say. However it appears he may have been followed by Norwich fans after the game and presumably abused following this defeat? If this is the case then this is such a violation of someone's personal space and was probably scary and upsetting so it's no wonder there was a reaction (a second post, which remained up after the first was deleted, showed his dog with the caption "For the people that followed me he's always awake[many sideways laugh emojis]", on the other hand if it was something else then... well I don't really know where to begin. He's been good for Norwich and the fans wanted him to stay so it's just bizarre all round.
Well, I promised a bumper birthday issue and that section certainly was epic! Congrats if you made it all the way through and didn't just scroll down to the Thirst Trap. We have another jam packed session of Premier League and La Liga football this week, with games on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, including the long awaited and much anticipated North London Derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Arsenal can secure Champions League football and St Totteringham's Day with a win and quite frankly I feel sick just thinking about it...
Kick Off
A very brief one today (unlike the rest of this newsletter, lol), that I alluded to in the above section. This week we're going to tackle the 3pm Blackout.
In short, as 90mins explains:
Article 48 of the UEFA Statutes allows any association to decide on a set period of 2.5 hours per Saturday and Sunday during which the transmission of football within that territory is prohibited. Ever since the blackout's introduction, England and Scotland have applied this to 2:45pm to 5:15pm on a Saturday.
What this means is that not only are we not able to watch games from England/Scotland during this time, we also can't watch games from abroad. This came up earlier in the season when I was puzzled as to why BT Sport's early evening Serie A match was always billed as 'joins match in progress' and this is why. The game kicks off at 5pm when the blackout is still in force.
It was introduced in the 60s by Burnley chairman Bob Lord in order to protect clubs' revenue from ticket sales at a time where more and more households were getting television sets.
Presumably the thinking was that if you had a big ticket game on TV, loyal fans of teams lower down the football pyramid would stay at home and watch that instead. While to a certain extent this may track, there is a convenience to staying at home and in the 60s when there were only 3 channels broadcasting limited hours and certainly not broadcasting overseas football except in World Cups, this was perhaps the one chance you had to see a star player, there is also a lot to be said for going to a live game.
For many it was and still is a ritual. A time to spend with friends, a time to cast aside any thoughts about work or other concerns and just enjoy (or maybe not!) yourself for a couple of hours. It ignores the loyalty of fans who would always rather watch their team than any other.
Some argue that lifting the blackout would damage gate receipts and that it is noticeable when there's a clash with a bigger game. In my opinion though it would make more sense for all games to be available to be streamed, for a small charge, perhaps the cost of a ticket, or 50% less or something. With football so globally adored and with fans of all manner of obscure teams dotted about everywhere the revenue would surely be worth it.
Of course it shouldn't all be about money and you want a good atmosphere at your ground so there is that, however as I've already mentioned, there will always be people who want to see their team in person. Perhaps this is a cue to make the live game more approachable and accessible to all and to widen audiences that way.
Football 'eritage
A year ago we were a month shy of Euro 2020 and while I don't know if we can really call things that happened less than 12 months ago 'heritage', so much happened in that tournament that I thought it would be fun to look back and enjoy it all again.
The Tiny Car
I think this might be my first mention of the Tiny Car, bang on 8pm the day the tournament kicked off.
After Hungary disgraced themselves with their Gay Rights stance, Tiny Football Car changed its livery in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
Germany Makes A Stand for Gay Rights
After UEFA decided that the Allianz Arena was unable to be lit in rainbow colours for the group match between Germany and Hungary the whole country protested by lighting their stadia in rainbow colours. Neuer, captain for the match, also made his own subtle protest.
Christian Eriksen
Among all the joy and the memes and the fun we can't ignore the horrible incident that took place on the 12th June at the Parken in Denmark in their group match against Finland. I went through all my tweets from the tournament for this section and cried when I got to these. It's something that's been at the forefront of my mind since Eriksen signed for Brentford but also, I'd sort of forgotten it too? Anyway thank god it all worked out in the end. Here's a snapshot of how it unfolded (that I only feel comfortable including knowing what happened after)
Schick's Goal vs Scotland
When the Czech Republic's Patrik Schick scored a 50 yard stunner and sent Scotland's David Marshall tumbling into his own net, a thousand memes were born...
The Over Excited Fan
This fan became an instant meme when Switzerland came back from 3-1 down to win the Round of 16 on penalties against previous tournament favourites, France.
Bukayo On The Unicorn
Another instant meme was Bukayo Saka on the inflatable unicorn at the England camp. A truly iconic picture.
Chiellini's Hug and Mind Games
Before the penalty shoot out with Spain, Chiellini gave Jordi Alba something of a 'hug of death' with this exuberant squeeze.
The Italians Italianed
Sticking with our eventual conquerors (both in the Euros and way back when), the Italians gave us some beautiful Italian stereotypes to enjoy.
Man Puts Flare In Arse
With all the horribleness of the behaviour of the England fans at the Wembley final, there was one small moment of amusement. I found this while looking through my Euros tweets and roared all over again.
Mrs Grealish 69
God bless this woman and her shirt, which the cameras lingered on for far too long before anyone realised what it was...
England Made It To A Final
I have to end on this. I can't talk about it without welling up. What an achievement. What a wonderful group of players, not a single bad apple among them. A real credit to and advert for football. God I loved and still love them. What happened after the shootout and the way the players rallied and the response to it from (a big chunk of) the public meant that I spent about a week crying about it all. Just wonderful.
The {Offside} Thirst Trap
A year and 41 inductees into the Thirst Trap Hall of Fame and if you can believe it, this person hasn't yet been one of them.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen is is, of course, the ultimate Thirst Trap:
Jack Peter Grealish
I remember when Jack first came into the public eye. I thought he was an annoying little bitch (followers will know that this is a specific category of footballer) and a bit up himself. I think this was probably the universal opinion (and in some quarters still is). Then something changed, I don't know what exactly but I started to think huh, he is kinda cute isn't he? I tried to deny it, never mentioned it because I assumed it would incur ridicule but quietly, I was coming round to him. The oldest picture I have on my phone of him is from the 8th October 2020 (which seems mental, I surely can't have only started liking him after the pandemic kicked in???), I don't know why I saved it but you can see that he's now coming into his own, the hair is there, the cute sprinkle of freckles, the smile, the slight crinkle around the eyes...
From then on it seemed like he was everywhere. People were noticing his calves, his fashion, his, um, lifestyle choices (in 2020 he was charged for breaking lockdown rules and banned for driving for 9 months). A year later he'd be playing for England and the subject of one of the biggest transfer fees on record when he moved to Man City.
Throughout all of this he generally remained sweet and humble. He genuinely seems like a nice boy who really enjoys his life and loves his family (and dog) and his job and all the trappings it brings. He's the rumoured new face of Gucci, earning him the somewhat sneering moniker "Gucci Grealish". He is of course, now equally loved and despised.
But what we're here to talk about is that he became the ultimate thirst trap among a huge swathe of football fans. There's a teen idol energy around him with people screaming for him to be brought on during England games and his every move poured over by the media.
From a purely aesthetic reason he deserves it. He has a truly incredible body, not just the thighs but the whole thing. Not only is he blessed with a sportsman's physique he's perfectly proportioned and has a beautiful face with long eyelashes, a megawatt smile and a gentleness that betrays his body, an ideal straddling of the very feminine and the resolutely masculine.
We salute you, respectfully, Jack!
And here it is! A year's worth of Thirst Trap Inductees.
TWUTAB Thirst Trap Hall of Fame
Merch Stand
Bayern Munich have unveiled their 22/23 home shirt and it's nice! I'm such a fan of a t-shirt style, round neck jersey, under most circumstances (England's current blue away kit maybe an exception?) I hate a collar, so this is good.
Fresh off the back of their progression to the Champions League Final, Liverpool have also announced their new home kit for next season. I also like this! It's clean and classy. I did love this year's fluro trim but I think this one will be more popular with the fans.
Werder Bremen played in this special edition kit at the weekend, the design of which was based on fans' and players' tattoos. Isn't it beautiful?
Mundial is BACK! After a hiatus, Mundial Magazine is back with issue 22 coming soon. It's a great mag and you can buy your copy here
Extra Time
This is a lovely article about Jurgen Klopp by Ryan Hunn. I just can't imagine not liking Klopp, I really can't.
Thanks to No Score Draws for tweeting this, I promise if you click through and watch it you too will groan in pleasure
Whilst searching for something completely unrelated (I mean it was dog/footballer based but anyway), I came across this article about England players' dogs, which is old but great. I think Mason Mount's idiots might be my faves.
There are arguments galore across Football Twitter about whether stats are useful or even if they're ruining the game. Personally I think they have their place and can be really interesting, point in case is this article from Maram AlBaharna about how each team in the Premier League moves the ball. I found it particularly interesting that unlike many graphs where teams/players are generally scattered all over, on this one there is a really clear correlation to this and where the teams are in the table.
I assume we've all seen the 'we're just normal men, innocent men' video. This is my version.
Very much enjoyed this swiftly deleted tweet from Arsenal
This is an incredible piece of art for the Women's Euros
So there we have it, the Big Bumper Birthday issue is over, the final whistle has been blown and we can all go, tired and happy(?!) into the dressing room to get massages or plunge into the ice bath or perhaps post an inappropriate instagram Story.
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