Your art is half the reason I support this site 
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What!? Half? My art alone can be the reason for the existence of this forum.
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TAN is not perfect, but I actually use it to a high degree to inform myself about various issues. The value of having US residents talking about the upcoming elections has a high degree of interest for me. Likewise, @Iftikhar informing us about what goes on in Bangladesh, @legalalien commenting on events in Japan, @gasband informing us about the benefits of Singapourâs enlightened dictatorshipâŚ
Our community is small, but from all over the world, and we have the opportunity to be in direct contact and to discuss every possible topic we wish to talk about. That is priceless, whatever our respective opinions, because we are faced with alterity. Thatâs something where I feel that traditional media tend to let us down these days.
To come back to the topic at hand, I donât think that twitter/x is necessarily needed for the above, but itâs true that as long as we have people willing to curate its content, and to present us with the best coming out of it, then itâs absolutely ok. And that way, we arenât forced to go and click on the links, which is an added plus, as @ISMF pointed out.
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Thatâs @Broomy, isnât it? He made the switch to TAN initially, and started some great features here too, but then we lost him. Thatâs a pity indeed.
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Is it that long?
Jesus I feel older just reading that.
Must be about 15 years since @Redbj and @aussielad dodged buying their round in Fulham.
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Iâm pretty sure I used to see that @Redbj had been a member of TIA since⌠2003?
Since then the likes of Harvey Elliott, Conor Bradley, James McConnell, Kaide Gordon, Bobby Clark, and Ben Doak have been born. I think I started on TIA just before Trey Nyoni was bornâŚ
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@ISMF
There was a poster on TIA called Albert Stubbins who had seious knowledge on the history of the club. Bit like Broomy
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That Broomy lad⌠The biggest AmadĂĄn MĂłr youâd ever meet⌠
A waffler, nothing but a wafflerâŚ
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@Hope.in.your.heart @ISMF I did not know summoning spells worked on this forum.
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I still remember the first post I made in TIA. I had access to professional scouting software and did a long article of tactical analysis of a match with lots of statistics (long before it was fashionable and stats freely available to the public).
I was ahead of my time and Dane was the first person to respond to my post (after 12 hours of opening a thread)
No words, just a single gif
You bastard ! 
In the old days my avatar was stato ((From old football comedy show)
And thirst for numbers/match stats (positional analysis etc) grew and grew. As it aligned with how Rafa saw the game. I was even writing for the fanzine.
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Even shorter when you realize at least two of those accounts are the same person 
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The forerunner to @Sweeting
Youâre still around, what a joy! 
I hope youâre doing well?
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Correct.
I do some objectively world-class work in the match threads, but often, because people are so preoccupied by the action, they miss my content and donât give me the reactions I deserve.
Itâs quite the pickle I find myself in.
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Id rather stick pins in my eyes repeatedly for 90 minutes than expose myself to reading âin match,â threads in real time
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So after all that itâs not been banned what a shame.
The matches when weâre not playing well are particularly enjoyable.
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Eva Green, Lea Seydoux, Eva Green, Lea Seydoux, Eva Green, Lea Seydoux!
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Both mingers.
See the Tesco Test thread.
Eva Braun
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