Update: I just got a text from "Mary" for the first time in three weeks. She said she still has strong emotions from the breakup, and that she does not want to be enemies.
I was dating "Mary" for about four years. She broke up with me about five months ago; it was all amicable enough. We were able to hang out a little bit, no problem at all. Then a mutual friend of ours was having a party that we both got invited to. I invited my friend "Ellen" to the party. Ellen and I have been friends for years. We went out at one point about six years ago for about a month, it totally did not work so we went back to being friends. Mary saw at the party that Ellen was there. Mary came up to me, and YELLED at me in front of everybody about it, left, unfriended me, and blocked me on chat. Am I the Jerk?
Also, while we were going out, Mary invited her ex-husband to a few large random events and parties. I talked to the guy, introduced him around a little bit, played darts with him.
Update: "Ellen" texted me to call "Mary" and tell her that Mary's facebook account was probably hacked, because Ellen just got a weird message from her.
Update: Mary has unfriended me on facebook, and I am pretty sure blocked me on text. I had already bought her birthday card though, for her birthday which is next week. Should I send her the birthday card? Thank you in advance for your input.

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Tl;dr I 20F have been with my boyfriend 21M for over 2 years now. I really love him but sometimes his love for football (and all ball games) really gets to me. This might sound really selfish of me, but I am at a loss at this point. I have never been into games, matches etc. I do enjoy the eurocup and world cup but that’s pretty much it.
When we started dating we wouldn’t see each other on the weekends as we live quite far apart and were both in college then, so I didn’t know just how much he did enjoy soccer. I knew he supported man united and I started watching a few games of premier league even in my own time, I did start to enjoy it… Until i got to know him more and realized our weekends would be consumed by games.. whether that were his own matches with his club or “A REALLY BIG GAME”, every. single. weekend. I really did try to accommodate him and find a place so he can watch it or park my car somewhere so that he can prop it up on my radio and watch it.
Now and the last year and a half we only really have weekends together (we still live an hour apart), and i have started to resent football, it’s too much and it’s not just premier league anymore, it’s the FA cup, the champions league, hurling, u20s (anything), football ETC… and he’s ALWAYS on fantasy (a mobile game where these are all recorded and you play against friends etc.) then he has training on or a match on in the middle of the weekend at a really awkward time..
I love to do things with him but I feel like we need to always plan around him and his games. I have always been scared of a relationship like this because i always wanted to share common interests and passions (my problem is I don’t have any). I feel trapped and like I can’t really do what I want on a weekend. I hate that too because i’d love for him to be able to share this love with me but I have grown to just hate it so much. I was due to go on a flight on one saturday and he told me he won’t be able to drive me because there’s once again “A HUGE GAME” on that day.. this is what broke me and made me write this post..
I would love to be able to enjoy the games with him and not resent them but I am really tired of it, I don’t want to be angry with him because it’s completely not a problem to be passionate about something and he should not try to change for me but I get so angry everytime I want to do something and I get “oh sorry, xxx is on that day”. My birthday is coming up and he knows I don’t watch football, and yet, for my 21st there will once again be “A HUGE GAME” :/ so now, my (what’s meant to be a really important birthday) will be consumed by soccer.. this made me really upset, i wanted to cancel the whole thing because I really do not want to watch gd football on my night out. Any help.. any advice is really appreciated

In 2007, England qualified for their first U17 World Cup, in South Korea, making it to the quarter finals. But how many of this squad would go on to have successful England careers? In fact... how many of them would go on to have successful football careers at all? Let's take a look at what happened, and what could have been.
GOALIES
Jason Steele - Middlesbrough
34 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Became number 1 at Middlesbrough before signing for Blackburn, Sunderland and Brighton, where is he still on the books. Uncapped for England but got 1 cap for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics.
Alex Smithies - Huddersfield
15 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Made almost 300 appearances for Huddersfield, before moving to QPR, Cardiff and Leicester. He didn't make an appearance in two years at Leicester and retired from football in January this year.
Wes Foderingham - Fulham
12 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Left Fulham to go to Crystal Palace but didn't make an appearance for either, going on non-league loans including Histon and Bromley. Signed for Swindon, Rangers and then Sheffield United, where he still plays.
DEFENDERS
Seth Nana Twumasi - Chelsea
23 youth caps, 0 senior caps
No appearances for Chelsea, he joined Peterborough for 11 appearances before going to Northampton, Yeovil, Newport County, Maidstone, Maidenhead, Dover and most recently Oakham United in the Peterborough & District League Premier Division.
James Reid - Nottingham Forest
2 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Just 1 appearance for Nottingham Forest before spending a career in non-league, at Hinckley, Telford, Nuneaton and others. Last seen at Ilkeston Town in the Northern Premier League.
Tommy Smith - Ipswich Town
4 youth caps for England, 51 senior caps for New Zealand
Switched alegiences in 2010 to New Zealand, going to become the youngest captain of the team. Played for Ipswich for 11 years, before clocking up appearances with Colorado Rapids, Colchester, MK Dons and Australian A-League side Macarthur FC, where he still plays.
Jordan Spence - West Ham United
50 youth caps, 0 senior caps.
Went on loan to 5 clubs in 7 years at West Ham before joining MK Dons permanently, then Ipswich, and Den Haag for 4 appearances. Hasn't played since 2020.
Gavin Hoyte - Arsenal
17 youth caps for England, 3 senior caps for Trinidad & Tobago.
Released from Arsenal with just one appearance to his name, he played for Dagenham & Redbridge, Gillingham, Barnet, Eastleigh, and Maidstone, where he's just left the club. Switched to Trinidad & Tobago international team but only made 3 appearances.
MIDFIELDERS
Henri Lansbury - Arsenal
46 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Had a successful professional career after leaving Arsenal, joining Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Bristol City and Luton. Retired from football in August 2023 and now runs an organic fertiliser business.
Krystian Pearce - Birmingham City
24 youth caps for England, 13 senior caps for Barbados.
After leaving Birmingham City without a professional appearance, he played for Huddersfield, Notts County, Torquay, Mansfield, Solihull Moors, Boreham Wood, Hereford and his current club, Kidderminster Harriers. Called up to the Barbados national team in 2018 but was deemeed ineligible by CONCACAF and Barbados had to forfeit the game 3-0. He made his recognised debut two years later.
Danny Rose - Tottenham Hotspur
55 youth caps, 29 senior caps
One of the most successful members of the team, Rose had a long career with Tottenham Hotspur racking up over 200 appearances. He spent one season at Watford but hasn't played since 2022. As well as 29 senior caps for England, he also picked up 4 caps for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics.
Nathan Porritt - Middlesbrough
8 youth caps, 0 senior caps
After being released by Middlesborough, Porritt's career went to Olympic Charleroi, Stokesley, Billingham Synthonia, and then the kit man at Hartlepool United.
Dan Gosling - Plymouth Argyle
18 youth caps, 0 senior caps.
After impressing at Plymouth, he played for Everton, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Watford, and most recently Notts County, whom he dpearted in January.
Michael Woods - Chelsea
27 youth caps, 0 senior caps.
Departed Chelsea with no appearances, playing for Yeovil, Doncaster, Harrogate, Hartlepool, Dover, York and his current employers, South Shields in the National League North.
Medy Elito - Colchester United
6 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Left Colchester to join Dagenham & Redbridge before rapidly moving teams, to VVV-Venlo, Newport County, Cambridge, Barnet, Wealdstone, Welling and Ramsgate. He has also released music, performing at Wireless Festival as Don EE where his tune "You Alright Yeah?" has 11m Spotify streams.
FORWARDS
Danny Welbeck - Manchester United
42 youth caps, 42 senior caps
One of the most recognisable names from the squad, Welbeck played for Manchester United, Arsenal, Watford and Brighton, where he has been since 2020. Scored 16 goals for England in 42 senior appearances.
Rhys Murphy - Arsenal
26 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Left Arsenal with 0 apperances and played for Telstar in the Netherlands, Dagenham & Redbridge, Oldham, Forest Green, Gillingham, Chelmsford, Southend and Yeovil, where he currently plays. He has 30 youth caps if you count his caps for Republic of Ireland youth, for whom he switched from, and then back to, but did not get a senior cap for them either.
Victor Moses - Crystal Palace
29 youth caps for England, 38 senior caps for Nigeria
Played for Crystal Palace, Wigan and Chelsea, and then went on a number of loans out, the last of which, Spartak Moscow, was made permanent in 2021. Switched from England to Nigeria in 2012.
Tristan Plummer - Bristol City
26 youth caps, 0 senior caps
Left Bristol City without making an appearance and went on a non-league career, remarkably joining and leaving Weston-super-Mare four times. Also played for Hereford, Aldershot, Frome and Portuguese side Portimonense.
Jonathan Franks - Middlesbrough
27 youth caps, 0 senior caps
After leaving Middlesbrough, he played for Hartlepool, Ross County, Wrexham, Icelandic side IBV, Stockton Town and was last seen at Whitby Town.
Ashley Chambers - Leicester City
23 youth caps, 0 senior caps.
Joined York from Leicester where he would pick up 2 England C caps. Also played for Cambridge, Dagenham & Redbridge, Grimsby, Nuneaton, Kidderminster, Brackley, Buxton and Coalville.
Not that proof was needed, but getting youth caps does not a successful career make. Only Welbeck and Rose would go on to be capped for England. So if you're looking at the latest U17 team wondering who might make it big... you could be looking at Hartlepool's next kitman.

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Why Unai Emery is the Manager of the Season. And it's not only for his results on the pitch.
On the opening day of the 2023/24 Premier League season, Aston Villa were battered 5-1 away to Newcastle in a match that saw defensive talisman Tyrone Mings suffer a similar season-ending injury to that of his teammate Emi Buendia, who had damaged his knee ligaments in training a few days earlier. Villa’s shiny new centre-back, Pau Torres, looked lightweight and twitchy as a replacement for Mings, with his dreamy blue eyes and expansive, continental passing range only serving to confirm pre-existing fears that he wasn’t cut out for the #PaceOfThePremierLeague. Buendia’s replacement, Philippe Coutinho, gave the least convincing cameo performance since Donald Trump turned up in Home Alone 2.
Sir Alex Ferguson praised the Villa performance regardless, saying they’d played fantastic football and had simply lost bad goals. The natural assumption was that he’d indulged in one too many complimentary sherries, perhaps having gotten lost in the excitement of a new Premier League season after a summer of watching steroid-ridden horses running around and around in a circle. I scoffed. Hell, we all did.
But it turns out there is life in the big red-nosed dog yet - because nine months and 38 matches later, Pau Torres is well en-route to becoming an Aston Villa cult hero and Lil’ Phil Coutinho has been all but forgotten, having spent the season out on loan to… some club, somewhere, presumably in the Middle East.
Back on English soil, Aston Villa have qualified for the Champions League - and we all owe Alex Ferguson an apology. Game, as the kids might still say, do indeed recognise game.
And nobody plays the game like Unai Emery. Not in this past season, at least.
Who else could remain so stoic in the face of not two, but three first-team ACL injuries and a seemingly endless succession of unshakeable niggles to the likes of Jacob Ramsey, Alex Moreno and Youri Tielemans? Not Mauricio Pochettino, who cried it was not fair to judge his Chelsea team in the midst of an injury crisis; nor even Erik Ten Hag, who likened his attempts to improve an injury-stricken team to swimming with your hands behind your back - not easily done, by the looks of things, despite being blessed with a natural, ready-made swimming cap.
Excuses are not my mentality, said Emery back in March. I am usually not speaking about ‘if’. We just have to play. We have to accept each result and enjoy each moment. My objective is to send the same message to players and supporters — enjoy.
And us supporters certainly did enjoy it. We enjoyed reducing Manchester City to just two shots across ninety minutes, enjoyed doing the double over Arsenal without conceding a goal, enjoyed the curing of Ollie Watkins’ goalscoring yips and the long overdue presence of Ezri Konsa in the England squad, the rapid ascension of a team that Steven Gerrard had ambling towards the relegation zone, onwards and upwards not only into the Champions League, but also into our first European semi-final in a generation.
So what if it was only the Conference League? And if a 6-2 defeat on aggregate against Olympiakos was a little embarrassing? If the player who scored a hat-trick in the first leg had only recently returned from a stint in Qatar?
Emery’s squad were running on fumes by then. They’d just seen their goalkeeper receive two yellow cards and not get sent off - they were hallucinating, exhausted. In the words of their captain John McGinn, they were half men. And somehow that’s not even a reference to the ever-changing array of regens, schoolboys and teenagers who filled out the matchday squads towards the season’s end, stinking out the Aston Villa bench like they were passing around a joint at the bus stop.
Of the ten players to have played the most matches across elite European football this season, five of them wore claret and blue (and not a single one of them played for Burnley, although Jarrod Bowen did put in a shift for West Ham). Even the players who were fit were often unavailable through suspension: John McGinn got himself sent off for a shoulder barge against Spurs, only to be outdone a few matches later by the ever-competitive Douglas Luiz, who successfully tallied up ten progressively avoidable yellow cards in time to miss a crucial match against Arsenal at The Emirates.
Of course, supporters of every club will feel that they have attracted the worst luck, endured the most adversity. But I want to highlight Villa’s woes here because neither the likes of Sky Sports or even Emery himself can be relied upon to do so. Out of context, his achievements at Aston Villa are commendable. In context, they become almost astonishing.
It is the sensible decision that he will be named as the Premier League’s Manager of the Season. Arteta’s Arsenal have improved, put up a good fight; Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City have managed to turn the record-breaking into the mundane. And yes, Gary O’Neil is English. But nobody has upset the odds as comprehensively, with as much class, as much commitment as Emery has. He has developed a “no excuse” culture amongst the squad at Aston Villa and in return they have delivered a season for which no excuses are necessary.
I’d hope that he’d sit back now and enjoy the surely-inevitable plaudits. For those of us who’ve been watching closely though, we know that’s not quite his style.
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