Currently, I'm researching religion and spirituality for the “Groschenroman” (penny novel) I write with ChatGPT. This is why I found the result (Bayern Munich vs. Manchester United) very interesting.

Firstly, as a German I dislike Bayern Munich a lot, but compared to most English clubs (notable exception Manchester United) Bayern are the good guys. That is to a lesser extent true for Leipzig. If you look at the Bundesliga table — for the first time in many years, Bayern are not the first at this stage of the season (at least I hope so, else would be pretty embarrassing).


Print, playing-card (BM 1904,0511.47.1-78 3)
British Museum
, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In a Tarot-community (don't ask me which one, I use Mozilla with no history for the more exotic research topics) I read that this year is a distinguished year much like 2016, but actually the opposite. Or in easier words, for a large part of 2016 the bad guys won (Trump, Brexit), notable exception (unless I missed something): Leicester.

This year is one of crazy upsets, not just in football (now I reached the GSL finals), but just to name a few: Dortmund Champions League, Union giving Real Madrid a really hard time, Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, Man City underperforming despite Guardiola and Haaland (OK, de Bruyne), Newcastle and Chelsea underperforming and some more.

Manchester United seems to be an exception. Despite the fans hating on the owners — compared to Man City, former Chelsea and now Newcastle, I would not call them the villains of the football story. Remember, I got inspired to think about this by a tarot community.

One argument is obvious — tarot is bullshit. But to be fair, as someone who knows Luhmann's Systemtheorie and reads Laws of Form in the bathtub — tarot seems very reasonable to my great surprise. So let us for a moment assume they are right — why does Manchester United underperform. In the bathtub on Thursday (or Wednesday?) I had an epiphany. It's because of Erik ten Hag. Something about him feels off, and this is the tarot stuff I'm referring to. Something feels off, and we can't put it into words, and it turns out to be true or at least not a complete lie. Maybe I missed some news about him, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is — for example — the reason Sancho doesn't give in, even if it costs him his career.



Erik ten Hag 2017
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons


Anyone else brave enough to talk about their feelings?


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