Over 5,000 virtual match tickets sold! Thank you all involved especially the kind supporters of @SpursOfficial 🙌

Time to give our virtual ticket holders a match preview of our team and tactics! Don't tell anybody!

Goalkeeper - Mr. Thomas from No. 25 - Good positioning & never unsighted.
Full-backs - the Jones brothers from No. 23 - Always give the opposition a roasting. Different gravy.
Centre-backs - the Phillips family from No. 29 - Coordinated, good teamwork & never leave any gaps between them.
Left winger - Mr. Speed from No. 11 - Speed by name. Speed by reputation.
Right winger - Mr Nolan at No. 21. Gets up like he’s on a step ladder. Wears gloves though - bit fancy at times.
Central midfield - Mr Cooney from No. 9 - No pushover although slow at getting up and down.
Attacking midfield - Mrs Sutton - Good vision. Makes things happen - even from impossible angles.
Centre forward - Mrs Harkin at No 17. Gets up to about 9ft in the air. Makes sure rest of team maintain their fluids.
Second striker - Banana birthday girl - partial to a slip in the penalty box.
All pictures taken from fans taking a peek at the action at the MTA from their back gardens in our @EmiratesFACup Second Round win against @HWFCOfficial on @btsportfootball! #COYM with https://t.co/3AVFU6xADJ

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The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x