BRENT A GOB: With 2025 drawing to a close, our resident rant machine Harry Brent is making a list and checking it twice to work out who he's gone after most over the past 12 months
09:34, 24 Dec 2025
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It's Christmas! And our man Harry Brent has worked out who he's roasted the most in 2025
That's a wrap, folks! The second year of Brent A Gob – like Wayne Rooney's managerial career – is done and dusted.
It's been 12 glorious months of venomous vitriol and unnecessary hate – the kind Liverpool fans reserve for homegrown legends who have the audacity to move on before their late-30s. Christmas is a time for joy, peace and goodwill. But nuts to that! Like Paul Scholes on punditry, I'm a moody, miserable, enjoyment-sapping git – especially with Mariah Carey, over-excited children and smug Instagram families in matching pyjamas turning the entire period into one long, unbearable headache.
So instead of spreading festive cheer, I'm doing what I – and Jurgen Klopp after a defeat – do best: focusing on what's p***** me off. After trawling back through every rant I've written in 2025 (all 109 of the buggers), and working out who's borne the brunt of my wrath most, I've come up with a naughty list so toxic it could run Joey Barton's YouTube Channel. Enjoy!
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Jude Bellingham's d***headed antics have caused a stir this year(Image: Getty Images)
In at No. 5 is last year's winner, the inaugural Brent a Gob s**** of the year, Jude Bellingham. After three years of Salt-Bae-at-the-World-Cup-Final levels of Main Character Syndrome, the world is finally waking up to the fact that he's about as likeable as a wet sock. Over the last 12 months, he's abused referees, ghosted in big games and thrown the sort of on-pitch tantrums that even William Gallas would think twice about.
At No. 4 we have Ange Postecoglou, whose reputation tanked faster than Angela Rayner's did in 2025. He was sacked not once but twice and spent more time in and around the relegation zone than Chelsea spend signing terrible goalkeepers.
I'm sick of the 'Big Ange' act: the menacing sarcasm, the unearned arrogance, and the stubborn refusal to ditch tactics that are about as effective as a jelly doorstop. In short? the man is properly der-Ange-d.
Ange Postecoglou
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It's been a rough 12 months for Ange Postecoglou(Image: Getty Images)
No. 3 on the list is Mo Salah, who ended 2025 as a full-blown PR disaster. He swaggered into the year like football's golden boy, padding his stats with penalties and tap-ins to sneak into barely-deserved Ballon d'Or contention.
By the end, he had spectacularly crash-landed, publicly torching his club, his manager – and his Anfield legacy – with the classic "It's everyone else's fault but mine" routine, after months of being more invisible than the hairbrush in Arne Slot's travel bag.
At No. 2 we have Arsenal fans. 'Gooners' continue to set the gold standard for irrational, cringe-inducing dorkiness. Whether it's launching a petition to block Noni Madueke's transfer, screaming 'corruption' every time a throw-in goes the wrong way, or demanding Mikel Arteta's head for not winning the Champions League, they have become the James Corden of football fandom: insufferable, entitled and still shamelessly trading on successes achieved back in the 2000s.
Cristiano Ronaldo
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Cristiano Ronaldo is the official Brent A Gobsh*te of the Year(Image: Getty Images)
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And at No. 1… it's Cristiano Ronaldo, who has spent 2025 doing what he's done his entire adult life: being a soul-sucking narcissist.
He's the human embodiment of Instagram filters, forever in denial about reality and desperate to paint himself as perfect, even if it makes him look about as insecure as David Brent.
I despise him more than toddlers despise Brussels sprouts - more than Lee Dixon despises saying anything remotely interesting. He's truly earned the title of Brent a Gob s**** of the Year.