This week has been an antidote to power club football. Make do and mend teams, full of faulty parts giving their people a night or two of glorious delirium.

The Snocaps record is so good.

Football's going home. Or else.

Annual reminder that politicians here took the populist decision to abolish the 11+ but lacked the courage to replace it with anything that tackles educational disadvantage so basically handed academic selection over to the market and we are left with something worse.

Should have been a comfortable win for Slovakia imho. No quality up front sadly and Peacock-Farrell always has a flap up his sleeve.

No one should be able to own more than one property.

De Niro's toughest role yet.

Tottenham in that first half:

"I just ask my husband who to vote for" vibes. Grim.

Gutted 😭

Keeping up the tradition of collecting the CD versions of the Dylan bootlegs and finding this collection surprisingly moving to listen to.

At the end of the day he is an Arsenal supporter though.

Less hallowed, more Halloween-esque trip to see Tottenham in the flesh this evening. Indefensibly poor. Let's see where this season goes. Zero interest in fantasising over an imaginary 3rd season of Ange slappings. We are where we are 😂. #COYS

Third place Joint top scorers Second tightest defence Spurs can and should be playing a lot better but this is decent in the meantime. #COYS

Not great from Spurs tonight. There have been many away performances like this in early European games but until recently we've had the luxury of being bailed out by a generational talent upfront. #COYS

Removing all official accounts from Twitter/X seems like such an obvious open goal for this Government.

Went to my first NI game in about ten years last night and got to experience it in a very different way. Great result and performance.

Wondering if any Leeds players will get booked in this game. #COYS

Behold a new Idlewild record.

Ange gave Spurs a European trophy and brought some good vibes but after 22 league defeats last season I didn't think he would ever manage in the premier league again.

Last season for Spurs was so freakish and polarising that expectations from the fan base feel really wild and unnecessarily exaggerated already when we're only six weeks into the season with a new coaching team. #COYS

The new Big Thief record is very good but not a patch on any of their previous imho.

Another seriously stodgy home performance. Good to avoid defeat but plenty of work to do. #COYS

York Street train station September 2025 An electric blow-heater on full power, directed at an empty seat, while an automatic door swings open and closed. Northern Ireland infrastructure 😶.

Welcome to the new owners: same as the old owners.

that point could end up being the difference between arsenal finishing second with 81 points and second with 82 points

Still very early days but I'm encouraged by Thomas Frank's start at Spurs. Tactically flexible, reflective/honest on his own mistakes (B'mouth). I'd like to see the team properly respond to going behind next. Brighton could well provide that test.

Ah... "unnamed Ghanaian footballer" is playing for Villarreal tonight. #COYS

Giving each of these a spin tonight. What a run of records.

Today would be a very good day for the UK govt to delete its accounts on X.

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

I don't see much Irish League craic on Bluesky, and there's bigger things going on in the world right now, but...what a sham the NI Football Fund decisions were.

What a day of thoroughly hope-less news today. Hang the Tim Robinson hotdog guy meme in the Louvre.

Leisure services should be a public good.

Loose Women panel on TV in the background over lunch had a refreshingly reflective, measured response to the Angela Rayner news.

Well done @kevmag.bsky.social. There needs to be more pushback on these lies, deliberately spread to deflect, falsify and stoke anger. Shame on those with the means to deny them who at best stay silent, at worst repeat and reheat them.

Salomon's Monday Gone on a loan-deal

Saw Kneecap last night as well obviously and they were about as provocative as PJ and Duncan. A novelty act.

Fontaines DC: monumental

Let

For Manchester United:

COYS good start to the season. Let

Fired Spurs managers watching a new Tottenham coach batter Man City on their home field

The unashamed lack of empathy in politics and public discourse right now is stunning.

Very good Sharon Van Etten show at the Mandela Hall this evening.

I really like Oasis and I'm glad so many people finally got to see them live for the first time..but if it was possible to remove any way of hearing their music or anything about them for maybe..a year or two? I think that would be good for us all 😂.

COYS good start to the season. Let