Silence for the poppy porn and booing for taking the knee - gotta love football in England

The Spider-Man kids’ TV show has jumped every remaining shark.

Hanging out clothes in this wind like youtu.be/0Doyh7gGeoo

Tom Wagner said something yesterday that I don’t agree with. www.ntt20.com/p/trickle-down-economics-wont-help-eft

The transfer window is the biggest event in football these days. It's fun to cover, but I can't help but relate with @huwdavies.bsky.social's question here. (NTT20 newsletter)

Discovered that my knee is not in fact recovered when I had to crouch to sit for a kids’ event, lost my balance, put my whole weight on it and educated a few under-6s by involuntarily shouting, “ARGH JESUS FUCK”

I’ve given up all pretence of decorum at this children’s party.

@windycoys.bsky.social Hi mate, hope you’re well. Any views on Demola Ajayi? I always value your insight into Spurs youngsters

If the permabanned list didn’t have Pulp on it, this whole thing would pretty much be perfect (and this is a Sheffield pub so maybe it’s just an overplay thing)

And people have the AUDACITY to ask when Straight Pride is

Sigmund Freud: [observing hot dog eating contest] I SAID DOES ANYONE HAVE ANOTHER NOTEBOOK

Even Oasis T-shirts are boring.

School sports day is starting to resemble the Test match.

@buzzboncath.bsky.social Talk to me about Lee Jenkins…

FIFA has decided not to show any videos, signage or marketing assets in venues hosting the Club World Cup in the United States which explicitly mention challenging racism or discrimination. More from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 nyti.ms/4n50oMg

Right.

Of course, back in my day, £10m bought you a player for more than one tournament but then it was all fields

A kick-off time for a final next week has finally been announced, but so many fans still can’t afford to go. On the monetisation of fandom. (Published Wednesday afternoon.) www.ntt20.com/p/wembley-ti...

Trans guy asks 60 gyms if he’d be welcome to join. The responses include him being asked what genitalia he has, and telling him he must use the women’s changing rooms. How is this consistent with his dignity? How does it make women safe? inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...

I reckon 2024 is the second election in a row to have been won by obviously malicious frauds shitehoused to power by Britain’s appalling media outlets, and the second one running where the new government made it embarrassingly obvious to everyone straight away that this is what happened.

One of the best title races in history concludes today, with 6th place still in with a shout of winning the title

𝗦𝟮 𝗘𝟭𝟬: 𝗛𝘂𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✍️ Matt chats to @huwdavies.bsky.social about his earliest memories of football, his passion for writing, following Wales, FourFourTwo and NTT20. 🎙️ #TogetherStronger #FLTop50 #EFL 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/7... 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/2fyR...

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

The winner has all of his drinks for the night bought by the other players, so I guess this is good news all round

Not saying I’m old but I’ve just settled in to watch the snooker while wearing a heated gilet, for my neck

They’re back. happymag.tv/the-hives-al...

Is revenge not usually quite personal?

Unexpected Welsh sun trying to trick me into not packing a coat for four days in Eastern Europe during March… not this time.

Just popping in here to say It’s What’s Inside is one of the best films I’ve ever seen.

I just avoided relegation on Duolingo by a literal second — it ticked down from two seconds to one to zero while it was showing me the graphic of my name moving above others in the league and out of the red — and now I feel like Jimmy Glass

EVACUATE

He makes himself big

Here we are again. Issuing “policy” via social media. Official press releases referring to his posts. Incompetent staff that can’t even spell the country in question correctly. It’s Colombia.

The most damning ‘since’ that I’ve ever seen

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years

A reminder that Bild, the same right wing German publication currently making excuses for fascist gestures at Trump’s inauguration, accused Toni Rüdiger of making a terrorist gesture when he was simply just sending fellow Muslims a Ramadan greeting. amp.dw.com/en/germany-s...

I was listening to Chas & Dave this morning, as you do, and it’s made me wonder exactly when Sainsbury’s (and other supermarkets) stopped selling rabbit.

Nights such as this, I wish I had a telescope.

Sorry, this really made me laugh

My sister realised it’s snowing in Cardiff before I did. My sister lives in Essex.

Brandon Austin will play his first competitive match for Spurs tomorrow, having been there since he was a child, and he turns 26 next week. The most ridiculous part is that it’ll be his 20th senior appearance anywhere, ever, and his first since 2021. TWENTY-SIX years old, with 20 career appearances.

some good news for Man Utd: 22 points from 19 games is the same record Huddersfield had at this stage in 2017-18 and they comfortably finished in 16th place

oh, so that’s what they’ve been saying

Scenes nobody* wants to see. *everybody

I’d say that’s the first Donaldson/Scheffler adaptation that mainly just passed the time. It’s a great book but not a good one to adapt, I guess. Still, nice cameos.