I see Jesse Marsch went further in the tournament than Marcelo Bielsa. Interesting.

It's not that bad. High on effort, low on quality, but there's been plenty of action. Canada have got worse after their substitutions, unfortunately

Feels quite telling of the exhaustion of a particular mode of political professional that Labour can win a sizeable majority & still find itself looking anywhere but Parliament for leadership inside two years of government.

I know I have a 'bit' on here complaining about the AFC's terrible first-round of qualifying and more recently, their blatantly corrupt final round of qualifying to jam home the Saudis and Qataris, but this should be an opportunity to reconsider why a region with >50% of global pop. did so badly.

Shouldn't this guy be poisoning CBS at this point? Why are we still being 'treated' to his reactionary know-nothing monologues?

Funny that the one group of cinematographers who actually did get something from getting their phones out at this point got to see Nuno Mendes score instead

England fans making Wonderwall their theme song has a real 'moving back into your parents' house in your thirties' vibe

Can I shock you? Always been a huge fan of Our Jude, despite what I said earlier

How do you write this much about the perfidious British middle classes without noticing/acknowledging that northerners have been talking about 'picky teas' for decades?

Amusing aside on this profile of Drewery from 1999

ANTICLIMAX - Stephen Graham plays a German Anglophile whose world falls apart when his dream of coaching England falls apart due to men kicking a football in a retrograde toxic manner.

Hydration break

A disappointing lack of players with Spanish first names and English surnames in this Panama squad, I'm always ready for the Juan Carlos Jones types

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

2016 conservative: racism is so terrible it is a slur to imply that normie cons could be motivated by racial animus. 2026 conservatives: racial animus is so commonly expressed by normie cons that it is a slur to imply that expressions of racial animus could be evidence of racial animus.

Why are Wigan Warriors hiring so many Australians and Pacific Islanders? Because that's where you go if you want big strong rugby league players, and this is where you come if you want nasty and ignorant rightwing commentators www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Once again I'm reminded of that tweet (I think) about how the real tough choices are the ones that have your donors ringing you at 3am

Good to see that this has turned into friendly fire now, hopefully we can back away and leave them to it

Yeah. Any honest review of Scotland's group needs to acknowledge 3 key facts: 1) The sides finished in pot order; 2) None of the individual results was a shock; 3) The gap in quality between Brazil & Scotland is wider than the gap between Scotland & Haiti In other words, 'par', nothing more or less

Does there need to be a bit of an inquest at Opta? I don't feel like any of the 3rd round results have been *hugely* surprising (scale of Senegal win, S Korea losing I guess) but IIRC their model was very bullish about prospects for 3 points and -1GD?

Can they really not have noticed that the message of 'Thigs Can Only Get Better' is quite different if you're playing it as you leave power, rather than as you assume it?

The right result . . . cannot be denied that across all the games in the group, Cape Verde were the second best team. Barring a bit of finishing and/or a final ball, they could have scored half a dozen in this match as well.

The only guy having a harder time coming to terms with his own mortality than CR7

This intersects with so many of my interests

Eleven Shielas Father Louisiana, Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960

Turning up to sign the peace deal in my suit and baseball cap, real fucking respectful like

Quite enjoyed this. I'd completely forgotten that rightists care about the minimalism of corporate logos, amusingly post-necessity thing to care about. The closest was Mamdani which I also thought was apposite, as I'm also a guy who pretends in public to be more left-wing than he really is

Tonight’s temperature

What a waste of money producing a document that defends slavery to an audience of white South Africans

It'd have to be the Dudley accent. Can't barely fight off the hot girls and boys these days!

This is a certain prominent MP attempting to say what he thinks should happen with the economy, and as far as I can work out through the jumble, it's something about business rates for coffee shops and 'selling things in Barrow'. Why would you even put your name to something this incoherent?

remember when they lost in Uxbridge and Keir Starmer leader of the opposition then told the mayor to “reflect” on this policy

'ppl are doing degrees that don't give them opportunities for jobs' says government minister who did a degree in history at the university of oxford before working as a manager for her mothers charity

Mona Khalil, who devoted her life to protecting turtles, killed by Israeli airstrike: defector.com/mona-khalil-...

Imagine how small and rotted the brain is that thought this was a good or funny idea.

I suppose it's technically true in that if you don't have air con right now, you're probably not gonna have it before this heat wave is over (though I did drive around aimlessly for 2 hrs last night just to get it), but *come on*

Apparently large sections of the American media are referring to Mauricio Pochettino as “coach Poch” but they pronounce Poch so that it rhymes with coach. They cannot be knocked out soon enough, and as they’ve already qualified for the next round their defeat needs to be as humiliating as possible

Incredible effort to write this many words and seemingly not even notice that thanks to decades of sex-selective abortion, the idea that 'the average man' in China 'has better access to stable female partners' is the *complete opposite* of reality. Imagine being this impressed by a killer moron.

Anthony Gordon, not a £70m player imo

Life, death and England drawing a match they should obviously win in the second game of the group stage

Incredible

"My wife knows someone who might have Tracey Emin's phone number?"

Can't believe I'm now going to be plagued all day by wondering what Andrew Marr would wear to arrive at an orgy

Burnham is a canny operator. Here he's learned a trick from THE ITALIAN JOB (2003)

Sharon Graham loves this and wants this to happen btw

The thing with this is it definitely isn't true - there's no way a Tory government would have done the planning reforms, the renters rights, the workers rights stuff - but all that didn't matter because ATEOTD the thing left-wing people really care about is politicians having the right values