Hoo boy does this track, even if i'm loathe to actually believe it tells us much.

That's a lovely goal but would love it if Fletcher would calm down a bit on commentary.

Went out to a gig, shoutout Ratboys for being fucking excellent, and come back to that Makerfield result. Maybe we're not irretrievably fucked after all?

Wooooah I genuinely think that's the most surprising moment so far, the Uzbeks should be absolutely nowhere near a goal against a team like Colombia.

Friends fear he's up late browsing authentic Euro 96 England kits.

Absolutely did not feel like this at half time but that's about as good of a performance in the underlying numbers as you can expect for the opponent and occasion combo.

American commentators on the England match 😭 why lads

Gotta say, these images of players from elite teams holding a big Michelob Ultra after disappointing results are fully cracking me up.

I am actually a bit of a defender of his at times, but one does wonder if he hadn't managed that cup win at Wigan where he'd be by now.

Ageing Cristiano slowing down the pace of a Portugal team but being un-subbable at a major tournament, you say?

I would love to know why the US just cannot get matches to kick off on time. It's the same with every sport, at every level, in every state i've been to.

Am I wrong in thinking that's not great feet from Courtois there? Takes a big hop in the wrong direction when there was relatively little chance of it going that way.

By my count this is the second time Tunisia have sacked a manager during a World Cup group stage? Didn't they do exactly this in 1998?

Tunisia's goalkeeper having what's commonly known as 'a Jonathan Woodgate Real debut' kind of game.

That's a lovely finish from Amad, really let the pace of the pass do the work, much harder than it looks.

Maybe try again with the name, Fabrizio.

If the Knicks can do it, maybe England can too.

I am on record as being Not A Zlatan Enjoyer and even I am enjoying the genuine anger he displays towards him (with good reason)

Was that Swiss player who got fouled for the penalty not miles offside? Weird that we didn’t get any replays of it.

It truly is the season of Talking To The Office Football Fan, brace yourselves everyone.

Nothing big happening at the World Cup right now, so it's time to talk about this: www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Reached my 'time to mute Alexi Lalas' moment after only 2 minutes of analysis, which i'm happy to say is a new record.

Was watching the Mexico match with some American friends who i'm attempting to indoctrinate into the footy and they said something along the lines of 'I thought you said soccer had halves not quarters' to me yesterday, 100% agree.

The weather in New England for the Boston matches is worst case scenario stuff too, at least right now. 30+ Celsius with a higher feels like due to the insane humidity. We’re in for some truly Slow Moving Football if this keeps up.

Hearing Ian Darke give that hydration break the whole Powerade advert treatment genuinely made me laugh aloud, ah America.

Y'know what, yeah alright. I'm on record that The Social Network may well be the straight up best film of the 2010s, so was very nervous about this without Fincher or Eisenberg. But I'm reasonably sold from this trailer that this'll still be good, seems like Strong has nailed it at the very least.

Knew it was coming but the OoT remake is still so exciting, it's a cliche for someone my age but it's still my favourite of all time. Truly hope it does it justice.

The small-time bit is what's getting me down the most relative to previous Horrendous Location Choices™️ for the World Cup. It's possibly because I live in the US now and am so exposed to it, but this is the fucking World Cup! Even by previous standards the behaviour and organisation is so grubby.

A genuinely embarrassing statement yet again from Southampton. Nonsense conspiracy theorising and trying to make themselves the victim somehow. Not a shock that they haven't booted Eckert out yet if the management is behaving behind closed doors as bizarrely as they are in official communications.

I believe it was a CD copy of Pink Floyd's Under Construction: The Wall demos, also from eBay. Probably should've stopped there with the internet really.

'Dangerous stunts' only appearing under the UK is making me as patriotic as anything I can think of.

'The name is Mark, and no I'm not Mork/and yes I eat pork, 'cos it's tasty on my fork/And no, I'm not a jork but I'll jork it out the pork.' has been firmly lodged in my head since the first time I heard it. Iconic.

Got to imagine this is only the first salvo of a pretty huge clear out. Obviously Hackney is gone, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a good 7-8 more out the door either permanently or on loan too (Hansen, Sene, Edmundson, Borges, Burgzorg, Hamilton, Kante).

Welp, I guess buying a Switch 2 on release was the correct move because nobody is going to be releasing any new consoles for the next four years with these hardware prices.

Genuinely one of the bigger adaptations moving to the East Coast was recognising that sunny and over 30C probably meant inside or at the very least copious amounts of sunscreen and not ‘gutting out whatever plans you have anyway’

Same vibe.

Well that was fucking miserable wasn't it? A few thoughts: #boro

US citizenship approved yesterday, come on Boro don't let me down today to complete a big week! Really feeling the distance watching everyone make their way down to Wembley, have a class day out everyone.

Back briefly from deactivation again to say - stick that in your fucking craw Harwood-Bellis hahahaha

A bit of quality and a bit of luck, both things we’ve been missing for months. Not a great half but can’t complain being up 2 #boro

Genuinely fascinated by the American Manchester United fans I know who are 100% invested in City beating Arsenal to the title.

Thought @barneyronay.bsky.social's piece on BlueCo today was really excellent and this felt like the crux of it to me. Have been struggling for a bit to articulate quite why Chelsea feel so much more odious than the other teams in the Prem (and Chelsea's past) and this really gets to it.

Fair to say this isn’t engendering any confidence at all for the playoff run in. Why the fuck will none of them take a shot. #boro

You'd have thought that Barca would've internalised this lesson after rolling the dice with a 26 year old Adama Traoré on loan, but apparently not.

I said it at the time, but those of us in the trenches during the great Gyok vs Akpom wars of 22/23 could see, even when he was tearing it up at Sporting, that he was functionally the same player he was in the Championship and that whoever signed him was enormously overreaching.

That is an absolute nonsense of a time from John Korir (and the top 3 generally) on that Boston marathon course. 2:01 with those hills is completely ridiculous.

Feel like I’m gonna throw up, come on Boro

Deeply amused by Lee Dixon’s pronunciation of ‘calibre’ there. Should it rhyme with ‘fibre’? He sure thinks so!

Is Neuer concussed or something.

Unironically have had this conversation with my all-male group of friends from elementary school who were super into Jackass as young teens, it really was a pretty good example of generous male bonding!