Pure loving this Pope by the way, what a guy 🔥🔥🔥

Summary: Fifa’s betting partner has three senior execs with recent career red flags, no working product, sponsored a tournament before it had a licence (issued at record speed) and can legally be used only by about 40,000 of the world’s 8.3bn people. josimarfootball.com/2026/04/14/f... 6/7

Last week, Fifa announced their first World Cup prediction markets partner. They said it would launch yesterday. It didn't. Today, they set only a demo version live... "ADI Predictstreet is currently operating in a free-to-play demonstration environment for testing and entertainment purposes only."

An impressive 1-0 win for Japan against one of the tournament favourites, followed three days later by a 1-0 win against England

🔔 Another ill-fated Glasgow cultural hub is in its final four days before tenants must sign a new lease or get kicked out. The landlord is the council's City Property, and tenants aren't too happy with them. 🧵 (Photo: Neil Scott)

We've brought out a new @footpolpodcast.bsky.social episode! @drfrancescobelc.bsky.social and I update you in our latest episode on Iran and the World Cup, the women players' asylum decisions in Australia and CAF's decision to award the AFCON trophy to Morocco. It's been a busy week!

Celtic have now failed to beat Rangers over 90 minutes for NINE consecutive games. At the same time Rangers have now lost the last SIX games v them in the cup (last three AET/pens).

If we end up losing this on pens it will be an absolute travesty

Miles on top in every way. Absolutely sickening to lose on a shoot-out.

Utterly dominated the whole 105 mins so far, incredibly one-sided game, unbelievable that it's still 0-0, we've done Everything But The Goal. Butland's penalty record means I'd fancy us to win a shoot-out but we really shouldn't get to that stage.

I think we've been good, dominated the ball, they have hardly touched it. Sterling, Diomande, Moore, Fernandez all excellent so far. Not quite created enough chances, been a problem all season. Need a bit more from Skov Olsen and Naderi, IMO.

It highlights the reality of the current political divide. The far-right are pitching not just toxic nostalgia, but an entirely imagined past. They could not achieve their political vision even if they had an actual time machine. All they have to offer is cruelty, violence, corruption and decay.

At half-time this looked spot on. Tore Andre Flo even told the crowd "I had predicted 5-1 but now I'm saying 5-0". We just disappeared in that second half. 10 ghosts on the pitch + Butland. Totally scunnered. Hearts now firmly in the driving seat to win the league, Celtic probably 2nd favourites.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

He'll never hit a volley as sweet as that ever again. A freak scoreline atm, Livvy 1-0 up at half-time. If we keep playing the way we've played we'll win the game, we are creating chances. Really wish we weren't making it so nervy but.

A good decision IMO - We need some continuity in the back line going into next season and I don’t think there’s a better player available on the market without spending silly money - Plus he’s nation grown which is important for the Euro squad

Brilliant, spot-on article

Here we here we here we fucking go

We were by far the better team IMO and fully deserved the win. Hearts were barely a threat, no idea how they managed to score 2 goals. Chermiti the man for the big occasion - also helped by having a proper no.9 beside him.

We need to stop panicking every time we get a draw. A win on Sunday puts us 2 points off the top. This is what drives Managers away, unbelievable and unjustified backlash against a brilliant manager who’s dragged us out the gutter here. Everyone knows we’re not the finished product yet, patience bro

The US cannot guarantee the safety of fans attending World Cup matches. FIFA should strip their hosting rights.

Brentford were so successful at set pieces that they promoted their set piece coach to manager and got the whole Premier League obsessed with set pieces and now as a result they're just sort of ordinary at set pieces

I loved this bit of shade the other week from Ewen Murray in the Guardian

In case you’re wondering why the Greek Superleague has suddenly become so important, this is why - Any chance we had of automatic UCL league phase football is now gone if Olympiacos win their league

It is amazing what 2 goals v Celtic will do for you. A month ago Rangers fans on FF were alleging corruption in our £8m purchase of Chermiti, wanting Thelwell Investigated for fraud, suggesting we pay him off. Now mostly backing the club's decision to reject £13m for him!

I deleted my Amazon account after this. The final straw. Clear bribery and corruption to a fascist president.

Which is why there will surely be no Haiti fans at their games, for example. Which is why FIFA should take the WC off the USA - not only can't the US guarantee the safety of fans, they will actively be attacking and kidnapping them.

1-0 up at half-time. Poor game tbh, we have barely got out of 2nd gear, and Ludogorets don't look very good. As long as we win, I don't care.

So we’re saying X servers are hosting and making available somewhere in the region of 23,000 images that probably meet the legal threshold for CSAM, presumably not only from servers in the US, and no legally responsible person has been arrested yet?

Important thread

Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.

This is why something needs to change between now and June. Even if Trump pulls back a bit, goes quiet on Greenland for a while... as soon as WC is over, Europe loses this leverage if he threatens Greenland (or any of the rest of us) again. This is why I think the WC should be taken off them now.

Senior figures at top of Fifa and Uefa are “very concerned” about Greenland situation, and feel European football may need united stance - amid awareness itself that 2026 World Cup itself and idea of boycott could become a political football www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Oh, come on ... Being computer illiterate is not an acceptable excuse for filling in your Universal Credit incorrectly or missing your council tax payment. The consequences are severe. Only the wealthly allowed to be a "computer illiterate oddball"? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We seem to have normalised the Premier League's inability to conclude the Manchester City case. The years this thing has taken is pathetic. The longer it has taken the more people have forgotten the magnitude of the alleged offences. Time passing has had a kind of watering down affect on allegations

Again I'm wondering how on earth the World Cup can go ahead as expected. European nations don't have loads of leverage v the US but we could propose a boycott, which would cause chaos at FIFA and threaten Trump's ego. Trump is going to turn the whole world against USA (except Russia obvs).

Infantino explaining to Diaz why he must actually take it to the White House now to try to save Greenland

The fact that a man like Farage who praised Putin, made himself Mr Brexit, and campaigned for Trump is considered anything other than a crank is a fairly damning indictment of the political climate in Britain.

this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen

The government should already have deleted its accounts and denounced Twitter such that there could be no doubt that the company was finished as a respectable organisation in the UK. That this still hasn't happened is some of the most embarrassingly weak and craven behaviour imaginable.

In terms of overlapping and underlapping runs, Tuur Rommens is among the most prolific full-backs in Europe. He makes loads – particularly underlaps in the Westerlo system – and gets into dangerous areas, as shown by SkillCorner data. That will be a big reason why Rangers are buying him.

Barron superb, also with 2 assists as our new corner kick taker, Raskin brilliant too and got a goal, and other goalscorer Fernandez with some really good defending (and a few brainfarts) too. Another win, another clean sheet, good evening all in 👍👍👍

This is a good point. Brilliant to have a new set-piece coach who can win games for us on his own. But we have been rubbish at creating and taking chances in open play all season, we can't rely on set-pieces all season!

FT 2-0 A solid 3 points at a cold Ibrox this evening as Rangers got the job done early in the 1st half. Improvement in all areas. Connor Barron brilliant with 2 assists against his old ‘stepping stone’ club. Raskin looking like he's hitting some form. We move into 2nd place, 3 points behind Hearts.

Youssef Chermiti was offered the chance to not take the No.9 jersey this season following his move from Everton. An Old Firm brace was a sign of Chermiti living up to the shirt and repaying the faith and fee. Chris Jack has the inside story ⤵️ tinyurl.com/494ar3wb

Do not be sad that it has ended 😭 Be happy that it happened at all 🤣

Scottish football. Absolutely unrivalled when it comes to to craic. Stuff your Man United dramas and Chelsea soap operas. This is where the real entertainment is. Tragedy, comedy … definitely plenty of comedy.