Musetti-Bublik we are here and seated for the unseriousness

On the way back to Melbourne (55hr trip from door to door given the snow in Europe and delays 😵‍💫), I finally watched the first season of Severance and my word, ladies and gentlemen, warra series.

Sincaraz openly professing their love for each other in Seoul while the girls are out here hating each other's guts in 4K, we must protect the recipes.

We need to lock in rn Muchová Nation

Iga. 🥹

Very few things more captivating in women's tennis than when the ball is coming onto Rybakina's racquet. Proper boom/bust tennis but man, when she's in rhythm on serve and is moving sharply around the court, she can make just about anybody look powerless. A hard-court GS title is right there.

Nije zbogom ljudy mojy nego samo doviđenja. 🛫

This has been some diabolical brrrrring from Arsenal today but I respect it.

Deklen Rajs out of midfield and Arsenal suddenly look like a relatively functional team in possession, but don’t let that get in the way of the PL hype train.

Finally watched my favourite footballer ever before he eventually retires and in my favourite stadium before it gets torn down. Two major Bucket List items ticked off. ✅✅

Svim ljudima dobre volje, da vama i vašima čestitam sretan i blagoslovljen Božić, i za sve Božićne blagdane. Neka vas Bog čuva, te od srca želim da Njegova ljubav nama svima bude kompas! 🎄❤️

Wired: Look at Uncle Luka man, so inspirational

E sad stiže zima, no osobno jbg to sam i želio. Prije neki tjedan kad je pao, prvi put vidia snig u životu. Moram se naviknut. 🫣

+3 fala lipo, Zagrebe, đenjaaaaaa 🥰

Honestly thought Osijek would be higher up the table, but amid the spate of injuries, hard to understate how much of an avoidable disaster sacking Rožman and bringing Sopić has been for this particular squad. Irrespective of result against Gorica. Underlying numbers didn’t even warrant the change.

Happy third anniversary. 🥰

Adriano Jagušić literally only scores bombs.

Watching Mark Viduka stroll on a pitch was among the first footballing memories I have, and the reason I fell in love with the sport, so heading to Non Plus Ultra was a necessary pilgrimage of sorts. I rock up and he’s having a dart and a chinwag out the front like a don. Meet your heroes, guys.

Finally sat down to watch the Luka Modrić episode of Neuspjeh prvaka, and while he's obviously fed a lot of softball questions by his former coach, there was something that particularly stuck with respect to where football is going in terms of profiles and desired attributes in individuals.

He’s just like me fr 😭

Bloke has the memory of an elephant until questions on the suss business are asked; you just knew it was going to get all kinds of awkward and harrowing from the unprompted mention of Pablo’s Filipino heritage at the jump. Gross people with performative manners really is the great American export.

Ponosan sam soulman među pankera 🙌🏼

Ljudy mojy mrtav sam #prijava

Vrijeme je za 𝗃̶𝖺̶𝗓̶𝗓̶ HNL 💀

#prijava 🏃🏻

Tired: The Sokkahroos, by pot luck, have avoided some of the sport's strongest nations for the 2026 World Cup pool stage. Wired: Pot 2 is an absolute nightmare scenario for Popović if it means having the ball, going by underlyings in WCQ games during his tenure.

I zadnji put kad sam bio u Rijeci prateći Hajduk, Kramarić zabio hat-trick u prvom poluvremenu na Kantridi

Mily mojy ne znate kakav je osjećaj kupiti pljuge za €5/6 kad u Australiji koštaju 30 po kutiji po malo mi je strah za zdravlje

Me when I saw the starting XI Popović rolled out with for the Sokkahroos against Colombia:

Once the novelty wore off after 2016, a 24-team Euro is unquestionably watered down, with the bar for qualification now essentially a speed bump and everyone playing sufferball. A 48-team World Cup will likely be the same, but it’s sick to see Scotland and Austria back for first time since 98.

Steph also just put up 46 and 49 points in B2B games on a combined 56.9% shooting (29/51). This was a real game, and JK’s absence is noteworthy in a defensive sense, but it can’t be sustainable if Steph has to turn into the Human Torch like it’s peak Two Timelines.

Steph, man

Just spat out my water at three straight triples from GP2/Podz down the stretch in a game that seems to actually matter.

Zverev developing the ultimate flop CV with this along with the lowest win % of any player in T10 vs T10 matches at GS events:

Some context for just how much better Sincaraz are than everyone else on the tour atm. The current gap between them and Zverev in terms of rankings points is bloody absurd.

Get the sense these Finals will be definitive for Shelton; his rally tolerance and net game has improved somewhat this season to complement serving dominance, but a lot of room for improvement on his return. Either comes out of Turin with feedback in this regard, or he just stays the same player.

Of all the short-sighted and gimmicky ideas in Adam Silver’s tenure as Commissioner that undermine the primacy of the basketball/product itself, NBA Cup might be the most gimmicky of them all. What scrambles my brain the most is that it is a cup comp that still counts towards regular season record.

Had Covid during finals weekend for AO 2023 and the level of hitting in that Sabalenka-Rybakina final did more damage to my anxiety than the Covid, what a spectacle

At least Japan’s jersey has the possibility of being influenced by results at the WC. Meanwhile, we have yet another stinker. After two good home kits in 20+ years, we are finally, mercifully approaching the end of the HNS/Nike nightmare.

Along with a better angle of course, wanting to hear crowd/ambience and not wanting to hear verbal diarrhoea commentary whenever I watch the A-Liga Men’s has left me in dire need of the Bar TV tactical cam plug. A month into the season but these are extremely desperate times.

Hire new coach after not extending previous coach, get bent over a barrel in ensuing off-season transfer window and give out bad contracts, incompatible and uncompetitive team performs badly, put more bad/reactive money into squad, sack coach two weeks into next season. This is a bit of a mess tbh.

Dynamic pricing and the overtly transparent cash grab that is now ticketing at major events is one of the central off-field aspects of The Enshittification of Football, but even within that context, paying $100 to effectively just enter a draw to pay on top for WC tickets is uniquely brazen.

As familiar as the company men dynamic of Fitz/Kelenna is now, I miss Jim Barnett so much.

As insightful and invested as Legler is, his enthusiasm and knowledge is totally drowned out by the sheer noise of the rest of the ESPN crew. In any sport, I have never witnessed pundits/commentators with as much go away heat as Jefferson and Perk.

Wemby and Castle are really only just scratching surface of their respective potential. It's absurd how good they already are, taking into account trade capital the Spurs still have to manoeuvre with. That they could already be within spitting distance of 50 wins in this Western conference is nuts.

.@lakers