IT'S THE BIG ONE! I've always wanted to cover the 30 year war between Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin on Coronation Street. The alpha dogs of the cobbles. So I did, to the sound of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Enjoy your day!

CABO VERDE IS THROUGH!

Roberto Lopes vs Lionel Messi, as it was foreordained

time for uruguay to beclown themselves on the way out of another tournament

YUUUUURRRSSSSSSSS

Jesus, Cape Verde, put the fucking ball into the fucking net

huge, HUGE save by Al Owais

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

a strike that defies even onomatopoeia

Yis can't, Scotland. Yis *can't*.

What an assist

It pains me deeply that Thomas Partey is probably a rapist. He was my favorite Atleti player of his era, and I hated that he was always second choice behind Koke and Saúl. Anyway, dude should not be allowed to play professional soccer.

All those England fans thinking how much coke they could have bought for money they spent on tickets for this match

Footballers are very good these days, aren't they

probably shouldn't jinx this weekend's fixtures by reposting this but here we are

He’s just like me fr.

Ronaldo's teammates want him dead while Messi's are missing chances on purpose to give their man some more World Cup goals

That was a funny penalty, fair play

The biggest indicator of how well Cape Verde have done is that they joined FIFA in 1982, played in their first AFCON qualifiers in 1992 and didn't play a World Cup qualifier until 2003. 🇨🇻

They put a FIFA corporate sponsor on Bielsa’s cooler, game’s never been more gone

Aaah the live broadcast from Cape Verde being interrupted by the goal

Halfway to the mythical six-draw group now

Who likes looking at football grounds? Here’s a picture from every game I watched in 2025/26, from Penrhyndeudraeth to Potsdam…

Lmao what an unreal milkshake duck

5 of the 9 games have involed Netherlands 🇳🇱 or Sweden 🇸🇪.

Every 5-1 at World Cup 🇭🇺 Hungary 5-1 🇸🇪 Sweden - 1938 🇦🇹 Austria 1-5 🇳🇱 Netherlands - 1978 🇵🇱 Poland 5-1 🇵🇪 Peru - 1982 🇩🇰 Denmark 1-5 🇪🇸 Spain - 1986 🇺🇸 USA 1-5 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia - 1990 🇩🇪 Germany 5-1 🇦🇪 UAE - 1990 🇪🇸 Spain 1-5 🇳🇱 Netherlands - 2014 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-1 🇹🇳 Tunisia - 2026 🇳🇱 Netherlands 5-1 🇸🇪 Sweden- 2026

the fuck did Andros Townsend just say

HYDRATION BREAK

I probably should have posted this 10 minutes ago, but I was bewitched by Mark Chapman's shirt. But never mind. Fifa have released an official World Cup game and it's on *checks notes* Netflix. It's mildly upsetting. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-new-fi...

Now: Broken leg, broken leg, don't watch the replays, turn off autoplay, hug your children Then: Here's a big picture of Luc Nilis' leg. See how many new joints it has. See how it almost sensuously articulates itself around Richard Wright's leg. INSIDE: That David Busst picture again

Me in the middle here, putting the bins out last night

Badly designed experiments www.espn.com/soccer/story...

England is darts country

huh, so that's what Elliot Anderson looks like

Absolute scenes at the fan park in Lisbon when they equalised

A World Cup of abject failure for C. Ronaldo, that's all I ask

Messi was clearly watching. Incredible. This pair have resumed their World Cup battle exactly where they left it; sharing five goals and all-time records in the 2022 final: in their opening games of 2026 it's Messi getting the hat-trick. He goes past Fontaine, Mueller and Mbappe. Level with Klose.

what you just heard was a load of ould lads simultaneously going "Jesper Olsen"

No sense of poetry, these assistant referees

Herve Renard standing on a veranda in the French Riviera, ironing an identical linen shirt to the one he’s wearing. A phone rings in the distance, a conversation happens in the background. A beautiful woman in a negligee approaches him from behind “you have a call” “Who this time?” “Tunisia”

🧐🤔

What a result. Pico immense.

football, you beauty

Now you all know what it's like to support a non league team past the Fourth Qualifying Round of the FA Cup.

This is more or less how I'd describe a really pleasurable night of drinking.

So the teams are in and it's confirmed that Roberto Lopes will be the first active League of Ireland player to play in the men's World Cup

The suffragettes planned to bomb/burn down the Crystal Palace football stadium on the eve of the FA Cup Final.

A thoroughly enjoyable almost goalless game. A pity there had to be a loser.