And Spurs win at home. What are the odds?

Too much reporting on the heatwave can’t resist ‘ooh, lovely! Hotter than Spain!’ It’s irresponsible.

Well done Notts County.

This is not ‘offensive language’ it’s a call for immigrants to be forcibly deported to an uninhabitable island and left to die.

David Sullivan is worth over £1bn. Lady Brady upwards of £90m. If the MoL is concerned - and he is right to be - about Londoners losing £2.5m due to West Ham's relegation and Johnson's terrible deal, then he knows who to go and ask for a refund.

That assist from Salah - oof

Those Citeh mid-match guards of honour for departing players. Nah, not for me, Clive.

The fact that everyone's reaction to that letter has been, yeah, nice words, whatever, get on with it, shows you the absolutely desperate mess that the club is in. People simply don't believe they will act, and have 25 years of evidence to back it up.

Hope he’s ok.

Yep.

I am informed that the reason there were so many AFC fans about (yoof, mainly) but not going to Palace was because they were all heading to Upper St/The Emirates. SM thing? Pubs charging north of £10 to watch the game, apparently.

Feel for the proper and decent West Ham fans, especially those who have focused their ire on the despicable Sullivan and Brady. Not so much sympathy for any Hammers who boasted about their tax-payer funded dope, and have been so obsessed with Spurs that they form unholy alliances with AFC and CFC>

Ban hate marches.

Arundel castle looks like a fairytale from a distance but up close it's not worth the entrance fee. The medieval bit is interesting but the rest is a 19th century feudal theme park in which fawning serfs guide you around a succession of dull, gloomy rooms while banging on about the aristocracy.

Appreciate the inquest and response to Tottenham's™ escape from doom is a major project but can the owners get on with it sharpish. There is massive work to be done, not least some prolonged looks in the mirror. Action, not words.

Delete

The stones this kid has shown… Puts the guvnors to shame.

Ha ha. Spike, file again, and this time do it right.

‘Visit Rwanda.’

Look, all the boasts are firmly and rightly with Arsenal. Best team, serious club, win. But it seems every fan out and about today appears determined to live up to every cliche about their fanbase.

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None of that must ever happen again, right? Take your pick as to who to blame. But there are zero excuses.

Overwhelming smell of plastic on the tube, any ideas why?

Spurs fans were great today. Which will agg all the right people.

Weird atmos around the ground, understandably. Nerves, gallows humour but something else. Sullen? This could turn toxic; factoring London is basically football central today… Stay safe

Second that emotion in trade solidarity, but blimey, that piece was absolutely phoned in. Almost zero research. Did they actually speak to any Spurs fans? Should have been spiked and told ‘do it again.’

It would be nice to think this is true but suspect people despise their phoney ‘enemies‘ more and so would prefer to elect these complete wrong ‘uns. See Trump, Farage: plenty don’t like them but not as much as those they hate.

So if Hull-Boro was ’the £200m game’ are Spurs and West Ham’s matches ‘the -£200m games!?

Amazing gig last night - Mehfils’ promotion of Indian Raag music. Excuse my ignorance of the artists and details but mesmerising: the tabla player was just incredible.

Sigh

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Oh no. Newsnight is discussing football. Awkwardness dial has turned up to 11+

Last call for anyone at a loose end tomorrow..I’ll be playing 3 hours of the usual chuggy acidic stuff and maybe the odd 80s rework 🤪

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

The most arsenal thing you will ever see

'Romero, Romero, wherefore art thou Romero?' if some sub doesn't use this then frankly the game's gone, pfft.

I really hope business is booming for this brave guvnor and his pub tonight.

Spurs fans - if you are attending on Sunday and would like the chance to be featured in @theipaper.com drop me a DM. #thfc #coys

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Well, that's not going to set the hares running, is it?

Speaking of which, @jilllewis33.bsky.social ...

Ingerland squad? Pfft, each to their own. But reactions as ever, will be largely club biased. Whatever many might say, we’re a nation of club supporters, less so the national side.

Ok, put it this way: can you imagine @steveperryman.bsky.social leaving his teammates in their desperate hour to go and watch his boyhood club? Gary Mabbutt choosing Bristol Rovers instead of doing what he can to help?

Immigration falling - and *now* the BBC decides to report on the systemic risks that means. Mason scratches his head wondering why the govt‘s positives don’t get told. Yeah, proper mystery, Chris.

I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).

Ever evolving but a couple: Steve Arrington, Hammersmith Odeon, 1985. Crowd wanted Slave-era funk, Arrington wanted to preach and convert. Actual boos. James Brown, Brighton 2000. Sad to witness, TBH.

Oh, bravo

In case any of you were wondering about the moralising bit, which I know thousands of you weren't, this is a pretty thin victory for 'football values' For eg: Meatwall 'Disgracia' ESL Visit Rwanda Partey. And yes my club is compromised as well. We all are.