Can never even enjoy it when Arsenal flounder because of the alternative ...

He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste, but his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts

I do feel bad for Frank. I think recruitment and the players are more to blame than him. This really is such a bad squad of players. Like, when Porro arrived, I just thought "he's fun, but a total liability" but now it's "why can't the rest of them be more like Porro"

Starting to wonder if at Brentford last season, it was actually Frank that coached dead balls (which, big tick, Tottenham are better at than under Ange) and Andrews that did everything else

I have never watched such unenjoyable football as Spurs have played in the league this season. It is, in a way, mesmerising. None of them, apart from VdV, who can run and get in the way of things, can do anything

This strikes me as a pretty perfect line-up for one of those mid-level nostalgic family festivals musomuso.com/news/beautif...

Well, after 20 years and 24 Grand Slams, Novak Djokovic has finally done something I'm pleased about

Bit of football there ... never happy for Mourinho, but that was a bit of fun

The question everyone's been asking has been answered. Yes, it seems Tottenham Hotspur are the 4th best team in Europe

Ranking of footballers named after areas of London: 1. Bobby Charlton 2. John Barnes 3. Jude Bellingham 4. Gareth Southgate 5. Chris Sutton 6. Juan Pablo Angel 7. Rob Lee 8. Ian Holloway 9. Martin Hayes 10. Jamie Clapham 11. Peter Crouch. END

Nice. Villa in a couple of years and he'll join a select club www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Matt Badloss, hopefully ...

Not entirely sure why Tim Key isn't nominated for all the acting awards for The Ballad of Wallis Island

Final of Only Connect tonight. Reckon it will be good

New Gorillaz song with Kara Jackson is v nice, I think www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70V...

No other new romantic looked quite so much like they played six seasons as a bowling all-rounder for Derbyshire as Tony Hadley

How many times is too many times to have heard Tim Sherwood say "there's only one winner and that's Spurs" and then know exactly what's coming next?

www.britpopclassical.com Alex James Britpop Classical. People are saying it's the band Blur could have been ...

Like Dylan, like Dylan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bit funny that there are six England players in this and only five Australians, but, at the same time, it does feel like England have been beaten by four players playing exceptionally well and not that much else. Ah well... i actually think it's been quite a good series www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

God, these Spurs players are rubbish. Worst group of players since the 90s

Spurs played quite well for an hour in the way that average teams sometimes do, but there is so little accuracy in this team, so many formerly promising players playing without confidence. Almost fascinating ...

Fantastic that Tottenham only look like a team with any flair and attacking intent when their central defender decides to peg it down the middle of the pitch

Very funny that the two English players in FIFA Best XI 2025 are Palmer & Bellingham who've, mainly, been injured, lost their form, not scored many goals in 2025, rather than, say, Declan Rice, or, perish the thought, Harry Kane, who's scored a trifling 60 goals so far.

Nice touch that, on the same night Son has come back to say goodbye to Spurs fans, Ange Postecoglou has been invited back to guest-manage the team for a half

Once more for the haters...

I don't think there's much wrong with England's strategy in these two Ashes tests. It's very hard, this is what's happened all but once in 38 years. They had chances in both these tests, which is more than what usually happens - they just didn't seize those moments. But all the chat about McCullum..

Alastair Cook on commentary saying that Ben Stokes should declare ... as Alastair Cook, of course, would have done in the famous Alball era that revolutionized cricket captaincy

Suppose, by Darren Lehmann's criteria, Joe Root is finally a greater test batter than me. Oh well ...

Nice to have picked the right game to watch

I've been taking my daughter bowling for a few years on spare days in the holidays, and she just went with her Brownies group, scored 118 and beat all the other kids and adults by miles. If this should be one Earl Woods parenting moment, I'll take it

I bought a Gray Nicholls Elite cricket bat because of Robin Smith. Mine was an absolute plank and I couldn't hit it off the square which made me even more impressed with how unbelievably hard he hit a cricket ball. His cut was the abiding shot of that era

Not like Paqueta to ... etc etc

Oh my god

Remember when I was watching The Real Thing and heard the cricket bat speech, it was as exhilarating, as jump-in-the-air brilliant, as any gig or any comedy show I've ever been to www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This feels like a defining performance of superiority by Arsenal, but the great thing about this Champions League format is that it doesn't mean anything, and they'll probably lose in the last 16 to Barcelona or Napoli

Joshua Zirkzee a perfect candidate for the long long line of footballers who will look world class and score 20 goals a season as soon as they leave Manchester United

Spurs against half-decent teams this season are just desperately poor at all aspects of the game. Timid and devoid of ideas.

When Glenn McGrath gloats or criticizes England's cricket, I bow my head in embarrassed recognition before a superior sporting nation. When it's David Warner or Darren Lehmann, I couldn't be more glad not to be an Australian cricket fan

Quite disconcerted by the cycling commentator doing the cricket. Keep on expecting Sean Kelly to pop up saying "I don't think so, no" to every question

Ah, joyous football

The damage this government is doing to the future of the Labour Party is just incalculable. I really think a lot of people won't vote for them again. That grudging trust that, whatever else, they'll be the least inhumane & least incompetent option is gone. Why believe it again?

Ireland beating Portugal 2-0? Ronaldo sent off? I'm not a massive fan of enjoying things, but ...

Reposting this. Most beautiful, timely, moving thing i've heard all year

This is just the most magnificent thing. As if Cohen wrote the song specifically for her, for now www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc0...

Watching Van der Ven, hoping, on the one hand, he stays fit, but knowing if his hamstring holds up for a couple more months, someone like Real Madrid will buy him for 100m in January

Postecoglou's Tottenham, you felt they didn't practice defending crosses, Frank's Tottenham, it looks like they don't practice striking crosses ... absolute U11 level ...

Have just been imagining the album ‘Michael Buble Sings Joanna Newsom’ in quite frightening detail

Hoping Roy Keane will have plenty to say about the interim manager at Celtic, because, really, there are few things better in this life than listening to Roy Keane repeatedly say the name "Martin" www.youtube.com/shorts/X8uGb...

Highlight of many highlights so far in 'Mr Scorsese' is his mum going "I was in the Mean Streets" ...