Aah Davinson. Never looked like scoring

Oh man, that’s a shame. Big fan of Onana www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

De Ketelaere, telaere, whatever will be, will be

That Spain-Portugal game in 2018 was one of the all-timers, and feels to me, though maybe just a vibe, that it was the last time Ronaldo was truly a great, meaningful, footballer

Give the man some water and his dignity

Blimey. Let’s just not have a right-back next game

Alan Shearer proving that “admirably” is never a word that should be said under pressure

Ref show one humble little yellow card to Mexico challenge

I gather France's star winger went through the British rather than French education system ... Michael - no lycée

Really hope things go well tonight for the former Ballon d'Or winner born in 1985 who left the Premier League for Real Madrid and has over 200 international caps, who has gone about his career with quiet, unassuming brilliance ... you know the one

I can't believe it's happened so soon, that she's growing up so fast, but, despite our best efforts, my daughter has discovered the phrase "You know what happens when we assume? It makes an ass out of u and me" and I just don't know how to deal with it ...

Maybe that's a better way to take a penalty than the old stutter ...

I think that's my favourite goal of the competition so far. Proper 10/10 for difficulty

I think 5.35 is about the best Kane’s ever had from the online England fans. Maybe a hat-trick in the final could see him sneaking above 5.5

I guess Tonali will get his career-ending injury in about five months ... go back! go back! You still have a chance ...

You know, I've been watching Bayern all season, and he doesn't do anything differently there, and they only get him the ball about 10 times a game there too. That's really all you need to do ...

Keeper saved about six trickier ones than that already ... ah well

Just to state the obvious, the fact that, considering all the options he had available to him, Tuchel has, for his first important game as England manager, chosen Djed Spence and Noni Madueke to break down one side of a decent-but-not-great opposition, really does say everything

That is pure "I'm having the time of my life" refereeing

Think it's always a bit of a risk swinging your team mate off their feet and onto the ground just after they've scored a brilliant goal

The main change needed in English cricket is not having to see Michael Vaughan's opinion on everything, everyday www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Big cricket news of the day - Kemar Roach has reached 300 test wickets. No one has ever deserved it more ...

Rather than having the tactic be Harry Kane working tirelessly off the ball to open up spaces for chances for others to miss, maybe hone a tactic where you get the ball to Harry Kane within 30 yards of the goal, because that, funnily enough, usually works…

Aasgaard has brought the right attitude to this

I got 80% Davos, but David's clearly 60% Davos, so I can't see how this is wholly accurate ... britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

I'm pretty sympathetic to Stokes/McCullum on lots of things recently, including losing the toss in this game, but also, stop picking Bashir, pick Rehan Ahmed, at least if he's ineffective, it will be fun ...

Exquisite that the latest of Morrissey's countless tirades against Johnny Marr contains the line, "Those who vomit out the same corrupt hatred decade after decade are half in love with their targets, hence their romantic possession." He knows exactly what he's doing...

Vinicius, you hit me with a flower, you do it every hour, oh Bebeto, Vinicius

Have listened to Feel Good Inc several hundred times probably, but only just realised he's singing "feel good" all the way through it ...

The news that James Purnell is going to be Andy Burnham's Chief of Staff reminds me that they are very much two people i repeatedly confused with each other 20 years ago

Funny that about four of the best 20 English players are on the pitch right now.

JT as England's FIFA dignitary of choice is outstanding

And then, after that moment, the footballer Lionel Messi never scored another goal as long as he lived ...

I see the centre-back who rescued Tottenham's season is playing in this game ... and Cristian Romero

Below half-price Toblerones in Tesco. Have gone full Partridge

Didn't realise, until Saka and Rashford were brought on at the same time, quite how much my actually liking the England football team for the last few years has been due to those two fine fellows

Ghana vs Panama and Canada vs Qatar coming up. Who needs more than one vowel, after all?

My favourite three players on the pitch are the aged footballers who used to play for Spurs

Three minutes into England's World Cup campaign, and I am already at the "Can we not knock it?" stage of things

I rarely feel any sense of kinship, but the extent to which it is a fait accompli that Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe the most popular sportsperson in the world, is a universally despised figure on British Bluesky brings me at least a little comfort

So now we know what Joe Root looks like when he is fuming with contempt at the person talking to him ... (almost exactly the same as he looks the rest of time ...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMoL...

The four-year cycle of nuance-free moralistic responses to failing to do the hardest thing in cricket (win in Australia) is truly. for various reasons and various recent lessons clearly unlearnt, rank www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

So sick of Fury ... such an underwhelming, boring career full of boring, self-indulgent "twists", that has just gradually chipped away at the fragile integrity of boxing in Britain www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Jonathan David, the Canadian striker who wears Number 10, was born in 2000, while the Belle and Sebastian single 'Jonathan David' reached Number 9 in the Canadian chart in 2001 ...

all started to go wrong when it became standard practice to say R9

Aah ... truly, taking everything into account, one of the greatest cricket players of all time www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Notwithstanding all of it and all the rest of it, USA's just the shittest country for a football world cup ...

I miss the days when people didn't talk about the Ballon d'Or apart from on the day the Ballon d'Or was awarded ...

Saw Rilo Kiley last night for first time in 20 years - a band I am enormously attached to. And this is a pretty great interview on the tightrope of being/not being in band by Blake Sennett of RK www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Oh now, I know this is a mean thing to say, but this is the straw the breaks the camel's back for me with McCullum and Stokes... even if Bashir should play well, to me it's a selection that says they've not moving forward in a useful way. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...