Back on my bullsh

Oh for fuck's sake, Lee Dixon again. #ITV #WorldCup

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Crikey, Spurs have decided to go for it. From being average and the fright of almost being relegated to... we'll see.

Weekend at Bernie's

Can only hope he becomes another of my favourite Chelsea right-backs, an exclusive group containing Albert Ferrer and Mario Melchiot and me in my dreams. #ChelseaFC

Swapsies #Football

The outer Harry Kane is identical to every other bad-good lower-middle-elite awkward-diffident English player who ever skied a penalty under pressure; the inner Harry Kane is a zero-at-the-bone assassin without a fuck to give; this combination is perhaps the most confounding thing in all of sports

You know that Harry Kane is a genetic freak because his hairline receded just far enough to provide a perfect surface for a header

"Madueke... that's not special". Chelsea did some good business there.

Respect to Elliott Anderson for cosplaying Kalvin Phillips’ entire career in one tournament

For anyone new to football watching this, Micah Richards had a long career in the Premier League. You may be wondering about this as he fails to explain anything of use or substance about the game he is paid well to watch.

What's Djed Spence done to his beard? Of the many bits of my body I've broken in my life I have yet to break my beard.

Why dive there, just put it in man

No-one is madder than Pickford that: A) he missed that shot B) he is playing in this game C) he is a footballer

Yes, as I recall the words were “island of strangers”, “one-nation experiment in open borders“, “squalid chapter” and “incalculable damage”

Building up to a couple of hours or more of stress and shouting at the TV and the inevitable penalty shootout with a pint or four of cider and Mind Enterprises. #England #WorldCup

Starmer's government is still on X, the platform that promotes hate and racism.

Following recent news, we have cancelled Mullvad's sponsorship of EMF 2026. If you'd like to contribute to make up for the lost income, you can still sponsor EMF through our ticket shop: www.emfcamp.org/tickets/spon...

I don't buy into the, 'It's a sign of our dizzying national decline that Hammersmith bridge can't be used by motor vehicles' narrative. It's a 19th century grade II* listed suspension bridge, which simply won't take the cumulative weight of an endless succession of (up to) 18-tonne laden buses.

The US system of government just doesn't work anymore, does it? Rogue presidency, impotent Congress, shamelessly partisan Supreme Court. None of it is what the Founders intended — in fact the exact opposite. It's just about held together by lower-court judges and sticky tape.

A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD

Mullvad has been advertising on a dedicated structure in the middle of London's Piccadilly Circus for weeks, now. The Orwell reference hits different when you know the VPN's co-founder is funding the Swedish far-right to "re-migrate" anyone with brown skin. An Orwellian phrase if ever there was.

Thread (up & down from here). I also don’t know what Mahmood is playing at, but her statements are repulsive. All she’s going to do is divide the Labour Party further between people who hate her, & people who hate her but delude themselves that she might appease the right wing press. She needs to go

"I think Japan have a chance," I said as I left the off-license earlier. #WorldCup

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll: "Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed…"

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NOW PAY HER YOU FUCKING PSYCHO

"It became clear to us that it was his strong desire to succeed Guardiola and that he was fully committed to pursuing the opportunity, despite the fact he was under a long-term contract ... In Xabi Alonso, we have a Manager who ... is a professional of the highest integrity" Shade.

It sucks to have an authoritarian leader with a massive but fragile ego who is surrounded by sycophants and launched an aggressive war thinking it’d be easy except it wasn’t and when he speaks in public sounds disturbingly disconnected from the realities of the war.

Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙

Thank fuck. #WorldCup 🍁

Fifty-five minutes until the football. #WorldCup

I will never understand why a man feels the need to do this.

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

It's the Frank Lampard/Steven Gerrard nonsense all over again. Nothing is new. ⚽ #WorldCup www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

As a local, back in the day I used to like to have a few ales in The Fox Inn in Corfe Castle, then climb over the castle walls - sometimes with dowsing rods - seeking ghosts and whatnot, but not once did I meet one.

This is what the World Cup is about. More of this please and a lot less fascism.

Pushing the regularly use criteria a bit far, our birdbath is perched atop staddle stones my dad, my brother and I carried from what we around here know as 'under St. Aldhelm's Head' (aka bottom of a cliff near the sea). It was the 90s and we were mad. Apparently they're medieval so quite old...

I think we just passed oops.

FOUND HER she was on the roof like a horrid little gargoyle and I just had to climb up SO many ladders to get her back and she's mad as fuck with me

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Yeah that’s right! I recommend you go up and write “God Bless Ireland!” right on that mural. Maybe follow it with an inspirational slogan of hope, like “Our Day Will Come” in the local language?

Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

It's nuts that I'm looking at a forecast like this and thinking, Thank fuck!

I Want Your Sex (Parts 1 & 2) #NowPlaying

This time yesterday I was a horrible sweaty mess and borderline losing my mind, Falling Down and all that. What a difference a day makes. It's 12°C cooler and there's a brisk breeze - I am on top of the world.

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

The episode of The Simpsons where Mr Burns blocks out the sun will look different to future generations, he will be held as a hero and the vile assassination attempt will have people calling for Maggie’s head