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Sad news. Had a good reminisce on Bonnie a few weeks back with @louiseann.bsky.social . Total eclipse was my unofficial wedding song bsky.app/profile/loui...

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

Never mind the World Cup, the new season started yesterday with European games, including perennial Welsh champions TNS losing 2-0 in the Champions League first qualifying round first leg to Sabah in Azerbaijan. Here’s their same stage Champions League game from even earlier, June 26 2017.

Celebrity airport spot. No Qatari private jet for Mexico’s World Cup coach Javier Aguirre. He’s in with us. A real gent. And is still buzzing about it his interaction with Anthony Gordon: He’s my friend.

Hi Essex CCC members, I am standing for election to the Essex CCC board. Here's why I believe I would serve the club well. If you agree, vote for Richard Clarke.

Wasn’t a very big user of IG before and have stopped. This might be useful.

“Spend a month campaigning with a bin” God bless you British politics

It’s hot. youtu.be/PQdH7uKiC7s?...

To mark Colombia playing Switzerland here’s a favourite moment at the London Stadium - their fans playing football on the pitch after the 1-0 win over Spain in a friendly in March 2024 #WorldCup

On my way, Clacton.

'HYDRATION BREAK'

This is a wonderful simile.

The Belgian soccer team trolled Donald Trump by mimicking his “jerk-off” dance.

Superb

Heartbreak. Bugger

That’s rubbish. Hope Egypt take it pens and beat them

If you’ve got 8 players between the foul and the goal the foul was not pivotal in the goal. If it wasn’t a goal but a corner would they have VARd? No but what if they then scored from the corner. It’s just ridiculous.

Yesss overturn that bitches

Disallow that you wankers

Absolute disgrace. The reffing in this tournament just poor

What a goal Egypt!!!

lionel missi

🇭🇺📺 Hungary’s state propaganda media went off air as Péter Magyar’s government appointed temporary leadership. Orbán-era propagandists were fired, and M1, the main news channel, is now airing an apology for lying for 15 years. Simply beautiful. (Translated with Google Lens.)

It would be amazing if Egypt get through!

Based on the quality of Argentina in this game England are never going to have a better chance to get to a world cup final (and lose to France).

FIFA making the rules up as they go along. Whatever you think of the red card Balogun got, FIFA has upheld the red card but instead of a mandatory one match ban, he gets a probationary period. Following rule changes that allowed Ronaldo to swerve ban at the start of the tournament. Ridiculous.

Statement from the Chairperson of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee - 6 July 2026

Entire Portugal World Cup campaign was essentially a case study of football in service of a celebrity. An immensely talented group of players all made to kowtow to a 41-year-old acting like a child up front. Embarrassing

get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked Ronaldo :)

Looking forward to seeing Ronaldo in 2030 playing upfront on a mobility scooter.

I've been watching this game for 45-odd years, and I've been writing about it for twenty, and often about its seedier underbelly. And I'm telling you now, loud and clear, in terms of international football, it's not looked grubbier than this since I've been involved.

If the US team beat Belgium with Balogun in their team, there will be an invisible asterisk against their name for the rest of this tournament, and all the fancy legalese in the world ain't going to change that. The laws of the game have always been about balancing the...

Beautiful…. This tears will fill pool.

You know what the game of football has carried on absolutely successfully to an audience of billions without needing for over 140 years? American lawyers.

Come on, we want TEARS.

The only thing that can bring some succor to the World Cup on a day like today is Ronaldo tears. Gallons of them.

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

Enact the Final Provisions. Dissolve Fifa.

I have some sympathy for Balogun and the team as this was not any of thier doing but Poch doubling down, really hope Belgium put 10 past them.

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I love how Mbappe has matured into such a smart spokesperson as well as being a brilliant striker.

Folarin Balogun is a victim here, Donald Trump's "Good Birthright Citizen". He did not ask for this storm but it came anyway because he is a useful stooge in the cause of the powerful. Column ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Westham 25/26 season.

my theory is that it proves that the US just isn't a football nation at heart - sure you can be happy with a bit of shithousery, or with one of your players getting away with something they shouldn't have got away with, but something like *this* is just on a different level entirely

I think the Tilly Norwood story is a good example of how broken media is. No one actually believes it’s popular—but it is rage bait, and if you’re a social person whose performance is based on all-in engagement numbers…why not push it. It’s more cynical than credulous.

Me every time Tomas Repka got sent off

My solution to the Balogun controversy? He can play but he must carry a plate of hors d'oeuvres throughout. If he drops any, he's sent off again. Belgian players are allowed to eat the appetisers but one of them contains poison. If a Belgian player dies from food poisoning, Balogun is sent off again

If Belgium lose tonight do they have a case to overturn the loss at CAS? Sports lawyers?