you’re never more than 10 feet away from someone texting “lol” with a completely expressionless face

‘I just think the key to health and life, and happiness is to leave Manchester United.’ Is Old Trafford the detoxification clinic? The Football Weekly panel discuss. @maxrushden.bsky.social @larssivertsen.bsky.social @sidlowe.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social

The Coventry City success story is here: get through the worst years of your existence, find a rich, benevolent, local owner, rebuild the club, back a manager and watch things soar. This is a brilliant tale of what a club can be… inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

On This Day: In 2020, Leeds completed the £17m signing of Brazilian winger Raphinha from Rennes. So fortunate to have seen him play a part in our history and to watch him develop into one of the best active players thriving on the big stage. lufcdata.com | #LUFC

And this, as it happens, is exactly what they did.

Metrics don’t win games though and a very, very average Spurs were there for the taking. Let’s hope Gnonto heals quickly. Okafor needs to learn how to play a full game, too.

We 442’ing it for the last 15? I’m not opposed. Anyway, Sunderland to tear Man U apart and continue thier charmed life later, anyone?

Latest from Elland Road : Dirty Spurs

40 years old this week. One of those rare life-changing albums when I first heard it at 16; the whole wild world kicking in the front door. ‘We sail tonight for Singapore …’

First half hour vibecheck: Ominous #LUFC

Leeds Leeds Leeds | A series of photographs by Justin Slee taken during his time working for Leeds Leeds Leeds magazine, 1998-2003. lowerblock.com/product/leed... #LeedsUnited

As good an illustration as any of how the involvement of nation states in sport makes a mockery of sustainability and fair competition; and, in this case, to promote the brand of a brutal regime as well.

🍔 Food systems issues were a key part of fringe events at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference. But what about the party's agenda? Get the inside track from our Public Affairs Lead Joss MacDonald in our latest podcast! 🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3WiN0Ij

🏟️ How will the San Siro's demolition affect supporters? ⬇️ Why are Borussia Mönchengladbach facing relegation? 🇸🇪 How are Mjällby on the brink of winning the Swedish title? Dotun, @andybrassell.bsky.social and @jonlegossip.bsky.social answer all on #AskOTC! Out now 👇 t.co/84MNxToD8W

EXCLUSIVE: BrewDog has announced it has sold its 'Lost Forest' after 250,000 of the trees it planted on the Scottish estate died

Wrote recently how Leeds are both in/not in two MCOs and along comes another with Colombia’s Deportivo Cali, announced on LinkedIn last week by a private equity firm headquartered in Guatemala. #lufc

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Sunderland, I see, continue to live a charmed life.

This is going to be one of those “but this is Manchester United” monologue days, isn’t it.

200 years today since the world's first passenger railway journey in the north east of England. Here's a look at the history of railways and English football: including the formation of Man Utd, football specials & specially-built stations that were barely used. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

This is an excellent and quite mad story. I'm generally quite relaxed about tourism but I do think that one thing that is a huge shame (with no obvious solution) is when something quite small becomes wildly popular to the extent it is crushed by the popularity.

The poet Tony Harrison has died. This piece is worth reading on the scandal his poem v caused back in 1987. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

There’s some Bielsa talk in this week’s El Partido, fellow #LUFC widows :

Really enjoyed this informative discussion on the French Republic via the famous French school ‘Cantine’ #Food

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Wonderful, wonderful place with yes, fantastic wines.

Ex-Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets announced retirement at end of MLS season. Some career, we'll miss the dragback when it's gone www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Today, on Wilson's World, how the rise of Mjällby and Malmö's struggles fit into the wider pattern of football becoming increasingly direct. jonawils.substack.com/p/malmo-and-...

This is brilliant:

Lovely stuff, but could we also have a non-relaxed fit version too? They are swampy as hell for those of us who are simply lean?

Casper Ankergren ⭑ #LUFC from A-Z since '92 Casper Ankergren fell in love with English football, and with Leeds, straight away. He even fell in love with Dennis Wise.

Our readers have sent us suggestions for the greatest men's goals of all time and we've produced a shortlist of 256 of the best. They've been randomly assigned into 64 groups of 4, with the winner of each progressing through to the next round. Vote: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hugo Ekitike: Rocket Scientist

Wish I hadn’t have read this, to be honest. Scary stuff. #Food

An interesting read on one of my favourite Spanish snacks: 🍅

BLOG POST: How Oktoberfest is becoming a thing in Britain – and is no longer just about silly plastic hats and bunting. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/okto...

O zapft is! Oktoberfest begins today in Munich! It's okay, I'm not there either. (Löwenbräu, 1934)

After being turned by Alan Smith and pulling him down by his shirt, Paolo Maldini had to take a wet booking while wearing a face of utter embarrassment. After United's chastening week it was a welcome sign. Is it really 25 years since Bowyer hit that for #LUFC vs Milan?

According to a new commentary paper in the journal Nature Food, some of the worst animal suffering in the world can be prevented at a rate of just a couple of pennies per hour: the extreme pain experienced by chickens raised for meat.

🇪🇸Latest La Comunidad piece following La Vuelta: Why is Spain so passionate about Palestine? Enjoy, share, gracias! open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...

We're going on tour! TSB are heading to Belfast, Dublin and Galway for live shows in late March 2026. Please use this form to register interest in tickets and let us know which city you're interested in. More details to follow. #lufc forms.gle/hQsMh3GnNWti4tLU9

A Greek bearing gifts: the many talents of the moschofilero grape | Hannah Crosbnie on drinks

A new episode of The British Food History Podcast is out now: Ireland, Ale & the Colonising British with @braciatrix.bsky.social. She has written an excellent book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland. It’s available on all podcast apps, my blog & YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

‘Cider to the power of 10’: bumper apple harvest has UK cider makers drooling

“Here flags are not a symbol not of hate, but of unity and peace,” Mayor Campani tells me. On a weekend marred by racist protests, I visited Barga, Italy's most Scottish town, and a festival which celebrates all that is good about emigration/immigration. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Today on It Was What It Was, the apparent incompatibility of Ange Postecoglou and this Nottingham Forest. jonawils.substack.com/p/high-press...

Link to read here: open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...

Stewfluencers?

Starting the ‘JP Rodon’ movement right here, right now 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿