It’s great that Europe won the #RyderCup against MAGAland but I can’t help thinking the guys all dressed up in EU waistcoats in the crowd just look like a Mr Tumble convention.

It hadn’t occurred to me that Nottingham Forest’s staff leisurewear would be designed by Paul Smith but it all makes sense. Local lad made good. #EPL #NFFC

Watching #MOTD. The commentator could hardly have sounded any happier when Arsenal equalised against Man City if he’d been wearing a red and white scarf and a Gunnersaurus hat. “YEEEEEAAAAAHHHSSS!”.

Just arrived and now playing. Looking forward to seeing Mr H and @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social later this week.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the spectacular splintering of the Corbyn-Sultana alliance.

I noticed that Romania forward Dennis Man played for PSV tonight. Isn’t that what Oz used to exclaim in “Auf Wiedersehen Pet”? #ecl #championsleague

The T20 Blast is so superior to The Hundred it’s almost laughable. #T20Blast

Excitingly, I’m ironing while listening to the new album from #Suede. It’s full of bangers. And Brett has *definitely* been listening to Magazine a lot of late.

9 overs left out if 20 and South Africa already need over 20 an over. It’s like one of those Stick Cricket games when you fall behind an impossibly high target. #ENGSA #ENGvSA

ECHR offers protection against unfair dismissal from work, protects pension rights, maternity leave rights and protects women getting divorced. People who think it's a good idea to leave should be ridiculed like flat-earthers. The ignorance is astounding.

DESIGNER TOM DIXON ON BASS KLAXON #totp

Thank you Mr Levy. I hope the idiots on social media constantly whinging about him are happy now. He transformed us from middling Prem also-rans heading for Sheff Wed-like mediocrity into one of the world's top clubs. We didn't win many trophies but the bar is higher now than ever. #coys

@philippeauclair.bsky.social Browsing the J-League scores today I came across this chap for the first time. The crossover we all needed?

Happy 80th birthday Van Morrison. Give us a smile, mate!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH #championsleague #UCL

Well done Frank Lampard. #mastermind #bbcmastermind

What was wrong with the GB public (or more pertinently, daytime radio) in 1987 that “My Bag” missed the top 40? Clots. #forgotten80s

But @extremerice.bsky.social, did Slowdive ever have a song called…. #forgotten80s

“Play To Win”. Another one that missed the top 40 despite getting on #Totp while in the 40s. #forgotten80s

All About Eve’s uptempo songs were their best ones. This one “Our Summer”, and “Flowers In Our Hair”. Supported The Mish all the time, as I recall from my student days. #forgotten80s

Feels strange to be hearing “I Don’t Believe In You” outside of TCOS. What a fucking record that is. Yes, the last two Talk Talk albums are indefinably amazing. But TCOS still has that pop mixed with the avant garde. Bloody brilliant and endures better than anything else in 1986. #forgotten80s

I firmly expect to hear the magnificent and should-have-been-big The Farmers Boys at some stage tonight. #forgotten80s

The Chart Show showed “Rules and Regulations” on the indie charts. Every song in the EP is ace. #forgotten80s

Al Jarreau, who later gave his name to a Saudi-backed football team in the north-east of England. #forgotten80s

“I Ran” is an utterly glorious sound. For once the Americans got it right and we didn’t. #forgotten80s

I’m glad the British public refused to make Mr Roboto a hit. It’s f***ing awful. Rush did that ‘prog discovers new wave’ a millions times better. #forgotten80s

Hands up if you prefer the Billy Mackenzie vocal version of “The Rhythm Divine”. Yeah, me too! #forgotten80s

I LOVE the first few Soup Dragons singles. “Whole Wide World” and “Hang Ten!” are note perfect updates on the sound of early Buzzcocks. This one’s a bit better produced but still good. #forgotten80s

REM released a whole load of fabulous singles in the 80s before they finally got a hit. Personally I prefer the jangly ones to “Finest Worksong” but it’s a good one anyway. #forgotten80s

Billy’s last appearance on #TOTP was with “Those First Impressions”, yet it still couldn’t quite creep into the top 40. Lord knows how “Breakfast” from the same LP didn’t make it either. #forgotten80s

What a glorious tune. #forgotten80s

Released on the same day as “Fools Gold” and the “Madchester Rave On” EP, fact fans. I was in Piccadilly Records that very day. #forgotten80s

Congratulations to Iliman Ndaiye, the first man to score a competitive goal at #EFC’s new stadium. Is it too silly to imagine his nickname, in the proud Everton tradition of Neil ‘Dissa’ Pointon, might be ‘f*** off’?

In the same way all punk now sounds like a Not The Nine O'Clock News parody, all Britpop is distilled into this.

“Cars” by Gary Numan is the UK number one with the longest outro once the vocals have finished, percentage-wise. (Vocals end: 1:25, song ends: 3:59)

25 years today I first met the future Mrs B, at London's fashionable Blow Up club night. Would you Adam and Eve it? Thanks @andylewis.bsky.social among others!

The right result. I’d have disqualified the Scanners team anyway for not being able to recognise any David Bowie album titles. #onlyconnect

Get in there! Swing Out Sister’s “Forever Blue”, from “Kaleidoscope World” - a gorgeous mixture of Jimmy Webb, B&D, and exotica that would have been HUGE if released in the mid-90s. #forgotten80s

I wish Sade would make another record and do at least one more tour. Her catalogue is only six albums but they’re all fabulously lush and subtly different. #forgotten80s

Andy O from Blue Zoo was the first pop star I ever saw ‘in the wild’. I saw him on the platform at Finchley Road tube station on the way home from school in 1983 - his hit year - and he was thrilled I’d recognised him. #forgotten80s

“The Six Pack”. Hides one of the Police’s greatest ever songs. This one. #forgotten80s

Introducing House Music. Now there’s a great TOTP appearance from a generally fallow year. #forgotten80s

Paul King’s annoying hands movements were a feature of 1985 TOTPs #forgotten80s

Alex Scott’s vocal fry is very annoying. She’s not a teenager. #footballfocus

I think the phrase rhymes with ‘clucking bell’. #coys #thfc #supercup

Tottenham’s keeper, who of course is mentioned in the hook of Gary Numan’s “This Wreckage” “Oh, Vicario..” #forgotten80s

A reminder that before social media came along, pop music *was* the social medium used by millions of young and youthful-minded people. A record like this one is a perfect example. The musical and lyrical equivalent of an exquisitely worded character-limited text message from one soul to another. -

Ever since humanity learned to write, we’ve used pictures to make reading easier, and now an exhibition looks at the evolution of the pictogram in public signs. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sig...

Without fail, there’s always one thing I instantly think of when I see Gus Atkinson’s full name on the scoreboard. #ENGvIND

There aren’t many non-my-club domestic sides I recall as fondly as the 78-79 Baggies.