YEEEEESSS! Ya Nashama…! Brilliant goal… #Jordan

I fucking hate celeb-appeals… it’s a judgement call, you have to ask the umpire. #EngvNZ

Resuming in the morning seems to be Root’s one genuine weakness… so many times he’s been removed in the first few overs of the day. #EngvNZ

Hope Sandoval is 60...? Lord a'mercy....

Early-morning thought, @arcticreviews.bsky.social... is there more than a whiff of Tinseltown in the Rain in Running Up That Hill? The synth-string stabs, the galloping rhythm, the descending "yeah, yeah, yeah"....? I know they were written concurrently, but there are some real parallels...

Getting Pablo vibes... winger/playmaker/set-piece specialist with the ability to pull rabbits out of hats. Only we're getting him right at his peak. Great start to the summer. #lufc

Bollocks… another gutsy showing, just lack that nous and final-third quality. Need more players to find teams in better leagues… the talent is there. #Jordan

Yalla Nashama!

It’s mystifying that England’s top order can watch Joe Root from the non-striker’s end and think, “Nah, not for me, I’m going front-foot pull it in front of square…” #EndvNZ

Seems like we enjoyed the last day off so much we want another one… #EngvNZ

Can’t be dropping those at this level… #EngvNZ

Pitch it up, for fuck's sake.....

Ideal result for #England, really: get an early win against the group’s toughest opponent, score 4, get Kane and Bellingham up and running… but still know there is loads of room for improvement, especially at the back. Lots to like about our physicality and pressing.

Gabriel Clarke seems to have turned into Bertrand Russell……

New Zealand should be ending the day 350-4… chucked so many wickets away. #EngvNZ

Hard to be 100% sure, but these photos I took today definitely suggest a portion of the famous 1957-built blue facade is still in place on the same plinth on the back of the West Stand This is literally unearthing buried treasure, and part of this HAS to be preserved as a historic artefact #lufc

We can certainly have some fun with Saints if this lad does sign. Woody off of Waccoe - tends to be right, whoever he or she is - is the latest to suggest it’s on.

The latest example of Labour trying to criminalise support for #Palestine...

This is a 20-year-old clip reviewing 30-year-old politics... but it doesn't half reveal how shallow, substance-free and slogan-heavy modern political discussion has become. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9Q...

Well done, Scotland… but, Christ, that was poor stuff.

Trips to Salts Mill with my Mum have always been a feature of visits home... and Hockney became synonymous with Christmas. Coffee-table books, dachshund postcard sets and, one year, this poster, which has followed me around the world for the past 30-odd years. #RIP

Been living with this for a couple of days and it's actually a lovely thing... nothing revolutionary but plenty of that sharp, crystalline song-writing that set them on their way 20-odd years ago. Stone Over water and Trap Door the picks on the first couple of passes.

So, how’s the post-Ashes reset going, Ben?

Here's an idea: Develop new stories, ideas, heroes, franchises... the world doesn't need any more James Bond films.

How many more do we need here...? 80? 100? #EngvNZ #thecricket

Duckett gonna Duckett........

Signing of the summer already in the can. #lufc

As everyone else is doing it: Buy: - Right-sided forward - Creative 8 - LCB - 9 option - LB cover - GK - Left-sided forward Sell: - Piroe - Struijk - Gnonto - Gelhardt - Ramazani Open to selling: - Tanaka - Gruev - Perri - Aaronson - Bournauw Ditch/loan: - Woeber - Harrison - Schmidt #lufc

I've always hated the Banqueting Suite... not just its grim (and horribly incongruous) business park architecture, but the fact it obscured ER's wonderful modernist facade and balcony. Glad to see the back of it, frankly! #lufc

Joao Neves rocking the John Savage in The Deer Hunter look…

First pen Arsenal have conceded all season, stats fans…

Has this Rutter story got legs...? Seems to be everywhere. Loved the bloke, as we all did, but not 100% sure his output represents the best way to spend 35m this summer... #lufc

Perfectly said. And I wish more people could address this issue with as much clarity.

BlueSky has been great as an #lufc fan this season... a fair bit of fretting, obviously, but it's been mostly sensible conversations, no abuse, and a general level-headness that makes you realise Twitter has become a cash-driven outrage farm and a vomitorium for the terminally inadequate.

That was rubbish… but, frankly, who cares? Brilliant season all in all and everyone who contributed to it should be ridiculously proud of themselves. Hope everyone puts their feet up now and reflects on a job well done. #lufc

Right, I’ve changed my mind. Bollocks to doing other teams favours… it’s not our fault West Ham have lost 3 in 3. Rather we got to 50 points, put our GD into positive, and banked another £3-5m. End a great season on a high. #lufc

Coventry, Ipswich and Hull… plus losing one London club? We have to be confident we can stay well clear of a relegation scrap next season. Over to you, 49ers. #lufc

Congratulations to Middlesbrough on being the first team to be knocked out of the Play-Offs twice in the space of 10 days. #historymakers

343? Darlow Rodon Bijol Bournauw James Ampadu Tanaka Justin Aaronson DCL Gnonto #lufc

... insert "Southampton vacancy" joke in here.... #lufc

... thank God most of England's games will be played in the middle of the night....

From a selfish, #lufc perspective, this is good news. The more of our squad rest up this summer, the better.

Currently compiling a 1991 playlist... and I just keep hitting repeat on this. B-side is a belter, too. #shoegaze

James Maddison is more Micky Hazzard than Maradona… good player but hardly a maverick magician. Stay tuned for more footballing alliteration.

Play the kids, Daniel. The players’ kids. #lufc

#Yorkshire guaranteed another Premier League club, then....

Quite like Hannibal as a footballer… but how slack would your “no dickheads” rule have to be to sign him? Even Real Madrid’s “dickheads welcome” might not sanction it.

There'll be votes for Stach and Gudmondsson, of course, but surely this was our signing of the summer... just delivered his second-best goal-scoring season ever and is on track to become the division's top-scoring Englishman this campaign. And he cost us nowt. #lufc

Very Harry-Kane-against-us-in-2023 that goal…. #lufc