Ngl, with how long that VAR check took, I don't know why they didn't simply use the angle that was shown on telly _after_ the goal was disallowed, where it turned out that VAR was wrong... because #25 fouled Raya first. #EPL #WHUARS

Blue Labour will say “better to turn Camden into a marginal in order to win Barnsley” and then get absolutely destroyed in Barnsley.

Current mood, weirdly #WSL #LEICHE

....in what universe was Shannon's shot only 0.4 xG?! #WSL #LEICHE

... I think Fisk was more at fault for that goal than Falk, tbh. #WSL #MCILIV

Not a good look for the Man City fans to be hooting and hollering like that, when Ceri Holland was/is visibly in a _lot_ of pain. #WSL #MCILIV

Oh my god Falk isn't even trying to actually look injured there. #MCILIV #WSL

... I can't say that this (which was re-upped from before the FA-Cup quarter-final) cursed Charlton, because they kind of collapsed after losing 3-0 to Portsmouth, which happened well before, but... #WSL2

... okay, 13 minutes is more stoppage than I was expecting (I was expecting double digits, but more, like, 10? Though I have also been watching another game) #WSL2 #CHABIR

... ngl, I don't think I've ever seen a throw in get headed by an opposing player straight back into the arms of the thrower before? #WSL2 #CHABIR

Ngl, I think Spurs fans looking forward to the post-relegation 'clear-out' are possibly in for a bit of a shock...

Okay so, uh, why _did_ Chelsea give Liam Rosenior a 6 and a half year contract out the gate? Like, just in general, that seems like a bad idea? (were they worried he'd do well and ask for a pay rise 3 years down the line?)

I don't know who needs to read this, but: just because something is leaked to the press doesn't mean the government is actually forced to announce it before, say, some prerequisite background checks are complete.

you won't like him when he's angry. or, indeed, if you check polling, when he's not angry.

1. The precise contents of Mandelson's Developed Vetting documents should actually stay secret (like, _any_ precedent of publication would be a deterrent to disclosure) 2. Attempting to keep the "don't hire this guy" advice secret was utterly disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The nub of so many of this government’s problems is that there is a Keir Starmer where the prime minister should be.

BBC "stop putting incredibly obviously triggering details in headlines about people dying" challenge [Impossible].

I'm half-watching Scotland vs Belgium (I like football, but England vs Spain is a heart attack waiting to happen for me), and I swear every time I look back Belgium's players have reshuffled in their formation (Cayman's been in at least 3 different positions already).

Bit of a belated realisation, but this "our national team _needs_ these Elite Teams to have their academies in a competitive senior tier" for the WNL thing is... like, it's kind of giving League 3, right? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

NGL, I was fully expecting to be "well, at least there's cricket" with the joke being that Leicestershire are having a rough time of it (Surrey ran up a huge score on day 1) but, uh, I guess this isn't too bad... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Y'know, maybe the Yanks were onto something with this closed shop leagues with no relegation thing... [/at least half-joking. Probably.]

It's funny seeing the freakouts about how the proportion of minutes played by English U20s has dropped in the WSL and how doomed the youth are.... And then there's the actual U23 manager going "more minutes would be nice, but we are, if anything, too stacked" www.englandfootball.com/articles/202...

Wow, I can't believe that the guy who once called the Common Era a "Marxist Plot" (Concocted by Jewish Academic Herbert Marcuse[1]) is, in fact, a ridiculous bigoted conspiracist. [1] To be clear: Delingpole brought up Marcuse's Jewishness in the relevant article.

Like, 22nd: probably too late to set-up(?); 25th/26th: UWCL semi-final; 29th: Delayed by Mickey Mouse Cup (H); 2nd/3rd: other UWCL semi; 6th: Delayed by Weather (A); 9th/10th: FA Cup semi-final weekend [now free]; 13th: only other free slot (2 free slots needed); 16th: Final Day.

I'm not being funny but, like, could Arsenal WFC have actually, physically, played in the FA Cup semi-final anyway? (like, the only mid-week not in use already for some other clash/delayed game is the 22nd. I mean, I'm sure that winning a mickey mouse cup and $2.3m was worth it but...)

Y'know, it's funny that Starmer is an actual, legit, Arsenal fan, because the ultimate rationale behind De Zerbi to Spurs - actively chosing to do the bad thing, because of some vague conception that doing so is _intrinsically_ effective - is _incredibly_ Starmerite.

Stolen Clanger puppet returned after 50-year mystery. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ngl, I'm not sure I buy that Man City beating Man Utd 3-0 means that the WSL is ~totally~ as much as a farmer's league as La Liga F.... (genuinely why do Barça Femení fans feel the need to say stuff like that? Just own that your team is absurdly dominant domestically!)

The government’s “don’t panic” message on energy is preventing sensible efficiency measures Ministerial messages on energy prices risk looking complacent www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

In the spirit of trans visibility, lemme just plug my ongoing project to document as many pre-2010 games as possible that had a trans person on the dev team. You might be surprised by what's on there. There's games going right back to the sixties! dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

Frankly the "we should be paid as if we still work 60+ hour weeks and/or have moved to Australia, without doing either of these things, and so have no choice but to abet incredible suffering uwu" cause of the junior doctors has around negative sympathy from me, but cutting training places?!

Scott Mills being sacked is a slightly big deal, but also:

Sorry, there were 6(!) goals and a decently long injury stoppage... And then only 3 mins added time?! #CHEAVL #WSL

I'm not being funny but, like, wasn't "Reform wants to completely supplant the Tories" just... openly the plan for the last 2-3 years at least? (I mean, he only did a deal in 2019 under duress, and quite deliberately screwed the Tories in 2024)

... Why wasn't that a yellow card? (I am not confident on where a foul 'counts' as taking place to say if it was also actually a pen, but surely stopping a promising attack?) #WSL #ARSTOT

Re: the Maanum own goal. I think you could tell it wasn't Tandberg, even without it being very obvious from the goal itself, because she's a legit Spurs fan who didn't celebrate 'scoring' in the NLD. #WSL

As a "something funny happening" partisan: lol. But also: Oof, poor Lize Kop. #WSL #ARSTOY

Ngl, it is weird how Leicester... somehow... just almost never get brought up in relation to Spurs's present plight? Like, I've seen articles get to "Blackburn Rovers" without mentioning Leicester. Are pundits just hoping that no one remembers their takes from 2023 or something?

Given that people do make up fake Trump posts... yeah, the "I'm glad he's dead" one re: Mueller is real, yeesh: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... [link, obviously, goes direct to Truth Social]

Reading the LCFC Women fitness/availability update like:

My god a better team would have thrashed Liverpool there. (How are _this_ side 5th?!)

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

Oh my god of course it was Max "football equivalent of a child's self-insert Mary Sue, but real" Dowman.

And the winner for funniest goal of 2026 is... #EPL #ARSEVE

I know that it's probably not my place as a Not-Spurs fan, but, ngl, I kind of miss when "Spursy" meant "coming agonisingly close to glory, only to implode" rather than, well, [gestures broadly]. There was a kind of tragicomic nobility to it, rather than, well [gestures broadly again].

Leicester? Keeping a clean sheet? In this economy?! #EFL #EFLChampionship

The Athletic has a bit more detail, in terms of what the prompts were for the pathetic edgeposts, and my god these people are somehow even more pathetic than I thought they were before www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Pundits *love* snap elections as it keeps the subject of discussion on horse-race coverage. If there is distance between now and the next election that means the subject has to shift to substantive analysis of policy and governance, topics they find boring and are mostly pig ignorant about

Being too chicken to actually say something yourself and asking an LLM to do it for you is somehow even bigger loser behaviour than making edgy posts about tragedies in and of itself, and that is saying something www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...