no idea what did it but matt le tissier has to be a badge of honour

oh, that's mark wallace! stolen valour! this is the british right doing that!

latest newsletter looking back at argentina's 2010 world cup. all the talent you could want, managed by diego maradona. www.graceonfootball.com/p/what-went-...

you ever just stop and think about how sheikh mansour owns a minor stake in liverpool

And had a high opinion of yourself writing on Messi, amirite

i followed this advice and wrote a 4000 word article instead

Real Blue Labourism has never been tried

i'm most irritated that people are ignoring the existence of the letter P in "empty"

If you’re a Labour MP who doesn’t want to be called transphobic or be tarred with the bigoted stench this Labour government’s policies leave behind? Leave Trans kids alone you absolute freaks.

"Fools thousands", including, it would seem the AI that powers the everything app

i'm genuinely fascinated by the extent to which uk political elites are all in on the iran war, furious that the government isn't gung ho, while the polling is very clear that the public want to stay out of it.

can't tell you how refreshing it is just to have a party leader acknowledge basic truths about our oppression. no hedging it, no both sides.

this is why it's so narratively frustrating. it shows you what you would've won then takes it away from you.

the thing with var is that linesmen aren't blowing early whistles nearly as often now. so we have no idea whether something like that would actually be called offside or not.

what an awful football team

YESSSSSS GET IN THERE! MAKE SOME FRAT BOY JOKES ABOUT HOW YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN A MOVIE AND CALL IT CINEMA, HAVE AT IT!

chelsea taking so long with this they're literally ageing men

i see why all the chelsea fans i know are so miserable

but the ones who do are worth ten of the ones that'll only read 500 words.

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it. Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

why are we doing spotify wrapped for bank accounts. how is this a thing.

i do actually think maradona could've worked if he delegated. he's obviously a very magnetic person, and a group of argentine players specifically will respond to his aura. just get an assistant who can do the tactics.

in researching the argentina 2010 world cup newsletter (should be out today), i found out that diego simeone was seriously considered for the manager job but they went with maradona instead.

when joe gomez finally scores a goal, i feel like it won't be from there.

one of those rare weekends where i have no choice but to support chelsea

So just to be clear the FA rule is that Emi Martinez is strictly forbidden from promoting betting companies except for every time he puts on an Aston Villa shirt

May as well ask. Most publication style guides will tell you to write numbers 1-9 as figures, but then ten, eleven, twelve onwards as full words. Being a football newsletter, I've generally made the cutoff 1-11, then twelve etc. Anyone have a take?

fifa just walked in assuming world cup host cities would bend over backwards for them as per, and this random council said "nah you have to pay the bills or no games here".

good for them. don't take fifa's shit. www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

in some senses it'll feel like coming home, having the premier league broadcast as part of a far right billionaire's propaganda machine

It's not TV, it's the Meat Wall

goated uk laws around protected free to air events

america's ability to get other countries onboard for stuff like that is premised on being a fair actor. that's obviously not the case anymore. so countries will ask "what's in it for us?"

might be preferable to bbc cutting back to the studio to hear what alan shearer thought of the game so far

this is about var but it applies to so much more than that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

erling haaland needs to double down on his limited all round play and address what he does in front of goal

think fans should be wary of thinking this would help them save money. there was a time when people thought netflix would help them save money, everything on there for a monthly subscription. except everything isn't on there, and the prices keep going up. same could happen here.

I looked at xG trends over the last 10 games, remaining fixtures, and betting markets to figure out where I think everyone's relegation chances stand. I've relaxed *a little bit* about Spurs and I am scared for Forest. www.thetransferflow.com/p/who-s-gett...

Free! To watch! Football!

this always just feels incredibly dutch of him

it's honestly so satisfying now when i watch old games and a goal is offside on the replay but it's too late, it's been given.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

the midfield, err, "structure" of maradona's argentina at the 2010 world cup

let's go

we went downhill as a country when they let Alexander Armstrong go on Celebrity The Chase

the roy keane sky advert shouldn't be allowed to run on tnt sports. crossing the streams.

something quite amusing hearing ally mccoist talk about robert plant like some striker from the 1970s or something.

ah, fun game of trying to gender flip the "telling lesbians they're they're trans boys" flavour of trans panic. this is not a thing. never happened.