The worst thing about Bazball is that it makes me agree with Michael Vaughan. #ashes

What I find so unlikeable about this team is the relentless awful Alpha Dog energy they love so much, which seems to mean that dickheads are actively encouraged to be more dickheadish.

First post-match interview question for Stokes should be: "Are you embarrassed?" #ashes

Farke needs to go on sabbatical and come back next season when we need promoting again. #lufc

My earworm is Joni Mitchell's Coyote - proving that even the greatest of songs can get tiresome after playing relentlessly in your head for days on end.

Spent the afternoon and early evening eating/drinking/looking at things in Saltaire/Shipley borders. As many Japanese tourists and achingly trendy young couples per square yard as E11/E17. Extraordinary.

In arcadia

Great white whale.

Just about coping. Greece is the word.

Forever Breathes The Lonely Word. Been a long time but still 10/10, no notes. ❤️

Like the Jesse Marsch season, we appear to have made a lot of sensible, pragmatic, mid-range signings who...aren't very good. #lufc

I was assembling a Habitat flat pack while that was on in the background, so pretty much the most frustrating evening of all time. #lufc

Sunderland not as good as we feared, Burnley not as bad as we hoped. Call that a score draw. #lufc

"Psst! West Ham. Wanna buy a goalkeeper?"

You can tell it's bramble season - the 'hood's covered in enormous splats of purple bird shit.

Prepared to accept this as an answer: open.spotify.com/track/0DpaDS...

Alternate answer: open.spotify.com/track/2i6roT...

The greatest record ever made #1 : open.spotify.com/track/0cDesQ...

Murmur is great but Reckoning is even better and is probably REM's best album. Is this a hot take? Does anyone think about REM anymore? They seem to have disappeared from view.

Common One. ❤️

Bit of a surprise to see a former England rugby union inernational (Will Greenwood) looking like a member of Spiral Tribe.

Brigitte Neilson, who was on the arm of Mick Hucknall, cadged a cig off me - a poor student - in the Hacienda.

In TV and film drama, all match-going football fans wear pristine and identical scarves in club colours. #mixtape

Spent the evening reacquainting myself with the work of The Mountain Goats. Darnielle's voice grates at times but, boy, can he write a lyric. And a tune. He's incredible, tbh.

Flawless morning in the yarden.

The day before the hosepipe ban.

On the train from Kings X direct to Skipton. Woke up this morning in the south of France. Haven't left the ground. When it works there's no better way to travel than by train.

Sitting outside little bistro in Avignon. Man dining alone has just had two mains. Entrecote with frites followed by enormous tuna steak with ratatouille. Legend. I've just eaten the best burger I've ever tasted. I like it here.

Tonight's digs. The Marquis de Sade's old gaff.

It's always Christmas in this hotel.

Lyon. A more than decent city.

Paris Gare de Lyon - bloke on public piano playing La Vie En Rose in flamboyant Claydermanesque style. Lots of men dressed like they've been styled for a Wes Anderson film. Bit on the nose.

Jeff Beck Live At Ronnie Scott's on Sky Arts now. Undoubtedly the worst music I've ever heard.

If this sacking story is a ploy by the owners to get a previously sceptical fanbase fully on board with Farke, it seems to have worked a treat. (I don't think the owners really give a toss about what the fanbase think.) #lufc

Dreamt last night that I went to see Nina Simone in concert and she opened with A Mouse Lived In A Windmill In Old Amsterdam.

@matthebat92.bsky.social Siempre, no pasaran.

My favorite song in the last 5? years. open.spotify.com/track/64qAu1...

Sent spiralling back into the power pop past by listening to The Tubs. It's A Shame About Ray and Copper Blue are even better than I'd remembered.

Incendiary stuff from The Tubs at Wharf Chambers in Leeds tonight. 10/10. No notes.

This advert in the local paper poses more questions than it answers.

Aaronson was overdue an assist. #lufc

Bill Fay. Fuck. A minor work in his canon, perhaps, but probably my favourite. open.spotify.com/track/0V0ScQ...

A statement: my #SpotifyWrapped has been a difficult experience for all concerned. Its contents do not reflect my true views and values, or who I am as a person. I will learn from this and strive to do better in future. I will not be taking questions.

Best performance of the season swiftly followed by the worst. Bad days at the office are inevitable in a long season but being able to predict with absolute certainty when they'll occur is, I think, problematic. #lufc

Pat B's new 'tache makes him look like an heiress's untrustworthy fiancé in a middle-tier episode of Poirot. #lufc

The Strawberry Alarm Clock DVA. (It's OK. I'm going to bed now.)

Front 242 Unlimited

These Animal Men Without Hats