Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Old but gold Brazilian football quote. #Fluminense 🇧🇷

This is a good explainer about Tony Bloom and Matthew Benham and how they came to run Premier League clubs and major football gambling syndicates. It's not (yet) a scandal, more an uncomfortable juxtaposition that has avoided the limelight until now.

Big, if true .. at ManU. 🧐

I understand the good people of @escapecollective.bsky.social are responsible for this.. 😳 #1 in cycling on Kindle; paperback sold out in Australia; hardback gone in UK. Allez, Vive Le Fric 🇫🇷

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

🤩

👀

I've always wondered (and feared) what might happen if everyone started taking set pieces seriously. The first eight weeks of the Premier League season might be giving us a glimpse into the future, where soccer no longer features much, well, soccer: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Here's Ron Greenwood on the Central Line with the FA Cup in 1964.

Gino Pozzo has fired 15 Watford managers in the last decade. In the modern era, few football club owners are in the same league.

The Times: let's just outsource all U.K. government policy to the Dutchies 🇳🇱

Great to see 'Smart Money' is available in public libraries in Brentford, Chiswick, Hounslow, Richmond, Sutton and Luton! Come on You Hatters. Keep the faith.

The 'NFL-ification' of set pieces in the Premier League. link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951cb...

The Amaury family (which owns the Tour de France and La Vuelta) made €2.3 million from offshore investments last year, according to @publico.es It is an above-board scheme known as 'cash pooling' using the family's reserves - profits taxable in France and Spain. www.publico.es/politica/inv...

Moneyball not so much any more. Brentford has 20th costliest squad by transfer fees in world football, according to CIES Football Observatory. More than former European champions AC Milan, Benfica and Marseille. Not far off Barcelona either 👀

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

Spanish Government replies to the UCI's statement, pointing out that the UN has just declared Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. Brutal final words: "Peace without justice is peace in the graveyard." Lappartient is out of his depth. He is not protecting cycling with his actions and words.

"The UCI's view that sport must "remain autonomous," separate from politics .. .. (Somewhere deep in the small print) .. *except when it concerns the French state and the affairs of Amaury Sport Organisation.

Los chavistas lo dejaron en libertad cuando buscaron en Internet su nombre y descubrieron que se trataba de uno de los protagonistas del famoso sketch fish-slaping-dance, de los Monty Python'

Happy transfer deadline day In 2017, @tariqpanja.bsky.social and I published 'Football's Secret Trade' an exposé of an underground investment market in player transfers Now banned, it made a lot of money for a few already-wealthy people www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/s...

NYT missed a bit. On the walls, there was nothing look-at-me, apart from a blown-up photo of Tana wearing a suit – no tie – and a broad smile while holding a bottle of champagne next to a dozen men in a bath. The caption: ‘Brentford Football Club win promotion to the third division’. RIP Dan.

"Maestro, fúmate un purito despacito." I had not heard this phrase before but si, es la leche 👌

Challenge: To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.

Billy Grant on Antoni Milambo: "He's got some dancing feet on him." Yes sir, he can boogie. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Rare Tony Bloom interview but with a hint of PR including 'betting advisory' euphemism. Wish him luck taking on Rangers & Celtic - he has more chance of winning the league with Hearts than Brighton. Just needs one bad season for Celtic.

With the Tour de France Femmes starting today, there will be 9️⃣ hours of cycling on the main channel of Dutch public broadcaster NOS today. However there will be be a brief interlude in the schedule for the news - in case anything else is happening.

Matthew Benham selling minority stake in Brentford FC to Gary Lubner as early as tomorrow, according to Sky News. Won't hold it against him when we go on to win the Premier League, but he grew up as a West Ham fan in 1960s South Africa. www.thetimes.com/article/6cda...

Oxford United in Indonesia 🔥 41,000 fans + flares + 9 goals www.oufc.co.uk/news/oxford-...

A reminder that marginal gains did not start with Team Sky. In 1970s Belgium, Lucien van Impe would put his watch forward one hour, a month before the Tour de France began, so his body clock was not out of sync with French summertime across the border. Happy TdF countdown ⏱️

Can this transfer window get any worse... Damsgaard to Chelsea, anyone?

The Saudi sports offensive, so far: 2034 World Cup ✅ Formula 1 race ✅ PGA golf merger ✅ DAZN sports channel ✅ Boxing prize fights ✅ Newcastle United buyout ✅ Pro cycling takeover ❌ My book on the Parisian family which owns the Tour de France and is holding out.. www.amazon.co.uk/Fric-Family-...

Brentford are in advanced talks with UK-based South African businessman Gary Lubner and English filmmaker Matthew Vaughn about a minority investment in the Premier League club. More from @mjslater.bsky.social and @david-ornstein.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/3Gj91lQ

Had a fascinating chat with John Iga about innovation in football and how clubs can make best use of the government’s Research and Development Tax Credit Scheme. Made a nice feature for Training Ground Guru. trainingground.guru/john-iga-inn...

//INRNG: Which One Cycling? One Cycling's races won't be on the UCI's calendar, the project replies it was a challenge to meet the admin deadlines but look more closely and there's a fundamental clash inrng.com/2025/06/whic...

the One Cycling project isn't happening, or at least not on the UCI calendar...

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Thomas Frank is / was the most successful coach in Brentford's 136 year history. (Harry Curtis was the general manager, not coach, when the Bees finished 5th in 1936.) Of course, he can only take some of the credit...

White smoke at Spurs? 💨 'Deal almost done.' Big, if true.

A message from @philippeauclair.bsky.social The reality we at Josimar face is stark. Should we fail to raise 50 000 euro by 1 July, the world’s only investigative media dedicated solely to football will cease to exist. josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

The BMW* which Brentford had in the Championship six years ago turned out to be a nice little earner. £120 million or so. *Benrahma-Mbeumo-Watkins.

Feast your eyes on these photos from the incredible stage that decided the Giro d'Italia. escapecollective.com/gallery-the-...

Last night had been coming: how the French elite learnt the value of sport, and of winning: www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/aux-arme... #PSG

Pini Zahavi, 82, will publish a memoir this year. Once a football journalist, he became one of sport's biggest dealmakers from the 1990s, getting into 'third party ownership' when nobody outside South America knew what that was. Let's see if it's fascinating or self-aggrandizement.

South London Press is no more 😢 Short paragraphs; no farkin' fancy words, thank you very much; page after page about Millwall. As iconic as Henry Cooper and the Old Kent Road. 👊🏻

RIP Brian Glanville, a bastion of London football press boxes for a lifetime. He used to cycle to Griffin Park in the 90s and was kind, charming and fiery. "Person who does crossword in press box," he once intoned at Loftus Road, "four letters beginning with c." www.thetimes.com/article/649f...

"For Brentford, their 0.04 xG per long throw-in is top of the list among all Premier League teams." Via @ahmed-walid.bsky.social @markcarey93.bsky.social

The only Wrexham analysis you need to read at this point unless you like a lot of sugar-coating.

Not saying pro cycling sponsors have an enduring commercial benefit (even after they have left) but i do grocery shopping at Jumbo, drive a Skoda and just ordered some Belisol windows.

What a story this is. www.wsj.com/us-news/texa...