did the classic Royal Melbourne by day, Oddisee by night double at Melbourne on Friday.

golf.com.au/news/clayton... Elvis Smylie. Ryo Hisatsune The Presidents Cup and Geoff Ogilvy.

Welcome to the Trump World Cup - because even the draw doesn't feel as exacting Video piece from Washington www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuGA...

My little shit houser loves our big shit housing captain

Dan Burn gets away with murder every week and someone he gets that call

utter nonsense

Romero loves nothing more than shit talking Brazilians

early Wednesday morning in Melbourne but still a COYS.

one of my students opted to write on Taylor Swift, WAGs and gender in her blog for Sport, Religion, and Society substack.com/@sportreligi...

wandering around 7 Mile Beach with the architect, Mike Clayton, a new course on the wild dunes of Hobart Tasmania.

I fear that Tottenham are basically as bad right now as they were in January/February, but with less mitigation, less credit in the bank for the manager, and without the sense of shared purpose provided by the Europa League campaign.

It looks even worse than that match back in 2024! At least then we had the highs of the win over Villa and the first 10 matches before Chelsea. This is just pure horror.

COYS from Australia!

How long into match before I switch over the Bayern v Arsenal? After PSG's first goal? Fourth goal? Vicario's 73rd long ball that bounces off Kudus?

highlights of the American Academy of Religion was purchasing this fascinating edited volume on Palestinian Theology from one of my PhD students and listening to another one of my PhD students present his research on contemporary Coptic-Muslim relations in Egypt.

I glad we are so defensively solid now

That should be worth 3 goals and the final whistle being blown

Another unforgivably cowardly London derby performance. Every bit as passive and defeatist as we were a few weeks ago against Chelsea. Frank clearly doesn’t get that this sort mentality, against our biggest rivals, just won’t wash

135 minutes against out two biggest rivals and our collective xG is .05 with one shot on target and seemingly no touches in the box from open play

The game is about boredom

in Boston for academic conference and will have to skip out on a session on Sunday to watch the NLD!

to confirm Scotland's place back in the World Cup for the first time in 28 years!

Scotland gonna Scotland

It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

She said herself that she wants 'decent, moderate politics' and she's proposing that we rip jewellery from asylum seekers desperately searching for a better life, yeah? Don't believe what they say, believe what they do.

my Arsenal supporting student on Arsenal, America, and the echoes of Christian evangelism in the spread of the Premier League. I'm now going to make him read @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social's piece on Spurs and USA. open.substack.com/pub/sportrel...

Incredible end to this piece: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."

Arsenal drop points. Let the world rejoice. Hopefully Liverpool v City isn't a draw.

Scotland with an epic comeback to get even and then have a great chance to go ahead....only to lose it late to All Blacks. Scotland has still never beaten New Zealand.

let's hope that we are down to 4th by 7:30pm tonight

At 80 minutes, I would have happily taken a point...but football is cruel so now I'm angry that we gave away the win.

It's stark when you see it like that. My word.

just a middle aged man whose happiness for the rest of the weekend, nae the next fortnight, relies upon the outcome of a lunchtime football match in north London. COYS

My friend and colleague with a great interview with Imam Mustafa Briggs exploring Islam, modernity and blackness.

Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.

4th year MA Theology student, Robert Rustom on women's sport, muscular Christianity, and gender biases. open.substack.com/pub/sportrel...

"But this is a new era: you can’t reach an accommodation with an ICE agent when he’s kneeling on your neck. Climate chaos does not come with a moderate option. An oligarch is not interested in your pitiful attempts to strike a deal." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reads like something taken from O'Neil's novel Godwin

Can we get an xG from before and after the red card @nathanaclark.bsky.social @profspur.bsky.social

"The Sanctification of Kobe Bryant" by 4th year undergraduate Liv Sample. open.substack.com/pub/sportrel...

my undergraduate students were debating before class if Chelsea were good or Spurs just absolutely atrocious. Leeds supporter voted Chelsea as good pressing. Arsenal supporter wasn't impressed with Chelsea, just thought Spurs were 'worst I've ever seen them.'

two great matches on tomorrow night with PSG v Bayern and Real Madrid v Liverpool...and I'm going to watch the dross that is Tottenham Hotspur at home against FC Copenhagen.

Just been told it will be a 69 week wait for an appointment with an orthopaedic about a lingering ankle injury. Had to go private for my physio and she suggested an MRI to consider surgery or cortisone injection but apparently that would take nearly 2 years to get!

teaching Sinan Antoon's amazing novel, Corpse Washer, tomorrow with master's students. This opening vignette gets me every time.

got up early working on my lecture on sectarianism and football in Scotland, but all I can think about is how how horribly awful Tottenham Hotspur were yesterday and how much shit my students are going to give me tomorrow in class.

the good news is that we are only 6.5 days until ANOTHER international break!

apparently Spurs recorded their lowest xG since 2012-13

I'd like to thank my wife for getting a contract that took her out of town and meant I couldn't attend the match in person.

FT: How about that Defensive Solidity? CAN YOU FEEL IT??? Pure genius to allow 2.65 xG and 6 big chances and only concede 1 goal. All balanced out by the creation of .05 xG from 1 shot on target.