In all three we stopped playing at 1-0. And in all three it went badly

It’s beyond insane that the BBC World Service might end in 7 weeks when its funding runs out. A beacon of information, education and UK soft power - Ministers would be crazy not to find money to support it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Made me laugh this morning

we did a podcast again, have a listen

We're back with a mid-season review pod, with a healthy dose of "what the fuck was that at the weekend" thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

💥MID-SEASON MINI-CRISIS?💥 #136: Fix The Roof While The Sun's Shining 🎙 @towells.bsky.social @alexcollings.bsky.social @setpiecesicko.bsky.social @eulenberg.bsky.social 🔴 Another mid-season slump ⚪️ What's up with the forwards? 🟡 Eze, 6 months in 🔵 Are Arsenal bottlejobs? Listen 👇 pod.fo/e/38246d

My favourite thing about cow tools being real is this image being a real image from an academic paper

The two possible states of the Arsenal fan

it's crazy how much sheer feeling Arsenal generated over the past three years and now, when we're in our best-ever position, it's all gone so emotionally flat

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Unreal

Xabi Alonso. Arrived, tried to do tactics, players told him to fuck off, fucked off

Your team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap in open play. My team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap from corners. We are not the same

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

I'd like to apologise for the lack of 20th century philosophy references in this episode, but on the bright side we do talk about an advent calendar of model trains, so its still worth a listen I reckon

People have been wondering when Manuel Neuer will retire and the answer is about 30 seconds ago

The important thing is that net happiness goes up. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/blame PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Well @jonmackenzie.bsky.social talking about the old gods being dead while the new ones struggle to be born in the context of Arsenal’s set piece strategy is extremely my shit

You might have seen Jon got caught up in A Discourse over on the other site, after daring to suggest that the rise of set pieces as the primary method of attack for some of football's best teams might not be great for the game. Naturally, we got him on with our set piece nerd to talk about it 👇

Just gonna repost this. Yknow. For reasons.

"I thought, well, what two things are most important to me? And it's my family and this ground I walk on here in the great state of Maine. So, to honour that, I got the words BLOOD and SOI..." "Graham, no!"

17.

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The metaphor at the end of this piece is perfect for how it feels to watch Arsenal right now. Easy to complain about it not being very fun to watch Arsenal atm, but every dull set piece win is another step towards the goal of a title. It might not be pretty, but if we get there, we won't care

💥WE'RE BACK 💥 #133: Taking Stock (feat. NSftbl) 🎙: @towells.bsky.social @watman.bsky.social & Nick (@nsftbl on twitter) 🔴 We're top of the league! ⚪️ Is the handbrake off? 🔵 A changing midfield 🟡 Odegaard's injuries: are we worried? Listen 👇 pod.fo/e/33e00d

Also very funny that they had a whole international break to fire him and implement a new manager and instead they thought “I’ll give him one more chance against Chelsea”

I love everything about Redstory and if you follow me you probably will too

A tale of two managers, two Brazilians, one colosseum, and one sound: hahahahahaha

A story about Gabriel Martinelli, and Pep Guardiola the coward

uhhh is it too late to un-give up on Martinelli?

I won’t have any complaints about the creativity in the second half btw, City quite literally played 7 or 8 behind the ball all half.

This is what @eulenberg.bsky.social watches instead of football these days and you know what? Fair enough

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

There's a point in this pod where it is very funny that it was recorded before Bilbao and released after. I'll let you guess the topic

💥TAKING STOCK💥 #182: Trading Takes 🎙: @alexcollings.bsky.social @eulenberg.bsky.social 🔴 Liverpool & Forest reviews ⚪️ Zubi the Superstar 🟡 Hot takes on Rice 🔵 Standout performers so far Listen here 👇 pod.fo/e/32c31f

Its a funny game

Evergreen Arsenal post:

It is mental to me that Trossard came on for Gyokeres rather than bringing on Nwaneri & pushing Merino to 9

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I was not one of the people really hammering on Trossard & Martinelli last season but the difference in on-ball quality between them and Noni & Eze is fucking mental

"I spent decades saying, ‘Come on, it’s got to be more complex than this.’ But I think it’s not. I think that almost everything can be explained by this deep hatred that the majority of white Americans have for black Americans. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” inews.co.uk/culture/book...

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

🎯 (So glad Tom's back writing stuff, subscribe to REDSTORY its great)

Why didn't you just try to win, Arne?

Martín Zubimendi by the way, fantastic player