This is so funny 🤣😂🤣 Old French movie and modern US moron.

When a ball over the top is that precise and the wife player cuts in so effectively, tika-taka and playing out from the back are put into perspective. Ultimately I’d always rather my team had the ball, but that’s because my team seldom play passes like Stones did there.

Been yakking about running again… this time on a run! open.spotify.com/episode/4dqk...

Every Saturday the same question, especially if I was RD at parkrun because then I leave even earlier to get there (and it’s a 20-mi run)… …then again, to be fair, I am in bed reading. But that’s just to not interfere with Mrs S’ enjoyment of the dancing tellybox thing.

It would be unfair to label Moonchild Sanelly & @nadineshah.bsky.social as “opening acts” for Self Esteem. Absolutely phenomenal performances all round last night. Shah’s voice in particular shone far more than on record… …as for RLT, her attire triggered me somewhat. Just as well they’d lost 5-0. 😉

It definitely did… Was just trying to validate my feeling that it had been their first shot…

Two of my favourite cities. But, on balance, Sheffield wins every time. As long as football isn’t involved.

Gutted for her. Looks like she was planning on traveling as someone’s carry-on luggage…

A Yorskhireman’s reaction to this: “Weren’t going fast enough!”

@baldyrunner.bsky.social : not my work… honest…

Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump should be ‘consigned to the trash heap of history’

No danger of Andy Burnham becoming Labour leader. He’s too popular amongst centrist floating voters. And neither of the “traditional two parties” (sadly, can’t call them main/leading/biggest right now) seem interested in being led by politicians who might hold sway beyond their core voters.

Funniest spam e-mail ever?!?

Looks like Zuckerberg has enabled Irony mode…

Imagine being a Native New Zealand Maori who goes to Britain who killed his people, and gets paid by Israel who are killing the Palestinians. All to tell people they have to be Christian. The most soldout man on Earth, I hope Israel paid him a lot. I doubt it.

And it wasn’t even red…

I find myself think of this comic from Nathan W Pyle every few days.

#sheffield #homeoffootball

A former colleague reminded me of when everyone outside my close circle was butchering my name on conference calls, so I just gave up and changed my name on Zoom to…

I’m not fundamentally opposed to data in football. Not at all. Au contraire. But I would dearly love to see what we’re doing and with what data. In 1996 I was picking my Fantasy Football 11 from a squad of 25 with a spreadsheet I’d designed and won the league. United know where to find me.

Mrs S commented on the amount of Christmas stuff already on the shelves. Dear Señor Selles: you might want to organise a Christmas dinner for your squad. It worked for one of your finest predecessors. Let’s face it: it can’t make things any worse. #bskyblades

I suspect thousands of us feel this way… 🧡

Call me old fashioned but I don’t think the team finishing in eighth place should have the chance of being in the EPL five games later - no matter how well they play in them.

DON’T PANIC!!! DON’T PANIC!!! And… fixed. 😆

“There are no easy games in international football…” 🤔

Still my finest ever photobombing, powered by my maiden sub-90’ HM.

I’ve run past since. They still haven’t come up with anything else.

Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

Which one are you scared of?

Not sure what to make of last night’s Evening Report from my Garmin. It asked me: “Are you still awake?” Either I was really chilled on the sofa or it was passively/aggressively questioning my life choices as I’d been up since 3:30. 🙃

‘Scarborough Fair’, the extended remix

At the end of Leeds-Liverpool Canal Race 2022, having completed that year’s Canalslam. Still a classic. 😂

#Strava chose to highlight “Atlanta Run Club” in a recent blog post. I had a gander as I know folk there. I can’t see anyone catching Gianna this week… remarkably, she hasn’t posted any activities for some time…

Nigel Farage will be getting more money as dodgy expenses than 20 Asylum Seekers get to live on. And that is on top of his MP Wage and all his ridiculous side 'jobs'. Why don't we talk about his cost?

What does it say about his leadership skills and his confidence in his players that Amorim didn’t watch last night’s penalties? If I were a ManU fan, that would worry me more than any tactical issue. But not as much as Onana.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

ManU just need to bring on Rashford. Oh… wait… …as you were.

Onana’s got some dirt on someone at Old Trafford. No other explanation for him still being their no. 1.

If this were December, all those Newcastle fans would be shirtless. But it’s a warm August Bank Holiday, so they’re all covered up. 🙃😉

That’s one way of alienating a significant chunk of the North West viewership, Sky… 😂

Mrs S dropped her phone behind the back of the bed & asked me to rescue it. In other news, six long-lost handkerchiefs are now in the wash basket.

The Home Of Football is resembling somewhat of a ramshackle… 😥

Guess the bridges… 😁🙃

26 years ago, I learnt to go with the flow in the US when ordering pizza by the slice. I learnt by asking for a whole pizza (remember where I grew up) & spending the next 90’ ploughing through it when I should have been seeing the N.Y.C. sights. But last night’s in Washington was… different gravy.

Took me a while to remember the context… …ah yes… me going for a late run to clinch the final 10 miles to make it a 1,000km month… …the peak of madness in terms of my monthly mileage. No intention to challenge it. Ever.

@mazymixer.bsky.social Suede covering Springsteen on BBC2… (20:55)

For all those having a go at the Spanish players, officials and fans for not singing along to their national anthem: this is your complimentary reminder that it has no lyrics. 🙃

Standard response to basic phishing texts enabled…