I will be spending the rest of the day watching men’s semis. (Yes, I have imported the annual twitter/X joke across to here. Long may the tradition continue.) 🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾 All aboard the Féry! #Wimbledon #tennis #menssemis #BBCSport

The Geographically Unbalanced #WorldCup 7 teams now left in; 6 from Europe: 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴🇨🇭 …and 1 from South America: 🇦🇷 #WorldCup2026 #France #FRAMAR #FRA #BEL #ESP #ENG #NOR #SUI #ARG #FIFA

⚽️ 🇫🇷🇲🇦 My dog would’ve kicked that penalty better than #Mbappé did. And I don’t even have a dog. #FRAMAR #WorldCup #WorldCup2025 #France #Morocco #Maroc #AlMaghrib

The death of #BonnieTyler at 75 sadly makes her the first UK #Eurovision act of the C21st to die. Engelbert is 90. It also turns out that this run of 4 UK #1 singles from 1983 was cursed with poor life expectancy. I hope #DuranDuran are looking after themselves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Spare a thought for poor #SueBarker, who's been erased from tennis history today, by the #LTA! There are now 9 (not 8) GB players who've made #Wimbledon semifinals since 1968 (open era); 4 women & 5 men, but Sue, who made the SFs in 1977, along with Virginia Wade, isn't in this article at all! ☹️

⚽️ After 27 consecutive days of #WorldCup matches (and the realisation that I’ve watched about 90 of the 96 games so far), today’s day off seems strange! Maybe I’ll have a proper night’s sleep tonight, before the quarterfinals start tomorrow… #FRAMAR 🇫🇷🇲🇦 #ESPBEL 🇪🇸🇧🇪 #NORENG 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #ARGSUI 🇦🇷🇨🇭

Things are definitely looking up… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

🎾 #ArthurFéry🇬🇧🇫🇷 is incroyable! #Wimbledon wildcard, now semifinalist, with an astonishing result; 6-4 7-6 6-0, ending on an ace & a game to love. He hasn’t just sneaked through. He’s made it look pretty easy! We’re very lucky that this French-born guy with 2 French parents decided to represent GB! 🇬🇧

🎾 It’s a shame that #AugerAliassime and #Djokovic have to play a fifth set, because the symmetrical/palindromic scoreline from the first four is a thing of mathematical beauty. 🎾 #Wimbledon #tennis #maths #numbers #patterns #NumberFun @rickedwards1.bsky.social @colinmurray1.bsky.social

“People of Britain. No, no, no. Hear me out. Some people are being really mean to me. As mean as I was at school. Police have advised me that it is too dangerous for me to go to Westminster, or Clapham… Clacton. So I will be taking shelter in a tax haven, paid for by a dodgy crypto mate.” #Farage

Job done. Congratulations to Belgium 🇧🇪. That’s all three host countries out now. 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 None have made the last eight. But we haven’t seen the last of #Trump spoiling the #WorldCup. He’ll be back at the final to present the trophy and hopefully hear what the world thinks of him…

⚽️ 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 We are all Belgian now. (Certainly for the next two hours.) Let’s get the USA team, Trump and at least one sickening incidence of corruption out of this #WorldCup. #WorldCup2026 #USABEL #UnitedStates #Belgium #Belgique #BBCSport

In the name of balance, the universe clearly decided that the most exciting match of #WorldCup2026 (🇲🇽v🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) had to be followed by the most boring. Let’s hope 🇵🇹v🇪🇸 WAS the low point. No one needs another match like that in the next 13 days. #WorldCup #Portugal #España #Spain #Mexico #England #PORESP

That worked well! POR 🇵🇹0-1🇪🇸 ESP #PORESP #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

⚽️ 🇵🇹🇪🇸 I know I said I didn’t want anything exciting to happen in #PORESP for a while, but I didn’t mean for the whole bloody match! Wake me up when it’s over… 🥱💤 #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Portugal #España #Spain

Incroyable! Arthur Féry 🇬🇧🇫🇷 has well & truly arrived! Two players at opposite ends of their careers have just given us a five set corker. The Franco-British lad who grew up in #Wimbledon itself is the new 🇬🇧 star in the QFs. Congratulations! I still love #GrigorDimitrov 🇧🇬 though. #BBCSport

⚽️🇵🇹🇪🇸 🎾 Hopefully, nothing interesting will happen in the #PORESP match until #ArthurFéry and #GrigorDimitrov have finished this enthralling battle on #CentreCourt. 5th set tiebreak! I only have half an eye on the football! #WorldCup #Wimbledon #BBCSport #DoubleScreening #Portugal #Spain #España

🎾 Such a funny, charming post-match, on-court interview from swoonsome #FlavioCobolli 🇮🇹 - who shares my birthday, I now discover! He’s just upended the seedings & beaten #AlexDeMiñaur 🇦🇺. Flavio needs a house for the next week, so if you have a vacant property in South London… #Wimbledon 🎾 #BBCSport

People who opted to watch the replay at 7am should have to sit through an hour’s rain delay because they couldn’t be arsed to stay up. #VoteBinface #MEXENG

Oh wow. Dead Ringers are REALLY going to have some fun with this new Harry Kane voice! 🤣 #MEXENG #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #England #Mexico #HarryKane #DeadRingers #Radio4 #BBCRadio4

⚽️ 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yes, I *am* pleasantly surprised. And mentally drained. An incredible achievement from #England, withstanding such relentless pressure with only ten players. A perfect result, but I never want to watch a match like that again! 😄 #MEXENG #Mexico #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

⚽️ 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Never mind the players, I’m absolutely exhausted! Bloody hell, what an achievement by #England. What a match! BRING ON THE VIKINGS!!! 🇳🇴 #MEXENG #ENGNOR #NORENG #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

⚽️🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Calmly approaching this match with zero expectation that #England can win, so I can only be pleasantly surprised. It’s not just altitude, partisan #Azteca crowd, #Mexico’s record there or current 8-0 goals. It’s because I’ve watched their 4 matches, and England’s. 🤞though… #MEXENG #WorldCup

⚽️ 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kids, go to bed! It’s not starting until 02:00. #MEXENG #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

Brazil 0-2 HAALAND Congratulations, #Norge! A fantastic result! 🇧🇷🇳🇴 #BRANOR #Brazil #Brasil #Norway What we need next is another defeat for ‘The Americas’ against Northwestern European opposition. 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #MEXENG #Mexico #England #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

⚽️🇵🇾🇫🇷 Steve Wilson helpfully revealing during the commentary that he’s a fan of Martin Stephenson & The Daintees. Me too! #BoatToBolivia #Bolivia #WorldCup #PARFRA #Paraguay #France #BBCSport #SteveWilson #MartinStephenson #TheDaintees #Kitchenware youtu.be/QbFVgbi3EvM

…except Féry actually won, and Zizou Bergs isn’t the defending world champion. Apart from that, my analogy was perfect! 😄 Congratulations, Arthur! 🇬🇧🇫🇷 Onwards and upwards! #Wimbledon #BBCSport #ArthurFéry #ZizouBergs

🎾 Now watching Dimitrov 🇧🇬 v 🇮🇹 Berrettini, and not entirely for tennis reasons. 😍 This has to be the hottest match-up in men’s tennis, surely? 😄 #GrigorDimitrov #MatteoBerrettini #Wimbledon #BBCSport

🎾 After 4 sets, Arthur Féry is the Cabo Verde of UK tennis… #Wimbledon #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #CapeVerde #CaboVerde #ArthurFéry 🇬🇧🇫🇷 #ZizouBergs 🇧🇪

⚽️🇵🇹🇭🇷 Bloody hell, what a match! So much drama in #PORCRO that I feel a need to watch the second half again. So many incidents, I couldn’t keep up. But they haven’t yet shown any angle showing the ball touching the Croatian’s head, to justify calling offside at the end. Not even the slomo. #WorldCup

Match of the tournament! With #Villa’s #YouriTielemans right at the heart of it. Congratulations to #Belgium for sticking with it, but my heart goes out to #Sénégal. 💔 #BELSEN (Unfortunate) #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #AstonVilla #AVFC

Imagine missing the opportunity to watch #Beyoncé right here. Sorry? What do you mean, it’s not Beyoncé? #USA250 #America250

⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England’s workplaces, schools etc. are going to be in a right state on Monday, after #Mexico have knocked out #England at around 03:00 BST. #ENGDRC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇩 #ENGMEX #MEXENG 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

⚽️ I don’t know what anyone was worried about… 😂 #ENGDRC #England #DRC #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

🎾⚽️They listened! Finished with 4 minutes to spare before #FRASWE starts. I guess it was worth a try for #Serena, but huge congratulations to #MayaJoint on defeating the #GOAT, the Williams family & the #CentreCourt crowd. She clearly has a tremendous amount of inner strength. #Wimbledon #WorldCup ⚽️🎾

🎾⚽️ If #SerenaWilliams and #MayaJoint could get this third set done in the next 40 minutes, that would be very much appreciated. I’m totally hooked, but I still need to watch #France v #Sweden in the #WorldCup. ⚽️🎾 #WorldCup2026 #FRASWE #Sverige 🇫🇷🇸🇪

⚽️ Possibly the 2nd-worst penalty shootout ever seen, & therefore one of the best! #TheNetherlands only have themselves to blame. If you can only score 2 of 5, you don’t deserve to go through. Great day for neighbours #Brazil & #Paraguay. Bad day for neighbours #Germany & #Netherlands. #WorldCup2026

I’ve only just realised that ‘my long-awaited medical appointment on 1st July’ and ‘England play DR Congo on Wednesday’ are in fact referring to exactly the same moment in time. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿v🇨🇩 kicks off at 17:00. I have to travel, then attend a hospital appt at 17:30. FML. 😟 #WorldCup2026 #ENGDRC #DRCENG

⚽️🇧🇷🇯🇵 From a neutral point of view, this feels like the worst outcome of the 74 matches so far. I was already looking forward to #Japan snatching victory in the penalty shootout. 😢 #BRAJPN #Brazil #Brasil #Nihon #Nippon #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

Not to be confused with; Comic Sans Keema Naan Little Simz #AVFC #AstonVilla #ChemaSanz

⚽️🇩🇿🇦🇹 ⚽️🇯🇴🇦🇷 It was worth staying awake for the very end of the #WorldCup group stage. The last few minutes of #Algeria v #Austria were unbelievable! And now I must sleep! #ALGAUT #WorldCup2026 #ALG #AUT #JORARG #Jordan #Argentina

I can confirm that, at quarter to midnight, it’s still nearly 27C in my back garden (#Birmingham B12). That’s 80F in old money. It’s basically a very warm Summer day temperature, but at night!

While I’m thrilled that Charlie3 has published his tax total, what the actual f*ck is this story doing leading the #BBCONE late TV news, ahead of the #VenezuelaEarthquake and the #EuropeanWeather issues? #Venezuela has been shafted by Trump & now 2 earthquakes. It doesn’t need the #BBC to join in.

Ecuador manager Sebastián Beccacece is absolutely thrilled! #ECUGER #Ecuador #Germany #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

Ecuador! Let’s play their national anthem! #ECUGER #Ecuador #Germany #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 youtu.be/9cQlVww0zKo

🇨🇦 #Canada should just go all in and enter #Eurovision next year with a supergroup of The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Alanis Morissette, Nelly Furtado, Neil Young and Michael Bublé. (No one needs to hear Drake, ever.) Canada becomes member of EBU opening up path to #EurovisionSongContest entry.

⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 75.5 hours. That’s how long it might be before #Scotland know for sure if they have a place in the last 32. The last group matches (Group J) will finish about 05:00 BST on Sunday, and the battle of the third places might not be settled until then. Yikes. 😬 #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s total goals scored in 3 matches = 1. Scotland’s total goals scored without Aston Villa players = 0. #SCOBRA #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Scotland #Brazil #AstonVilla #AVFC #JohnMcGinn @avfcstatto.bsky.social

⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇷 Scotland fans in #Miami should probably be doing a rain dance right now. Abandoning the game at halftime might be the only hope of getting through. 😬 #SCOBRA #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Scotland #Brazil #BBCSport

For those who aren’t double-screening, the news is that itv chose the wrong match to show on itv1! SUI🇨🇭0-0🇨🇦 CAN has been a bore draw 1st half, and all the excitement has been on itv4, with the HT score at BIH 🇧🇦2-1🇶🇦 QAT. #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #SUICAN #BIHQAT #ITVSport @markpougatch.bsky.social