I'll be at Anfield on Thursday watching Foo Fighters, when the temperature is forecast to be 37'C mid afternoon & I've just learned that you're not allowed to take any kind of sunscreen into the stadium. Genuine question - does anyone know the reason why? It seems dangerous to me.

I also heard that there was no disturbance in Edinburgh following a knife attack on 5 Muslims

I'll be honest, I thought he was going to live until he was 250. I'm very thankful for the likes of Billy Joel. Not so much as thankful for some of the other acts he shoved into the music consciousness.

1978 was the first I remember. Certainly the most vivid one. Arie Haan twatting one from what may as well have been another pitch past Sepp Maier. Nelinho doing likewise past Dino Zoff. Archie Gemmill. Seeing ticker tape for the first time. Mario Kempes. Hans Krankl. Yeah. It was the best one.

So farewell to Keir. Many people will write about your legacy, but I for one will never forget just how many people were unable to comprehend that "i before e except after c" did not apply to your name.

UK Prime Minister becoming national service, like being in the Sugababes everyone gets a go

If Jeremy Doku wants to leave the Belgian World Cup camp to go back home & attend the birth of his & his wife's first child, why the fuck would anyone object to that? It's only football. Football means fuck all compared to that, frankly. Really, it means fuck all compared to a shit-ton of things.

What a lovely little thread.

I would like to see Iran (IRN) play Brunei (BRU)

"I know it is not who we are as a country" Really? Because I think it is exactly what we are becoming as a country - if we're not already there - in terms of Islamophobia. And this twat - & her government - is facilitating that.

Not seen Yan Diomande before tonight. He's rapid. Fleet of foot.

I see we are still encountering difficulty using the T word when it comes to violent racist rampages by white men

Someone needs to tell British Athletics that Wheelchair has an H in it…

Maybe not...

Sweden have clearly given up. Not a good look.

"...upgrades Emma Hayes’ tactics corner" = zoomed in the camera to not show the cupboards & drawers & gave her magnets to use instead of chalk. Oh fuck off with that. It's STILL a kitchen set-up.

This bit of that article struck home with me. I'm Catholic. I no longer practice Catholicism, but a part of me still clings to my faith. This quote is the reason why. There are things about Catholic teachings which I cannot (& will not) reconcile with wanting to be a good & decent/inclusive person.

I've just bought @sathnam.bsky.social's book. George Michael truly was the best of us - the fact he was also supremely talented & equally generous in spirit (best illustrated by his buying John Lennon's "Imagine" piano & loaning it to Strawberry Field for all to enjoy) is just an added bonus.

Beverley Turner is a walking cancer. That sentiment can be applied to many high profile people of a right-wing bent, but she is vile on as many levels as you care to mention.

Tomorrow’s “Love And Rain” radio show (feat. myself and @johnrain.co.uk) is a Paul McCartney special! It’ll be broadcast LIVE from his childhood home, 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool. We’ll only be playing songs by him from after 1981 as well. Tune in from 6pm on @noiseboxradio.com

I think this sums up my reaction to seeing the name Darren Jones in any political capacity.

What is it that they say about being able to tell who someone is from the company that they keep? Exhibit A.

It’d be easier to fix Britain if the problem was a failure of understanding: we could talk that out and come to a compromise. But that isn’t the problem: the issue is, our ruling class are bad people who behave horrendously to shore up their status and clout. And there’s no cure for being a cunt.

I look more like Barry Manilow than this fucking nugget.

This worries me.

"WITNESS HISTORY IN DALLAS" is certainly a *choice* for an advertising slogan, FIFA.

Ah, we need more Rebecca Lucy Taylors in this world.

Cue over-reaction.

This is the first game of the World Cup which I’ve watched… Why have ITV put Emma Hayes in what looks like a kitchen setting??

Rafael van de Manning. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

Great Half-Time analysis, there.

Are ITV actually using Pantera's "Cemetery Gates" to fade out to an advert break?!

Yeah, he definitely should have saved that.

I thought that would be given offside. I'm all for no check though.

‘Why aren’t your lot stopping the boats, pal’

Pickford should be saving that. His hand went past the ball as he got a touch on it.

i like that Paul Simon gets big cocky with his theory that there's 50 ways to leave your lover, and then when pressed for answers he's only got like six and one of them is just "get on the bus"

Let's face it - Alexi Lalas is famous as a footballer only for the fact that he had a massive fuck-off beard when he was playing. In that case, you may as well get Seasick Steve as a pundit. He's probably a better footballer as well.

Not sure it’s widely enjoyed as such, but if I never see balsamic vinegar on ANYTHING ever again, it’ll still be too soon.

I think I'd rather have Antonio Nunez back rather than Darwin. And he was shit.

What the fuck does that even mean??!!

My girlfriend has just walked in wearing my Cannibal Corpse T-shirt from when I saw them back in 2023. I'm not quite sure why.

I'm - for the want of a much better word - "glad" that you added the phrase "including children". For all the good that troglodytes like those responsible will care, but it does at least emphasise to all fair-minded people that the collateral damage is more than just adults.

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If you don’t know how to react appropriately to someone’s murder, you’ve no right calling yourself a writer, you arsehole.

When you’re born unlucky…

Shit.

Paging @atw1062.bsky.social...

Was never a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but the amount of tributes & tales about Anthony Head basically tell you that he was seemingly just a lovely & kind man.