Weirdly, Azbe Jug very openly called Dalovic out in the pre-match presser today with some contrasting comments from fan groups, etc. The whole thing is bizarre.

Tickets on sale next week!

In addition to Olimpija, Maribor are also looking for their third manager of the season now after Radomir Dalovic walked out on the club today. Dalovic was hit after intervening in a fight that took place between Omar Rekik and Benjamin Tetteh and felt he could no longer continue in the environment

Unlike the first iteration of this pre-2010, tech etc has moved on far enough to make the obvious liberal concerns kind of redundant. Yet they’re replaced by the more basic and problematic concern of if the state is competent enough to do this efficiently or effectively.

New Writing It's the hottest ticket of the first week of the Europa League as the mythical histories of Crvena Zvezda and Celtic get exposed to the harsh reality of life in European football's second competition open.substack.com/pub/hyfprw/p...

With Erwin Van der Looi’s sacking, Olimpija are looking for their third manager of the season. It is not yet October.

Is the answer a river in Africa?

Yeah, 2025 Mets are cursed. Millions on Soto that should have been spent on a witch from Etsy.

Celje have, so far this season in the league (9 games), earned 7 points from being two or more goals down in a game.

You’ll watch a lot of football this season and not see many worse defensive goal concessions than Olimpija’s defending for Martin Pecar’s winner yesterday. Great opportunism from him but comical from Dajcer and (mainly) Jelenkovic

Nice to see the F1 saved every bit of excitement for yesterday and the first lap and then DRS misery the rest of it

One key battle ahead of Zvezda-Celtic in the EL will be that of Tierney/Tounekti vs Zvezda’s right. In accommodating Arnautovic, the move to 4-4-2 to do so does mean that they’re deeper down this side as a starting position.

Have to link Superliga stuff rather than post but this from last nights Eternal Derby is as good a goal line clearance as you’ll ever see… youtube.com/shorts/XOgKP...

Monsef Bakrar sealed Croatia’s eternal derby for Dinamo by spanking this in - 71mph! Truly unstoppable.

Arber Hoxha made it 1-0 to Dinamo at HT vs Hajduk with a wonderful goal…

Here’s a paragraph from The Guardian’s version of this story not included in the @mattlawtontimes.bsky.social that quite clearly shows these tests are more pseudo than science. I think it’s fair to say it’s irresponsible not to include evidence the test is sheer quackery.

Very much Derby day in the Balkans Hajduk- Dinamo starts in 20 mins with a Partizan-Zvezda chaser straight after. Two mightily intriguing renewals that likely end with the doubted away side swatting aside the plucky upstarts.

Was thinking on this earlier. One real advantage Trump has is he’s so incompetent, it’s hard actually to think he’d go full dictatorship successfully, but that idiocy may be what makes it stick. Someone competent must be pulling the reins somewhere.

Finally, a UK comedic equivalent to THAT cursed Edge GIF…

No surprise he waited till in the UK to do this one - needed to consult with Starmer about how we’ve dealt with Palestine Action to get inspiration.

The kurayamisaka debut may just be my album of the year. On 170(ish) 2025 albums listened to with only 5 getting top marks and this is by far the one that's got me nodding my head along the most.

RIP to Dejan Milovanovic. The former Zvezda, Lens and Serbia midfielder passed away today aged 41 after collapsing during a veterans match while setting up to take a free kick.

And if he was saying it for any other reason than positioning himself to stab Starmer in the back and become PM, it’d be laudable.

Fun and games at the end of Koper-Celje

That is quite unforgivable defending and you could see that coming as soon as United started to recycle it backwards. #epl-live

Will be intriguing to see the fallout from the Vuelta being…well, abandoned due to protests/terrible organisation. Certainly the biggest sporting event to have such disruption from Gaza protests and an easy template to copy.

You have to say, this is a more miserably uninspiring game than that vs Rangers a fortnight ago and that is saying something #footy-live

RIP. For as short as his peak was, perhaps the last UK boxer to truly be can’t miss for his talents rather than his self promotion.

Missed this live, brilliant!!!

Vasilije Adzic - he has arrived

Not saying that Martin’s in trouble, but I honestly think that if the Rangers board allowed it, this would get to the scale of that one panel from Junji Ito’s “My Dear Ancestors”

Ilija Nestorovski’s winner for Slaven Belupo was the sort of high quality goal you can only score while in the process of falling over and that’s the best way I can describe it

Not looking beyond the headline because co-opting the slogan of solidarity from an al-Qaeda terror attack that killed 12 for a guy opposed to everything those killed stood for is wild.

New Writing As a boo-heavy Tuesday at the Marakana showed, Dragan Stojkovic has burned through much of his popularity, if not his good will. Does humiliation against England finally spell the end for Piksi as Serbia manager?

i know at least 4-5 people having a full-brown crisis over this timing (i am one of those people)

It does feel like this has been one of those 24 hours where weeks have happened.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

And if Mandelson ninth political life isn’t finally ended here and now, it’ll be Starmer’s head…

Announce a new contract for Piksi immediately.

Serbia are not miserably bad but they are miserably timid. At home. In front of a full Marakana. It’s not really acceptable.

Told you so…

The irony of ITV showing Anusol “Sitting Uncomfortably” adverts superimposed on the hoardings while the Marakana loudly shouts Kosovo Je Srbija on prime time TV shouldn’t be lost on people

Sweden, however, so easy to counter on it was unreal. I’d argue “momentous” isn’t earned here, though - Kosovo are just plain good, if perhaps not savvy.

Ahead of the England game tomorrow, Piksi stated that Serbia don't intend to mark Harry Kane as "it's not my style" So anyone wanting to make a few pennies on first goalscorer, that's definitely going to come back to bite Serbia.

This season has really given Lando Norris huge loser energy. McLaren need to stop cosseting him and accept they have a definite number one and number two.

Fun fact - Kerim Alajbegovic, who scored on his Bosnia debut last night, was born fully 105 days after Edin Dzeko, who also scored last night, scored his debut goal for Bosnia. Actually, that's not a fun fact, it makes me feel terribly old.

I watched a bad game in Celtic-Rangers - on today's evidence, Serbia-England on Tuesday may well be worse.

Intriguing to see the takeaways from last night's internationals - Kosovo kind of OK with getting done 4-0 as, save for 20 mins of head loss, they were broadly in it, Croatia not OK with 1-0 as, save for Fruk, none of the rotated players really did much to enhance their claims.

Amazing to see one of the beneficiaries from Rayner's downfall being Douglas Alexander, who was once... *checks notes* reprimanded by the Commons for iffy financials on a second home.

I am speechless at this. Trump's Navy Seals killed a boat full of North Korean civilians, punctured their lungs with knives to make sure they would sink, sunk the bodies to avoid detection, and NO ONE was ever told? I know this goes without saying, but these are crimes.