This is why I’m not terribly bothered by whatever Zack Polanski does, the people running breathless appraisals of his BlueSky posting also run cartoons like this, clear as day allusion to the Happy Merchant for a Jewish man who frankly doesn’t even have a big nose.

Go Habs Go!!!!!

Hi @davidjroth.bsky.social, as a long time Roth Content Enjoyer, I’m proud to tell you I just got off the phone with Billy Idol and he agrees when I say: When it’s Melvin’s hour, she cried “Mora, Mora, Mora!” When I’m saying Mel, she cried “Mora, Mora, Mora!” Thank you for your attention

Reporter : u won the six nations rugby tournament whats next for you Captain of Scotland team :

And that’s why props get all the girls #IREVWAL

Please keep writing this column, it’s single-handedly shifted the vibes. A couple more reposts before the Ireland match please.

9) Wales were out of the World Cup in the quarter-final. Considering Brazil won the semis and final by 5-2 scores, you can just about see an argument a that the FAW cost Wales the World Cup!

8) Finally Wales turned to inside-forward Colin Webster, who was already in trouble for headbutting a waiter in a Stockholm nightclub. Twice in the opening 20 minutes he missed good crosses that the six inches taller John Charles may have converted. Pelé scored the only goal 17 minutes from time.

7) Centre-half Ray Daniels could have also been picked, which would have allowed Mel Charles to move to centre-forward, but wasn’t selected after he sang a series of songs from Guys and Dolls following a qualifying loss to Czechoslovakia, which appalled the religious FAW Secretary Herbert Powell.

6) Derek Tapscott was fit but he wasn’t selected because he refused a suggestion from Fred Dewey of the FAW (and Cardiff City’s board) that a move to Cardiff City would improve his World Cup chances.

5) Charles was injured after a 2-1 playoff win versus Hungary, but Wales had no reserve centre forward. 34-year-old Trevor Ford was still playing well at PSV Eindhoven, but was left in Holland for admitting he took under-the-table payments while playing for Sunderland.

4) Charles’s flight from Turin was delayed and nobody waited for him at the airport. He had to spend an hour and a half trying to find where Wales were staying and got a lift from Dewi Lewis of the Western Mail, turning up at breakfast three days before the first game against Hungary.

3) John Charles didn’t arrive until three days before the first game; the FAW at no point thought to lobby Juventus to ensure his prompt release. They simply wrote a letter to Juventus. Sweden sent delegates to lobby Serie A clubs in person, got their players in good time, and made the final.

1) Wales took 18 players to the World Cup instead of the allowed 22; they however took 16 FAW directors. 2) when the squad gathered in London they found their tracksuits hadn’t arrived and their pitch booking fell through, so they trained in Hyde Park instead.

Okay, I’m reading Jonathan Wilson’s history of the World Cup and the 1958 FAW would give the WRU at any point of the last 50 years a run for their money! I shall elaborate now. @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social @edjenx.bsky.social @gwladrugby.bsky.social @annasels.bsky.social

I love this Christmas present ouaaaaaaaissssss

Two egg nogs with a whack of brandy down, and this movie finished. It is officially Christmas

I can’t think of anything funnier for a bunch of tinfoil hat Afrikaners than a Maine winter

Swag

How the hell do you send Ramos there?

South Africa vs Australia

Got his ass

A good guideline is you should never watch porn in the office. Well, there’s exceptions for everything.

kanye on his way with a fishing rod, bucket of kfc & some cans

My son dug into a box of stuff in my shed, so I found this on the floor. The halcyon days when Wales were the hottest team in rugby. They won this Test 77-3. I got to watch this match with my grandfather, one of the very few Yanks to speak Cymraeg as a first language.

I am not ready for Tim Lincecum’s first win to be 18 years ago

This is why your scrum half shouldn’t get himself sent off in the first half. Silly boy Serin.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!

Who says men can’t multitask

Follow me, I’m delicious, said the milkshake duck.

I love watching Uini Atonio play because it’s illustrative of how far you can get in rugby by walking. And that’s quite far!

I changed my Wales bobble hat for a France one at half time, that’s the depth of my inner turmoil

Wales at full time: we’re so back!!!!!

Wales 40 minutes ago: we’re so back!!!!!! Wales now: we’re so over

J’suis désolé, Fabien

I’m in a Wetherspoons in Penge and four older men are passing around the programme from the last London Welsh match. One of them has a book called the International Rugby Encyclopaedia. Is it acceptable for me to abandon my wife and child to join these bloody legends?

Imagine getting owned this hard by Matt Forney. Christ, I’d want to die.

How’s your day going, mine is class. Story in three photos.

Vive France-Galles!

I’m really proud of this pun

This is just too easy

Last time I was in Paris, there were some terrific depictions of what to do with Nazis.

My son had a poonami and I’m still in a good mood because I saw most of the Stade Toulousain-Leicester game (bar some cleanup early in the second half). How can anybody dislike watching this team? Yeah they’re loaded, but they play to entertain and bloody hell, was that entertaining.

#rugbyhistory (sorta…) The NFL divisional playoffs are here and I’m listening to two all-time great games, played on the same *day*, 4-1-1981. The first, an infamous Oakland Raiders-Cleveland Browns showdown, where the Kardiac Kids gave northern Ohio a heart attack… youtu.be/FuiMiCkbJ14?...

100% with the Glasgow Warriors winger (Cancelliere?) wearing long sleeves AND long johns tonight. Brrrrrrr. 🥶

Lions discourse is the worst in rugby. 1) like Tesco and Christmas, too much too early. Saw my first Lions XV at least 6 months ago. 2) all 4 grumble about too few of their boys picked, ruining the vibes. 3) Oz/NZ/SA often go over the top in desire to stuff “Poms”. Spirit of game goes out window.

If the 49ers don’t win 12 games or more next year, I wonder if it’s time to say bye to Kyle. This is a cream puff schedule.

“Kamala Harris to Bernie Sanders: "I know it’s not in your nature to stand where you are supposed to…” Me reading that, watching the video where she says that:

Oh chapeau, BBC Sport copy editor who came up with this. Your next job should be at the New York Post.

This is a cracking (craicing?) book. Still at the turn of the century but the game’s rise from its Protestant origins to take its place in the elite Catholic colleges — in a pretty narrow window to do so — has been expertly chronicled so far.