“We thought it was a plus having a young sophisticated player who could speak Spanish but it might have backfired a bit”

me right now on the east coast

Lavelle doesn't even need to be able to breathe to score bangers, terrifying

Semi final stats that sound fake (but aren't)... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷

Can’t fight the feeling www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Contender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]

Soon be time for club football; we can all go back to hating each other based on towns on a tiny island again, in the cold.

The ONLY post that matters tonight

Me watching the final

England are losing, and John Stones is down injured. The camera cuts to Mick Jagger. Guy Mowbray says some pre-scripted thing about "He won't be feeling much satisfaction." YES BUT THERE'S A PLAYER CALLED 'STONES' DOWN INJURED. MOWBRAY! YOU HAD ONE JOB.

*1 prime minister until the next World Cup next year in Brazil

whoever wins Argentina v Spain gets possession of the word vosotros

Me, a bellend: "this doesn't look sustainable" Tuchel, a tactical genius: "these Argentinan lads don't look like scoring, they keep missing by centimeters"

Well that wasn’t too far off

Saladin in 1189:

questionable decisions aside from that match, Egypt could have surely told you something about trying to hang onto a lead against Argentina? Four KO rounds this World Cup, La Albiceleste won them ET, stoppage, ET, stoppage 🤷

not a single player is trash on that pitch Tuchel otoh

(wistful John Mulaney Mick Jagger voice) No!

English Football right now…

Gotta give it up for Argentina. They studied “Atlanta” stadium well. They knew they never wanted to have a lead there they could blow. That’s just smart planning.

I think I can risk saying that I actually quite admire a number of the England players and that’s a tough way to go out And I don’t want to start in on a German manager But deciding to sit deep on a 1 goal lead from the 56th minute & those subs, what on earth could he have been thinking

Commiserations to our friends and family over the border in Stockbridge tonight.

Result of an insanely unambitious strategy of locking down after going one up. England were never going to hold it. Absurd. Pickford has had to carry England’s entire second half.

Argentina realizing they only have a minute or two left for handbags

To be fair to Tuchel he was trying make Pickford feel at home (sob)

Dan Burn is really tall though

Ok so maybe it's not the Falcons maybe it's the building

Quemado una vez más

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD (football division)

Fernandez asking questions like “what if I absolutely leather the ball where Pickford can’t possibly reach it”

What a photo. Anthony Gordon celebrates in front of the England fans after scoring in the World Cup semi-final. (Photo: Getty Sport)

Please respect your fellow passengers— it makes everyone’s ride more comfortable and pleasant 💖

Pickford playing a blinder tbf and the Evertonians on my timeline are increasingly like “don’t try and sit on a 1 goal lead don’t try and sit on a 1 goal lead” anyone would think we’ve been burned before

The perfect souvenir gift doesn’t ex…

Oh dear Oh dear oh dear oh dear

To the people who say radio commentary is better. A guy on 5 Live just said "If Argentina score first, England will have to try and get a goal, and if England score first, Argentina will have to try and get a goal."

I’ve had an unlit flare up my ass for the last 50minutes I don’t know how much longer I can hold on

My highlight of the first half - household member glanced up at the screen and said, 'oh that's nice, Princess Anne is there.' It was Mick Jagger

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“Screens designed to shield the records from harsh light have been defective and temperatures inside the display case have repeatedly reached more than 80 degrees, according to the Park Service officials.”

Foreigners to have to pay excise fees on their clothing

My favourite celebrity interviews are the ones where the interviewer asks Robbie Williams about the metaphorical meaning of Angels, and Williams patiently explains that it's about actual angels.

Please avoid all salads, including word.

The oracle. The seer. The visionary.

Exploring art to become better physicians—fantastic idea! (Photos by Destiny Kearney) https://bit.ly/4fgYzsP

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

You can't call someone racist burning ethnic minorities out of their houses racist or someone trying to ban trans people from public spaces transphobic, but you can call a lad in a pub in Livingston anti-English for not supporting England at the football. Tedious, tedious, tedious party