Heading home for the final time from ITV Sport duty after a decade with a brilliant production team, wonderful crew. We hope our genuine enjoyment of the darts 🎯 came across. Back to football for me now but I’ll still be going to the darts. With pint in hand🍺 instead of a mic 🎙️ x

En route to Minehead 🎪🌊 for my final darts tournament with ITV Sport. It’s been an incredible 10+ years 🎯. So much fun and so many laughs. So we’re all going to make the most of it and go out with a bang 💥 Three double sessions over the weekend, starting tomorrow 12:45pm then 7pm on ITV4 🎯🎯

Darts time! 🎯🎯🎯 Join us this evening at 6pm UK time on ITV4, live from Dortmund 🇩🇪 for the opening session of the European Championship #darts Some huge names in action tonight and tomorrow night, then double sessions all weekend 👇🏼 🎯 💃🏼🕺🏼

The kindness of strangers, alongside the love of old friends, is giving the Beard family real comfort as they begin to come to terms with Matt’s loss ❤️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

This is such a painful time for everyone who knew Matt Beard. If friends or supporters wish to ease the burden of funeral costs, etc, here’s a practical way to support Matt’s wife Debbie as she and the kids attempt to process the sudden loss of this lovely man 💔 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

So much fun chatting to Grant and Dino on this 🎙️ podcast, reflecting on the ⚽ @weuro2025bot.bsky.social. Thanks for having me on, guys @decespedes.bsky.social and @grantengle.bsky.social @intothechannel.bsky.social @foxsoccer.bsky.social

Forgive me for going down the “role model” route with the Lionesses 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, as they shouldn’t be lumbered with that label. Teens’ world is so social media based. So to see the likes of 19-year-old Agyemang show such resolve and resilience, without a phone in their hands, really does us parents a favour!

I asked England’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lauren James whether she’d spent extra time practising with her left foot as kid. LJ “It’s kind of natural. I had a habit of always using my opposite. Even in school, I'd use my left hand when I'm right handed. It was just a mindset thing. Just stg that I had a habit of doing.”

20 years after commentating on Finland’s 🇫🇮 opening Euro 2005 group match v England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for the BBC, I’m about to commentate on Finland’s 🇫🇮 opener v Iceland 🇮🇸 at Euro 2025 live on FOX Sports 🇺🇸. Feeling grateful. Should be a cracking tournament 🏆

Very excited to be working once again for Fox Sports 🇺🇸, this time commentating on UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 ⚽️ over the next month alongside @lorilindsey6.bsky.social. Fantastic lineup. After three weeks of 👩🏼‍💻🤓, now for the packing! www.foxsports.com/presspass/bl...

Thought the Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 women ⚽️ head coach Rhian Wilkinson was outstanding with media this morning. Impressive leadership skills, she struck the right balance between confidence and humility. Do not write off Wales in that crazy Euro 2025 group of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Well researched article by Ian Herbert of the @dailymail.co.uk on the lack of support for female footballers below the WSL. If anything at all vaguely positive can come out of Maddy Cusack's devastating death, then maybe it's these changes... www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

We have one month to save @josimarfootball.bsky.social. If you can help, please do. 🙏 josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

Packing for flight to 🇺🇸 to commentate on Jess Carter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and co for Gotham FC - good timing as this new @carriesparkle.bsky.social book is out tomorrow! It’s about the British women footballers ⚽️ who paved the way for the current Lionesses & co. Ban in force here until 1971 ⛔️ amzn.eu/d/cJgEbt9

One of my very favourite sport stories of the week is Lo’eau Labonta winning her first #USWNT 🇺🇸 cap aged 32, so fully deserved 👏🏼 . Fantastic footballer, infectious personality. She’s experienced incredible heartache in her life but never stops with the smiles and positivity. #GoLo

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Vacancy: Editorial content & comms manager at AFC Wimbledon (£32-35k) www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/ma... #mediajobs

Nice front page of the kids’ weekly news magazine, The Week Junior👌🏼 ⚽️ #arsenalwomen #awfc🔴⚪️

How common is this in professional football ⚽️? An intensive, full-time intern role as a performance analyst that pays nothing. In return, they ask you to bring experience, your own laptop (MacBook) and you must provide your own transport. Yet they’re “committed to equality”.

Looking forward to working with Tony Cascarino on @talksport.com Weekend Sports Breakfast tomorrow morning, filling in for Nat. On air 🎙️ 6-9am. Loads to talk about! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-n...

Fascinating day hosting the Sport Resolutions annual conference in London, chairing panel debates on key legal sport issues: * Safeguarding * Link between contact sport and MND * Contamination: athlete responsibility and misconceptions * Governance of Football * Supreme Court ruling #SportRes2025

What a difference in 4 months. From 5 points behind Leicester, #wwfc are now 20 points clear of them. But the manager’s insisting on maintaining standards. And Jamie Vardy is 2 goals short of 200 for #LCFC. First game since his departure announcement. #WOLLEI 🐺 🦊

Can't quite believe this was 18 years ago today! Thanks to Katie for the chat about some rather stressful memories and, more importantly, a changing of the broadcasting landscape in the UK 🇬🇧 since that crazy, crazy time. PS 🇺🇸 very different experience 😊

Emirates 🏟️ looking mighty fine ahead of Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Lyon 🇫🇷 first leg of Women’s Champions League 🏆 semi-final. Live on TNT Sports 1 at 12pm 🙌🏽 ⚽️

Arsenal 🔴 fans on cloud nine probably already have their tickets for this Saturday’s Women’s Champions League semi-final first leg at the Emirates 🏟️. 12:30pm KO Arsenal v Lyon. I’m commentating 🎙️ for TNT Sports but my family coming too, only £18/£9 🎫 👌🏼 #afc #awfc www.arsenal.com/tickets/wome...

💬 “You can’t buy this one. This one belongs to us.” ❤️ It only took nine years… 📺 Watch the first episode of Fan-Owned Football on the AFC Wimbledon YouTube channel! 👉 tinyurl.com/4c2upewh #AFCW | #FanOwnedFootball | @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 🟡🔵

The brilliant Gemma Davison is coming on @talkSPORT now. She’s a coach on the current @ChelseaFCW 🔵 coaching staff so will provide interesting insight into their campaign. 🎙️ #cfcw #cfc talksport.com

Really looking forward to filling in for Shaun Custis as host of Sunday Edition 🗞️ with the mighty Henry Winter tomorrow morning 9-11am on talkSPORT 🎙️. So many stories to discuss, including those yet to be written...

I am one of the journalists who worked on this story (@gavinesler.bsky.social thanks so much for sharing it!). This is why think it's actually concerning: bsky.app/profile/roma...

If you’re not at Stamford Bridge ⚽️ later, watch Chelsea Women 🔵 try to overhaul a 2-0 deficit v Man City to reach the Champions League semi-finals live on TNT Sports 1 📺 at 7:30pm. Arsenal did it last night. Will Chelsea do it tonight?

Special night in store at the Emirates tomorrow with Arsenal Women 🔴 aiming to overturn a 2-0 first leg deficit v Real Madrid to reach Champions League semi-finals. Game scheduled to be played on grass rather than mud 👍🏼. 20k tickets sold. Live also on TNT Sports 1 🎫 www.arsenal.com/tickets/wome...

Love Harry Kane…hate the “loser” narrative that people gleefully attach to him. Absolutely phenomenal professional.

Arsenal 🔴 kick off the UEFA Women’s Champions League knockout stage later this afternoon with their quarter-final first leg tie at Real Madrid, live on TNT Sports 1 at 5:30pm 📺 #afc #awfc #Madridistas

Good luck to all my friends and colleagues in the US 🇺🇸 ahead of the new #NWSL @nwslsoccer.com ⚽️ season. Very sorry I can’t join you this year but will be watching from across the pond 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🙌🏽

This historic building at 10 Downing Street, London, was every bit as special as I’d expected. Fantastic to meet a variety of inspirational women in there. Chatted to Rachel Reeves about becoming the first female chancellor and Sir Keir Starmer about football, obviously 😉

On my way to 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister for #IWD2025. My earliest journalistic ambition was to interview then-PM Margaret Thatcher (before football/sport swamped my head space). I’ve always loved politics so this visit will be my equivalent of a trip to Disneyland 😂

“Recently, half the coaches in the Premiership Women’s Rugby 🏉 were women; now all of them are men.” Plus we only have one English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 female manager in the WSL ⚽️ Happy #IWD2025. Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come while using the same energy to drive change. www.thetimes.com/article/fema...

Calling aspiring football writers! ⚽️ ✍🏻 Enter our @fwaofficial.bsky.social student football writing competition and win £1,000. Categories: male, female, unheard voices. Entrants: any age/course, in full-time tertiary education. Deadline Tuesday 8th April. footballwriters.co.uk/editorial/fw...

This award for Jen O’Neill was so incredibly well deserved. Jen’s made such a huge contribution to coverage of the women’s game (there was barely any coverage when she started!). Top lass.

This annexing Canada ambition of Donald Trump, as outlined in the New York Times today is absolutely astonishing:

Luke Littler v James Wade in the UK Open final, live now on ITV4 & ITVX 📱 #darts 🎯🎯🎯

Northern Ireland sports fans might want to get behind their man Josh Rock this evening. He’s flying the flag for NI in his first major TV #darts 🎯 semi-final, meeting James Wade 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , after Luke Littler’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 first UK Open semi-final, he plays Jonny Clayton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 7pm ITV4 & ITVX📱🎯

Finals day at the UK Open #darts!! 🎯 We’re all ready by the stage to get this party started. Join us just at 12:43pm and 30 seconds 😉 on ITV4 and @ITVX 📱for these quarter-finals 👇🏼 Alan Warriner-Little here, plus another darting legend joins us. 🎯🎯🎯

The trouble with managing a big name club in the women’s game is people expect decent budget & support which can be incredibly misleading. Matt Beard had been pushing an elephant up the stairs at Liverpool. Be good to see him at a club that allows him to compete for honours again. Maybe #NWSL next?

Loved working with Glenn Hoddle again last night. It had been a while…

I’m looking forward to being a judge on the inaugural Festival of Women’s Football ⚽️ Awards, which will honour those who are doing great things in the women’s game (from grassroots to top pro level). Enter here 👇🏼 festivalofwomensfootball.com

No foul by Maguire as his hand only brushed Young’s hip, but the foul appeared to be committed by de Ligt pulling back Young’s shirt, first with his right hand then also his left (though trickier to see that). VAR (under time pressure) seemed to spend more time on Maguire issue. #efc #mufc

I have a soft spot for Everton FC. Their new stadium looks magnificent. But why on earth are they still advertising Stake, one of the nastiest sports betting operators in the world, when Stake has had its licence revoked in Britain?

Wishing former USA 🇺🇸 goalkeeper Tony Meola all the very best after his heart attack. Scary news but glad he’s on the mend 🙏🏼 #bhafc

Big moment for Wolves midfielder Marshall Munetsi making his Premier League debut at Anfield. He’s a huge Liverpool fan #lfc #wwfc