Marvel at the array of names on the scoresheet in this Brazilian league game.

I do love that they all have 'next' on their tracksuits

#OTD in 2009 Cymru men played Poland in a friendly in southern Portugal In a 1-0 defeat, Aaron Ramey won his second cap as a half time sub for Jack Collison. Joe Ledley hit the bar and Craig Bellamy had a spat with a fan during a post-match interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT1bU...

The Reading kitman has been suspended for six games for making homophobic slurs against a referee. Reading should have to play in their vests and pants for those six games imo.

I’ve worked at the Southbank Centre for over 8 years now. In that time I’ve become desensitised to mad conversations that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. But in my first few years I noted down ‘overhead’ snippets that would be ridiculous in any other setting. I’ve just found those notes. Strap in.

don't understand the ire about the third city goal yesterday. just very obviously the right shout to pull it back. once haaland had done a retaliatory shirt pull the officials had no choice. the strangest thing about it is neville claiming rules shouldn't count when entertaining things happen.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

One of the things I find most fascinating about the live match reaction streamers on YouTube is that they're in this weird purgatory in which they only get paid when their team loses, because no one's watching that shit when they win. It's like a half-wit's Faustian pact.

If football has penalty goals for situations like this Szoboszlai doesn't foul Haaland and Man City win 3-1. Deliberate fouling at elite football level does feel wrong. It should never be the best course of action in a game to trip or pull an opponent down.

I think in a game without VAR refs make that same decision. Probably only went to VAR cos the ref was worried about making an on field mistake. Good fun.

If the ref plays advantage you should be able to have a free foul to even things up. Is that what people want? 😄

Gary Neville asking for the referee to ignore the laws of the game. Laws of the game being bad isn't the refs fault.

Szoboszlai will be sent off.

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

Mystery solved

Is any sport as closely tied to a single musician as figure skating to Lady Gaga?

Who is joining us today for our @isthmianleague.bsky.social game against @hendonfc.bsky.social ? Guaranteed football on the 3G of Ashford Town (Middx) FC. Address: Short Lane, Stanwell. TW19 7BH KO time is a little earlier at 2:30pm

So, I have plans for this year. Three articles per week for paid subscribers, with a free week for all. I've also given the old place a bit of a lick of paint for the new year. Shares most gratefully appreciated, etc :-) unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-times-...

#ColinAddison, pictured with Derby County’s mascot, a Jacob’s ram named Proudman, at the #DerbyCounty #BaseballGround in 1979. The ram reflects the club’s long-standing nickname #TheRams, while Proudman’s distinctive black-and-white fleece and multiple horns mark him out as a classic Jacob sheep.

There is an even sadder six-word story.

Slightly weird colourised version of the much better black and white original.

How about an @isthmianleague.bsky.social double this weekend? 2:30pm Binfield vs @hendonfc.bsky.social 6:30pm @kingstonianfc.bsky.social vs Fareham Both games are being played at The Robert Parker Stadium, home of Ashford Town (Middx). Separate admission fees apply for the games.

Really need to focus and knuckle down this week. Have to get into the curling...

This is the first time I see this game. Was is the Dutch equivalent of subbuteo, or something quite different?

I've come to realise that North London has median line of banter, with spectacular outliers. It just so happens that Arsenal's spectacular outliers are things like going invincible or prob winning the quadruple, where as ours are things like eating lasagne and shitting our pants before a big game.

guys, you're arsenal fans. you spent years eating shit when your team of nice boys playing football the right way couldn't win anything. rival fans now think of this team the way you thought of mourinho's chelsea. you should be loving every minute of it.

Considering how much Arsenal are enjoying winning their League Cup Semi, it's odd there are calls to scrap the competition.

The Football Association of Wales was founded on this day 150 years ago in the Wynnstay Hotel in Wrexham. On the same day, at the Grand Central hotel in New York, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was founded.

Obligatory deadline day poem, by Hutton Mulgrave

This is the one ground in England I'd suggest you visit if you can. It's proper.

Manchester United 3 Fulham 2. My first trip to Old Trafford in over twenty years. Great game. Both sides clearly a bit susceptible to the other team kicking the ball near their goal. VAR in the stadium is still rubbish.

No one wants an own goal. It should be given to the attacker in all but the most extreme of cases imo

Craig Bellamy should give him a call 📞

INTERVIEW | How Bracknell Town's Carl Davies has turned the Robins around. Read it: https://bit.ly/4k0iZYV

‘Raw chicken & mouse dropping misery behind them’ is a sensational bullet point.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

I'll never understand people who totally exclude themselves from women's football. You'd miss cool stuff like this.

Hope this makes you smile, even if just a little.

I used to absolutely love the World Cup. I was desperate to see Wales play in one. But Qatar was pretty soul destroying and I've very little interest in the one in North America this summer. I'd ordinarily be excited by the playoff games in March. Currently, I just don't care.

Footballers stood straighter in the 70s.

Does this at Loxwood FC count as extra seating for ground grading?

Good use of Respect tape at Loxwood FC at the tea hut. Presumably so you're discouraged from telling the nice lady making coffees to F**K OFF!

Loxwood FC have a superb tractor shed. Best one in West Sussex I'd say.

Loxwood 4 Oakwood 2 In the battle of the "woods" it's Lox who come out on top in this Southern Combination Division One tie. Despite having driven to Loxwood and back this afternoon, I'm still not quite sure where it is.

Leaving aside Greenland and Venezuela for a second, if a “less developed” nation than the USA was set to host the World Cup in six months time and had goons caught on camera executing members of their own public, there would be calls for more than just boycotts. They’d want the host(s) changed.

Soccer's Coming Home is very funny.

The "council's Lionel Messi"? I'm not having that. Sorry.

Big fan of "non standard" football pitches and goals. Number 1 in a series of x. Victory Field, Sunninghill, Berkshire.

Martin Lewis. Burnley legend.