I asked the team to find some ‘weird stuff’ for the bar at this years Bracknell Ale & Cider Festival. Fair to say, they delivered. Spiced Rum Ale, Chilli Stout and Beetroot Cider among 80 odd offerings. Full list: bracknellalefestival.co.uk/drinks/

We've had enough. The press is one of the last guardrails against Gianni Infantino's autocracy. But Fifa does all it can to crush the media and prevent us from doing our work. An editorial from @josimarfootball.bsky.social. And please support us if you can.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Tonight I’m Master of Ceremonies for a dinner at the wonderful Bracknell Rugby Football Club in honour of rugby legend Lewis Moody, raising money for MND charities. Excited to unveil my brand new game “Are You Lewis Moody”? TV execs who follow me on here may want to get in touch.. Wish me luck!

Dear @maxrushden.bsky.social - thanks for the #nonleague coverage on the pod today. If you’d ever like a different view to 3UP must happen, I think you’d quite like mine, which is.. It should be hard to get into the Football League… we make a distinction between FL and NL.

Am now convinced Arsenal will bottle it, Spurs will stay up and nobody will be happy.

This is some incredible personal insight into what happens in a newsroom following a terrible, tragic event. open.substack.com/pub/yakubqur... Yakub’s Substack is well worth a follow.

Come on Jeremy, it’s been an interesting few years, you’ve had your laugh but enough is enough.

Today’s office!

Who’s caught your eye this season? Nominations open across 20 categories! See you on the big night I hope 🤞

That was really hard today!

Ready for Reading!

This time last year I was licking my wounds. Last night I was in Leicester Square for a film premiere. I didn’t start freelancing on purpose. But it’s been an amazing experience so far. Thank you ever so much to everyone who’s supported me and given me an opportunity on this ride ❤️

I don’t really give a shit what’s on the new banknotes, quite nice if stuff started to cost less and Thames Water stopped pouring shit into the rivers though.

Can we roll back and give Chaos With Ed Milliband a go now please?

On the plus side, the school may not open for World Book Day.

So the water is out in Burghfield. Can’t imagine what Thames Water were trying to flush to fuck this up. Still as long as the shareholders get paid.

Probably the best headline I’ve come up with in some time.

🔴Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found, reports @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Really feel for the staff at Brewdog Reading, whatever you think of the wider brand, that was a good bar in central Reading.

Very much enjoyed researching and writing this article about football in a different age footballinberkshire.co.uk/features/his... via @footballinberkshire.co.uk

A perfect outcome in the Scottish title race. Hearts won 1-0 yesterday. I’m incredibly invested in Hearts winning the title this season.

God forbid you take a look at your own message and consider why it didn't land with enough people to make you the MP? Just a crazy thought. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

It’s not rained today. What?

Steve’s piece here is well evidenced and makes a lot of sense. Certainly more than the vibes bit I wrote a few years ago.

I was concerned briefly it wasn’t going to rain today.

“HE ALWAYS SCORES”

Open letter to the FA, your divisions are too big, there are too many cup competitions and too many groundshares.

Really excited for this. Somehow we’ve managed 10 years and it’d be lovely, if you love your grassroots football, if you could join us.

The club had a meteoric rise in football terms. I hope they can come through this but it goes to show building a football club is so much more than winning on the pitch.

100 icons - Players, Managers, Volunteers and Employees who've made an impact and shaped your club and the grassroots game in Berkshire. Nominations are now open: https://bit.ly/4qhJ1Jw

Really delighted to publish our first piece by young journalist William Kruczek.

I adore the Sweeper. Please give it a listen, amazing football and human stories from around the world.

Just booked my first new freelance work of 2026. Yay!

All I’m hearing is more loud music without headphones 😂

If you love something in Reading, nominate it!

babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

Signs you don’t want to see at soft play.

We need a replacement for the phrase “thrown under the bus” because it’s past the point of over use.

Berkshire Beer of the Year 2025 in case you were wondering* Fantastic brew from Stardust in Maidenhead. *in my opinion 😉

I do this every year, the annual Big Berkshire Beer Survey is live and I’m looking for your favourite venues, beers and breweries from the Royal County in 2025. The survey is ⤵️ in-berkshire.co.uk/beer/the-big...

Latest Hermes/Evri rebrand has dropped.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

Yes.

Going freelance. Having been ‘fired’ in Feb, I was going down a dark path. But turns out I’ve made a good impression over the last 20 years and people want to pay me for that - which is a huge vote of confidence

What we’re seeing in this series is actually the start of England’s long-term plan to win back the Ashes by denying Cricket Australia day 3/4/5 ticket sales and by doing so eventually bankrupting them. 4D chess

Dani Harmer, Will Carling, Bruce Grobbelaar, Rita Ora, Sir Elton John

One of my Festive traditions used to be heading into Reading on Christmas Eve morning to do the VAST majority of my Christmas shopping, buy way to much in desperation and about 2pm sit in The Horn pub for a pint. I do not miss this.

Yes, yes I did just skip Mariah.

Happy to admit I was wrong here. It’s the two minutes I spend sat with my daughter while she ‘brushes’ her teeth.