Laporta’s new chapter begins sports.yahoo.com/articles/lap...

Yesterday’s Clasico report sg.news.yahoo.com/bellingham-c...

Mbappe's Real Madrid aiming to end Barca Clasico dominance www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Monday = pod day. Barcelona go top as Lamine returns. Get it while it's hot: pod.fo/e/33376f

The Drobut

wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Half a million people signing up to a party that doesn’t even have a name let alone any policies yet but is just saying “we think things could be less shit” should be a clear signal to Starmer that the trajectory he’s taken Labour on isn’t going down well at all

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

Unfolding in real time in our connected world with next to no consequences.

read this carefully—the AFP was founded in 1944. they’ve just issued a statement saying that for the first time in history, their journalists face death by starvation #Gaza

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Been quite inconsistent at posting here but here's a few CWC pieces from the last week or so...

“To give up is to abandon sport for ever to the dictators and the sales people, to say, yeah, this just belongs to you now.”

Mariona and Arsenal aiming to break Barca's UWCL hegemony www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

Tottenham end their drought www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

16th vs 17th for a golden ticket uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/europa-...?

Yamal pearl seals Barca title at Espanyol (again) www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

Thrills and spills up the hill www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

Young Barca earn respect but crave trophies after Inter heartbreak sg.news.yahoo.com/young-barca-...

E485: Lamine Yamal. That's it. That's the title www.patreon.com/posts/127916...

Two matches in one, said Amorim as Man Utd hit jackpot in Bilbao sports.yahoo.com/article/man-...

Fear tried to set in but Yamal was too quick for it uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/yamal-h...

Barca 3 Inter 3 sports.yahoo.com/article/barc...

Somehow this Barca team reminds me of kids who are really young when they learn to ski? They have no inherent fear or sense of danger. They just go. Meanwhile, we're all so traumatized by what's happened in the past that we fear everything?

Real Madrid's meltdown, inevitable really uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/real-ma...

Pina strikes twice as Barca rout Chelsea in UWCL semis sports.yahoo.com/article/pina...

Kylian Mbappe's arrival at Real Madrid was envisioned to expand their Champions League domination, but he was muzzled by Arsenal as Los Blancos crashed out in the quarter-finals, leaving coach Carlo Ancelotti on the brink. #AFPSports u.afp.com/SSGD

Last night's report www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

‘No problem’ if Real Madrid replace me, says Ancelotti sports.yahoo.com/article/no-p...

Morale blow for Barca in Dortmund despite reaching UCL semis for first time since 2019 www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

Alcaraz hits back at critics before Barcelona Open www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Shaken Real Madrid insist Arsenal comeback is possible uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/shaken-...

Real Madrid's attacking superstars need no introduction but behind them lies a soft, vulnerable underbelly which Arsenal aim to exploit on Tuesday in a Champions League quarter-final first leg clash. #AFPSports tinyurl.com/2vyn7b9t

Spain star Lamine Yamal still 'maturing' after rollercoaster night uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/spain-s...?

Spain rampant, Verbruggen good save from Nico Williams to stop the 2-0 after Oyarzabal slammed home from the spot

Spain playing Iniesta's 2010 WC winning goal on the big screens ahead of Netherlands clash... perhaps a riposte to the Dutch tifo of Robin van Persie's header in midweek

De la Fuente on Spain’s endless emerging talent sports.yahoo.com/article/spai...

Those stranded astronauts who returned to Earth immediately demanded to be returned to space.

A podcast which lasts longer than it took Barça to score four goals at the Metropolitano. Latest drop now out after Atlético 2-4 Barcelona. Go get it: pod.fo/e/2ba493

Something on the 🕷️ sports.yahoo.com/article/atle...

If Madrid don't send the letter, that's not given as a pen imo

New time-wasting method unlocked: Frequently getting caught offside and then continuing the move for 20+ seconds more before the flag goes up

Mbappe and Vinicius looking cold as they come out for the second half, maybe if they did some running they might warm up a bit

For the second time in a week the pod drops after a manita: 🏆 Barça into Copa QF 🐐 Do people realise how good Lamine is? 9️⃣ Olmo through the middle ❓ Araujo, Ansu futures 🗣️ Joan Laporta speaks www.patreon.com/posts/e451-l...

When the cautelar hits

Cat on the ropes as Barcelona lose against Leganes. The latest drop tackles Barça's problems (one win in six in LaLiga), Lamine Yamal's injury, Lewandowski's form & much more: pod.fo/e/2926e8

Barça undone by Las Palmas... why? how? who? Cat? The Monday pod looks into Barça’s three game winless run in the league, anniversary disappointment and a potentially big week in LaLiga… pod.fo/e/28a53b