UNSW are hoping to get back on top of the #NPLWNSW table and snap this slump they've been in ahead of Wednesday's Sapphire Cup Final, while Sydney Olympic are here to spoil the party. Join me at 5pm AEDT (12am Pacific time, shoutout to @almostclutch.bsky.social) 📺: www.youtube.com/live/TZWNO67...

The most stunning hypocrisy in football is from France. Dembélé will be celebrated and his wife will be featured in Vogue. But policy and law would never allow her to touch a pitch if she wanted because of their hijab ban in sports.

I told my husband I have an idea for improving the cat room

Sam goes bang on an all too familiar story in Australian football. Can't wait to have this discussion again in 12 months when the Matildas are bungled out of the World Cup in the Round of 16 in embarrassing fashion because running it back with the core being four years older isn't a viable strategy.

“the amount of people who tried to tell me that was illegal I was like bro I don't f***ing care.” Cool story bro, go to prison.

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

A good way to promote your London-based club signing one of the best players in the world, a club fighting a near-impossible battle against historic footballing institutions in the same saturated city, is to announce the deal from **reads hand** New York during a men's World Cup.

Every day this post becomes ever more correct

The trains aren't running because the phone network is down? We should nationalise and de-profit both. Maybe some other stuff too for good measure, like supermarkets and childcare

But look, one of the Trump administration’s reasons for attacking Iran was definitively sincere, heartfelt concern for the wellbeing of the Iranian people.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"

Whenever you see the 2030 Winter Olympics described as "gender equal" in the coming years, just make sure you remember that it's only cause the IOC decided they would rather drop AN ENTIRE SPORT (nordic combined) instead of adding a women's event.

Watching the Trump Men’s National Team lose 4-1 to a generation of perennial underachievers

Brisbane Roar announced on Tuesday that its A-League Women coach Alex Smith will depart the club for an "exciting overseas opportunity." The club also said its search for a new coach is underway, and hope to announce his replacement in the near future #ALW #woso

Amid trans bathroom panic; cis bloke accused of planting 17 cameras in women's bathroom But when has selfish, sexist entitlement factored in offenses against women? Cismen would never! TERF scapegoating doesn't distract from/enable abuse of women. And cis male TERFs aren't offenders, right? 🤪🤬💀

What in the Liam Reddy?

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Calgary Wild FC have announced Leah Blayney as their new coach. The NSL side is currently home to Kahli Johnson, as well as Philippines international and former Western United player Jaclyn Sawicki. Blayney was part of the coaching staff for Japan's 2026 Women's Asian Cup win.

Leah Blayney on signing with Calgary Wild: "I’ve worked in different football environments, and whenever a country invests in its own professional league, it creates more opportunities for players, coaches and staff." Hmm. You mean investment pays off in football? Colour me shocked.

Pausa de Hidratación

Because a sickness compels me, here's the list of clubs and their partner #pokemon (sorted geographically which is how the #JLeague always does these things).

I have long argued that what could precipitate Infantino's downfall was his incapacity to understand how "too far" he could go, a typical trait of autocrats. He's done it now that Fifa has bent its own rules to placate the recipient of its grotesque Peace Prize.

slowly developing a brain that only wants to see two things on tv: - live sports - movies I have already seen 25 times

Everyone’s saying Harry sounds like a muppet but I think he sounds more like the “look how they massacred my boy” Marge Simpson girl.

Shit. England's winning the World Cup aren't they?

This tournament was a mess when they suspended R7’s red card from qualifying. It was compromised the second they refused a top level ref It was unfair once Iran had to succumb to weird travel rules It’s been plagued by alleged rapists and overshadowed by gov interference. A shameful event

4000 slave laborers died building stadiums for the last World Cup. Open the schools!

I can't believe I have to say this but the point is not "corrupt World Cups are not new". It's that this specific World Cup has been a succession of "f**k yous" to various parts of the global football community, and this is the latest one. And I doubt it will be the last.

Already seeing people sharing an AI picture of Trump and Infantino kissing and this is your reminder that you don't have to be homophobic to express your displeasure at the corruption of straight men.

Because he's a right wing PM masquerading as a centre left one. The Labor party have lurched massively to the right on almost every issue under Albo's leadership. So much for 'changing from within' eh rusted-ons? #auspol

Sam Kerr's probably watching this and googling if there's a way to get out of her Gotham contract.

Today seems like as good a day as any to once again plug the interview I did with Carly Telford earlier this year where she talks about Alex Morgan and the tea celebration. Go check out the full interview from the link in the original post and please subscribe if you aren't already.

A very well-worked play for the Courage, but that is some horrific defending. The right-back loses Sanchez, and then the centre-back goes walkabout because she's following her mark, creating a massive gap. That can't be allowed to happen.

When someone nearly hits me in a crosswalk

The same Schwarzer who didn't have anything bad to say after Redmayne got subbed in for the Peru shoot-out? Who also said Redmayne's tactics could become the new tactic for shoot-outs? Forgive my cynicism of this results-based analysis take, because if Australia had won, it'd be a different tune.

When you’re having the week from hell and you finally go over the tipping point when the Maccas soft serve machine breaks on the first crank

Business idea: algorithmic-style Dynamic Pricing at restaurants. You can get French onion soup for $1.75 when it's really hot out, but a tomato salad costs $57 in August. Everyone hates it; Softbank has already contributed $150m in funding just off the concept.

When you remember Popovic is coaching Australia through to the Asian Cup

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

Oh that's weird, I thought he was just a wedding singer

Ngl, Popa’s decision to sub Beach off for Ryan, only for it to be derailed by the Egyptians watching a YouTube video of Ryan’s goalkeeping is peak A-League #AUSEGY #FIFAWorldCup

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

So the Socceroos are out and Ange has signed with Al Nassr in Saudi?

What impact does PlayStation’s decision to end disc production *really* have on the industry? I asked a bunch of experts why moving away from physical media is far deeper than ownership or even preservation. www.gadgetguy.com.au/playstation-...

Knock-out stage goals at a FIFA World Cup for that guy from Portugal: 1 Knock-out stage goals at a FIFA World Cup for Australian Women's Cricket All-Rounder Ellyse Perry: 1

Time to be a buzzkill but the NWSL paying for a high-profile photographer/influencer to post photos of Ronaldo — who has faced multiple sexual assault allegations — as part of their summer of soccer to advertise a women’s soccer league……… Why.