they have enormous governing majorities, in an extremely centralized state, for three and a half more years it's absolutely bonkers that they don't seem particularly interested in implementing policies which can lead to greater mass affluence and greater popularity for the government

Farage has the unbelievable nerve to talk at Davos about Britain’s “moral decline”. This repulsive piece of shit IS Britain’s moral decline. He’s betrayed our country for self-interest, prejudice and greed. Shame on everyone who’s allowed that. #NeverPM www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It is good for the sport as a whole when more people can have more interesting conversations about it. I don’t think anyone comes to soccer for the data but I’m certain it engages some fans more deeply. And that is really what any entertainment product needs in 2026.

Realizing that the FBRef thing is happening because bookies don't want their clients to have access to tools that help them beat the lines is pretty fucking grim

The people in the industry that helped develop, introduce, and popularise this stuff are now being priced out of it.

the least interesting possible world is where clubs know everything and optimise for data us plebs can never see.

Opta's position seems to be "FBRef bad, FIFA and gambling companies good". Interesting.

Tulip boom may falter if you don't buy enough tulips says tulip salesman

It's really impressive how TNT managed to ruin the Goals Show. Why is Martin Keown here when he doesn't watch European football?

We seem to have normalised the Premier League's inability to conclude the Manchester City case. The years this thing has taken is pathetic. The longer it has taken the more people have forgotten the magnitude of the alleged offences. Time passing has had a kind of watering down affect on allegations

Which franchise is dumb enough to hire Matt Nagy?

BALL DON'T LIE

All of Morocco's goodwill going up in smoke in one moment

What a farce

Villa really aren't good

At what point does losing 77 billion dollars impact a business? The global box office for all movies, put together, in total, all movies everywhere in 2025 was 33.5 billion dollars. He lost more than double that on “legs”

Kyle had 3 chances to call a sneak and refused 3 times and got punished. Game over.

Arsenal are genuinely one of the most pathetic PL frontrunners of all time

Saka providing the width in this team is such a waste of his talent.

Kevin Patullo must be Arsenal's attacking coach

As a one-off gesture in the name of transparency and to perhaps help some City fans see what their club have done, I've un-paywalled this article. Skip to the point where you can download and read a set of documents that tell you what happened. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/publish/post...

Best performance vs City at OT since 2015, hands down

Donnarumma genuinely kept this from being 6 or 7

Dorgu kicking on in the past 3 weeks has been very welcome.

Licha's track record of erasing Haaland is crazy at this point

MANCHESTER UNITED

Donnarumma and the linesman has kept this from being 4-0

City are proper mid

Anthony Taylor outing himself as a City plant hard

Don't like that front 3, not one bit

It’s an absolute stain on the whole league that this is still up in the air

This post right here. ⬇️

this is genuinely incredible

So the #49ers won a playoff game on Sunday with a -2 (or worse) turnover differential for only the 2nd time in franchise history. The other time?

Aaron Rodgers getting mad every time he gets sacked gives me life

Nah giving us and the Bills a short week is ridiculous

Greg Roman needs getting gone stat

WE. WILL. NOT. DIE.

THE BLOOD GOD CANNOT BE DENIED

The record for go-ahead fourth quarter touchdowns on one DAY in playoff history was four. We're at five, and we've still got basically two whole games to go...

This is like the 2021 Packers game but like far more depressing in every way.

Honestly, the Eagles might be the most pathetic team we've played this year.

Crazy that Fangio wasn't blitzing before the pick, we have nobody that can get open quick.

This is a miserable, miserable game of football.

And there's the pick

A San Francisco 49ers employee just walked into the locker room carrying what appeared to be a bottle of tequila. Best guess? it’s for George Kittle.

This drive has aged me more than the final drive in Seattle in 2019.

Kyle's decisions in this half has been a disaster