Watching England’s and Kenya’s Djed Spence on TV in Nairobi… #THFC #COYS #FRAENG 🇰🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Are we sure we want Cuti to leave? #COYS

Quite a way to find out that iPlayer is one minute behind live... And I hope the dumb partisan Arsenal fans who keep talking about Spurs and Spursy are totally quiet now. #ENGARG

This unexpectedly resurfaced today while I was looking for something else… #THFC #COYS

Absolutely love Djed’s concise approach. #COYS youtu.be/r-ywPPa3RiI?...

It absolutely did and you can read all about it in my book, which is coming out next year.

Mathys Tel is a dutiful chap. From his latest insta post:

Hmmm… Is Croupi being signed as the 10 to Cuti’s 9…? #THFC #COYS www.instagram.com/reel/DahuVA2...

Porro up against Rafael Leão… #THFC #COYS

Love how the WC organisers are using the traditional #THFC stadium technique of rapidly whacking up the music to drown out the booing. #PORSPA

Tonali’s wife posts an emotional goodbye to Newcastle: https://www.instagram.com/p/DacknVQjehQ/ #THFC #COYS

This game is excruciating. #BRANOR

BBC Sounds is recommending me a 2023 programme by Kate Mason of VFTL - strange coincidence… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rykw?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

“The referee finally shows a yellow card to a Paraguayan who has pulled out a gun.”

Ill-timed post by the Korea Times: www.koreatimes.co.kr/sports/20260... #THFC #COYS #AngePostecoglou

Insights from Fabian Otte into the #THFC GK dept: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVDTjS... #COYS

one to watch... #thfc #coys www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/262508...

Mickey is making an impression: www.instagram.com/reel/DaR-d6_... #THFC #COYS

The stupidest thing about these racist memes is that actually the reverse is true: France has contributed more players than any other nation to this World Cup. There are 99 French-born players participating in total, with five from my neighbourhood alone!

All-timer presser from Ecuador manager Sebastián Beccacece earlier. Said he asks Ecuador to stay united “as in Bolivar’s dream”. “We never feel like we’re in hell, nor do we feel like we’re in heaven. Our feet are on the ground on earth. And on earth you feel.”

Morning x

My hunch at the upheaval: - Romero will stay (lack of bids) —> Danso/Dragušin will go - I wonder whether Bentancur will be sold, if Tonali and/or Fernandes (or, more improbably, Wharton) come in - who knows what else delights await us?

Prime Minister of #Singapore is fully #COYS…

The if-true renewal of PP’s contract means that there must be a celebration of this on the terraces at the Lane… If we are to nick one from anywhere to honour Porro, who is so fully #COYS, can it be the #Poropopo from Corinthians? #THFC

These Iranian feminist activists had no problem taking their campaigns to World Cups in Qatar and Russia. But this one in the United States? Not even close. Great story from @megclement.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Fascinating. #THFC #COYS https://open.substack.com/pub/profandrewgroves/p/a-stain-on-the-beautiful-game#THFC

Le Vélodrome s'apprête à recevoir le concert d'un sympathisant néonazi… Et c'est l'OM, via sa filiale Mars 360 exploitante du stade, qui organise et cautionne cette venue. Nouvelle chronique de @mouradaerts.bsky.social. cahiersdufootball.net/article/kany...

For those eschewing the World Cup, for whatever reason: www.whereisfootball.com/coppa-pizzeria

We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us. My statement on recent events in Belfast.

Talksport story baiting #THFC over letting Olise go. Same Talksport story: "Tottenham are far from the only side who may be kicking themselves over not keeping Olise as Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City all had the electric winger on their books when he was a youngster." Cheap clickbait tactic.

Absolutely shameful situation - would have been entirely foreseeable by a functioning state that GAF about its own reputation and basic notions of decency, and entirely in keeping with the casual sadistic nihilism of a bunch of clowns that DGAF about anything.

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OK, I broke, and went a-lookin' for van Hecke content. This Brighton-adjacent piece from a year ago or so is fully enamoured. instinctive.substack.com/p/scouting-j... (He also did a bullish piece on Tel: instinctive.substack.com/p/scouting-m...) #THFC

Hallucinant. Sur 150 journalistes français·es envoyé·es à la Coupe du Monde, seuls 10 sont des femmes. Et dans la presse écrite, c'est encore pire : 2 sur 80. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

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Christian mate, I love you, please retire and look after yourself x

Although armchair, this feels like the kind of background planning that one has to assume the club is undertaking, and that Vinai is overseeing given his knowledge of the other lot’s approach. #COYS #THFC

Hmmm, should i renew my season ticket…? <watches video> PROTAGONISE ME youtu.be/D8AgTaSShmM #THFC #COYS

FIRE UP THE RUMOUR MILL #COYS

The one from the Athletic that is a massive #THFC subtweet: www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...

Très bien, @theextrainch.bsky.social - here's one roll of the dice... And yes, in this scenario I'd sell VDV, Vic, Bentancur, Maddison, Sarr, and Kulusevski... #COYS #THFC

Cannot believe that the team on @vftlpodcast.bsky.social missed the Matisse / Mathys pun here. Though I would be in favour of them housing this incredible collection in the stadium itself: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #THFC #COYS

you may enjoy watching the video of the A fans chanting about us in a tree… and then…

Shoutout to the valiant fellow a short while ago who, as he got off a train at Hornsey, chanted back at the woozy celebrants watching footage of the parade they had just been at, “CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE, you’ll never sing that!” #THFC #COYS

Christian Purslow and Henry Winter talk #THFC - Levy, Vinai and the rest: youtu.be/8nMXk8dVY2E?... #COYS

Has Zohran posted yet?

I think PSG’s RKM must be laughing so hard rn.

New podcast at @theobserveruk.bsky.social #brazil #england #worldcup #football

Have finally migrated this account to @eurosky.social, months after planning to. 👋🏾🇪🇺 V easy process, and you get walked through the steps. bsky.app/profile/euro...