Settle a pub debate? Do Stone Roses make it into the 5 best Manchester bands and why is the answer 'no'?

Still not convinced York's crossed the line. Don't @me...

YORK 👀

Rochdale 👀

"The club has received £18m in taxpayer-funded grants – far more than any other in the UK" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Controversial opinion: English tifos are generally a bit naff.

Last night I had to receive a 2FA text from Microsoft to restart my PC in safe mode and I'm still bitter about it nearly 24 hours later.

Nothing against Spurs really. It would just be funny. I'm not from London so why would it be funny? Nobody knows. Just would.

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 Fifa's new prediction markets partner has no working product, is unlicensed everywhere except Gibraltar and its CEO paid a six-figure sum to Indian regulators last year to settle allegations of serious insider trading. josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/i...

Ah well. Fun while it lasted.

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UTFP

Today, I will mostly be unapologetically drunkenly shitposting about going to Wembley. Until we lose.

'You there boy! What day is this?' 'It's FA Trophy semi-final day sir! Spoons brekky! No pyro no party!'

Twas the night before Christmas...

'C'MON CYMRU!' screams the Cardiff tannoy announcer 'PICK A LANGUAGE' screams me from the living room

Bad owners come in a variety of flavours: sure, property developers who want the land are genuinely evil, as are the outright crooks, but somehow even worse are the David Hilton types who use clubs as a vehicle to fuel their colossal egos and don't care what damage they cause along the way.

Yesterday on UD, on Ipswich Town and fascism, which is a sentence that I never thought I'd write.

Always felt bizarre to me how many people think they'd be great at owning a football club because they can picture winning a league or two in their head. The reality is much harder, much grittier, and much more expensive. Great book on that floating about somewhere I bet.

"If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true"

'I ask you to scrap your policies and replace them with a policy entitled "The best person for the job."' This intervention from Suella Braverman on DEI coaching targets is extraordinarily simple-minded. It's as though she sat down to attract some attention, but couldn't think of anything to say.

My narrator: It's not, in fact, okay

Wait till you hear what your favourite football club did. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Chelsea got away with it then. I’m shocked.

This will definitely go well and I can’t see any issues with this at all. (To save you looking it up - 116 years they’ve played there…) 📸 @Inter_Alty1977 on Twitter

The Barry Horns got very upset when I said Welsh clubs should play in Wales.

While recoiling in horror at the absolutely horrific and disgusting posts from Grok about LFC and MUFC, I had to remember that today’s evil bile wouldn’t even make the top ten of the gross stuff it’s posted.

Yes an absolute fairytale entering the competition in round 3 and getting booted out in round 5, at home, to a team 20 places above in the pyramid. Magic stuff.

Public service announcement: ‘Magic of the cup’ does not and can not apply to Wrexham.

Passed away peacefully in his jeep.. … sleep.

Every football commentator that ever said ‘oh we don’t want to see that’ has been wrong.

Play stopped at Southport V Buxton this evening because Buxton’s #24 has just vomited all over the pitch.

MRW now the UK have picked someone genuinely interesting, skilled, entertaining and talented to represent us at Eurovision.

I’ve never known this man make a recommendation that didn’t stand up. It’s actually bloody infuriating. I’ve had a blast watching this tonight.

Welcome to Chorley FC, where the half time challenge is to smash a ball into a washing machine.

Alex Honnold freesoloing Taipei 101 was the most stunning and incredible display of athleticism, skill and batshit insanity I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Can’t believe what I’ve just watched.

Alex Honnold you absolute madman. This is utterly terrifying.

RIP FBref. Disastrous. Since starting my own database of historic results, I've been very unpleasantly surprised at the amount of commercialisation and gatekeeping over not just stats, but even results. Hopefully someone starts something opensource 👀

I enjoyed looking at Gremio's Wikipedia page today and finding, in the 'Club Officials' section, that the club has an official butler.

Name a more iconic duo than schools and letters home in comic sans.

Entries close at 12:00 local time (GMT). I'll do the draw at some point this evening.

Red alert

The wife has completed Christmas. Absolutely speechless opening this.

"Daddy did this Freddo cost 39p?" "No mate, they're not *that* expensive" "But it says '39p' on it?" "... Well I'll be..."

Strangest thing: Barca's crypto sponsor ZKP, which claims to be building a blockchain business based on total privacy and which refuses to disclose who owns it or where it's based, publishes a live transactions map purporting to show the location of its customers. Interesting way to handle its data.

I never ever want to set eyes on this monstrous Ferrari shitbox ever ever again. Get it in the bin.

Still get shudders thinking about Abu Dhabi 2021.

Delighted for Lando Norris. Even more delighted Max Verstappen didn't win his fourth world championship. Yes, fourth.