It is now only 6 months until our 2026 domestic season begins.

Spot on

Evan Ferguson scored his first Serie A goal to help Roma secure a comfortable victory at Cremonese. The Republic of Ireland striker, scored Roma's second goal four minutes after coming off the bench, guiding a shot into the bottom corner from inside the penalty area. @colmkavanagh.bsky.social

It is almost 15 years since England last won a test in Australia. Some of our players were still learning to talk back then. What this all means is we believe that we and others are deserving of a five match series in Australia. Even our number 11 can score a pair.

Just saved Sky a bit of time

Colin Murray and David James LFC meltdown on R5 joyous. Forget world peace, what on earth is going on? 😅

This has been laughing like a hyena Again and again and again

If you treat a five day Test as a five-day match, you greatly diminish your likelihood of defeat.

If SA's first innings versus India lasts just 10 more overs, it will have persisted for the same number of overs (140) as the entire 1st Ashes Test in Perth.

Our Irish cousins go down to Bangladesh, but a terrific rearguard knock of 71* off 259 balls by Curtis Camphner. Strike rate of 27.41. Still a bit too high for us anti-Bazballers, but epic effort.

Match of the day, yes please

Sky will now talk about the Top 11

'Time to go'

BBC ‘It takes some doing to spend £450m to make a Liverpool side that strolled to the title last season worse but, based on what has been produced so far, Slot and the club's recruitment team have achieved that feat.’ Slot in

L2 CTFC v BRFC Love the honesty of players at this level No VAR And Steve Cotterill getting wins from a very limited squad with 13 points from 7 games

Given you are well connected at Notts Forest , what did you think of the Dyche masterclass @tonycampari.bsky.social ?

£500m on what?

Dyche always was a genius

On our way to CTFC v BRFC, but true colours blasting Spirit of the Blues, Z Cars, Banks of the Royal Mersey #EFC

A very simple point but huge boundaries mean the approach has to be modified

Cubillas, proper togger player

How is the England batting coach role going @captainflack.bsky.social

There is a misplaced arrogance about Bazball batting It's admirable in so many respects and fine against most Test playing nations. Versus India, they got the balance. In Oz, you wont get away in their backyard with decent following attack (missing 2). Misplaced arrogance & predictable ironically

5.00 am - England were effectively 100 runs ahead batting in 2nd inns with just the loss of one wicket

For about 2 years have ranted that Crawley will be skinned in Oz. Extra bounce, slanted away. A walking wicket and Oz knows. Poor selection of him and by him

To be bowled out twice in 66 overs is #bolloxball. Play with freedom by all means but play with responsibility too. It’s not binary

Didn’t realise this was the John Player League?

See Cole Palmer has done a 'Dicky Wright'

Thought I might grow a beard until the PL Citeh investigation is complete

Got up England 172 and Oz 10-1 Extraordinary Stokes has this incredible ability to get wickets, often with seemingly ordinary deliveries. Sheer force of personality

Has a test ever been over in 1 day?

When I've walked out of the room, England have taken 3 wickets #stayawayfromthetelly

What a brute of a delivery

Crawley wafting outside off stump Didn't see that coming

By the end of January this will be the state of play for Monday night games this season: ​Everton: 5 ​Manchester United: 4 ​AFC Bournemouth: 2 ​Leeds United: 2 ​Fulham: 1 ​Nottingham Forest: 1 ​Sunderland: 1 ​West Ham United: 1 ​Wolverhampton Wanderers: 1 ​Brighton & Hove Albion: 1

Sat 8pm, Mon 8pm - for a home game that involves 8 hours there/back, the Sky PL race to 70% games live diminishes the value of being a STH. Not alone obviously and can't kick my 'drug' but it's clear every year becomes more for global couch fans not match going fans #EFC

When we compare how goals have been scored to the first 11 games last season, there have been 39 fewer scored in open play & 26 more set-pieces & penalties, giving 13 fewer overall. There have been an incredible 370 fewer in open play than at this stage last time out www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

My favourite album ever @jakeburnsslf.bsky.social

Today, is our all time Ashes left handers XI: Matthew Hayden Justin Langer David Gower Graham Thorpe Allan Border (c) Neil Harvey Adam Gilchrist (wk) Mitchell Starc Mitchell Johnson Hedley Verity Bruce Reid Drinks and duck canapes: Alan Mullally

Is he playing for Bury? #EFC

Curaçao and Haiti caused upsets in Concacaf qualifying to reach the 2026 World Cup. Haiti qualify for the first time since 1974, while Curaçao qualify for the first time and become the smallest nation ever to reach the finals! Video of Curaçao celebrations via Concacaf 🇭🇹🇨🇼

Great news #EFC

Today is the brief Icelandic language lesson for cricket that you neither needed nor wanted. "Útilokaður á hlaupum" = run out Shout it loudly during the upcoming Ashes (at an appropriate juncture). For example, in 2005 a fan could have said: "Útilokaður á hlaupum! Ponting you pratt".

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Not fake news

The beautiful game , the smallest country to ever qualify for the World Cup, Curacao population 150,000 and Steve McClaren resigns imitating Jamaican Patois www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Great game

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