“Played so dirty”. Honestly, this anti-Argentinian narrative is as tiresome as it is xenophobic. Do better. You might not like *how* they play, but Argentina are set up to grind down and outpower their opponents, and have an indefatigable desire to win.

Tuchel shit the bed there.

Borderline criminal.

Could Tuchel give Matterface and Dixon a bollocking too?

It’s all ‘Wonderwall’ now but you get the feeling we’re not far off ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ territory.

In Madrid mate.

That surely must be Klopp in for Nagelsmann now.

No wonder adidas binned them off. They don’t make ’em like they used to.

And there you have it. Conclusive proof that ‘hydration breaks’ are just ad breaks.

FIFA not wanting to offend slave-owners is very much on brand.

Jeez, George. What’s the logic here? LGBTQ+ will turn readers gay or something? If that was the case, with the amount of football books I’ve read, I should be playing at the World Cup.

Great first day at the @psasport.bsky.social conference in Liverpool. A privilege to listen to a range of fantastic papers and (re)connect with some brilliant people. A few hours kip and onwards to day 2…

40 years since Mexico 86 kicked off at the Azteca. I’m not sure 5 year old me realised the significance of it all at the time, but my handwriting was at least better than it is now!

There is something politically and culturally perfect about a Basque manager, renowned for a high intensity style of football, taking over a club and arriving in a city so fiercely independent as Liverpool.

Me, at the end of the season.

Hoping for a Villa win tonight for the brilliant Villa-supporting lads in the Ivy Bush pub in Ladywood, who celebrated with us after we’d beaten AC Milan in Istanbul.

Populism and polycrisis barely sum up just how ruinous FIFA’s upcoming jamboree will be for the planet. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Y’know what, if UEFA turned around and went “lads, only two sides in the top half have failed to beat you this season, you don’t deserve Champions League football next season”, I don’t think anyone would protest.

It’s been quite some time since I’ve been *this* desperate for a season to finish. Apropos of nothing, this gem of a song was playing when the halftime whistle went. open.spotify.com/track/5ArEw2...

🎯 This. Last week, Reubs found himself in A&E after a poorly executed forward 4½ somersault in the pike position off my bed. All bar one of the brilliant medical team that treated and bandaged him up were from overseas. The waiting area? Every single patient was white and from the local area.

VARsenal. Amirite folks?!

As pleasing as it is to see Gordon Brown return to frontline politics (*buy my book!!* 😂) I’m not sure what he does to bolster Labour’s standing in the polls. Feels a bit like King Kenny returning to Liverpool in 2011.

Senior Labour figures describing the local elections as a “tough” campaign is akin to turning up to play PSG in velvet slippers and complaining of getting beat 8-0. Lads, you won a *massive* Parliamentary majority two years ago, with a clear mandate for change. And you’ve done f*ck all with it.

Fan power works. To everyone who moaned and said it wasn’t worth protesting about, this is a reminder that fans have the power to hold the owners of their clubs to account. There is strength in unity and collective action. @spiritofshankly.bsky.social www.liverpoolfc.com/news/lfc-pro...

Sorry. Don’t mind me. I appear to have something in my eye. ❤️

Happy Birthday big man. 💪🏻

Some game of snooker that. Incredible final.

If Liverpool can’t beat this dreadful Chelsea side at Anfield…

I’m pretty sure we discussed this once upon a time @gloefflmann.bsky.social 😄

Some game this 😮‍💨

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any coefficient that puts either this Chelsea side - or indeed Liverpool - in contention for a place in next season’s Champions League is absolutely ridiculous. Still, great to see BlueCo’s MCO strategy falling apart.

There is a light that never goes out. 15.4.89

Genuinely could’ve carried on playing until next Tuesday and not created anything. My word, this Liverpool side are mediocre.

Mealtimes with a toddler 😄

Regardless of what has happened this season and happens for the remainder of, Mo Salah will go down as an all-time Liverpool great. Up there with the very, very best. Thanks for everything Mo.

Can we watch this Liverpool *every* week please?

Sports Marketing/Management ‘scholarship’ 101. 🤮

Wow! Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy urinated the words “Fuck Ice” on the snow just before the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics. “Innocent people have been murdered, & enough is enough. We can’t wait around while ICE continues to operate with unchecked power" he said www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Hundreds of people are protesting in Milan against the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Winter Olympics. [📸: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Blistering stuff from Bob Vylan last night in Manc. 🔥

Some SIX-ual healing from the Reds tonight, as Hugo transforms into Torres.

Hopelessness is baked into the current British political system. If you care about the future of my kids, your kids, our grandkids, our communities and the planet, join the @greenparty.org.uk.

Has YOUR club chairman joined Trump's "Bored of Peace" mafia?

Have that you little rat, Greenwood.

If only there were some prominent figure ostensibly friendly with Trump, without political pressures, who could show diplomatic skill, and who has spoken about the uniting power of football… Greenland crisis exposed Infantino’s new sports diplomacy www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

I’ve not seen a lad boil the piss and live rent-free in the heads of so many cucked Englanders since little Diego beat Peter Shilton at volleyball in the Estadio Azteca. Farewell sweet prince. 🇮🇪

This is what should happen to Nazis.

Tbf I’d accept a “banter era” over what on earth this is right now. My word.