What the hell is "Expected Goals"? Can somebody explain it and apply to Tranmere Rovers for next season

No penalty. Kane dived.

And just as the World Cup couldn't get more Gridiron, they bring out the momentum graph 📈⚽📉

The Italian prime minister did what almost no other western leader has dared to do: when Trump, attacked her, she fought back ✏️ Silvia Marchetti

So sad to see a Third World state treating a proud country like Iran with its four thousand years of history and culture. #cowboys youtube.com/shorts/g_83q...

#OVERHEARD "A few weeks later we were off to Keegan's Hamburg for the Super Cup final. We bunked it all the way on strange German chocolate, Jaffa Cakes and whatever lager there was. Arriving home starved after a 1-1 draw I had a waistline like candy floss and a belly empty as Prenton Park. 🥱

Alas. Not this year, but 2027. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

A Did You Know from the Love Wirral Magazine 1. Cats can't taste sweetness. 2. There are over 1500 castles in England. 3. Almonds are seeds, not nuts. 4. Koala fingerprints can confuse crime scenes 5. The UK drinks 100 million cups of tea every day. www.love-wirral.com

#OVERHEARD "When you exit the World Cup after you play Paraguay it is very bitter. It is very hurtful." 😂🤣

#Multilingualism in Belgium: What happens in our brains when we switch languages? www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2209... #neurolinguistics #langsky

youtu.be/WvLdwZ0-Bkg?... The great Tim Vickery. I could listen to him all day.

Can you complete this sentence correctly? "Singer .................. on the flight deck with the crew of a British Airways Concorde before taking off at Heathrow to broadcast the first live radio show from an airborne aircraft." Answer in a day or two.

#OVERHEARD "A 57 year-old architecture professor who has spent her whole life in Madrid's historic centre. She says that neighbours who used to shop at the San Miguel market now has to walk 20 minutes to find fresh fish." #FTWeekend

OVERHEARD #FTWeekend 2 reports from Milan. The first about brands willing to pay big sums to hire the city's palazzos for their most exclusive events. The second reports how the city's tailors are prioritising men's easy wearable clothes for spring/summer 2027. Wearable clothes! Whatever next. 👕

youtu.be/HsU19XztQlk?... They missed a trick there. Why not New York United, Tampa Bay Rovers and Buffalo Albion. As for a Super Franchise, they seemed adept at selling shirts ....

#israel #occupation #palestine #west-bank #settlements #bds #zionism

Now that coffee shops double up as charity shops (or is it the other way round), this book caught my attention earlier this morning. Mostly for the #Rome reminiscings and European #train tales.

youtu.be/WBtMigy8N0c?... via ITV. Tonight!

And back to the great World Cups: 1982 youtu.be/XxwW-xs_N6w?...

Just found out that a couple of contemporaries of Martin Parr completed an impressive photographic trio working in New Brighton in the early 80s. Excellent article. www.1854.photography/2018/07/new-...

www.nytimes.com/1925/05/07/a... He died of pneumonia because this was his bedroom in rural Wirral! 💦

A crime against La Cucina Italiana. If you see such a ready made meal in your local supermarket, immediately call Specsavers on Freephone 846211245143.

Doubling Up. Prenton Font and Prenton Park.

This sounds about right ✍🏻

Location: Argeles #France Job Title: Surf Canoe Teacher. The Aussies indicating my bed for the summer. And a free lift back to Blighty with a school returning to the Wirral.

French Grand Prix 1988. I had always wanted to go to a F1 event on mainland Europe. What a disappointment. As a sporting show, it was more than poor. Cost a packet and I slept rough! 🏁

BBC Radio's In Our Time is a shadow of itself since Melvyn Bragg retired. Today's episode profiles Vigée Le Brun, the woman who painted Marie Antoinette 30 times and became arguably the most successful portraitist of her age. But to hear the phrase "Early doors" was shocking. A capital crime indeed.

Fuel Rationing. Why did this pop up. Anyway, it's all electric now innit!

Big game for the wee men of Scotland. youtube.com/shorts/DfzKr...

Celebrate ten years of freedom and sovereignty with the Brexit Benefit Loo Roll From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Back in the day, South Africa was on almost every country's black list. Today, a new APP call 'The Wall' can tell you which Apps you are using have Israeli involvement, investment or both.

Nic Costa and crew are coming back in a final trilogy, set in the heart of Italian politics in Rome.

#OTD in 1941, North Africa. Soldiers inspecting a captured German SonderKraftfahrzeug 222 (light armoured recce vehicle). #WW2 #HISTORY

I return to small businesses I interviewed before Brexit to see how it's gone - "a total utter nightmare"... farmer in Kent, cheesemaker in Chesire, wine importer, Logistics UK (Dante's fifth circle? no worse), wire maker. All exported to EU. Here's their stories. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is where my grandfather, Awad Shihadeh Mahli, was born.

The gates of old Jerusalem are named Jaffa, Zion, Dung, Golden (now walled up), Lions, Herod, Damascus and New Gate.

The unmistakable Temple Mount. The second image could be Assisi at first look. But actually a view also of Jerusalem.

Just found my undergraduate dissertation: CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN - It's Development and Present Consequences.

Can anyone help me out with this. Tudor certainly 🤔. And the sign says Elisabeth Regina. The date: MDLXII. Mid France somewhere.

Masada. A long way from Chester, but still Roman. #SPQR

Good riddance Mr Starmer. And here is The Econoclasts' take on your short-lived tenure www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8NQ...

Not the Colosseum. And not even in Italy. But where?

Not the spirit of football, but no rules were broken. #1982 youtube.com/shorts/jfa8e...

Once upon a time there was Sharm Al-Sheikh #Sinai #Egypt

Wonder where your job's going? Some answers might be behind this link. www.applied.works

'We want our stars back': Brexit branded ‘a travesty’ at march to mark 10th anniversary of referendum Great cover photo here of our Chair, @suewilson91.bsky.social and Terry Reintke MEP, both speakers at Saturday’s @marchforrejoin.co.uk

#OVERDONE "Puddings tended to revolve around granites of almond that recalled, in a single freezing mouthful, the Arab centuries embedded in the foundations of Aeolian culture.

Still the sides to beat if you want to take the trophy home. youtu.be/RH49a9_TuwA?...

Doha. 1976. View of the museum and gentlemen's daily business in action.