That was nuts. That save at the end from Varen. 🤯 Imagine waiting at Fukuda Denshi, watching on your phone as a JEF fan. 😭

Would also recommend DAZN's multi-game screen for the games today, should be a belter.

Wife and kid down in Osaka for a couple of weeks. Got sent this of her listening attentively to Kuroda.

74 all in, with the vast majority in Scotland and Japan, obviously. A few others scattered across England, Ireland, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Estonia. A couple of other non-game visits - the map shows them, but doesn’t count them in the total. www.footballgroundmap.com/killie-verdy

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

Denmark look stronger, slicker, more dynamic than us, so still a very high likelihood we mess this up from here, but that is one of the all-time great Scotland goals.

三木谷対藤田 in the battle of the charmless sugar daddies, then.

The magic of the cup lost on the good people of Machida, judging by that Zelvia end.

New look for me, as I try to distance this account from my Twitter one. More J.League focus and less railing against the wholesale destruction of global normative values over here. Anyway, here's me dressed up like a provincial administrator on the Nakasendo.

Sifting through the swamp that is X for prime Verdy content, so you don't have to (not that anyone asked): A debate about Miki Tomoya's post-match aisatsu after the Avispa draw, with some saying the one season he spent at the club wasn't enough to warrant the full chant he got.

Confirmation of YFC’s relegation assuaged by the knowledge that according to J.League rules they’ll be promoted again in 2027.

Two games, kiddo’s unbeaten record remains.

Kashima homejack on 30th Nov guaranteed, I’m hearing. Just seen a figure of 35k tickets sold. No way we can match that and it doesn’t particularly bother me - seen it enough times against the Old Firm following a provincial side in Scotland - just hope we can have a say in the match itself.

The goal Union have just had disallowed against Bayern should really confirm how silly the definition of offside we currently use is. We’ve got the technology to prove a player is offside down to a fraction of an inch and in doing so have forgotten the point of the rule.

Not the worst 0-0. Glad the season almost over though. Good to meet @greenbyzantine.bsky.social at last!

Seems a bidding war for Taniguchi on the cards again.

Consternation! The recently laid natural grass pitch at the Verdy training ground is apparently... still going to be used as an overflow car park for Yomiuriland.

One of the funner parts of parenthood is discovering what dumb stuff makes your kid laugh. Apparently me lip syncing to The Misfits is the funniest thing my daughter has ever seen.

Very entertaining tiff over on the Other Side: an FC Tokyo fan accusing Verdy of being the club of lefty pro-immigrant types. I’m like….

A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland

Impressed with Imabari there, really positive side. Happy to see they still have a contingent of oldies following them all over the place too. 👨🏼‍🦳👵🏼

Very fitting in this rancid wet fart of a season that our safety should be secured by one of the few teams worse than us also losing. Probably the least fun I’ve ever had across a single season watching either Verdy or Kilmarnock, completely fucking pish.

Wearing the green away to Shimizu. Wish that was more common in J.League when there are no colour clashes.

Well, pretty appalling game, really got out of jail in that dreadful second half and if that’s the squad we start 26/27 season with then I fear the worst, but all about results for now. Outside of that, it was Kiddo’s first ever Verdy game, at six months old. Very proud dad.

Been absorbing games tonight, but both mortally low in quality. Nervy and/or tired performances from everyone.

Watching WC qualifier highlights with the wean. We’ve all got/had the cold so it’s a day for warm soup on the couch in your joggy bottoms.

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Heard criticism of Someno that he goes down too easily. Not nearly as easily as the centre-halves he comes up against every week.

That there from Someno sums up this entire rotten miserable shitey fucking season.

Respecting FC Tokyo’s efforts in keeping us in a relegation fight. Got to tip the hat to their commitment to trolling us.

Broke my own rule. Second category of Verdy today.

Well, a point is a point, I suppose. Horrendous shooting today, just dreadful. Our best finisher by an absolute country mile is centre half Hiroto Taniguchi. The rest of them wear pitching wedges for boots.

Another Japanese success story.

Pretty succinct summary of the game yesterday from Matheus.

Check this ref’s Rakuten points after the game. Verrrrrry good to Vissel so far. #verdy #vissel

I really, really needed that. 💚

On the way to the stadium now. Will probably start posting about Verdy again when there’s anything more to say than “Yeah we created nothing again / We created a few chances but shanked them all 40 feet over the bar” or some variation of those. Until then, 🤷‍♂️

Tight game, but a worthy goal to win and we had no way back in as usual. Would congratulate for a well-earned win, but… ..kicking a ball off a player down with a head injury to win a corner is one of the most snidey shitty things I’ve seen in football. Shameful, sub-Zelvia levels of behaviour.

What a scummy, scummy move. Proper wrong ‘uns.

Nah, dropping out of this a bit now. Would help to have a midfield.

Yeah not a bad half for either team. Been a bit more mobile at the start, then struggled to get our foot on the ball for much of the rest of the half, but kept Ryan quiet so far.

Just seen the starting line-up.

Redundancy confirmed on Thursday, Killie beaten by extremely dodgy 96th-minute penalty yesterday, woke up with swollen-faced skin infection this morning, so no doubt tonight’s derby will continue the stellar trend of the last few days.

Been idly watching Royal Antwerp matches to see how Tsunashima is getting on, but given he’s always getting subbed off I’ve become more interested in tracking the progress of the new stand opposite the camera. Foundations all done, by the looks of it!

Read this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The build-up to the derby going as usual over on Twitter, I see.

Bruce Loose from Flipper dead 😢 youtu.be/RQOsm63TKQs?...

Ooooft this is honking. Two absolute haddies to head to head.

TIL a slice of 'wholemeal' bread made by Pasco in Japan contains 17 times more sugar than a slice of UK-made Hovis. No wonder I'm slowly becoming a fat ride.