Thank you to Dadi Rafnsson for the invitation to speak at the Reykjavik International Games conference. Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design Visit Reykjavik! Here are some slides

If you are in Reykjavik on Wednesday, I will be speaking at this event. Early professionalisation of youth sports and its impact on children and adolescents. My talk: Sport is for children, not the other way around (where are we now, and where can we go?) www.rig.is/en/conferenc...

Eclectic DJ Mix by The Mighty Quark Music for Chameleons www.mixcloud.com/mark-o-sulli...

I want to report a murder

Absolute earworm- love it open.spotify.com/album/5J96E9...

The Life of Jim

Give it to AI until the end of the season

40 years gone today www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wgb...

Always.

ICYMI, @learnandsing.bsky.social does a wonderful podcast, "To Here Knows When," which deep-dives into great Irish albums from the past, interviewing those who made them. It's an incredible treasure-trove of stories, so dip in and check them out. open.spotify.com/show/0lGWXdN...

Some talks/seminars that I will be giving this month 7th: Czech FA UEFA Pro Licence course, Prague 8th: Slavia Prague Football Club, Prague 14th: BK Häcken, Goteborg, Sweden 21st : Reykjavík International Games 2026 conference, Iceland. 31st: Hittarps IK, Helsingborg, Sweden

Neuroscience right now:

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

As the song goes - "Market driven governance in youth football will tear us apart again". Double ignorance: knowing less and less about what matters most footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/d...

As the song goes - "Market driven governance in youth football will tear us apart again". Double ignorance: knowing less and less about what matters most footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/d...

Once again - boycott everyone who works for ICE, as well as their family members. Don't serve them, don't help them, don't acknowledge them. Make it impossible for them to live in their communities. The only antidote to fascism is solidarity - like everyone else, they can choose one or the other.

And he still shines on, like the moon and the stars and the sun www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVu...

Got to meet some of my heroes on the Constraints collective pod - please share open.spotify.com/episode/2P3J...

Business as usual just isn’t up to the challenge of explaining behaviours. The brain centred, reductionist Cartesian trap is real

Fortsatt extrema (ras)klyftor bland landets barnen: tobiashubinette.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/f... 4% av de barn som bor i de mest socioekonomiskt gynnsamma områdena har utländsk bakgrund varav en hög andel är adoptivbarn medan endast 2% av de majoritetssvenska barnen bor i de mest utsatta områdena

I said what I said.

The playbook in action, and the road to the normalisation of racism in Sweden

Hungary sick as a Parrot

Released 45 years ago today www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC...

Ons 12e nov är det specialvisning av filmen "Small Things Like These", som handlar om en man som upptäcker de fruktansvärda förhållanden för kvinnor på ett irländskt barnhem. Efter filmen kommer jag att intervjua en man som är uppvuxen i ett sånt barnhem. Starka grejer. Skicka DM om du vill komma.

Just going to put this out there - I don't have an agent and most media owners wouldn't go near me, but if any national broadcaster wants someone who has had the ethics of journalism tattooed on them from day zero, I'm your man. At this stage, I'd move home just to contribute to positive change.

I wrote this before the arson attack/attempted murder of IPAS residents, and pretty much everything Harris, Martin and O'Callaghan have done and said since has proved me right - when it comes to the far right, they absolutely have no idea the harm they are doing. philipoconnor.com/after-presid...

Ecological Football- not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of) footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/e...

Ekologisk fotboll - inte bara att veta mer (kunskap om), utan att veta bättre (kunskap i) footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/e...

The world cannot wait any longer. Release the #EpsteinFiles, and let justice take its course. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post. She said it all.

A month ago, Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson gave me a snarky reply when I asked how he would get the best out of his attack in World Cup qualifying. They went on to lose 2-0 to Kosovo, tonight they lost 2-0 to Switzerland tonight with one shot on target and are bottom of the group. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Two questions for the Irish and Swedish governments - where are Tadhg and Greta, and what are you doing to bring them home?

If this is not reflected in the actions of our governments, then we can no longer say that we live in democracies.

Sweden's slide into fascism going as well as can be expected, with a couple of right-wing "think tanks" demanding that the mere suspicion that immigrants are involved in crime could lead to expulsion. Laying the groundwork in broad daylight. www.dn.se/debatt/reson...

Maybe Robert could set an example by letting one of the many, many, many rental properties he didn't declare on the Dáil register to them. #gowl #SpeirGorm

No other story in the media today should come close to this one. This is all that matters, and it is already too late. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

RIP Robert Redford www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJm...

Waves......and then goodbye RIP Stephen Luscombe www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvb8...

Imagine if Kneecap said this @philipoconnor.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/atru...

We need to realise how fragile we actually are at moments like these. The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth. Top class @philipoconnor.bsky.social philipoconnor.com/the-crisis-o...

I asked Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson about Isak and Gyokeres last week - he opened his reply with "May I be a bit arrogant? Have you seen Sweden play when they play together?" Many times, JDT - in fact, I saw them play together tonight, and they lost 2-0 to Kosovo ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The FAI is not fit for purpose, and arguably never has been. As long as it continues to treat women as second-class citizens, it should not receive another red cent of taxpayers' money. This has to end. m.independent.ie/irish-news/f...

Someone needs to go to prison for this.

Today Reuters TV journalism contractor Hussam al-Masri was killed by Israel in an attack on a hospital, and I actually can't believe the words I've just typed. #STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS

Article written together with Matías Manna (Argentina national team ass. coach/analyst) and Keith Davids. Can we redefine the role traditionally known as video analyst or coach-analyst? Toward a more holistic, relational and culturally situated identity? footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/a...

Motherfucking wind farms…