Honestly my reservations about this season don’t include set pieces but do include being the only team not to breach Liverpool’s defence.

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

Not sure about their PMs but Labour’s Mayors are getting the job done

ok

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

I said I’ll shut up but I can’t get away from it

Mood rn

I mean it’s an ok gag but that apostrophe kills me

Gabriel Martinelli’s late equaliser against City in September….

This child is now 19.

when i ask dad if the burgers are ready after 2 minutes on the grill

We love you, Bournemouth

God this is what I looked like last time

Dammit. Better update my bio - people will think I’m a City fan.

Just having a word with a certain 19yo

Omg

Southampton fans outside Wembley on Saturday

The football authorities will not stand for flouting the rules. Unless you’re from a corrupt petrostate, obviously.

Kyiv bids farewell to 12yo Lyubava and 17yo Vira Yakovlieva, murdered in the russian missile attack on their home on May 14. Many defenders, their fallen dad's brothers-in-arms arrived to pay them the last tribute. This is unbearable.

Good morning 🍒

Absolutely true

My friend was a pensions expert for KPMG. He said if you think social care is bad now wait over the next 20-30 years for an avalanche of destitute pensioners all having to live in the private rental market, all with no assets.

The bitterness of Lee, Surrey* only makes it the sweeter. *Man United fan I’ll warrant

Safe to say PSG won’t be shitting themselves. But the sort of win they haven’t been putting to bed all year.

It’s normal to find your hobbies agonising, right?

What definition of “amateur” are we using here?

On reflection, the two Manchester teams are the only systematic beneficiaries of VAR so this may play better nationally than in Makerfield.

American struggles with cooking apparatus that doesn’t go “beep” when it’s finished

Calling it: even Spurs can’t Spurs it from here.

Ah yes, Tolkien definitely never saw a culture that wanted to see all Jews dead. What a fucking dipshit.

Reluctant applause

Ukraine’s resilience has been extraordinary. In a better world, the role of UK-European cooperation in helping them when a Russian stooge took over in Washington would be a huge point of pride.

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

*joins Labour Party to vote for Burnham*

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

If we’re so much poorer than Americans why is my bluesky feed full of Americans asking me to contribute to their gofundme to pay for their medical bills?

Didn’t see this one, did see one similar.

I just made lemon curd. “I was expecting lemony scrambled eggs but this is ok”

This is proper.

Regret to report that they’ve been sniffing glue at the Ipswich Star again.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... What a piece for the day after Nakba Day

The magic of the FA Cup

Instinctive sympathy for Celtic but not hugely keen on “hegemon reasserts itself at the last minute” narratives rn.

I wouldn’t say everyone here is on the same page as me. But the choice seems to be Yaxley-Lennon and co…

I will never understand how Keir reconciles his self-conception as a good man doing a good job as prime minister with “my premiership had to be brought to the brink of death for me to say this”.

Big day in London. Fascist and pro-Palestine marches. With the FA Cup final police will be stretched, though guess Chelsea in the final will reduce Yaxley-Lennon’s turnout.