Imagine having the option of living the life that comes with playing for Napoli or Roma and choosing instead to live the life that comes with playing for Aston Villa or Nottingham Forest.

If they want to play songs at half time, it's not for me but whatever. But as soon as they start rearranging the football to fit around the "entertainment", something has gone totally wrong.

It's becoming increasingly clear that we really need to stop letting Americans do things.

Two years ago today, and the most worried I've ever been for my safety at a football match. El Clásico Vallecaucano, the derby match in Colombia's wildest city, Cali. ⚽ Deportivo Cali v América de Cali 📌 Estadio Deportivo Cali, California, Colombia 🇨🇴 2024

The best photos tell you a story. This one doesn't so much tell you the story as beat you round the head with it. Incredible.

Two years ago today: the Bogotá derby and a crowd so raucous I felt the ground shaking under my feet from the pitch side track, 20 metres from the stand. ⚽ Millionarios v Santa Fe 📌 El Campín, Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴 2024

Three years ago today, the Derby della Capitale, where the home fans did monkey chants and one ran down three rows to start on me for taking pictures of the away end. As a hostel owner in Naples told me after, 'Everyone hates Lazio.' ⚽ Lazio v Roma 📌 Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy 🇮🇹 2023

It's getting harder and harder to have a 'spare' £50 these days, but if you do jump in on helping with this. In a world of ragebaiters and Fabrizio Romanos, @glorystudio.bsky.social is the kind of sport journalism we should all try to support (and this book will be beautiful!)

Oh my god

I've never felt sorry for a spurs player before but... my god

How have Liverpool got away with that?!

Glory Magazine launches crowdfunding campaign for The Global Guide to Football Culture lowerblock.com/articles/glo... #footballculture

I know everyone is talking about Birmingham - Leeds but we just won an actual real gold medal in *snowboarding* and it was brilliant

I don't express it enough on this platform, but I've always been a huge admirer of Liverpool FC #YNWA

I can't believe Chelsea's brilliant master plan of not creating a single worthwhile chance didn't work.

Anthony Taylor having an absolute stinker here. PGMOL through and through.

Lovely to have Peter Drury's poetic full time monologue accompanied by a woman giving the double two fingers to Newcastle fans.

Seeing spurs in a bright yellow away kit is a lovely bit of nostalgia. Seeing them 3-0 is also nice.

Please please please let's not spend the next seven months having this conversation

This is what happens when a ref lets a player get away with whatever he wants. Caicedo should've been booked ages ago and Taylor did nothing to rein him in

Two years ago today I was in a queue on the Altiplano to get from Chile to Bolivia. I've done a lot of border crossings in the past, but none quite like this one.

As if last night wasn't sweet enough after all the misery from Bayern down the years, their most experienced players throwing tantrums because they don't know how to process being comprehensively played off the park is a beautiful cherry on top. It could've easily been 4 or 5.

Antigua Guatemala has been damaged by regular earthquakes over the centuries, and many ruined buildings were just left as they stood. It gives a unique backdrop to this football and basketball 'cancha', which skaters also use when they can. 📌 Antigua, Guatemala 🇬🇹 2024

Yes, it's easier to say in my position when you don't have a business reliant on its reach, but really there is no excuse to still be using twitter. You know what it is, you know who he is. If you're using it, you're supporting it.

We live in a mad world when a load of conservatives are angrily protesting a ban on a group of visiting football fans who tore up a European city less than a year ago.

There is not a single thing on the planet that this man won't use as a photo op if he can find a way.

Been playing around with some black and white editing recently, and I think it can work pretty well. ⚽ Dinamo Zagreb v Rijeka 📌 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 2022

Been playing around with some black and white editing recently, and I think it can work pretty well. ⚽ Dinamo Zagreb v Rijeka 📌 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 2022

🇵🇪 The Andean Bruce Grobbelaar! When you feel the rhythms flowing through your veins but you have a clean sheet to keep! The pure innocence of youth 🥹

That is an absolutely insane decision. What??

Hapoel Tel Aviv ultras have routinely protested their government's genocide in Gaza. Their bitterest rivals are the self-proclaimed 'most racist club in the world', Beitar Jerusalem. They don't hide how they feel about them. ⚽ Beitar Jerusalem v Hapoel Tel Aviv 📌 Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem 2023

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

It's beautiful that as Tommy's morons were descending on Westminster, Englishmen called Eberechi Eze, Ethan Nwaneri and Chukwunonso Madueke (in for England's Bukayo Saka) were on the pitch doing big things for The Arsenal. That's my club, my London, my England, and it's never going back.

Gone for a different type of ball today lads #T20Blast #FinalsDay

@theonion.com admin now wondering why they're getting flooded with comments from England

We're back

I'm looking for a good home for 100+ rugby league programmes in superb condition from the 1940s, 50s and 60s which belonged to a dear friend of mine, now gone. Suggestions and proposals in my replies, please, and RTs appreciated. It is a rather special collection. Thank you.

Presumably if Liverpool play at the Emirates later this season with Salah, Ekitike, Wirtz, VVD and Frimpong all injured, still have the better of the game but lose to a 1 in a 1000 free kick, we'll hear endlessly about their bad mentally in big matches?

Three years ago today I took my camera into a stadium for the first time. When it comes to wild derbies, I decided to start with the best of the lot. ⚽ FK Partizan v FK Crvena Zvezda 📌 Stadion Partizan, Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸 2022

I see PGMOL are busy improving football again

Lower Block Editions, 45 and counting... and this loyal supporter has 'em all. Without customers, small independent brands and publications simply wouldn't exist. Cheers to all those who've dipped into their pockets over the last few years and bought a copy. LB x lowerblock.com/shop/?filter...

3 years ago today I got on a plane for the first time after coming up with the 'Who We Are' idea and arrived in this city for one of the most infamous fixtures in football. Let me know if you recognise where it is...

3 years ago today I got on a plane for the first time after coming up with the 'Who We Are' idea and arrived in this city for one of the most infamous fixtures in football. Let me know if you recognise where it is...

Comuna 13 was once the most dangerous barrio in Medellín and this heavily overlooked space was used by gangs for public executions. Its change into a 'cancha' for basketball & football embodies the transformation of the community into a vibrant hub of art and music. 📌 Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴 2024

Decided to have a rebrand of the account and actually put my name to my pictures. Felt like being nameless had the look of one of those aggregator accounts calling itself something like 'Casual Ultras Global', so for those who didn't already know, this is me!

Comuna 13 was once the most dangerous barrio in Medellín and this heavily overlooked space was used by gangs for public executions. Its change into a 'cancha' for basketball & football embodies the transformation of the community into a vibrant hub of art and music. 📌 Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴 2024

Incredible that United spent hundreds of millions, played genuinely well at times and still have 1 point from 6. Fergie cursed them or something

In sanitised PL stadiums this is a remarkable banner to see. Fair play to Palace fans. #Marinakis (Photo from the other place via Google, not mine)