This is just lovely

God the whole ‘Chelsea don’t score until seconds after Wrexham do’ is a depressing meta

So excited about Max Dowman. His ability to beat players and glide across the ground is special. He keeps the ball so close to his feet and under control at all times - even at pace. Strange to see a 16-year-old who looks so physically ready for the highest level but he's absolutely there.

'Barbara Keeley, a Labour peer, said the UK’s creative industries faced a “clear and present danger” from AI firms using their work without credit or payment.' Footnote: the @writersguildgb.bsky.social is doing excellent work to fight this blatant theft of people's livelihoods. Join your union!

Spurs fans really thought they were more than the Kane and Son team. The epitome of Notions.

Have to give it to Tottenham. With their North London neighbours single handedly ruining football, Spurs are playing a brand of football that is really entertaining everyone.

There wouldn’t even be a player worth taking off spurs if they went down.

What’s going to happen to the toilet bowl when spurs go down? Will Beyoncé still want to perform in a championship team’s stadium??

"I think they (Arsenal) will be the most controversial champions of the Premier League era" says Martin Samuel, chief football reporter of the Times, who is often found writing about how amazing Man City are as a club.

Couldn’t happen to a more likeable team 😆

I repeat ... 👇

Arsenal may have the lead, but they certainly don't have any control. Brighton are pressing very well from the front and Arsenal are struggling to get out. The ball just keeps coming back. Mosquera the latest defender forced into an excellent block.

Arsenal need more goals to Kavanagh-proof themselves. Also to Arsenal-proof themselves.

I’ve a feeling when this fog burns off it’s gonna be glorious outside and I’m tryna get my work done before all I want to do is lie in the park and read

Teams are now always low/mid block against superior opponents, or out of possession, and they are getting bloody good at it. This is why flowing, expansive football is dead. Set-pieces are a solution to the puzzle of how to beat this tactic. Arsenal trying their best to win isn't a crime.

Focusing on the Hurzeler comments, he is trying to influence the match officials prior to the game by calling out time wasting so they potentially focus on it (and more specifically Arsenal) during tonight’s game…

I think the Premier League has a style problem, and to an extent a set-piece problem. I think the latter needs addressing through law changes - or changes in application of the law. I don't take offence to managers/pundits discussing that. Arsenal aren't trying to be loved, they're trying to win.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

tbh I don't even see the point of engaging the setpiece cheats narrative anymore. it's very obviously not cheating, nor is it a strategy chosen in a vacuum. and either way, the club are fine without it. just call it what it is at this point: cope

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Between Brewdog, Labour and Dubai eating it, a very specific type of guy is having the worst time and they absolutely deserve it.

Interesting to see Reach's financial results are out. Having been hit hard by AI summaries in Google they fled to Google Discover, which is now hitting them hard. Digital revenue down and still basically reliant on print. pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

Nine people were injured when a gunman opened fire at a concert venue this weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio. At least one person is still in critical condition. Americans deserve to exist in their communities without constant gun violence.

Mass shootings don't even make national news anymore. www.kut.org/crime-justic...

I mean, why not! ffs.

Sorry to say an unholy confluence of events have occurred which is that Brighton have come into form and I am going to that game and whenever I go to the Amex, we lose. Sorry.

Funny how when a narrative really takes off there's no stopping it no matter how far from the truth it is. Arsenal are excellent at corners and relied on them a lot at the start of the season, no doubt, but that hasn't really been the case for months now.

Only just heard about this. Extremely my shit. deadline.com/2026/01/bill...

Not the point but why do they always get these fuck awful haircuts before announcing they want to chop the hands off of corner shop owners or something

Putting things like basic ethics aside... ... does anyone really believe that the Home Office, which cant deal with its present asylum responsibilities, is going to be able to review every application, every 30 months? I have a bridge to sell you

uhhh oh my god

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

The BAFTAs didn’t mention racist slurs when the audience was told that a man with Tourette’s might make “involuntarily noises.” His condition was also not raised in planning discussions, or during backstage preparations that night, according to two people who work with the ceremony’s presenters.

Two words. Horse placenta.

Time to reply to 1000000 emails

It's pretty bleak when you see a headline and are instantly like 'gonna watch out for cars on pavements the next few weeks then.'

Maybe, just maybe, Ødegaard 'drops too deep' (in the opinions of many) because he (correctly) doesn't trust his team-mates to own such situations.

We’re not living in 1984 we’re living in The Time Machine and the Elois are getting bombed in their shining hotels and having their plastic lips melted off by shrapnel and wondering what happened.

I wonder if Trump’s meta game here is to invite endless mass shootings and terror attacks at the World Cup. I would definitely not be buying a ticket.

Do you like set-pieces? Because the Premier League has them.

liam rosenior is going to be “even more angry” when someone tells him the offside rules #thefootball

Need the same enthusiasm to talk about Raya’s height today, when his agility from being a little smaller saved us multiple times.

If Arsenal do win the Premier League this season, they'll need to have the parade in the Cardiac Care unit because that's where everyone will be.

Arsenal want me to die. I wish we could just put those games to bed nice and early.

Own goal set piece. As usual, Arsenal beat themselves.

That corner was 100% going on. 46th minute? Arsenal classic.

I think thats probably what Im most annoyed about, them getting that goal stabilizes them mentally JUST as they were teetering into ”so mad that they gift you a goal” terrority.