This remains one of the most surreal, but lovely, moments of my entire life. RIP to a brilliant man youtu.be/Ud7Uti74yvo?...

First glance I genuinely thought she was in a Chelsea wheelchair

Enjoy the BBC crediting “Bob the Cat” in their official closing montage.

Wow, I find myself liking Remco Evenepoel. Who knew? Fantastic performance.

It says that consequence-free football allows players and managers to take far more risks than matches that have pressure.

I played baseball for Great Britain when I was 15.

Noel Edmonds held me when I was a baby, and I think that means I’m the heir to ownership of Mr Blobby www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

This Ben Stokes fallout has been wild

Bluesky during England-Argentina

Madueke starting for England today, which makes sense because Kane has already proven how comfortable he is with dodgy people on the far right wing

And Kane was doing so well in PR terms… oh dear.

Are you not entertained?? No, Tadej, no. No I’m really really not.

Yawn…

Stage six #TdF and it’s a big ‘ol mountain stage over the Tourmalet. Pog will win, by how much who knows? Del Toro may beat Vingegaard. 🥇Pogaçar 🥈Del Toro 🌮 🥉Vingegaard Dark horses? 🏇🐎 Umm… if a new break goes then I suppose Baudin or Bernal. Save your money. #MakingTheCalculation

Sprints > GC of any race with Pog in it All other GC > sprints

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

By coincidence 'Milkshake, duck' are the two words his potential opponent is most afraid of.

Stage 5 of #TdF - sprint stage. Philipsen with an MvdP lead-out makes him a very very safe pick. 🥇Jasper the Disaster 🥈Merlier 🥉Pedersen Dark horses? 🐎 Ganna (on a flyer, unlikely tho) 🏇 Bauhaus (it’s his birthday 🥳) #MakingTheCalculation

Key point - a lot of people getting all excited about the joke candidate winning but it’s never ever happening. Waste of time to think it will.

Win, I guess? Or has it changed?

Hydration break

🥇 Umpteenth 🥈 #decent

Stage four of #TdF and it should be a breakaway, but so should yesterday… 🥇Pedersen 🥈Van der Poel 🥉Simmons This early in the race it’s basically open season. Dark horse? 🏇Fred Wright in his national jersey 🎠 Valgren #MakingTheCalculation

A true riches-to-riches story! Hell of a performance.

Shouldn’t you, err, do something about that?

Stage three #Tdf As here, breakaway *seems* most likely. Healy’s not quite on it yet, so I’m going with: 🥇Simmons - don’t think the climbs will hurt him given his form 🥈Schmid 🥉Plapp Maybe 50 riders could win this, tho. Dark horses? 🏇 Romo 🐎 Quinn #MakingTheCalculation

Jordan Hendo’s broken army, Jordan Hendo’s broken army!! 📣🎶

Pausa di hydración

🥈, nowhere (too hard for him, 🔟 I knew the MvdP pick was guff when I looked at the parcours again after the start 🤦‍♂️

Stage two of #TdF, lumpy finish, made for van der Poel… but: 🥇Pogacar 🥈Van der Poel 🥉Pidcock Dark horses: 🐴 Godon, if he somehow makes it over the climbs in touch 🐎 Ayuso, on a flyer in his hometown #MakingTheCalculation

Pidcock will win a stage or two over the next three weeks. Van Wilder good for one, too.

The Moroccan goalie, Bono, was at Atleti but never played for the first team, even so he said it was even better than the Real thing

🥈🥇🥉 decent start

Team management, however… 😬

Stage one of #TdF, a team time trial: 🥇Netcompany-Ineos 🥈Visma-LAB 🥉UAE Vaquelin in yellow. #MakingTheCalculation Dark horses? As in who you might get good odds for? 🐴 EF Education-Easypost

The answer is no. Next year though… 👀

That Aussie sub keeper:

I watched a thing with Neil deGrasse Tyson earlier where he confidently expressed that, after the building of the Great Pyramid, the next tallest man-made object to be constructed was the Eiffel Tower. And now I just don’t know who to trust anymore. 😔

One thing that always surprises me is that more teams don’t sleep at altitude and play matches lower down during pre-season. It would have demonstrable benefits, even if just for the first few matches of a season.

Well this is a total shock. I had him down for a Vuelta podium. Just ahead of Roglic.

Going to Mexico City 48hrs before, it seems - literally the worst thing they could be doing. Acapulco is sea level and an hour’s flight away. Sigh… 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Interested in what the England team does about the match at altitude. Without a week to acclimatise the worst thing would be to get there a few days before - poor sleep and altitude will kick-in just about then for some players. Ideally, they’d sleep lower down and travel up on the day.

Dr. Seuss. I hate the aesthetic. Always gave me the creeps. Especially the animations. That said, having read his books to children I also hate the stories, the scansion, and the characters. The Jim Carey movie was bearable.

The penultimate episode of the last series of The Bear is probably the best thing that will be on TV this year. Different to ‘Forks’, but just as rewarding - the culmination of every character arc. Perfection 🤌

True story about being quarter German in the UK in the 90s I was just telling friends on a WhatsApp group: At school I used to have to hide the fact I wanted the German team to win, and indeed say the opposite because, well, you’d either get beaten-up, called a Nazi, or generally bullied. 1/3

Jurriën Timber suffering there from not having 8 men holding the keeper down while he’s shooting. It’s not his fault.

Drop a cop