The season is underway with probably the worst penalty shootout we’ll see all season in the Carabao Cup preliminary round. Rochdale won 2-1, Tranmere missed *four in a row*
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The thing that elevates Infantino above other bad football administrators is the contempt for the rules of the game. Unilaterally making football a game of four quarters at the World Cup, ignoring the rule about how long half time is to facilitate a half time show, and the Balogun intervention
Miguel DelaneyFootball chiefs are now rightly pushing for Infantino’s exit But it doesn’t stop there and the reform that didn’t come in 2016 is now badly needed Football also has to live with his decisions, like Saudi 2034, because the same critics let too much go www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
"A number of western European FAs are understood to have been mobilising their peers ever since Donald Trump revealed he had repeatedly called Infantino asking him to overturn the USA striker’s suspension for their tie against Belgium." www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uefa has formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future | Nick Ames and Matt HughesEmerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurelswww.theguardian.comFor the uninitiated a visualised podcast is when you make a TV show but put microphones in front of the people who are speaking
TV ZoneVideo podcast companion show confirmed to accompany upcoming series of Big Brother #BBUK on ITV2, which returns for an extended eight week run. More details: www.tvzoneuk.com/post/bigbrot...
“We were due to move house as lockdown hit but to find out if it would be allowed we had to listen to the Chancellor of the Duchy if Lancaster, Michael Gove, on the Today program”
Jim WatersonTried to explain to my kid what travelling abroad was like in the pandemic and it started “well there was this guy called Grant Shapps,.. every Thursday before your holiday he would post on… this thing called Twitter… his personal account… then you’d cancel your flight”. And you just sound MENTAL.
Similarly, why is “Great Britain” slightly south of the Forest of Bowland, Lancs
Marie Le Contehere's a very random question: why is it that Google Maps hides Brighton? attached are several screengrabs that show it displaying much smaller places but not Brighton, you have to zoom in soooo much to get it to appear, it's so weird?
I love Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as much as any right thinking individual but…Maverick isn’t even the character’s actual name
Jack BlackburnEvery now and then I am inordinately fond of a pun With thanks to @joetwyman.bsky.social, @warmovietheatre.com , @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social
Have a friend who was slogging through these and who said something like "oh they lag a bit but from book 25 onwards they get good again" or something
Duncan WeldonAlways fun to look at the Games Workshop annual report. “in the last financial period we sold over five million novels.”
Getting the team together for one last job but the team is “Roy Hodgson’s England” for some reason
Stephen BushChelsea signing Welbeck and Henderson = further proof this is all a simulation that is soon to either be reset or develop a game-breaking but.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino posts a 15 slide riposte to the haters re: the World Cup: www.instagram.com/p/DbRfdfdCFIS/