Ian Byrne

Who’s more excited about next season; Spurs fans visiting Sincil Bank or Lincoln fans getting to try out one Tottenham’s many in-stadium restaurants?

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

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@dannykellywords.bsky.social trans Europe express is so good and needs to be 5 hours long: Thanks to you, Andy, Tim and all the other contributors.

Matt Jansen - Wikipedia

@barryglendenning.bsky.social I think you were thinking of Matt Jansen on the radio earlier. Quite sad how it could have been such a different story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ja...

Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

by my calculations the Dad sees his kids about 125 days a year after you take away the weekends he’s deployed but add on ~35 days of leave plus post-ops leave. I did 6 months of ‘weekend Dad’ towards the end of my time and it sucked. WFH now and do the school runs; invaluable time with the kids.

Did 25yrs in the RAF; knew plenty of people whose partners had successful careers whilst living in married quarters; can’t think of a base that’s isolated enough to bar employment. Also good schools and nurseries!l Community is also good bc loads of young families in the same locat & situation.

For no reason in particular, what do you think the record number of memes birthed by a single occasion is?

Woke up at 0530, turned TV on to see Brooks getting dismissed with England 160/6 then collapse to 172 all-out. Despair. Did school runs, made coffee and sat down to hear Aus collapse to 123/9. Elation. Test cricket, bloody hell.

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif

losing my mind on this. she was murdered. she didn't die of a social media overdose.

I don’t understand how you follow up that derby display, after a week of relative rest, with something so lacklustre. It’s like we hadn’t bothered to prep. Kipre and Matusiwa did not look like the players I saw live the other Sunday. So many players getting caught on the ball.

I was sat right behind it and it looked beautiful 👌

I’m going to re-watch that Philogene goal so many times we’ll find out if it’s possible to wear out the internet.

Had great fun at the @petefirman.bsky.social show last night. He put a sword through my neck! If you like saying the words “but how!?”, then get to one of his shows. Incredible talent.

The most important transfer of the summer window (that you’ve never heard about) Lucas Ribeiro's move from Mamelodi Sundowns to Cultural Leonesa took advantage of a ruling that could be crucial for global football

There were times this summer when “doing a Diarra” looked set to join “on a Bosman” in football’s phrasebook. But when the window shut, no player had used Lassana Diarra’s 2024 ECJ win to get a move. Nobody except Lucas Ribeiro, that is.

Who?!? This guy 👇

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‘Maybe I’m the way I am because I lost Jeremy’: Espanyol’s unexpected Englishman Tyrhys Dolan As he prepares to take on Real Madrid, the former Blackburn forward talks emotionally to Sid Lowe about the pain of his close friend’s death and why football has to change

Good morning. On love, life and loss. Frienship and football. Ty is so impressive, an honor to speak to him www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This whole thing is so, so depressingly basic. If Farage’s clear and persistent bigotry had ever been taken seriously we would never have heard of him, but now we have to sit and wait for millions of voters - including his own - to realise that his bigotry will be a disaster for them too.

It is just SO tiresome, never to hear this even mentioned, let alone explored. You don't like immigrants. You don't like the state supporting people having lots of kids. You don't like your retirement age increasing or your pension decreasing. It's a simple equation - not quantum physics FFS.

Brook’s hoodlum hundred deserves to sit in its own brilliant square of light An England victory on the final day against India would probably nudge his 111 as the greatest at the Oval in the modern age

Harry brook and the most fun anyone has ever had playing for England www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

100% yes. Has proved invaluable when kids’ favourite films suddenly disappear from streaming services or cost ££ to rent/buy. Like others have said, a 2nd-hand games console is a good option as you can also load apps like iPlayer etc.

This whole arguement about whether it's doing them harm. I mean, maybe? It's definitely fucking doing adults harm. But no-one seems interested in getting all draconian about that.

I think I'd probably find the whole notion of banning kids from social media easier to swallow if adults accepted that it is also obviously driving them mad.

If I had the money I’d personally fund a statue of Chloe Kelly in her one-legged, pre-penalty pose. England legend.

Oh thank God, another workplace.

Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.

marcus rashford in a barcelona kit standing in a red telephone box

there is always something fascinating about seeing how other places stereotype your own culture

Incredibly so. ‘I’ve seen them not given Clive’