Benjamin Clark 🦄

Donyell Malen, you look great in Roma colours.

Evan Ndicka is loving the scoresheet at the moment, and I will not complain.

Roma, can you just do something easy *for once*?

That is such an annoyingly disgusting finish.

WESLEY FRANCA. TAKE A BOW.

Wesley Franca is so fun to watch; and also a bit of a loose cannon.

Shakhtar Donetsk, Fiorentina & Crystal Palace in the same part of the Conference League draw is wild.

The 16 teams remaining in the Conference League:

🇵🇱 Lech Poznan
🇵🇱 Rakow Czestochowa

🇨🇿 Sparta Praha
🇨🇿 Sigma Olomouc

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crystal Palace

🇪🇸 Rayo Vallecano

🇩🇪 Mainz 05

🇮🇹 Fiorentina

🇫🇷 Strasbourg

🇳🇱 AZ Alkmaar

🇺🇦 Shakhtar Donetsk

🇹🇷 Samsunspor

🇬🇷 AEK Athens

🇭🇷 Rijeka

🇨🇾 AEK Larnaca

🇸🇮 Celje

Alejandro Garnacho: why do you go down *every* time?

Paris

This is gorgeeeeeeeeous.

This morning smells like spring.

NFL in the snow hits different.

Can't Help Falling in Love

What a banger.

It's another memorable night for Qarabag.

Behlul Mustafazade's goal in the fourth minute of added time secures a huge 3-2 win over Eintracht Frankfurt.

It means Qarabag are on 10 points, and keeps them in contention for more Champions League football after the league phase.

Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."


(He means Greenland.)

The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist Adrian Heath was duped into thinking he was on the verge of a new job – only to be held at knifepoint in Morocco. Turns out he's not alone

Ex-MLS coach Adrian Heath thought the offer of a coaching job in Saudi Arabia could be a logical next career step.

Instead, it led to the former Everton player being kidnapped in Morocco, held at knifepoint, and left fearing for his life.

@paultenorio.bsky.social

Awake

This album is very January.

Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway’s Prime Minister In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat.

In a text message over the weekend, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, that since being denied the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace.”

Read the full text messages between the two leaders here. nyti.ms/4r1eHTd

Russia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports The circumstances around the reportedly self-imposed strike were not immediately clear.

⚡️Russia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports.

Searle > Littler

The darts this year has been extra bananas.

G'awn Krzysztof Ratajski.

NYP2

Honestly, what a banger.

If Josh Rock didn't finish that, they might have kept singing that forever.

Yes, we get it — you don't want to go home, and you want to drink all the beer.

Du, du, du, du, Tatsunami.

Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows Less than one-tenth of Ukrainians support holding immediate elections, even in the absence of a ceasefire with Russia, according to a recent poll.

⚡️ Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows.

Less than one-tenth of Ukrainians support holding immediate elections, even in the absence of a ceasefire with Russia, according to a recent poll.

Ukraine hails 'real progress' toward peace after talks with US envoys in Berlin Kyiv and Washington made "real progress" toward peace in Ukraine during two-day talks in Berlin, top security official and negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Dec. 15.

⚡️ Zelensky signals no consensus yet on territory after talks with US envoys.

"It seems to me that we still have different positions" on territory, Zelensky said, stressing that the only pressure comes from Moscow while the U.S. acts as a mediator.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.