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A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Imagine you work your fingers to the bone as a ballboy and some idiot comes along and undoes all your hard work. Fuming.

Tuesday, June 16 • Group G: Iran vs New Zealand, kick-off 2am - Los Angeles, USA

I’m sure everything will be sorted out by then.

I repeat:

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me watching Match of the Day, 22 February 2026:

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If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

Drogheda's owners want Joanna Byrne gone as chair for not respecting the neutrality provisions of the FIFA Code of Ethics

In praise of absolutely terrible football pitches I can't help but feel that we're losing something by ironing terrible pitches out of the game of football.

One final shout for this, trying to make the case that terrible football pitches are something we'll regret losing at leisure. Now, you can agree or disagree with me on this, but at least this piece does feature a compilation of some dreadful pitches.

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Joanna Byrne TD responds to attempts to remove her as Chairperson of Drogheda United - Sinn Féin Sinn Féin TD for Louth, Joanna Byrne, has today responded to attempts to have her removed as Chairperson of Drogheda United. The attempts, by the board of the club, to remove Deputy Byrne from her pos...

Sinn Féin TD Joanna Byrne says the board of Drogheda United has asked her to resign as chair of the club, after she said Ireland should not fulfil its Nations League fixtures with Israel

#ARSWIG aka rear merkin

The people of Free Derry continuing to influence those standing up in the face of authoritarian state brutality.

Kim Kallstrom on 'the greatest fifteen minutes of my life' You have to check out this thread on Reddit, in which user Zhongda transcribes a radio essay from Kim Kallstrom. Thanks Zhongda! The Swede talks about his brief time at Arsenal, how the loan move came...

If you want a little distraction to help you move on here's a beautiful account of the "greatest 15 minutes" of Kim Källstrom's life, during Arsenal v Wigan in the FA Cup. I really love this.

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JIm Ratcliffe is a scumbag. More than that he's a hypocrite. And dangerous. Words.

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Brad Pitt shooting One For All a thriller about a man racing against time to spend vouchers as they're losing value but hardly any shop he likes will take them.

Marvel at the array of names on the scoresheet in this Brazilian league game.

Dear sweet Jesus god, I’ve strayed for many years since all that Catholic school, but if you could do one favor for me …

Liverpool’s next league match is at Forest. Could you have Marinakis name himself interim manager and be on the sideline for Forest that day? I’ll say a rosary for you.

someone finally sent Tottenham the video

Droch-Choinín

defences very much on top in this, the tenth Super Bowll

with a positive goal difference!*

* well, a >1 goal average

‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise The smalltown club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That team’s spirit remains and is being passed to their successors

Can miracles happen twice? A visit to Castel di Sangro, 30 years since the achievement made globally famous by Joe McGinniss. Everything has changed but, meeting some of the book's old characters, it's as if nothing has at all. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Howard Cosell Exposes Sham of Smith & Carlos Expulsion from 1968 Olympics - ABC News - 10/18/1968 YouTube video by Shatner Method

I was not previously aware of this Howard Cosell banger. youtube.com/watch?si=hiU...

Barcelona formally quit moribund Super League project Barcelona have officially withdrawn from the European Super League project, the club announced on Saturday, leaving Real Madrid as the sole remaining advocate for a competition that once threatened br...

Congratulations to Real Madrid, inaugural winners of the European Super League!
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feed the Gyök

The Times They Are A-Changin' New year, new me. I needed to give this place a lick of paint, and I have new projects for 2026 on here lined up. So here's a little detail on where this place is going next.

So, I have plans for this year. Three articles per week for paid subscribers, with a free week for all. I've also given the old place a bit of a lick of paint for the new year.

Shares most gratefully appreciated, etc :-)

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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Waiting in the rain for the bus?

What are they going to do? Polar bear dressage? Swimming in snow? Hockey on ice?