@benjilanyado.bsky.social
Founder of Picfair. Totally Football Show guest. Former journo (Guardian/NYT). Engineer. West Ham sufferer ⚒️
🚨SATURDAY POD!🚨
It's @acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @benjilanyado.bsky.social & Alan Curbishley, one of whom oversaw one of the greatest escapes in Premier League history. But not if you're a Sheffield United fan. It's Tevez-era West Ham United
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🚨 THURSDAY POD! 🚨
@acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @benjilanyado.bsky.social & @adrianjclarke.bsky.social assemble for your latest dose of Totally...
🏴 Finally look good
🇳🇴 11-goal haul w/ @tkkarlsen.bsky.social
🌳All change at Forest w/ @mattdaviesff.bsky.social
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The new Route One is live, we’ve got Tim Spiers, we’ve got @benjilanyado.bsky.social, we’ve
got all the football news you need and a fair bit that you probably don’t. Listen here
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Not time to panic
but also maybe we go down sell Bowen sell Paqueta sell everyone
sign the rest of Steve Potts’s children
Charge £7 a pop for Potts XI at the Stratford Thunderdome
yep that’s the plan
V fun new football score prediction app - was part of the private beta last season and was predictably addicted.
Join my league on Scoresheet! scoresheetapp.com/open?inviteCode=D3EIWH
V fun new football score prediction app - was part of the private beta last season and was predictably addicted.
Join my league on Scoresheet! scoresheetapp.com/open?inviteCode=D3EIWH
We asked AI to recreate Picfair’s best ever advert.
It didn’t go to plan.
Very clear Conference League trend emerging:
Cradles of civilisation in even years; London clubs in odd years.
2022: Roma
2023: West Ham
2024: Olympiakos
2025: Chelsea
Predictions:
2026: İstanbul Başakşehir
2027: Crystal Palace
Here u go - pls credit FT Business of Football Summit if using/sharing onwards 👍🏼
22.05.2025 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨BRAND NEW POD!🚨
@acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @benjilanyado.bsky.social and @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social
🏆Spurs win the Europa League!
🌳Forest v Chelsea and the PL final day
🏟️Blades v Black Cats at Wembley
😏Players who never get booked
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Ooh yeh that’d be lovely 👌🏼
24.04.2025 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨BRAND NEW POD!🚨
It's @acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @benjilanyado.bsky.social & Natalie Gedra🎙️
🏆Forest, City, Palace & Villa head to Wembley
🥳Liverpool a point away from a party
🦅Which relegated players will be swooped for?
📈20 goal players in a PL season
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❓QUESTIONS QUESTIONS❓
@acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @benjilanyado.bsky.social & Natalie Gedra are in the studio tomorrow morning to pod again. Titles to be won, Wembley glory to be had...
🚨BRAND NEW POD!🚨
It's @acjimbo.bsky.social, @zonal-marking.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @benjilanyado.bsky.social in the studio:
🇦🇷Argentina thrash Brazil
🇧🇷Natalie Gedra on the state of the Seleção
🇪🇸Trent moving to Madrid?
🏆Fun FA Cup 1/4 finals
🦅Mateta🤝Michael Caine
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By the end of 2025 England will have played:
Albania
Latvia
Andorra
Senegal
Serbia
Wales
We’ll go into a World Cup year with Tuchel having learned nothing of substance about this group of players. Not ideal.
Every West Ham fan will be watching the Newcastle footage with a pinch of Prague. Wonderful wonderful wonderful.
16.03.2025 20:09 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Tim Steidten got us all so fizzy about exotic World Cup winner Guido Rodriguez when it turns out all we really needed was some local hearty James Ward-Prowse
27.02.2025 21:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Inspired by dreamy Dominik Szoboszlai I asked an AI who the most handsome players in the Premier League and shared it with the lads 👇🏼
27.02.2025 17:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❓QUESTIONS QUESTIONS❓
So much Premier League football, plus an FA Cup 5th round, to digest when @acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social,
@mattdaviesadams.bsky.social & @benjilanyado.bsky.social meet in the studio tomorrow morning. What say you?
Lovely side project from Picfair's designer - London art exhibitions in order of when they end: shouldgoto.com
18.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0✅ Andy Irving (prev: Falkirk, Türkgücü München, Austria Klagenfurt) - STARTS
❌ Guido Rodriguez (prev: Argentina World Cup winner) - BENCH
And it’s the right decision.
Genuinely shaken to discover that there is a footballer called João Neves and he doesn’t play for Wolves
23.01.2025 10:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI rollout in the public sector is a good thing.
But there must be a counter-balance: a Ministry for the Replaced-by-AI.
If we do nothing, we're sowing the seeds for the next Trump & Brexit.
Wrote this a few years ago: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bingo
07.01.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lopategui is grieving for his father.
The club needs to replace him, but if ever there was a time to show empathy through clarity, it’s now.
Classless, again.
And stupid. Any new manager will look closely at how his predecessors were treated. We’ve now mistreated 2 in a row.
Please leave our players alone
31.12.2024 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very much so, on both counts 😂
31.12.2024 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Haha yes excellent 👏🏼😂
31.12.2024 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha good point!
31.12.2024 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Highlights from West Ham’s season so far:
• Star player banned for 5 games for knocking out half the Spurs team
• Record goalscorer almost dies in car crash and pulverises his legs
• Struggling manager’s father dies
• Captain & talisman breaks his foot
HNY Irons! ⚒️
