Beckah

@footballcliches.bsky.social a sign I've gone too far through the looking glass, is that on reading this in the BBC News article about Mark Townsend's tragic death, I immediately Googled if it was a league or cup game, so as to judge the accuracy of the use of the word "tie"

(It was a league game)

@footballcliches.bsky.social Do we think Keir Starmar is Cliches-aware enough to see the irony in him giving his "full confidence" to both Rayner and Mandelson, then sacking them both the next day?

@footballcliches.bsky.social re June MHD… few weeks ago I got cracked on the shin playing 6-a-side with my team. Have an (unfair) rep of “going down easily” due to being lightweight, so my limping was greeted with craws of “she’s fine!!”… imagine my delight when I got to send this to the group chat

Oh my Cook has matured into a strong silver fox #bbccricket

@maxrushden.bsky.social error on pod from 29th May. Re qualifying for ECL - Chelsea came 6th in PL 23/24, not 8th. Ended up in ECL as Man United won FA Cup, so took Chelsea's Europa League spot.

@footballcliches.bsky.social not good audio content for the pod, but this “footballers’ names in things” was enough to interrupt my run this morning

I think @footballcliches.bsky.social would have something to say about Chelsea debutant Naomi Girma committing a foul, and the commentator declaring “welcome to the WSL”. An inverse for me - only appropriate if the new signing is the foulee, not the fouler.

Sent a WhatsApp message today using “part and parcel” in a very appropriate non-footballing context, disproving a recent claim on the @footballcliches.bsky.social pod (and absolutely not used consciously in order to do so…)

The offence I imagine I caused with innocuous remarks, that nobody but myself even remembers

@footballcliches.bsky.social question: can you score a worldie “too early”? Thought occurred to me during the Man United Women game last weekend. Terland scored a lovely volley in the 6th min… instinctively struck me as too early in the game for a goal of that quality (especially as it ended 1-0)

Long coat drip from the pundits on the BBC’s coverage of Villa vs Chelsea is quite something else #BarclaysWSL

Or bowl twice

Not optimistic of this being the reckoning it should be, given how the players have treated Alex Hartley. The misplaced hubris, the incompetency, the poor mentality, the reluctance to accept hard truths… it’s all just so very... *English* #WomensAshes

New target - bat twice in the test match #WomensAshes

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Caitlin Moran’s column in Yesterday’s Times is about young men taking their own lived and why. And how men shld be encouraged to speak out, ‘to talk, to cry, to scream’ rather than to ‘man up’

‘Don’t man up….

Instead

‘…talk, cry, scream’

This is so important & very poignant from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social on men taking their ow lives

Henrique Hilario

People need to stop doubting Lewis Hamilton. There was one truly great champion out on that track today, and he was wearing number 44 #AbuDhabiGP

This is an incredibly silly game of football #CFCW #BarclaysWSL

Absolutely buzzing for Wales, qualifying for a major tournament for the first time! Unashamedly will say I now hve two teams to support at the Euros this summer, the country of my upbringing, and of my birth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Lionesses

Now more than ever, solidarity, allyship, and zero tolerance to intolerance are necessities to protect these communities from the malevolent forces who can only see the world through a lens of hatred.

Love instead 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Off to Bramall Lane for my second #Lionesses game in 4 days tonight 🦁

Excited to watch a team I love play in the city I call home, a tolerant, progressive and diverse place to live.

However, there is reportedly a “protest” planned against trans women in sport, before the game…

INDIRECT FREE KICK IN THE BOX

IT'S HAPPENING

TUNE IN TO CHELSEA VS VILLA NOW

I thought it was alphabetical by surname until I saw Colwill…

Makes me think if @footballcliches.bsky.social has ever adjudicated on the correct way to list a line up

I absolutely cannot fathom the BBC Sport’s rationale behind how the Chelsea starting XI has been ordered. Not formation, not numerical, not alphabetical… what?? A crime against football

I was disappointed in the lack of ambition though. I didn't see much "experimentation", only two subs was disappointing - as was Mead and Russo getting the full game despite offering little #Lionesses

Thoughts on the game last night... Earps has won back the No. 1 shirt, for now. The defensive performance was good, albeit against an understrength USA - and that felt an important reset #Lionesses

It’s been several years since women’s football transcended into the mainstream consciousness, and popularity - but it still gives me a little thrill to stop off at a service station on my way down to a #Lionesses game, and find it’s rammed full of women and girls wearing England shirts