Andrew Mackenzie

A BBC Sport screenshot reading: 'Carrick not interested in personal Glasner duel' Man Utd 2h

This reads like Oliver Glasner has challenged Michael Carrick to a duel, a la Charlie to the lawyer on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Sorry but Ashley Williams is a peak Match of the Day 2 pundit. That is his absolute ceiling. Probably an emergency back up at that. Like if Danny Murphy pulled out late on due to a bout of diarrhoea. Simply not up to the demands of the Saturday show.

Dundee manager Steven Pressley sporting insane drip during Dundee's match with Hibs in the Scottish Premiership.

Nah, you know what, this drip is actually insane.👌

He's still very much DM's biggest influence, by all accounts. Maybe alongside Walter Smith.

He has basically become the Scottish version of Chris Wilder: brilliant when he is on your side and other fanbases are reacting to him, but insufferable and actually a bit odd when your team is on the receiving end of his antics.

"McInnes said it wasn't him who pushed Geiger and that they had since shaken hands.

McInnes said: "We shook hands there, he's fine. It wasn't me that pushed him, I don't know. [...] He wasn't happy, but I don't know, it was fine. No issues there.""

You must have a doppelgänger, Derek.

Lewis Goodall and the News Agents popping up on the most recent episode of Industry.

A sad feeling of inevitability about it, and it will 'just' be a vocal minority, but still depressing to hear the boos and whistles from the crowd as the play is very briefly paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast in Leeds v Man City.

Because there isn't a really good team in the league this season (maybe except Motherwell for last few months), so consistent, unflashy competence married with a bit of confidence and momentum can get you further than usual. McInnes is the perfect manager for that in Scottish football, too.

Liam Morrison:

Drift. Just seemingly endless drift. Both on and off the pitch.

An acceptance of something less than mediocrity. Standards on the floor.

I see #QPR are losing. Can I interest them in cancelling Liam Morrison's loan at half-time to shore up their defence?

I have pondered Jensen as a midfielder, but wonder if he is too technically limited, especially since he wouldn't be a ball-winning, dog of war type like Shinnie.

We have a couple of full-backs that I think are more naturally suited to being wing-backs (Lobban, Jensen in that bracket too, I think). Probably too early to say definitively with Lobban whether he could be a winger as the demands of the role are so different, but possibly.

I don't think Leven fully trusts Lobban in a back four, especially against an opponent like Kyziridis. I suspect Molloy being preferred to Frame on the other side is mostly about what he might be able to offer when defending crosses and set pieces. A big test for Morrison after a really poor start.

I know Mauricio Pochettino rated him really highly at Spurs, and then he was mooted as a long-term solution as a midfield metronome for England, but I have always stuck ardently by the position that Harry Winks is dross. The most nothingy of all the nothing players.

A post on X from Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, reading: 'The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran!'

Giving the Trump administration free rein to use RAF bases for strikes on Iran: ✅

Giving UK workers some flexibility to work from home, at the discretion of their employers: ❌

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

A worrying number of people out there who seem to think the sort of inmates sharing a wing with Ian Huntley, and thereby able to inflict a violent attack on him, might be there for shoplifting milk and bread to feed a thousand impoverished children.

Labour appealing to Reform voters, versus Labour appealing to Green voters:

I thought Brad Friedel spoke extremely well on his #bbcqt debut.

There is just a tiny part of me refusing to rule out waking up to find out that the Liberal Democrats have gained Gorton and Denton thanks to a formidable local ground game.

I'm not a huge Arthur Miller fan, but went along to All My Sons at Wyndham's Theatre tonight. Really impressive. Bryan Cranston and cast all excellent. What I eventually paid for a ticket would probably get me bumped up a tax bracket, mind you.

UK politics in 2026 is 5% policy, 5% opinion polls, and 90% accusing your opponents of being paedophiles or paedophile enablers.

I, for one, believe Cormack gave McInnes the guts of a million quid to spend as he wished and McInnes independently decided it was all going on a small, technical, Venezuelan right-back in Norwegian football.

I doubt he was interested anyway, but the reaction to him even being mooted was weird. An obviously good manager, even when operating slightly above SPFL level. Suspect it is the same sort of thing that had fans more enthused by Hernandez than McCrorie, or Myslovic over the return of Shinnie.

Millwall are having a very good season. Alex Neil is an excellent manager. The reaction from some fans when he was loosely linked with the Aberdeen job a couple of years ago was utterly ludicrous.

It is some city, to be fair.

I do wonder how the same people vexed by the Greens publishing campaign materials in Urdu would have reacted to Enoch Powell speaking Urdu to his constituents in Wolverhampton.

West Brom could do much, much worse than get Big Ron in for a second series of Big Ron Manager. It would be timely with the return of Sky One to our screens. James Morrison assuming the role of Steve Bleasdale. A decent fee for TV access could assist with PSR too.