Rick Walton

#Siraj deservedly The Man. Spectacular game; sensational 5-fer; a truly great series now drawn.

#EngvInd #India #Eng #TestCricket

Whatever happens in the last half hour, this is one of the wildest and greatest and most dramatic #TestMatches ever. Surely?
Massive credit to the visitors. #Eng have see-sawed between brilliance and madness: thrillingly.

#Eng #India #ENGvIND #TheOval

Despair

Despair 1892 #artbots #munch
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What sort of insensitive buffoon wears a MAGA cap to view war torn & starving Gaza?.. of course Donald Trump’s golf buddy Steve Witkoff. #r4today

“This isn’t a political mis-step but a deliberate signal.
A regressive statement of priorities that places a man with a criminal conviction (related to his editorship of The Sun) and a catalogue of ethical failures in a position of considerable power and influence

Some good bowling by #Siraj, in particular. But garbage from #Eng. Man short. Tight game, swinging back to #India. Come out swinging? On drugs. Kindof insulting.

#India #Testcricket #Bazball

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a shelf and making a funny face . ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a shelf and making a funny face .

Things conspire towards making the universe mad and binary. So #Smith's dismissal is either astonishingly dumb or just a sign of the inviolable positivity of the #Bazball/#Eng Way.

Given the momentum (towards #India) in the game... & the fact that this is #TestCricket, guess where I am?

#ENGvsIND

We are very far over the cliff here folks

6 out of the top 8 in the #AIGWomensOpen from #Japan.
Pretty extraordinary, surely?

#WomensOpen #golf

The thundering wheels of the mighty bowlingatvincent multinational corporation will be a-rumbling very soon. Cos book about to go cosmically viral & massive. Start saving your pennies.

#PowerChords #music #protest #politics #punk
#books #writing

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‘Proper England’: perfect unity that shows how Lionesses triumphed over the odds | Jonathan Liew Playing an entire tournament with a fractured tibia is the type of undiluted commitment and individual sacrifice which carried team to glory For some reason, as Chloe Kelly’s penalty hits the net and the England players explode across the pitch like streaks of white light, as Sarina Wiegman and Arjan Veurink embrace on the touchline, as England fans clutch each other in the stands, the eye is drawn to Khiara Keating of Manchester City. Keating has not played a minute for England at this tournament. In fact, she has never played a minute for England at all. In fact, there was not the remotest possibility that she would play a minute for England at this tournament, and she knew this all along. Her entire Euros has consisted of training, travel and watching football from a hard bench. And yet at the moment of victory, nobody celebrates harder than England’s third goalkeeper. Continue reading...

‘Proper England’: perfect unity that shows how Lionesses triumphed over the odds | Jonathan Liew

They won here – wow! Let’s party! – without generating phases of play; without relentlessly closing down; without being all that good.

Some brutal truths (& other stuff) on #WEURO2025 - sportslaureate.co.uk

#Eng #Lionesses #Spain #WEURO2025final

Quick burst on the #Lionesses.

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#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025 #WEURO2025final

… So the singing/not singing means what?

They won here – wow! Let’s party! – without generating phases of play; without relentlessly closing down; without being all that good.

Some brutal truths (& other stuff) on #WEURO2025 - sportslaureate.co.uk

#Eng #Lionesses #Spain #WEURO2025final

The manager (or is it coach?) *really must* have something extraordinary going on. We can only guess that it oozes out from that intellectual calm.

sportslaureate.co.uk - Let’s party.

#Eng #Lionesses #Spain #WEURO2025final #WEURO2025

Quick burst on the #Lionesses.

sportslaureate.co.uk

#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025 #WEURO2025final

Family stuff may prevent me from writing about #Lionesses. Am both full of respect & slightly fascinated by how much bigger & better their performances can be.

#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025

The #Lionesses have been lucky - no question. But plainly they & #Wiegman have something. Two on the bounce is tremendous… & surely this side played significantly below capacity in winning this tournament. (There really may be better performances & more success to come)…

#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025

england led for one [ONE] minute of the knockout stages

Get no pleasure in this. But #penalties again something of an embarrassment. The BIG PLUS? Another *#Kelly moment!*

#Eng #Lionesses #Spain #WEURO2025

#Mead fluffs one then has to re-take. Misses. For me, she doesn’t take one. Out of form for aeons, in an #Eng shirt.

#Spain #WEURO2025

Exhausted players; nerves shredded. Who will capitulate the least?

#penalties #Eng #Spain
#Lionesses #España #WEURO2025

#Paralleulo been awful in every appearance. Two big chances spurned. #Eng look vulnerable. 1-1; half-time, extra time.

#Spain #Lionesses #WEURO2025

#James may have been playing hurt. So it’s possible that #Kelly’s directness & verve may be an upgrade. #Spain well on top after 40 mins.

#Eng #Lionesses #WEURO2025

Good headed goal. Poorly defended.
1-0 #Spain.

#Eng #Lionesses #WEURO2025

#Russo should never be shooting, there. & #James not all that sharp around the party. Big chance missed.

#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025

Phew. Thought #Lionesses was an 8pm job! 👀

#Eng #Spain #WEURO2025
#nearmisses 🙏🏻

59 minutes. He finally does something good. An assist for the score that brings them within 2. Broiling, now.

#Lions #BritishLikns #Aus #Wallabies