Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾

Wouldn’t say no to Harriman-Anous getting another run out, thought he did pretty well against Brighton.

Extended cut of Miracle on 34th Street where they show Brighton Rock during the Kriss Kringle trial scene and decide actually this guy is dangerous and probably did attack the drunk sacked Santa impersonator.

He's genuinely great in that.

1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street and 1948 version of Brighton Rock would make quite the double bill.

Richard Attenborough as the cuddly old guy who played Santa.

Image: Bald man with a white beard and impressive moustache smiling, wearing a white uniform with gold shoulder pads and insignia. Text: Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone describes the war as a strategic failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin Frank Gardner security correspondent, in Bahrain Nato "will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around the table for a long-lasting peace", a senior official from the military alliance has told the BBC. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of Nato's military committee since January, added from an operational point of view he considered the Russia-Ukraine war was bogged down, and "it was almost time to sit and talk because it's a waste of lives".

This guy looks exactly like you’d imagine an Italian admiral looks like, would absolutely believe him if he told me he’d participated in the Risorgimento.

Fwiw, the trend towards disclosing the ethnicity/nationality of suspects in high-profile cases has not solved any problem (disinformation is still thriving) and only fuels polarisation and creates opportunities for grifters.

My gut feeling is the club’s owners have lost a bit of interest relative to Saudi football itself, they’ve not really upped the calibre of player at the club, and in that context he’s turned a squad full of hard working but mostly limited players into regular qualifiers for Europe.

Thanks as always, Ben.

#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...

It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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Ben does such a fantastic job in letting people know about all the great scholarly but accessible work out there every week, and helping those of us producing it get the word out.

Yeah that’s true.

It is, it’s just the guy looks about the same age as he did 12 years ago.

Not sure Jeremy Allen White has actually aged though.

They’d love Arsenal’s set piece routines.

🎵 I read your 4* article back in ‘22
Published in EHR after it sailed through peer review 🎵

Gonna be singing this to the tune of the Buggles for the rest of the day now.

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

New collections from @lselibrary.bsky.social added!

• Greenham Women Everywhere
• Political Posters Collection
• Gay Liberation Front (including Come Together paper)
• Mukti: South Asian Women’s Journal (UK)
• Cavendish-Bentinck Pamphlets and Leaflets

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NEW EPISODE - The German Democratic Republic The Rise and Fall of a #ColdWar State with @historyned.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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#eastgermany #GDR #DDR #berlinwall

Maresca’s outfit once again bringing the game into disrepute.

Re-upping this for the Saturday crowd: On American Samoa’s long-awaited first win in men’s international football, and the narrative arcs that both the international media, and the team’s coach and players attached to the result.

All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x

May be of interest to @hleehurley.com, on issues of trans representation in football and media (American Samoa featured Jaiyah Saelua - a fa’afafine and trans woman at centre back, which was the subject of much media attention).

Re-upping this for the Saturday crowd: On American Samoa’s long-awaited first win in men’s international football, and the narrative arcs that both the international media, and the team’s coach and players attached to the result.

All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x

‘This Is Going to Be Part of Soccer History’ American Samoa’s 2-1 win over Tonga in 2011 ended a lengthy losing streak and was portrayed by international media as completing a redemption arc from their 31-0 loss to Australia a decade earlier.

My new piece looks at American Samoa’s 2-1 win over Tonga in 2011 that ended a long losing streak and captured international media attention, and at the narrative they and the press told about this victory. A short 🧵 about this match and its significance.

#polisky #skystorians 🗃️

Obviously that’s going back a bit given he’s about the same age as us!

Trying to think which stars have previously come through your ranks prior to that - the one who comes to mind is Darren Bent (who I had the privilege of seeing score an outrageous lob in a Youth Cup semifinal against us at Highbury some 20-odd years ago).

It’s really amazing the way that she was presented at the time generally quite positively as a trailblazer (even if in often clunky and prejudiced ways) - refreshing contrast with present day discourse and the way sports participation is a wedge issue for transphobes.

She studied at the University of Hawai’i (she was a student there at the time) and yes this is also true of the way she was presented in the feature film version of Next Goal Wins with the aim of making a point about transphobia in sport (though she does herself also identify as a trans woman).

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Next Goal Wins Using the familiar tropes of the feelgood sports film, Next Goal Wins gently challenges Western social priorities, and affirms gender nonconformity, from a Pasifika perspective.

This was of course subsequently adapted by Taika Waititi for the 2023 Hollywood feel-good comedy of the same name, which took creative license in putting a bigger emphasis on Thomas Rongen’s own redemption arc and on the transphobia facing Saelua - and which I’ve also written about here.