Jeff Allum

I admire the stance of FC United Of Manchester to opt out of this. Step 3-4 now move some fixtures to accommodate streaming, whatever next? southern-football-league.co.uk/News/137192/...

“Grok can make mistakes”. I was going to say that I missed the Downton episode where Lord Grantham entered into a frank debate with Earl Gilbert of Braintree.
Twitter outdoes itself once again…

Let me know when google confirms the venue… #T20

It’s a complete waste of time. I will give a donation to charity every time one of these interviews contains something remotely interesting or revealing. Suspect this won’t cost me much…

Ah Virgin Media, wonderful pictures in your service tonight. Was the goal any good? #LIVBOU ?

Tough opener to the “Tokyo quiz” on my screensaver today.

Using old Evening Standards to clean out rabbit hutches. These words of wisdom from last August, their “according to reports” didn’t happen and probably won’t for a few years…. No mention of Liverpool’s chances in the entire article, so the chief football correspondent did well here(!)

Thoughts with that Daily Mail journo who wrote that story about Leah Williamson a few weeks back. Expecting her to jump on the bandwagon in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

Never in doubt!

Yes agree. Her day isn’t getting any better.

Oh yes of course

Probably just as well that we didn’t have any penalty shoot outs during his era (I think…)

She was always going to ref the final once France were knocked out though. Often I’ve been impressed with her but today she hasn’t been great.

<tick symbol> !

Wishing all at Morecambe well. To go from being fairly stable in League 1 a few years ago (they faced ITFC during their L1 era), to this very troubling situation, is devastating for the town. I do sometimes wonder if it’s possible to fail the “fit and proper ownership” test, has it ever happened?!

It’s a great read, and sadly emphasised to me that the beautiful game moves further away from the everyday fan with every state-run club takeover and the awarding of locations of future tournaments. FIFA clearly understands money first and foremost.

Nothing new here, we experienced this in 1999 with a very prominent national EA and lost out on a house as a result. Some time later, we saw the employee (who had subsequently moved on) who admitted it was standard practice there. The chain still exists today albeit under a different name.

Love your work! Any chance of X-level updates here on Bluesky? Best wishes.

Notable observation from Seb Hutchison on ITVs coverage that England fans applauded the Wales national anthem. This is something I’ve seen at a number of international women’s fixtures and is good to see. Additionally the lack of play-acting / diving is refreshing.

The cover of hardback book “Heatwave” by John L Williams

Really looking forward to reading this today, seems appropriate given the weather!
@johnelwilliams.bsky.social

Unique hybrid of music last night at our house: Soul II Soul blasting loudly across from Venue 16, versus Ed at ITFC which I could just about hear during the gaps.

“Scott of the Antarctic - the college years?”

Russo hat trick of assists?

Agree. In particular I felt the final 20 of Italy vs Portugal was great to watch.

Local library: a number of your reserved books have arrived.
Me: ooh, which ones?
Library: all of them

#booksky

I wonder how long it will take defenders to stop raising their arm in hope of an offside when VAR is present? Norway’s defence not covering themselves in glory for that goal…

100% agree, it’s a lovely read

Agree. Still struggling to see why the foul on Williamson wasn’t a yellow, think the France player did very well to also be “injured” after that challenge.

BBC web commentary can’t understand the frustration with the ref, not really sure what match they are watching. Wouldn’t make much difference to the result but it’s been bizarre at times.