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Troy Parrott and Ireland celebrate against Hungary

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And @kenearly.bsky.social has missed it again! 😂😂😂

Just peeling myself off the ceiling now 😂😂😂 INCREDIBLE scenes, that Parrott goal is up there with Brady, Keane and co.'s greatest Irish footballing moments. Fantastic stuff #COYBIG #HUNIRL #WC2026

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Oh my days this just gets better 😂😂😂 And he can have no complaints either, far too used to getting his own way with officials because of his reputation. Good riddance. Now dig in, Ireland!! #IRLPOR #COYBIG #WorldCup2026

OMG what am I witnessing here?! Troy Parrott you legend!! What a springboard to take in to the second half!! #IRLPOR #WorldCup2026 #COYBIG

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

God is Granit Xhaka going to inspire Sunderland to beat Arsenal on Saturday evening?? Revenge against the fans for booing him off against Crystal Palace all those years ago?? 😬😬😬

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

I was always certain taking Arseblog off Twitter was the right thing to do, but stuff like this makes me very happy I did.

This is a deranged billionaire unaccountable to anyone using his platform to incite violence. Grim.

FFS 😂😂😂

What the fucking fuck?

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Bless Gabriel hahahah

Ahahaha, immediately followed by another tap-in for Gyökeres! I take back my previous statement, play on and let him go for the hat-trick!! #ARSATM #UCL #COYG 🟥🟥🟥

And now a scuffed, scruffy goal for Gyökeres! 10/10 performance, no notes, all go home now #ARSATM #UCL #COYG 🟥

Fantastic run and assist by Myles Lewis-Skelly for that second Arsenal goal. He's been very unlucky to be usurped by an in-form Calafiori in the PL team so delighted for him to be getting chances in the CL, and taking them. Some serious squad depth becoming apparent now 💪💪💪 #ARSATM #UCL #COYG

Set piece again olé olé 😃 #ARSATM #UCL #COYG

No, I can understand that it would be inviting trouble for both to have an honest debate about it. As someone who is keen to understand more, I would still like to read/listen to it, I think they could both coherently present their positions, rather than descending into usual internet shouting match

Excellent read 👍 I can't say that I fully understand this situation, but it seems to me that your colleague @barneyronay.bsky.social wrote a piece with the opposite viewpoint in the Guardian last week, and I'd be very interested to see you both have a reasoned debate about this topic in some format

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"On the edge"

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That red card for the Armenian captain is possibly the stupidest red card I have ever seen, what was he thinking?! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Gifted Ireland a chance here when it looked like we were going nowhere. Can Ireland now find some creativity to take advantage of it? 😬 #COYBIG #IRLARM

What a sickener. 😣 A Diogo Jota-like goal too, fair play to him #PORIRL #COYBIG

G'wan Caoimhín Kelleher, what a save!!!! #COYBIG #PORIRL

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

No no no, you've got it all wrong - what she's saying is that when Labour negotiators, Brit Ian loses, just like Brit John, Brit Simon, Brit Mike lose... All names of ordinary, decent Brits, who lose. It's one of a series, she just hasn't released the rest of the series yet!

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

“Bayern Munich had the class to say no. 90% of Arsenal fans say no. But if the board take this dirty money again, it shows the world that our famous ‘values’ and our soul are for sale. It’s is a grubby, small-club mentality,” a Gunners for Peace statement read.

Hear, hear.

Come on Arsenal, do better than this 👎👎👎