Joel Stinton

I have vague memories of the 1991 side (and Gazza’s free kick) but it wasn’t till 1994 and the Famous 5 that I became a fan. I think I flirted with becoming a Chelsea (friend at the time) or Fulham (uncle’s team) fan but ultimately my dad’s team won over. Bastard. Really should support Exeter City.

25 years since Villa last won a trophy by the way. And that was the Intertoto cup.

(Although I put decent money on them winning the Europa League)

Scenes when we beat Arsenal, stay up, win the Champions League and Arsenal bottle the league again.

Always good to see associate cricket nations get their first win at an International Tournament. Chapeau Italy. Day to remember for the Mosca brothers.

Maybe not 😃

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And that’s the title race over. Cracking free kick though.

Convinced that the Biathlon event is actually every country’s various spies meeting up for a jolly and there’s a mutual understanding that it’s the one weekend where they’re not allowed to kill each other.

I can’t really comment as I’m only a fan of Rugby when Six Nations are on/Eng are playing but each year it loses me a bit with how pedantic referring is becoming. I get it from a safety perspective but we’re in a situation where one team has been reduced to 13 men. Twice. Kills the game.

Cost us a fair few points this seasons (whislt admittedly winni by some by his late goals). Wouldn’t be that upset if he left to be honest.

Romero has let the side down massively today. The side as started to show some semblance of togetherness and look like a team over the last few games. He is world class on his day and I don’t think there is anyone else you want playing for you on a big match day, but he is a constant liability.

Maybe naive, but as long as we got Xavi, Palhinha and Gallagher on the pitch I still believe. Coys

Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off the...

Update on our archaeological excavations on St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and the first direct evidence linking the island to the Bronze Age tin trade.

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Question. How or when does this start to become a national news story?

You asked, and you shall receive! Coys!

From a friend in Minneapolis...reposting because of Joanne Freeman's (@jbf1755.bsky.social) latest 'thoughts for those who can't sleep'!

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He knows that’s the media are like greyhounds. Get given a sniff of something and that’s all they can think about got the immeadiate future without thinking of the wider narratives and stories at play.

The Chagos line from Trump is again pure distraction. Our press is now going to focus on the Chagos deal all day and whether this is all embarrassing or humiliating for Starmer and not think about Trump or Greenland.

It’s like the years of social media banter and scrutiny over our trophy haul has collectively broke our fan base. I think there are valid other reasons for that as well but it’s not who Tottenham fans are and have been. But maybe in the social media age, that is now the thing

I wouldn’t be surprised if some players are actively looking to leave because of the current environment they find themselves in. Even when we were proper shit we still idolised players like Ginola. This day and age he would be picked apart.

Especially from a fanbase and club that traditionally as a strong relationship with players and vice versa. Lamela, Sandro, Super Jan, VDV etc genuinely love the club. Who would want to play for us now when the crowd are instantly on your back.

I actually feel a bit for Frank. No one deserves to be serenaded the way he did at the end of the West Ham game. Likewise the boos and abuse aimed at Vicario earlier in the season, Ange last year, Nuno and Emerson before that. Our fanbase never used to be like that.

Wonder if Poch will have the cajones to resign as coach as the USMT because of Tango Mussolini.

It’s not really a surprise to see more and more people turn to non league football, even though that is and won’t be immune to all you have listed. When I see fans unhappy with their club - and every fan seems to be these days, I just see fans actually unhappy with football as a whole. Game as gone.

Reading the comments on the THST story on the BBC and it’s kind of refreshing to see some honesty on there regarding people’s disillusionment with football as a whole with fan behaviour being a huge part of that. Whether you’re winning or losing supporting a club these days is exhausting.

Make it viral.

The use of CSAM on X/Grok is the perfect opportunity for the government/EU to ban that platform without fighting accusations of limiting “freedom of speech”. There’s a clear moral and ethical case to do so. Either that or fine it into oblivion.

Not much Christmas cheer left in various boardrooms across the football leagues it seems.

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.

Not once in this story does it mention that some of these women are actually minors. I don’t know whether that is a procedural, legal or a verification issue but if not that is a shocking omission.

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James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through home galaxy at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!' "The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST:

A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.

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