Jay Jaffa

Thank god. A month or two too late but whatever. Worst appointment we’ve made in my lifetime. Poch in the summer 🙏🙏🙏

Just can’t see the board doing what needs to be done. They staked too much on Frank and can’t/won’t want their first big decision to be seen as such a colossal error. For me, if we stick with him we go down. Simple as that really.

Mind the Rant: Steven Bartlett and The Diary of a CEO On Steven Bartlett, Chris Williamson, and the grand tradition of men on podcasts trying to sound important and waffling about topics they’re unqualified to speak on. I’d like to be clear that this is ...

This is absolutely tremendous.

One of many killer lines: "Bartlett is, if you want a shortcut to understanding him, a sentient LinkedIn post in a turtleneck." normallondonbloke.substack.com/p/mind-the-r...

Not sure the players bought into him in the first place. It cannot be worse than this, you’re right. Just pull the trigger and let us move past this horrific period in our history

I beg you to end this pain, football gods. Please put him out of his misery. This is just rancid, week after week

I’ve already watched one too many Thomas Frank Spurs games in 2026

Giant of the industry with an imperious legacy. Very sad news

It can’t be *nine* game awards good can it?! I have it preloaded but haven’t hit start yet - and it’s been looking at me for about five months. I’ll take the plunge soon but don’t expect me to finish it before 2027. Bit time poor since my daughter arrived last year

‘I messaged Sia on Instagram. She didn’t get back to me’: cult darts hero Stephen Bunting on his viral walk-on The world No 4’s entrance to the song Titanium has become an iconic moment in darts, but while he loves the attention what he really wants is the world title

This is great: Stephen Bunting with @jonathanliew.bsky.social

Making my return to writing and veering away from my newsletter’s raison d’etre… here I am having a moan about football slop and the low-hanging fruit we’re surely ready to move away from 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/jayjaffa...

Always nice to look back. 2024 was a good year wasn't it? Those first few months with Helldivers 👌

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Brilliant title fight last night at #UFC323. Highlight being the body kick at 5.06 here. Sounded like a gunshot 😦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRIn...

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Still the case. Actually getting worse week by week. If this is what a serious football club looks like I want to be stupid and chaotic again. Clueless stuff from the first minute.

Tales from Toddlerhood A two-year-old is a supremely strange person.

Love Tim Urban. Love this. Very amusing insight into what I’ve got coming approximately a year from now: waitbutwhy.com/2025/10/todd...

By my calculations, this is the first time in Football Manager history that I've not been there for the Beta. Not downloading immediately, not setting up a file in a Balkan backwater. If this is what 40-years-old means... I'm not sure I like it. But good luck all. Go well.

Football is meant to be entertaining and/or fun. I am having zero fun watching Frank’s Spurs. It is mind-numbingly boring stuff at the moment.

I could watch Alan Carr as a Traitor for the rest of my days tbh

Bad performance (again). Good resilience (again). Still a lot to come (I hope) from Frank's Tottenham

We'll be there 😁

Big congrats! My daughter has just turned 1, so whilst these are a bit advanced for her at the moment, you better believe they're noted down for when the time comes!

Huge news and yeah, instinct is this is not good news for gamers. Not good at all. Can't imagine FC or Madden will see drastic changes as two of their biggest cash cows - expect monetisation of FUT and MUT will be turned up a few notches at least. A lot of jobs will be vanishing too. Bad bad bad.

'It reinforced the idea that anything can happen': The glitch in Super Mario Bros that obsessed gamers Forty years ago, the series' original game was released by Nintendo. As well as trying to complete it, fans were desperate to access a secret world that became legendary.

Lovely stroll down memory lane with this piece of writing. I don't remember the moment I saw this particular glitch - guess it would have been early 90s - but there really was something special about discovering something like this (often just through word of mouth) www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Ugly performance, good result. It’s early days but feel like we’ll be saying that a lot this season. Seem to be relying on moments of magic from Xavi/Kudus/Bergvall and set pieces, which is fine…when you’re winning. Win is a win though

Fulham signing Kevin and George on deadline day really is the stuff of dreams. Lovely work in west London

Can't make it to Spurs today but what a splendid weekend ahead. Wall-to-wall football, F1 back after the summer break, probably something else massive I'm missing too. Lovely weather! Cold and crisp, just how we like the end-of-summer transition 🍃

Hideous week for hideous platform Kick. Rampage Jackson's son should be tried for attempted murder, let alone face a ban from the streaming platform. This follows Jean Pormanove's death a few days ago. All in all...a dreadful place, hosting dreadful people, with very little moderation. Ban.

can confirm

cant say fairer than that Steve 😀

Oh we're a serious outfit again. Got to back Frank in the last week or so of the window. Go and get Savinho + one other and it's title challenge territory. COYS